Episode 1385 (24th April 1974)

Plot
Hilda is on the verge of a breakdown. Stan asks Len if they can use the money frrom the smoking syndicate but Len refuses. Mrs Morris wants her sugar bowl, used as a prop in the play, back during the show. When Mavis refuses to give it to her she calls the police. Stan finds something in an advertisement to help Hilda and gets her to sign an application form. The production goes well, despite Mrs Morris snatching her sugar bowl back on stage. Mavis is shocked when she walks into the mens' dressing room to be confronted by a naked Billy.

Cast of The Importance of Being Earnest:
 * Algernon – Ken
 * Jack – Jerry
 * Cecily – Bet
 * Gwendolyn – Deirdre
 * Lady Bracknell – Annie
 * Lane – Len
 * Miss Prism – Emily
 * Cannon - Ernie
 * Masters – Billy.

Regular cast

 * Ken Barlow - William Roache
 * Annie Walker - Doris Speed
 * Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
 * Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
 * Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
 * Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
 * Billy Walker - Kenneth Farrington
 * Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
 * Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
 * Jerry Booth - Graham Haberfield
 * Ray Langton - Neville Buswell
 * Bet Lynch - Julie Goodyear
 * Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
 * Ernie Bishop - Stephen Hancock
 * Rita Littlewood - Barbara Mullaney
 * Mavis Riley - Thelma Barlow
 * Deirdre Hunt - Anne Kirkbride

Guest cast

 * Mrs Morris - Barbara Miller
 * Policeman - Peter Ellis