Episode 1961 (16th January 1980)

Plot
Jim Sedgewick renames the cafe "Jim's Cafe". When one of the girls can't go to France, Ida and Ivy both want the place. Mike tosses a coin. He tells Ivy she can go even though the coin comes up in Ida's favour. Elsie goes for an interview at a gown shop. She doesn't get the job. Hilda, Vera and Ivy leave for France. When a lorry driver, Fangio, pats Gail's bottom, Emily threatens to throw him out. She tells Sedgewick the place is a pig sty and refuses to work in it anymore. Len tells Mavis Rita will be back. Rita contacts Ralph Lancaster for work, telling him she's left Len. He asks her to see him.

Guest cast

 * Jim Sedgewick - Michael O'Hagan
 * Fangio - Peter Dean