Episode 2 (14th December 1960)

Plot
Florrie is caught by the police selling firelighters after seven. Christine Hardman is annoyed that Ena is telling everyone that her mother May, who is in hospital after suffering a breakdown, has gone mad. Kids scratch Susan's Dad's car. Ida embarrasses Ken by showing Susan his baby photos. Susan embarrasses Ken by going into the Rovers. Ivan Cheveski turns up at the Rovers. Linda also goes there for a drink with Elsie and is not pleased when she bumps into Ivan. Ena and her fellow pensioner cronies, Martha Longhurst and Minnie Caldwell, watch with delight from the bar of the snug, expecting a fight.

Regular Cast

 * Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
 * Linda Cheveski - Anne Cunningham
 * Ivan Cheveski - Ernst Walder
 * Frank Barlow - Frank Pemberton
 * Ida Barlow - Noel Dyson
 * Kenneth Barlow - William Roache
 * David Barlow - Alan Rothwell
 * Florrie Lindley - Betty Alberge
 * Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
 * Christine Hardman - Christine Hargreaves
 * Harry Hewitt - Ivan Bevis
 * Esther Hayes - Daphne Oxenford
 * Annie Walker - Doris Speed
 * Jack Walker - Arthur Leslie
 * Martha Longhurst - Lynne Carol
 * Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant

Guest Cast

 * Elsie Lappin - Maudie Edwards
 * Susan - Patricia Shakesby
 * Policeman - Bill Croasdale
 * Policewoman - Penelope Davis

Notable Dialogue
Susan Cunningham: "Don't let's bother about town. What about that funny Victorian pub on the corner?"

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Elsie Tanner: "When you were courting this house was like the League of Nations"

Linda Cheveski: "History, as you might say, is repeating itself, in't it."

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Elsie Tanner: (Reminising about a hotel she visited) "Commissionaire looked at me a bit funny but I just stared him out. I thought 'Yes, Tiddles, you wouldn't be looking so superior if this was 1942 and I was sweeping in with one of my Yankee officers'"

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Ena Sharples: "...You know sometimes I think I'm just about ready to go off down to that cemetary, but if I had my way, I'd just like to go like me mother did"

Martha Longhurst: "Ee, that were a beautiful ending."

Ena Sharples: "Oh, lovely. She just sat up, broke wind and died. We all having the same again, girls?"