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28th December 1981: Eddie Yeats made what he thought would be a good suggestion when he told Annie Walker that she ought to have a Happy Hour. Annie wasn't impressed: "Selling beer for practically nothing would simply attract riff-raff from goodness knows where", but she changed her mind when Mike Baldwin advised her that the upmarket London did such a thing under the sobriquet of a "Cocktail Hour". Tempted by this notion, Annie announced her own. The customers were unimpressed until they heard that the beer would be 10p cheaper and spirits half price. The menfolk jumped in and Bet Lynch and Fred Gee were rushed off their feet. At the end of the hour, the orders - now at the regular price - continued flowing as the men, as they themselves admitted, now had the taste. Annie was delighted but her exhausted staff were less than happy...
 * For more information see Episode 2164 (28th December 1981).