User Reviews

Yet another episode with a story focused on guest stars. It seems at this point Roy Clarke had run out of ideas for the main cast.

The story largely focuses on Kenneth Cope and Maggie Ollerenshaw's returning characters. The story takes a while to set up, but eventually we have some great confusion leading to Howard dressing up as Elvis. This leads to some good laughs with the 2 bumbling policemen getting caught up in the action too.

Nora Batty, Pearl and Nelly get very little screen time. Ivy and Tom don't even make an appearance. Cleggy and Truly continue to be secondary characters.

Lance and Ethel are back, it's her birthday, and she's desperate for a washing machine, he wants to buy her a hifi.

It feels as though they wanted to give the regular cast a bit of a break, as this one is centred predominantly around the two guest actors. It works for the most part, they're an amusing, feuding duo.

I am a big fan of both Kenneth Cope and Maggie Ollerenshaw, both are great comedy actors, he's almost hard to recognise with that hair piece, he's looking pretty good here.

The Elvis jokes were pretty amusing, I liked the Howard and Marina segment, it was nice to see Entwistle getting a more central part. I'm finding I'm missing Smiler.

Pretty good, 7/10.

Kenneth Cope and Maggie Ollerenshaw return as the bickering couple Lance and Ethel. The previously appeared in 1997.

It is Ethel's birthday and they are at Auntie Wainwright's for a birthday present.

Ethel wants white goods like a fridge/freezer for her birthday. Lance wants to buy some Hifi, so he can play his Elvis records.

Lance is Elvis obsessed and thinks that Elvis is loose somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales as Barry and Glenda search for a lost dog called Elvira, Elvi for short. Meanwhile Howard dresses up as the King.

This is a bit of a silly episode. Never thought Howard was a convincing Elvis lookalike. What a coincidence that Barry and Glenda go around shouting for Elvi. By 2008, Hifi was rather old hat. Surely you would be downloading Elvis on an Apple Ipod by then.

Although Lance was daft, he and Ethel were fun as the squabbling couple. I can see why Roy Clarke bought them back.