Here we first meet the original trio of OAP's Norman Clegg, Compo Simonite and Cyril Blaimire, along with Compo's next door neighbour Nora Batty, and cafe proprietors Sid and Ivy.
Norman Clegg's misus often gets mentioned in subsequent episodes, but here we see him taking flowers to her grave Norma Clegg.
And there are a couple of different characters, in a different location the library, the people are Mr Wainwright the head librarian and a married librarian Mrs Partridge. He is the over sexed sudo intellectual, whose principle preoccupation appears to be letching after her. While she is supposedly prim and proper, her unsatisfied yearnings are steadily simmering.
I would like to think that the show was recorded before a studio audience, rather than having a laughter track tacked on, but I wouldn't be surprised if anyone, finds some of the laughter rather off-putting.