Answer: milkman
"But y'cant stop the milk, I'm pregnant!" - Mrs J
"Look love, I may be the milkman but it's got nothing to do with me" - Milkman
This is near the beginning of the show, which gives the background of the Johnstone family, as Mrs J can't pay the milk bill.
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Answer: Darren Wayne
"When the baby came along, we called him Darren Wayne, then three months on I found that I was in the club again.." - From the song "Marilyn Monroe".
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Answer: Bread and eggs
Quote: He brings me bread and eggs, says "I've got legs like Marilyn Monroe."
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Answer: Seven
"By the time that I was 25 I looked like 42, with seven hungry mouths to feed and one more nearly due."
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Answer: Eddie
Mrs Johnstone cannot afford to keep both babies, so she is persuaded to give one of them away to her employer who cannot have children... with disastrous results.
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Answer: Afternoon
This is a great song performed by Mickey and Eddie who are twin brothers that were separated at birth. The become best friends but are unaware that they are brothers.
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Answer: gynaecologist
"What are you doing here? The milk bill's not due til next Thursday" - Mrs J
"Actually I've given up the milk round and gone in to medicine, I'm your gynaecologist" - Milkman/Gynaecologist
This is the part of the show where Mrs J finds out she is expecting twins.
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Answer: salt
The narrator says this line just after Mrs J panics about Mrs Lyons putting her new shoes on the table.
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Answer: Teddy
She meets him at the club and they go dancing.
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Answer: They have been rehoused
"Oh bright new day, we're moving away, we're starting all over again..!"
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Answer: like forty two
Poor Mrs Johnstone, she would look like 42 with "seven hungry mouths to feed, and one more nearly due".
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Answer: Soldier
This song is from "Long Sunday Afternoon" and is performed by Mickey and Eddie. They are singing about how they wish they could be like each other. Eddie has been brought up in an upper class family and Mickey has been brought up by his poor working class mother.
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Answer: Linda
Mickey marrys Linda after Christmas. You can hear the church bells in the OLC.
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Answer: 7 years
"The jury found him guilty, sent him down for seven years."
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Answer: My Child
Mrs Lyons promises Mrs Johnstone to look after her child: "I'd keep him warm in the winter and cool when it shines, I'd pull out his splinters without making him cry".
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Answer: Game
This is the only song in the show that the children sing all together. All the kids are playing together and act out different characters; it's great.
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Answer: meal
"If my child was raised in a palace like this one, he wouldn't have to worry where his next meal was coming from..." - Mrs J
This is when Mrs J is thinking what would happen if she gave away her son - the name of the song is 'My Child'
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Answer: Adolf Hitler
"What's yer name, son?" "Adolf Hitler!"
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Answer: Shooting someone
The shooting happens during the robbery.
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Answer: Three
"...Our Donna-Marie's already got three. She's a bit like me that way."
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Answer: The Narrator
This song, all about superstition, comes back to haunt Mrs Johnstone... "you sold a son, and you can't tell anyone".
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Answer: Number
The narrator sings this song. The narrator plays a huge part in the show; he represents the consciences of the two mothers.
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Answer: table
"I am sorry love" - Repo Man
"Ahh it's alright. We were in the middle of our tea one night when they arrived for the table!" - Mrs J
Mrs J arrives home from the hospital after giving birth to twins to find she is being repossessed.
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Answer: Status Quo
"I know our Sammy burnt the school down, well it's very easily done..." Sammy appears with his back to the audience, with Status Quo on the back of his jacket.
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Answer: Counting from one to ten
This was inspired by a childhood game.
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Answer: sweets
"My best friend always had sweets to share." Mickey singing of Eddie in "My Friend." The first time Mickey and Eddie had met, Eddie had sweets which he shared with Mickey.
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Answer: July 18th
When they discover they were born on the same day, Mickey asks Eddie if he would like to become his blood brother. They seal the pact by each cutting the palm of their hand and clasping them together. An image seen on all the theatre advertising posters.
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Answer: Story
This is the final song of the show performed by Mrs. Johnstone and the cast. It is a very emotional song and usually has the whole audience in tears.
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Answer: gravy
"Just look at his hair, his hair's dark and wavy, it just isn't fair, mine's the colour of gravy" - Mickey and Eddie
This comes from the song 'That Guy' when Mickey and Eddie meet at the age of 14.
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Answer: Turd
"Sir, Sir!" "OH SHUT UP Perkins you BORING little turd!"
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Answer: Chronically depressed
The doctor wrote him a prescription to take some tablets for this condition.
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Answer: Joe
"Since I pay the bills on time the milkman insists I call him Joe."
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Answer: was knocked off
The Johnstone family are ecstatic to be moving to a new house, 65 Skelmersdale Lane, "away from the muck and the dirt ...".
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Answer: Dancing
Just like Marilyn Monroe! (B.B fans know what it means.)
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Answer: big worm
"Oh leave him alone, you big worm" (Linda)
This is in the classroom scene when Mickey is being yelled at by the teacher.
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Answer: Mrs Wong
"...and your friends are there to talk away the night. Or until Mrs Wong switches off the chippy light".
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Answer: In his dreams and in magazines
This is sung during the song "That Guy."
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Answer: Mrs. Lyons
Mrs. Lyons relveals Linda and Eddie's relationship to Mickey. Mickey then goes mad and goes after Eddie.
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Answer: A locket
The locket is a secret between Mrs Johnstone and Eddie. She gives it to Eddie so that he always has something to remember her and Mickey by. Eddie's mother, Mrs Lyons goes berserk when she finds out, and confronts Mrs Johnstone.
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Answer: Chap
This is the opening song from the show and sets up the story of the Johnstone twins!
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