Ellie and Arden Brooks seem to be destined to play out their lives behind a Manchester chip shop counter. Mercilessly put down by their strict grandmother, the swinging sixties have yet to impact upon their fun-starved, sexually repressed lives. But it's 1965 and times are changing - fast!

• Gillian Kearney
• Emma Cooke
• Sue Johnston
• David Threlfall
• Joseph McFadden
• James Callis
• Phil Daniels
• Nicholas Farrell