his wife has left him. Episode 3 - Melanie and Liam's relationship develops. Episode 4 - There is a dispute over the football cards game. Episode 5 - Joan and Eddie celebrate their wedding anniversary. Episode 6 - Melanie meets her real father. Series 2 Episode 1 - Phil and Nige sell Ken some forged banknotes. Episode 2 - The police celebrate a drugs bust in the pub. Episode 3 - The Grapes holds a pub quiz. Episode 4 - There is romance between Ken and Tanya. Episode 5 - Duffy and Joe discuss their personal lives. Episode 6 - It's Mel's 21st birthday party. Production The series has no laughter track which was unusual for sitcoms at time. Theme music The theme music for the series is "Small World" by Roddy Frame from the 2002 album Surf. The 2006 Channel 4 documentary Who Killed the British Sitcom used the closing music from Early Doors over its own end credits. Live stage show In June 2018, it was announced that Craig Cash and Phil Mealey had been writing Early Doors Live, a stage show based on the series. The show was due to open at The Lowry, Salford in August 2018, before a UK arena tour. It was said that the show would bring back almost all of the original cast from the TV series, including pub landlord Ken, played by John Henshaw, 13 years on, reflecting many of the changes in the pub world - most noticeably, the smoking ban. Returning cast from the TV series included John Henshaw as Ken, Phil Mealey as Duffy, Craig Cash as Joe, Susan Cookson as Tanya, Lisa Millett as Debbie, Joan Kempson as Winnie, and James Quinn and Peter Wight as policemen Nige and Phil. Also joining the cast were Judith Barker, Vicky Binns, Nick Birkenshaw, Neil Hurst and Laura Woodward. In January 2019, Early Doors Live won the Manchester Evening News CityLife Award for Best Theatre Production. It was soon followed by the announcement that the live stage show would be returning to The Lowry in the summer of 2019. Reception Despite the first series averaging just 1.7 million viewers, it was said to have "scored particularly highly on the appreciation indices". It was noted that BBC Two controller, Jane Root, decided to commission a second series in part "because such a high proportion of viewers enjoyed it." Nancy Banks-Smith, writing