Template:18 November

18th November 1960: With just three weeks to go before transmission, Granada Television's new serial, still known as Florizel Street, goes before the cameras for the first time with a pilot episode or "dry run" for internal use only and not to be seen by the public. Recorded at 7.30pm in Studio 2, the script is in a different form to that used for the later transmitted version of the episode with characters Annie Walker, David Barlow and Susan Cunningham missing and Ena Sharples, Albert Tatlock, Ida Barlow and Dennis Tanner played by different actors to those eventually selected for the role. Peter Adamson is present as insurance man Harry Bailey and not in the role of Len Fairclough. With later script and cast amendments, and a name change to Coronation Street, the programme begins its record-breaking run with a live transmission on 9th December.
 * For more information see Dry Runs.