Episode 2891 (14th December 1988)

Plot
Ivy demands to know from Alf where they stand over Christmas. Bet finds out from Stella Rigby that Alec knows they booked out from the health farm. She stuns Alec by telling him she's booked him into the health farm as he obviously is so interested in it. She tells him he's a rat for letting her go on when he's known she booked out. Alan goes to a building society with the deeds to No.7 and says he wants to mortgage the house for £15,000. He calls himself Len Fairclough.

Regular cast

 * Ken Barlow - William Roache
 * Alf Roberts - Bryan Mosley
 * Bet Gilroy - Julie Goodyear
 * Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
 * Ivy Brennan - Lynne Perrie
 * Rita Fairclough - Barbara Knox
 * Alec Gilroy – Roy Barraclough
 * Deirdre Barlow - Anne Kirkbride
 * Mike Baldwin - Johnny Briggs
 * Audrey Roberts - Sue Nicholls
 * Martin Platt - Sean Wilson
 * Tracy Barlow - Dawn Acton
 * Jenny Bradley - Sally Ann Matthews
 * Alan Bradley - Mark Eden
 * Don Brennan - Geoff Hinsliff

Guest cast

 * Sandra Stubbs - Sally Watts
 * Mr Hughes - Geoffrey Wilkinson