Episode 1647 (27th October 1976)

Plot
Handel Gartside arrives in the street and tells Ena that Minnie isn't returning from his home in Whaley Bridge. Ray arranges to look round No.5, thinking he can buy it cheap and do it up. Deirdre refuses to live in Coronation Street. Stan buys the mac back for 10p but to his surprise Hilda refuses to have it back. Handel tells Ena he's fond of Minnie and will take care of her. Hilda plans to buy a new mac out of Christmas money but discovers Stan has taken half of it. She is furious and calls him a liar and a thief. She tells him she hates him and their rotten lives. She tells him tells him to go away from her and he does. Handel oversees Minnie's things being taken away. As a keepsake Ena takes a picture of her and Albert her Coronation mug. Ena tells Handel to take care of Minnie and sadly watches her stuff leave the Street. The Langtons view No.5. Ernie finds out the address of the woman who bought Emily's engagement ring. He tries to buy it back but she's emigrated to Australia. Emily says she's glad as she's got her eye on another ring. Hilda wonders where Stan is when he stays out all evening.

Regular cast

 * Ken Barlow - William Roache
 * Annie Walker - Doris Speed
 * Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
 * Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
 * Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
 * Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
 * Elsie Howard - Patricia Phoenix
 * Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
 * Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
 * Ray Langton - Neville Buswell
 * Bet Lynch - Julie Goodyear
 * Ernie Bishop - Stephen Hancock
 * Rita Littlewood - Barbara Mullaney
 * Mavis Riley - Thelma Barlow
 * Fred Gee - Fred Feast
 * Deirdre Langton - Anne Kirkbride
 * Gail Potter - Helen Worth

Guest cast

 * Handel Gartside - Harry Markham

Notable dialogue
Hilda Ogden: (to Stan Ogden) "Look at our rotten married life. Knocked about from pillar to post. In work out of work. Dole, dole, rotten dole. You an' yer glass-back. Her up Inkerman Street. All that lot out there laughin' at us. You want a laugh. Go an' find Stan Ogden. No trouble at all, makin' a mug of 'im. Oh an' don't miss her who's with him. I'm sick of bein' walked on. I'm sick of bein' the mug round 'ere an' I'm sick of you!"