Episode 1239 (29th November 1972)

Plot
Tommy and Dirty Dick are served with notice to quit the stable. Alf and Len bend over backwards to be nice to people. Maggie tells Ken that Norma is vulnerable. Hilda is annoyed that she is paid the same as Bessie Proctor when she is senior cleaner. Billy and Rita embarrass Len in front of Mayor Alderman Chapman at the opening of The Capricorn. Rita gets into a fight with a drunken woman and ends up on Chapman's lap, all to the delight of Alf and Alderman Rogers.

Regular cast

 * Kenneth Barlow - William Roache
 * Annie Walker - Doris Speed
 * Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
 * Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
 * Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
 * Alf Roberts - Bryan Mosley
 * Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
 * Billy Walker - Kenneth Farrington
 * Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
 * Bet Lynch - Julie Goodyear
 * Maggie Clegg - Irene Sutcliffe
 * Rita Littlewood - Barbara Mullaney
 * Norma Ford - Diana Davies

Guest cast

 * Benny Lewis - Jeremy Young
 * Mayor Alderman Chapman - Frank Crompton
 * Alderman Rogers - Robert Dorning
 * Bessie Proctor - Jill Summers
 * Tipsy Woman - Meg Johnson