Template:18 December

18th December 1974: Minnie Caldwell had provided gossips among the residents when she made preparations for a visitor for Christmas but refused to say who it was. They confidently expected the mystery guest to be Ena Sharples who had been away from Weatherfield for most of the year but when the door of 5 Coronation Street opened and it was Ena, no one was more surprised than Minnie herself as she had been looking forward to the return to her hearth of Jed Stone after nine years away, most of it in prison. Minnie had no choice but to put her old friend up, all the while expecting Jed to land on her as well...


 * This episode saw the return of Violet Carson to the programme for the first time since February 1974 after a period of illness. In the next episode, Jed failed to appear and it was his cellmate Eddie Yeats who arrived for the first time on the street.


 * For more information see Episode 1453 (18th December 1974).