The Blue Streak Rockets

The Blue Streak Rockets was a three-girl act of dubious morality that Dennis Tanner booked for a charity concert for the Over 60's Club‏‎ held in the Glad Tidings Mission Hall in March 1962. The girls turned up early and finding no one home at 11 Coronation Street dumped themselves on a delighted Albert Tatlock who gave them tea in his front parlour. Elsie Tanner worried that they were strippers and refused to have them in her house. Ena Sharples, opposed to the concert on many grounds, discovered that the girls' previous act had been banned in Cardiff, Barnsley and on Blackpool's Golden Mile and got Mr. Baxter of the Mission Watch Committee to do the same in Weatherfield. Not knowing she was the cause of their cancellation, the girls spent the evening with Ena and she enjoyed six free milk stouts paid for by them. They later sought out Ken Barlow who passed on the message to Dennis that they still expected their fee and accommodation for the night as per their contract. Realising that Jack and Annie Walker were away from the Rovers for the night at a do in Manchester, Dennis got the key to the pub from Concepta Hewitt by telling her a lie and installed the girls in the main bedroom. However the Walkers returned early as the Royal Hotel had not reserved their own room and they found the girls in situ.


 * The act was part of the plotline of Episode 129 (7th March 1962) which was made towards the end of the Equity actors' strike and which banned guest actors from appearing in the programme. Consequently, they were talked about by regular characters but never actually seen on screen.