Episode 6974 (24th December 2008)

Plot
It’s Christmas Eve on Coronation Street and everyone is in high spirits. The factory girls are in party mood and Carla tells them to go home and come back in their glad rags for the Underworld Xmas Bash. Tony stays to get the party ready and finish off some last-minute wrapping but he’s surprised by a visit from a slightly tipsy Jed demanding more cash in return for his silence.

Angered by the pensioner’s belligerence, Tony snaps and using the negligee he has bought Carla for Christmas he throttles him. As he stands over a motionless Jed on the floor of the factory, he panics realising that Carla and the factory girls will be on their way back at any time. Spying an empty storage hamper, he crams Jed’s lifeless body inside just in time. The next few hours are a nightmare for Tony as the drunken factory girls conga and dance around the hamper unaware of its grizly secret.

Rosie is looking forward to celebrating her birthday and having her first legal drink in the Rovers. She's planned a party at home but decides to cancel it and spend the evening with Gary Windass instead. Kevin and Sally are less than impressed when they return home and discover she and Gary have polished off the champagne the family were going to open to celebrate her birthday.

Joe is not feeling very festive having discovered that he has been evicted from his flat. He confides in Kevin who advises him to tell Gail but Joe is a proud man and doesn’t want to burden her with his problems.

At the Rovers, Michelle kisses Steve under the mistletoe but Steve tells Becky he would much rather be kissing her.

Regular cast

 * Carla Gordon - Alison King
 * Rosie Webster - Helen Flanagan
 * Tony Gordon - Gray O'Brien
 * Jed Stone - Kenneth Cope
 * Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
 * Norris Cole - Malcolm Hebden
 * Kevin Webster - Michael Le Vell
 * Sally Webster - Helen Flanagan
 * Julie Carp - Katy Cavanagh
 * Kelly Crabtree - Tupele Dorgu
 * Fiz Brown - Jennie McAlpine
 * Sean Tully - Antony Cotton
 * Janice Battersby - Vicky Entwistle
 * Wiki Dankowska - Wanda Opalinska
 * Sophie Webster - Brooke Vincent
 * Becky Granger - Katherine Kelly
 * Gary Windass - Mikey North
 * Steve McDonald - Simon Gregson
 * Michelle Connor - Kym Marsh
 * Gail Platt - Helen Worth
 * Joe McIntyre - Reece Dinsdale
 * Colin Grimshaw - Edward De Souza
 * Rita Sullivan - Barbara Knox
 * David Platt - Jack P. Shepherd
 * Graeme Proctor - Craig Gazey
 * Tina McIntyre - Michelle Keegan
 * Anna Windass - Debbie Rush

Guest cast

 * JD - Paul David-Gough