23rd December

On this day in Coronation Street history

 * 1960 – First appearances of Concepta Riley and Vera Lomax. Ena Sharples first seen wearing a hairnet.
 * 1964 – The street residents present their first pantomime Cinderella in the Mission Hall for local children.
 * 1968 – The street’s second panto, Aladdin is presented at St. Mary’s Church to raise funds for that establishment.
 * 1970 – Final appearances of Gregg Flint and Gary Strauss
 * 1974 – First appearance of Eddie Yeats
 * 1981 – Last appearance of Eunice Gee until 22nd January 1999
 * 1985 – Alf Roberts and Audrey Potter are married.
 * 1996 – Don Brennan attempts suicide in Martin Platt’s car.
 * 1998 – First appearance of Blanche Hunt since 3rd December 1997 and the start of her present-day stint as a regular.
 * 2002 – Shelley Unwin and Peter Barlow hold an engagement party.
 * 2005 – Emily Bishop unwittingly meets her husband’s killer as Ed Jackson starts to get to know her in order to beg her forgiveness for killing Ernie Bishop in 1978.

Production history

 * Noel Dyson born in 1916
 * Patricia Phoenix and Alan Browning marry in 1972 with Irene Sutcliffe and Adele Rose as witnesses.

Episodes
Episodes were broadcast on 23rd December on the following years:


 * 1960
 * 1962
 * 1964
 * 1968
 * 1970
 * 1974
 * 1981
 * 1985
 * 1987
 * 1991
 * 1992
 * 1994
 * 1996
 * 1998
 * 2001
 * 2002
 * 2005
 * 2007