Plot
The firemen arrive to try to save Val. They have to drag Ken back from No.14. Val is rushed to the Infirmary but is dead on arrival - electrocuted by the faulty plug, as Len later relates to the residents. Ken breaks the news of Val's death to a devastated Albert. Lucille and Ray take the twins to Glasgow. No one knows how to help Ken. Mr Weaver of the Council tells Len that they have decided to demolish the maisonettes as the fire has exposed structural faults.
Cast
Regular cast
- Annie Walker - Doris Speed
- Lucille Hewitt - Jennifer Moss
- Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
- Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
- Maggie Clegg - Irene Sutcliffe
- Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
- Ray Langton - Neville Buswell
- Kenneth Barlow - William Roache
- Billy Walker - Kenneth Farrington
- Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
- Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
- Irma Barlow - Sandra Gough
- Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
- Alan Howard - Alan Browning
- Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
- Susan Barlow - Wendy Jane Walker
- Peter Barlow - Christopher Dormer
- Valerie Barlow - Anne Reid (Voice-over only - see notes below)
Guest cast
- Handel Gartside - Harry Markham
- Divisional Officer - Derek Williams
- Station Officer - Terence Davies
- Mr Weaver - Alan Partington
Notes
- Anne Reid as Valerie Barlow received a credit on the episode as she was heard in several scenes where Ken thinks back and remembers previous scenes in their marriage.
- The Doctor who examines Val on her arrival by ambulance outside the hospital is uncredited.
- Although ITV had begun full-colour transmissions on 15th November 1969, the ITV Colour Strike which began on 13th November 1970 caused this episode to be recorded in black and white.
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 8,600,000 homes (joint 1st place with Episode 1049).
Notable dialogue
Albert Tatlock: "I've had my life. I've had a good run. Why couldn't He have taken me 'stead of our Valerie?"
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Irma Barlow: "It's something to do with being born a Barlow, or marrying a Barlow... life seems to have it in for us."
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