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Plot[]

The lads stop out all night in the warehouse and are awoken when the workers return in the morning. The dropped cigarette in the storeroom smoulders and then starts a fire. Rita packs her case. Ivy threatens Edna Gee with the sack if her work doesn't improve. Edna sneaks off to the storeroom for a cigarette. As she opens the door she is engulfed by flames. As the fire spreads, the workers panic and vacate the warehouse. Tricia suffers from shock and is laid out on the bench. Firemen battle to control the fire. Len settles Rita by saying he'll pay £2 extra a week to Mavis and will charge Rita £1 a week rent for the flat. Ivy searches for Edna as the fire rages on. The residents remember the fire at the maisonettes. The fireman can't control the blaze as the warehouse is full of flammable goods and liquefied petroleum gas. Helped by Ena, Bet and Betty move the spirits and cigarettes into the Rovers' living room as the police evacuate the street.

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Notes[]

  • Four years before the introduction of Peter Dudley as Bert Tilsley in Episode 1881 (29th January 1979) as the husband for Ivy, this episode and several others at this time speaks of "Jack" as being her husband and the character appears in this episode and the previous one played by Bert Gaunt. The change of the character and actor was made in the late 1970s as fellow factory worker Vera Duckworth constantly spoke of her husband also being called Jack in the interim.
  • All of the sequences on the Grape Street set were OB recorded. Unusually, one shot of the second fire engine arriving at Coronation Street showed the railway goods yard which then stood the other side of the viaduct. This now forms a part of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
  • During the "End of Part One" card - shortly before advertisements - a fire extinguisher can be seen used to extinguish the fire on the boxes in the corridor outside of the storeroom. This would not have been seen on original transmission as several additional seconds of taping always took place in television endings to enable the regional ITV companies to fade away from the Granada Television feed at a moment of their choosing and transmit their local adverts.
  • TV Times synopsis: Fire threatens the street!
  • Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 6,279,000 homes (chart placing unknown).
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