Plot[]
Clayton's Warehouse is gutted. Len worries about losing the penalty clause. Another supplier agrees to supply the material for cash. They wait for the insurance company to pay up. Steve, Fred and Eddie dress as babies and the race starts. The men have to drink a pint in eight pubs as fast as they can. Steve finds the drinking hard while Mavis finds it hard work pushing Eddie. They change places and go down the back alleys. Suzie and Steve win the race by a neck. Ena, as steward, reveals that Suzie drank half of Steve's last pint so they are disqualified. Ted and Freda Loftus are proclaimed the winners. Mavis and Eddie's pram wheel buckles and they don't finish the course. Doug Clayton tells Len and Ray that the warehouse was insured, but not the contents.
Cast[]
Regular cast[]
- Ray Langton - Neville Buswell
- Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
- Fred Gee - Fred Feast
- Gail Potter - Helen Worth
- Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
- Steve Fisher - Lawrence Mullin
- Suzie Birchall - Cheryl Murray
- Eddie Yeats - Geoffrey Hughes
- Mavis Riley - Thelma Barlow
- Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
- Deirdre Langton - Anne Kirkbride
- Tracy Langton - Christabel Finch
- Rita Fairclough - Barbara Knox
- Ken Barlow - William Roache
- Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
Guest cast[]
- Doug Clayton - Tommy Edwards
- Ted Loftus - Ted Morris
- Freda Loftus - Poppy Lane
- Alma Walsh - Joyce Kennedy
Places[]
- Coronation Street
- Rovers Return Inn - Public
- 5 Coronation Street - Living room
- 11 Coronation Street - Back room/kitchen
- Fairclough and Langton - Office
- Jubilee Terrace
- The Flying Horse - Public
- Clayton's Warehouse, Ogilvy Street - Exterior
- Unknown streets and ginnels in Weatherfield
Notes[]
- This episode was transmitted at 7.00pm.
- Location filming for Clayton's Warehouse was conducted outside the Merchant's Warehouse on Castle Street in Castlefield. The same location from another side of the building was used in Episode 533 (19th January 1966) where Jackie Marsh met Ken Barlow. The location used for The Flying Horse was the Priory Arms at the junction of Gardner Street and Higham View in Salford. The scene of Eddie Yeats taking over pram-pushing duties from Mavis Riley was filmed on the adjoining Priory Street which has since been demolished.
- TV Times synopsis: Who will be the winners of the great Bank Holiday pram race? But it's a black day for Ray Langton and Len Fairclough when they make a shocking discovery about their fire losses.
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 10,550,000 viewers (20th place). This somewhat low figure in comparison to surrounding episodes is explained by this edition being transmitted on the Whit Monday Bank Holiday.
- This episode was in the Network DVD collection Coronation Street: The Best of 1970-1979, released on 25th July 2005. The version included was that which aired on the Granada Plus satellite channel in 1997, which was shorter than the original version by several minutes.
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