Plot[]
With Hilda away for the day, Stan and Eddie decide to go to the races but need money. Workmen start work on the shop next to The Kabin, changing it into a tea room for Joe Dawson. Emily grows tired of working at the hospital, as she's carrying around the depression that has built up during the day. Dawson tells Rita he's a baker with a shop in Armitage Street - the new shop will be an outlet. Eddie and Stan offer to clean the windows at St. Joseph's Church. The vicar, the Rev. A. Challenor, is grateful, thinking they're doing it out of charity. Rita works the grotty working men's clubs. Dawson decides not to tell Rita the shop is going to be a cafe.
Cast[]
Regular cast[]
- Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
- Eddie Yeats - Geoffrey Hughes
- Ken Barlow - William Roache
- Rita Fairclough - Barbara Knox
- Mavis Riley - Thelma Barlow
- Alf Roberts - Bryan Mosley
- Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
- Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
- Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix (Credited as "Elsie Howard")
- Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
- Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
- Annie Walker - Doris Speed
Guest cast[]
- Tommy Cox - Geoffrey Leesley
- Carpenter - Gordon Hall
- Joe Dawson - Peter Schofield
- Rev. A. Challenor - George Hagan
Places[]
- Rovers Return Inn - Public/snug
- 13 Coronation Street - Back room, kitchen and hallway
- Corner Shop
- 12 Rosamund Street
- The Kabin
- Black Dyke Street
- Unknown street
- St. Joseph's Church - Exterior
Notes[]
- This was the first episode to show the premises that became Dawson's Cafe, Jim's Cafe and finally the first incarnation of Roy's Rolls before its move to Victoria Street in Episode 4563 (19th February 1999) when it was shown for the final time.
- Location filming was conducted in Lindum Avenue, Old Trafford for the scenes outside St. Joseph's Church, at the real-world Church of St John the Evangelist.
- TV Times synopsis: Stan and Eddie land an unusual window-cleaning job. And Rita does a bit of detective work on what kind of business is starting up next door…
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 11,700,000 viewers (3rd place).
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