Plot[]
Victor and Mavis return from the Lake District. Mavis is glad to be back. Chalkie packs and Phyllis tries to stop him leaving. Alf refuses to attend the disco protest meeting. Anti-discoer, Mrs Harper's son, Neil, throws a brick through Mike's office window. Mike decides to attend the protest meeting to see what he's up against. Mavis suffers as the skin on her ankle is rubbed away. She tells Victor that she found the holiday too much of an assault course. He is disappointed with her attitude. Chalkie refuses to let Phyllis join in his farewell party. She thinks that Alice Kirby will take him for all his money and bump him. Stan and Eddie get drunk - they agree that the idea of a disco is awful as the noise will be too much. Thinking no cars will park in the street if it had yellow lines, they paint some in the street with orange paint.
Cast[]
Regular cast[]
- Rita Fairclough - Barbara Knox
- Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
- Ken Barlow - William Roache
- Eddie Yeats - Geoffrey Hughes
- Chalkie Whitely - Teddy Turner
- Phyllis Pearce - Jill Summers
- Mavis Riley - Thelma Barlow
- Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
- Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
- Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
- Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
- Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
- Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
- Alf Roberts - Bryan Mosley
- Annie Walker - Doris Speed
- Deirdre Barlow - Anne Kirkbride
- Mike Baldwin - Johnny Briggs
Guest cast[]
- Victor Pendlebury - Christopher Coll
- Neil Harper - Liam Flannery
- Andrew Baker - Vincent Davies
- Attractive Lady - Ines Burns
Places[]
- Coronation Street
- Rovers Return Inn - Public/snug
- 9 Coronation Street - Back room/kitchen and hallway
- Community Centre - Large hall
- Rosamund Street
- The Kabin
- The Kabin flat - Living room/kitchen
Notes[]
- Johnny Briggs accidentally breaks a glass when he slams it down on the bar before exiting the Rovers.
- TV Times synopsis: A brick through Mike Baldwin's factory window changes his mind about going to the disco protest meeting. Rita Fairclough worries because Victor Pendlebury and Mavis Riley haven't returned from their camping trip to the Lakes.
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 14,650,000 viewers (2nd place).
- The Granada Plus repeat of this episode on 30th June 1999 was edited for timing reasons, with the following cuts made to Part Two: an entire Kabin scene of 57" duration where Rita Fairclough and Emily Bishop are discussing Mavis Riley's holiday when Victor Pendlebury calls in to see her; and the first 56" of a Rovers scene in which Albert Tatlock criticises Chalkie Whitely for not buying him a drink, and Hilda Ogden declares that it's Annie Walker's responsibility to eject a drunk Stan Ogden from the premises.
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