Plot[]
Des arrives home to talk things through with Steph but she won't take the morning off work for him. Ivy doesn't like Don working himself to the bone. He is ratty with her when she asks him to take it easy. Curly tries to help Kimberley to go against her principles by doing the lying for her - all she has to do is nod. Annoyed at Jackie, Mike starts running the factory his way, dismissing her ideas. Des turns up at Steph's work and tells her that he wants children. She is furious. Mike installs Phyllis at the cafe for the afternoon and leaves work to take Alma out. He tells her that she's special to him. Des and Steph make up after he wears a dunce's hat and stands in the corner. Steph will keep her evening job. Don wants to open up to Ivy but feels her religion makes her too closed-minded. He eventually admits that he's worried Marie Ramsden will turn to prostitution. Ivy thinks that no moral person would ever do so. Curly tells Vera that he and Kimberley are spending Christmas Eve with Kimberley's parents, Boxing Day with them and Christmas Day with his parents. Don takes Ivy to see Marie's flat. Shocked, she offers Marie their spare room over Christmas.
Cast[]
Regular cast[]
- Des Barnes - Philip Middlemiss
- Stephanie Barnes - Amelia Bullmore
- Ivy Brennan - Lynne Perrie
- Don Brennan - Geoff Hinsliff
- Mike Baldwin - Johnny Briggs
- Jackie Ingram - Shirin Taylor
- Curly Watts - Kevin Kennedy
- Kimberley Taylor - Suzanne Hall
- Vera Duckworth - Elizabeth Dawn
- Alma Sedgewick - Amanda Barrie
- Martin Platt - Sean Wilson
- Jack Duckworth - William Tarmey
- Bet Gilroy - Julie Goodyear
- Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
- Sally Webster - Sally Whittaker
- Kevin Webster - Michael Le Vell
- Mark Casey - Stuart Wolfenden
- Audrey Roberts - Sue Nicholls
- Phyllis Pearce - Jill Summers
- Jenny Bradley - Sally Ann Matthews
- Rita Fairclough - Barbara Knox
Guest cast[]
- Marie Ramsden - Joy Blakeman
- Brenda Thornton - Maggie Tagney
- Laura Collins - Lynda Rooke
- Jamie Ramsden - Alexander Graham
Places[]
- Rovers Return Inn - Public
- 5 Coronation Street - Downstairs rooms
- 6 Coronation Street - Downstairs rooms
- Jim's Cafe
- Bettabuy - Staff canteen
- Ingram's Textiles - Factory floor
- Ashcroft Department Store, Manchester - Perfume counter
- Maxton Walk, Tower block - Hallway
- Marie Ramsden's flat - Living room
- Unknown hotel - Piano bar
Notes[]
- Angie Freeman (Deborah McAndrew) is credited but does not appear.
- TV Times synopsis: Curly makes plans to ensure this Christmas will be one he never forgets. Ivy shocks Don with a very Christian gesture.
- Viewing Figures: UK broadcast - 18,640,000 viewers (1st place - combined figure including repeat).
- This episode was repeated on ITV3 on Wednesday 9th December 2020 at 10.35pm to mark the programme's sixtieth anniversary. This was part of a sequence of episodes shown which had originally been transmitted on or near every tenth anniversary of the show.
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