Episode 453 (14th April 1965)

Plot[]

Elsie determines that Len hasn't given Piggott an answer yet. Piggott asks Elsie for a date, promising her a good time. She turns him down. Len goes to Blackburn to get a sense of what the city is like to live in. The twins are still in hospital, spending most of their time sleeping. Val's offended when Albert tells her that she’s put a bit of weight on since giving birth. Lucille tries to convince the residents to stop eating poison and go vegetarian. Jerry doesn't know whether he'd be going to Blackburn with Len or running the yard. Len calls in at a local pub for a bite to eat but finds the locals very unfriendly and has second thoughts about working there. He leaves the establishment hungry when the barmaid doesn't take any notice of him. Later, he happily tucks into a meat pie at the Rovers served by a sympathetic Jack. Jerry makes the Barlows a bath stand for the twins but they already have one. Ken suggests to Val that they should look at moving away and buying a semi-detached house now they’ve got twins but Val says she’d rather stay where they are where they’ve plenty of friends. Len books a train to Nottingham and rings Piggott to say that the Blackburn deal is off. He leaves without telling Jerry what he's decided but confides in Albert that he's thinking of offering Jerry a partnership when he gets back. Albert tells the Barlows this when they invite him and Jerry over for tea, despite promising to keep it to himself. Piggott looks for Len at the yard and finds Jerry. Jerry is annoyed that Len left without saying anything. Piggott tells him how Len's not only let him down but he's let Jerry down too.

Cast[]

Regular cast[]

Guest cast[]

Places[]

Rovers Return Inn - Public/snug
9 Coronation Street - Back room/kitchen
15 Mawdsley Street - Yard
Willie Piggott's house - Living room
The Green Man, Blackburn

Notes[]

This episode carries no cast credits, only production credits. The end credits are displayed over a shot of the yard office door.
Bill Waddington appears as an extra in a scene at the Rovers, eighteen years before his debut in the role of Percy Sugden.
TV Times synopsis: The inhabitants of the Street take a good look at themselves
Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 9,070,000 homes (1st place)

Notable dialogue[]

Valerie Barlow: "Sometimes I feel I'd like to look out of the window, and see a tree instead of a wall, and bring washing in off a line that wasn't covered with dirt and soot. But how much sympathy can you get out of a houseful of mod-cons when you're feeling low and depressed and can't cope?"

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