Plot[]
Florrie lets Val use her washing line when she runs out of room in her own yard. Len builds a lean-to in Florrie's back yard. Charlie can't find his £20 and starts retracing his steps. Irma thinks he's going potty when he looks in all the dustbins. Hilda doesn't tell Stan about her discovery. Elsie sneaks Dennis's unwanted trilby back on display in Gamma Garments. Emily has her last driving lesson with Mr Hopwood and buys braces for him as a thank-you. Charlie fears he's running out of time as his insurance books have to be right. Annie suggests he goes to the police in case it's been handed in but Stan hits on the idea of asking Hilda in case she found it while cleaning the Rovers. Elsie and Emily are amazed when Hilda spends £6, 19/6 on a two-piece. They put it down to Stan having a regular job. Val likes David now that he's quit football as it's made him more humble. David sulks about the fact that Irma works nights at the Rovers as he wanted to take her to a friend's party. They row and she tells him he should take someone else out. Minnie tries to cheer Charlie up by buying him cigarettes, thinking he's hard up and can't afford to smoke. Charlie tells Hilda about the missing money. They're interrupted when Len returns the empty cigarette packet to Charlie, having found it in the back entry. Stan calls the finder a dirty thief and Hilda becomes too afraid to speak up. Charlie decides to go on the sick rather than tell his boss.
Cast[]
Regular cast[]
- Florrie Lindley - Betty Alberge
- Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
- Charlie Moffitt - Gordon Rollings
- Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
- Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
- Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
- Irma Ogden - Sandra Gough
- David Barlow - Alan Rothwell
- Valerie Barlow - Anne Reid
- Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
- Lucille Hewitt - Jennifer Moss
- Miss Nugent - Eileen Derbyshire
- Annie Walker - Doris Speed
- Kenneth Barlow - William Roache
Guest cast[]
None
Places[]
- Rovers Return Inn - Public
- 5 Coronation Street - Back room
- 9 Coronation Street - Back room/kitchen, hallway and yard
- 13 Coronation Street - Back room, kitchen and hallway
- Corner Shop - Yard
- Gamma Garments
Notes[]
- 9 Coronation Street's yard set consists of just the outside wall and door and is seen briefly when Valerie Barlow calls over to David Barlow two yards away in the corner shop.
- Cast members are credited in order of appearance for the first time since Episode 171 (1st August 1962), which is the format used by the programme to this day. Intermediate episodes used a standardised cast list with all regulars included even if they did not appear in the episode.
- TV Times synopsis: In which Charlie decides discretion is the better part of valour
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 7,960,000 homes (1st place)
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