Plot[]
Part One: Len enjoys sharing the house with Jerry. Lucille starts work in the office at Mitchell's furniture warehouse. Annie tells her to keep the other girls at a distance as they'll try to lead her astray. Victoria, Babs and Josie get Lucille making up envelopes. She's disappointed she doesn't have more responsibility. Albert blames Annie for putting Ted Bates off and stands with his back to her at the Rovers. On Jerry's 23rd birthday, Len sends his apprentice round to the house for his present. Jerry thinks it's a prank when he opens an empty gift box but is amazed when he turns to see a sign for "Fairclough and Booth" builders.
Part Two: Len plans a party for Jerry with the home-made beer. Stan, Charlie, Dennis, David and Irma attend but Elsie, in a foul mood, turns down the invitation when he takes her acceptance for granted. Lucille is chatted up by loader, Barry, at work. Albert finds out from David that Ted is at the Rovers and fetches him to No.1. Annie is friendly towards Ted and says there was a misunderstanding last time. Ted tells Albert he's run away from an OAP home as he doesn't want to be forgotten like his fellow residents. He tells him he can't go to his daughter's as her husband doesn't like him. Albert puts him up on his sofa. Len doesn't get Jerry to sign any papers, telling the lad that as far as he's concerned, they're partners. The beer goes off so the men buy booze from the off-licence in Viaduct Street. Jack joins them and immediately guesses where the liquor is from when they try to fool him into thinking it's their home brew. Albert's sideboard mysteriously jumps in the night.
Cast[]
Regular cast[]
- Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
- Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
- Irma Ogden - Sandra Gough
- Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
- Jerry Booth - Graham Haberfield
- Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
- Jack Walker - Arthur Leslie
- Annie Walker - Doris Speed
- Lucille Hewitt - Jennifer Moss
- Charlie Moffitt - Gordon Rollings
- David Barlow - Alan Rothwell
- Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
- Dennis Tanner - Philip Lowrie
Guest cast[]
- Victoria - Lynda Marchal
- Babs - Judith Barker
- Josie - Janet Lees Price
- Barry - Warren Clarke
- Ted Bates - William Wymar
Places[]
- Rovers Return Inn - Public/snug
- 1 Coronation Street - Back room
- 11 Coronation Street - Back room
- 13 Coronation Street - Back room
- 15 Mawdsley Street - Back room
- Mitchell's - General office
Notes[]
- Judith Barker makes a pre-Janet Reid appearance as Babs.
- Playing the guest role of Victoria is actress Lynda Marchal, today better known as the major television writer and novelist Lynda La Plante.
- TV Times: No synopsis appeared in the magazine between Episode 470 (14th June 1965) and Episode 499 (22nd September 1965).
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 7,710,000 homes (3rd place).
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