Plot[]
Part One: Lucille is nervous as she starts work at Marshall's Cotton Mill. Jerry tells an angry Len that he broke the plane and will replace it. David offers to buy Albert a new overcoat when he sees him mending his old one but Albert is too proud to accept. Val suggests that he buys one without Albert's approval. Ken gets a letter from the GPO telling him that Dennis's phone will be a party line with theirs. Lucille is put to work running yarn in the dye lab. She struggles to keep up with astute Mavis Cartwright but gets on with the more personable Wendy McGrath. Emily steels herself to tell Ena about the mannequin parade as she advertises the event. The neighbours try to trick Albert into sharing his coat size for David to treat him but he isn't fooled for a moment and refuses to divulge it.
Part Two: Emily finds out from Minnie that Ena is away at Vera's but knows all about the mannequin parade. Clara negotiates 2/9 an hour on her friend's behalf to let them use the vestry as a changing room and to clean up after them. Lucille is intrigued by Wendy and Mavis's stories about their colleague, Kenny. Len is unimpressed when Jerry shows up with a metal plane and makes him stay on to make up the time he lost shopping for it. Alan Platt buys a firework at the corner shop. Lucille agrees to pay the Walkers £2 10/- a week housekeeping on the condition she also puts away 30/-. Albert sulks when David presents him with a new coat but David catches him happily trying it on moments later. Alan leaves a handmade toast rack in the builder's yard for Jerry.
Cast[]
Regular cast[]
- Lucille Hewitt - Jennifer Moss
- Jack Walker - Arthur Leslie
- Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
- Jerry Booth - Graham Haberfield
- David Barlow - Alan Rothwell
- Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
- Valerie Barlow - Anne Reid
- Lionel Petty - Edward Evans
- Irma Ogden - Sandra Gough
- Miss Nugent - Eileen Derbyshire
- Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
- Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
Guest cast[]
- John Harrison - John Stratton
- Wendy - Gillian Hoyle
- Mavis - Vanessa Forsyth
- Clara Midgeley - Betty Hardy
- Alan - Kevin Williams
Places[]
- Rovers Return Inn - Lucille's bedroom
- 1 Coronation Street - Back room
- 5 Coronation Street - Back room
- Corner Shop
- Mawdsley Street
- Fairclough and Booth - Yard
- Marshall's Cotton Mill - Research and Development laboratory
Notes[]
- In an example of the 'as live' approach to recording at this point in the programme's history, during a scene with Jack Howarth, Alan Rothwell can be seen looking off-camera, whereupon a female voice audibly provides his next line of dialogue so that the scene can continue without a retake.
- TV Times synopsis: New surroundings for Lucille and Albert
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 4,990,000 homes (chart placing unknown - the BBC scheduled Steptoe and Son directly opposite this episode of Coronation Street resulting in a lower than usual figure).
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