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Plot[]

Part One: Albert continues to avoid Clara. Len sends Jim over to No.11 to face Elsie. Lucille phones Concepta and says that she can't get time off to visit them. Elsie asks Jim if he's got any plans to marry her or if she'll always be "good for a giggle". He doesn't answer. Jack offers to have a word with Lucille's boss to get her the time off but she asks him not to. Jim doesn't know what to tell Elsie and asks Ena for advice. She says Elsie would make a good wife for the right man. Ray's pleased that Lucille is staying in Weatherfield for him.


Part Two: Annie doesn't like the thought of leaving Lucille with relief manager Brenda Riley but Jack refuses to let her cancel the holiday. Jim tells Elsie he'll never marry but wants to continue seeing her. She tells him it's over and throws him out. Minnie performs the opening of the auction room. Jed and Dennis get off to a rocky start with nobody bidding on anything and the gavel breaking when Jed uses it. The stock goes for rock bottom prices. Brenda Riley arrives to inspect the Rovers. Annie finds her rough and ready. Dennis has words with Jed when a policeman asks if they have planning permission for the auction room. Elsie goes into town to put Jim behind her. Ena makes a profit of 7/6 on a pot dog bought from the auction room when she sells it to Annie to make a pair. Len and Jim make up. Jim is delighted to hear Brenda is the relief - she's an old girlfriend.

Cast[]

Regular cast[]

Guest cast[]

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Notes[]

  • A woman at the auction room is uncredited, despite having dialogue.
  • Elsie Tanner, Annie and Jack Walker are absent from the programme for the next four weeks returning in Episode 560 (25th April 1966) as Patricia Phoenix, Doris Speed and Arthur Leslie went on a promotional tour of Australia with executive producer H.V. Kershaw. The tour received maximum publicity when the three stars were seen off from Downing Street by Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan who said that Pat was "the sexiest thing on TV". Many years later he confessed that the comment was made up for the reporters and he'd never actually watched the programme.
  • TV Times synopsis: A test of love for Elsie and a duel of wits for Jed
  • Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 8,850,000 homes (2nd place).

Notable dialogue[]

Ena Sharples: "All right, me opinion: Elsie Tanner's a loud-mouthed, pig-'eaded, painted tramp, with a bust-full o' brassiere an' nowt on top. She's given 'er kids penny for chips while she's spent pounds on black market nylons, and she's kept 'em waitin' on the back step, waitin' for the last train 'ome from Burtonwood. And she's 'ad enough fellers creepin' out of 'er back door at breakfast-time to fill the Free Trade 'All and that's only Verse One, Chapter One."
Jim Mount: "Yes, I was afraid you were gonna say that."
Ena Sharples: "But given the right man on 'er arm, and she could turn into the best wife in the world for any lad."

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