Plot[]
Part One: It's Easter Monday. David uses the bank holiday to repaint the shopfront but keeps being interrupted by customers. Lucille is troubled by what happened with Ray. With Hilda due back, Clara's upset as she'll have to give up her Rovers job. Brenda promises to look after her. Stan and Jim clean up No.13 for Hilda but their efforts are stymied by a faulty hoover blowing out dust. Stan trips over the table and breaks it while mucking about with Jim. He gets Dennis to open the auction room to find a replacement. Ena realises something is wrong with Lucille and takes her in hand, but Lucille leaves when they find Vera Lomax waiting for Ena at the vestry. Vera announces she's stopping for a few days but Ena suspects she wants something. Hilda walks into a scene of total chaos as the men are swapping the tables around.
Part Two: The residents row with Billy Diggins, a customer at the Rovers, who keeps his son outside for an hour. He's hounded out when the lad cuts his knee. Hilda discovers Stan used her best damask as a beer mat and the oven door is stuck. She accuses him of wrecking her house. Ray tells Lucille he'll find another girl to give him what he wants. She's devastated. Hilda gives Clara notice that she'll be returning to work the day after tomorrow. Lucille admits to Brenda that Ray stole the bottle of whisky from the bar. Brenda tells her not to worry about it. Lucille reveals that he wanted sex and she refused; she wishes she'd said yes now as he would have stayed with her. She's adamant that Ray loves her but Brenda tells her he never did. Brenda decides to have it out with Ray.
Cast[]
Regular cast[]
- David Barlow - Alan Rothwell
- Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
- Irma Barlow - Sandra Gough
- Lucille Hewitt - Jennifer Moss
- Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
- Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
- Dennis Tanner - Philip Lowrie
- Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
- Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
- Ray Langton - Neville Buswell
Guest cast[]
- Jim Mount - Barry Keegan
- Clara Midgeley - Betty Hardy
- Brenda Riley - Eileen Kennally
- Vera Lomax - Ruth Holden
- Billy Diggins - Vincent Worth
Places[]
- Coronation Street
- Rovers Return Inn - Public/snug, hallway and back room
- 13 Coronation Street - Back room and hallway
- Glad Tidings Mission Hall - Vestry
Notes[]
- The title caption appears over the opening scene of kids playing football in the street. One of the boys has dialogue later in the episode but is uncredited.
- TV Times synopsis: Lucille learns about love, Stan about marriage
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 5,450,000 homes (this Easter Monday episode failed to make the top twenty in the viewing charts - the only episode in 1966 to do so).
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