Plot[]
Part One: Annie begins to worry about Lucille's whereabouts when dawn breaks on New Year's Day. Hilda tells her she was kept up by the music of gongs from next door during the night. Annie guesses where Lucille is as she found hippy magazines in her bedroom. She sends Jack to drag her home. At Lucille's request, Robert Croft recites his poetry at No.11. Dennis finds Roy meditating in the bath naked and insists that Lucille gets him out. He comes downstairs wearing Elsie's things. Jack is afraid to enter the fray and gets Dennis to pass the message onto Lucille, but she refuses to go. Val sees that Hilda is wearing a new hat as she arrives to collect the twins to take them to Oakenshaw Park. Len tells Ken he is wary about finding Ena somewhere to live as he got landed with her last time. Ena dispels Albert's illusions that the council is building another mission and says she's quitting the street for good. Annie threatens to bar Stan from the Rovers for good when he lauds the hippies' lifestyle of no work and free love. Emily needs Lucille's help at Gamma Garments and goes to fetch her. Annie is amazed by her supposed courage. Hilda meets George Greenwood at the park and he suggests they have a coffee together.
Part Two: Lucille feels liberated by joining the hippies and refuses to go to work when Emily begs her. Even Dennis is warming to them. Chatting to George over a flask of coffee, Hilda loses track of time and dashes home to make Stan's dinner, saying she could see him on Wednesday. Stan snacks at the Rovers to keep himself going. Annie asks Len for help as it's her turn to tackle Lucille, but he turns her down forcing her to face the hippies on her own. Ken and Val enjoy the sitar music from next door. Braving No.11, Annie sees the hippies burning incense and chanting and thinks they're invoking the Devil. She's shocked to Lucille dressed in a wig and smoking and begs her to return to the Rovers. She calls Dennis a brute when he refuses to help her. Annie returns in a state of shock and knocks back a brandy. She decides to contact the landlord.
Cast[]
Regular cast[]
- Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
- Valerie Barlow - Anne Reid
- Kenneth Barlow - William Roache
- Miss Nugent - Eileen Derbyshire
- Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
- Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
- Dennis Tanner - Philip Lowrie
- Lucille Hewitt - Jennifer Moss
- Annie Walker - Doris Speed
- Jack Walker - Arthur Leslie
- Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
- Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
- Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
Guest cast[]
- George Greenwood - Arthur Pentelow
- Robert Croft - Martin Shaw
- Monica - Angela Pleasence (Credited as "Angela Pleasance")
- Keith - Michael Attwell
- Roy - Kenneth Cranham
- Vanda - Veronica Clifford
Places[]
- Rovers Return Inn - Public/snug and hallway
- 9 Coronation Street - Back room and hallway
- 11 Coronation Street - Back room
- Glad Tidings Mission Hall - Main hall
- Oakenshaw Park
Notes[]
- The children playing Peter and Susan Barlow are uncredited and only appear in the location scenes in Oakenshaw Park. The majority of the scenes in the park were filmed on location except for a scene in the shelter which was recorded in studio.
- Hilda Ogden mentions that Long John Baldry is in the charts which he was at the time of both recording and broadcast with his single Let the Heartaches Begin which had peaked at No.1 in November 1967.
- TV Times: No synopsis appeared in the magazine between Episode 702 (6th September 1967) and Episode 755 (11th March 1968)
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 7,100,000 homes (7th place).
Notable dialogue[]
Annie Walker: "I'd rather that the gypsies had made off with 'er, she'd be learning peg-making or something useful."
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