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Episode 7487 (9th December 2010)

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Plot[]

Part One: The residents are horrified by the collapse of the viaduct. Nick stumbles from the wreckage. Gail and Audrey rush to be with him. Peter is rushed into hospital with Leanne and Janice by his side. The emergency services confirm that Ashley's body has been found. Claire rushes up having heard about the viaduct collapse and Audrey takes care of her while Maria looks after Joshua and Freddie. Steve and Becky prepare to break the news about Max's disappearance to Kylie. She stuns them by announcing that she's got Max to see if they would miss him. An incensed Becky goes for her sister and has to be held back. The firefighters prepare to cut Molly from the wreckage but the paramedics are concerned about the amount of blood she's losing. Sally accuses the emergency workers of wasting time when they should be getting her out. To the horror of her daughters, Sally defies them and climbs inside the wreckage to be with her friend. The paediatrician tells Tyrone that baby Jack may need a blood transfusion. Fiz prepares to give birth, all too aware that the baby's chances are slim. Taken to the cafe, Claire is angry and heartbroken at her loss. Dr Carter sedates her. Kylie demands another £5,000 cash or she will take Max away. Norris helps out in the cafe. Mary rushes in, afraid he might have been hurt. Tina suddenly realises Graeme is missing and might not know about Ashley. Not allowed back into No.6, Anna continues to fret about Gary's whereabouts. In his house, Gary continues to suffer flashbacks. Carla turns up at the hospital and tells Leanne about Ashley. The doctor tells Leanne that Peter needs life-saving surgery to his chest but must wait for an available surgeon. He advises her to say her goodbyes to Peter.

Part Two: Sally sits with a weakening Molly, talking to her and urging her to fight for her life as the firemen try to free her. Kevin almost gives himself away when Tyrone admits to the paediatrician that he's not the biological father. Steve dismisses Kylie's threat, and she saunters out of the pub. Sunita comes round. Graeme is heartbroken to hear the news. Nick gets a clean bill of health, gutted by Ashley's death and concerned for Leanne. Peter comes round with Leanne, Carla, Janice and Ken by his bedside. He quickly goes into cardiac arrest. An exhausted Fiz gives birth to a baby girl, who is immediately rushed to the neonatal unit as she's not responding. Sally desperately tries to keep Molly awake and talking as the fireman continue to try and free her. Keen to get rid of Tyrone in case his blood is required, Kevin sends him back to the street to wait for Molly. Peter's distressed at the thought of dying and leaving Simon. He asks Leanne if she will marry him there and then. Leanne's stunned but agrees. Becky's desperate to raise the extra money. Chris shakes Lloyd's hand and asks to see Russ. Izzy announces to the regulars that Fiz has given birth. Fiz names the baby Hope. John panics when he learns that Chesney and Katy have gone, fearing they may return to No.5 and discover the Charlotte's body.

Part Three: Nick bumps into Leanne at the hospital. She tells him that she's about to marry Peter. Audrey brings Claire to the Rovers where the boys are asleep upstairs. Nick gives Leanne a cautious blessing. John dashes home and is relieved to find Chesney and Katy being turned away from No.5 by police. Anna finds a traumatised Gary slumped at home. She can only hug him. Kevin takes the paediatrician to one side and admits he's Jack's father, but Tyrone must not find out. A determined Becky goes along the ginnel to where she found Sunita. Molly begins to pass out and come to again. John goes into No.5 by the back door. Gary is in a near daze, bitter with himself for freezing in the face of action. The hospital chaplain arrives to marry Leanne and a struggling Peter. Carla can't bear to watch and leaves. Norris can't hold of Rita but he and Mary assume she is still enjoying herself with Doreen. As John drags Charlotte down the ginnel, Becky empties the corner shop safe of all its cash.

Part Four: In The Kabin, Rita comes round and strains to attract attention with no success. The firemen prepare to move the final part of the beam holding Molly down and tell Sally to keep talking to her but she's fading fast. Molly feels the need to confess. Graeme offers to identify Ashley's body to spare Claire the trauma. Claire gets a phone message and plays it out loud in the pub. Everyone is horrified to hear Ashley's last words to her. John drags Charlotte's body into Viaduct Street. A police officer assumes he's rescued her from the rubble and summons the paramedics. Molly gasps out about the affair. Sally's confused until Molly confirms that Kevin is Jack's father. Sally recoils as Molly dies, begging her not to hate her. Peter faintly gives his vows. John's filled with despair that Charlotte might live when the paramedics find her weak pulse. As Leanne becomes Mrs Barlow, Peter's heart rate drops, and the crash team rushes to his aid. Tyrone arrives back on the street to find a thunderstruck Sally. He dissolves into tears as he realises that Molly is dead.

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Notes[]

  • This one-hour live episode was transmitted at 8.00pm, fifty years to the day after the live broadcast of Episode 1 in 1960.
  • This episode marks the 1,000th appearance of the character of Nick Tilsley although this number had been shared by three actors: Warren Jackson (547 episodes), Adam Rickitt (301 episodes) and Ben Price (152 episodes).
  • Final appearance of Vicky Binns as Molly Dobbs.
  • First appearance of Hope Stape, although she wouldn't receive a credit until 17th August 2015. In this episode Hope is portrayed by a prosthetic baby due to the character's premature birth.
  • This episode marked the final scenes to be acted by Julia Haworth as Claire Peacock and Becky Hindley as Charlotte Hoyle, although they appeared in further pre-filmed episodes transmitted after 9th December.
  • Ashley Peacock's voice message to Claire was a recording from the previous episode, although Steven Arnold is credited as appearing.
  • The usual opening title sequence is not used in this episode. Instead, the theme music played over a montage of the current predicaments of the characters as of the beginning of the episode. The opening shot of the montage was a high-level view of the street with its various emergency vehicles, staff and bystanders mixed in with a CGI shot of Weatherfield beyond, similar to the shots used in episodes earlier in the week, however the mix in this episode of live broadcast action and CGI was said to be a first for television. The montage then showed Molly Dobbs in the corner shop surrounded by firefighters, John Stape comforting Fiz in labour at Weatherfield General and Rita Sullivan lying unconscious in The Kabin.
  • In another break with the usual pattern of the programme at this time, scrolling credits were used at the end of the episode instead of slides.
  • To enable the smooth flow of the action between the studio sequences and the outdoor set, eight first directors and five second directors were utilised, all coordinated by main director Tony Prescott.
  • A conversation between firefighters revealed the death of a taxi driver, who was seen driving by The Joinery as it exploded at the start of the week. It was later confirmed by producer Phil Collinson that the taxi driver is one the four deaths from the "Four Funerals and a Wedding" tagline for the publicity for the week's episodes.
  • Richard Hammatt was credited as the Stunt Co-Ordinator on this episode.
  • The episode was followed on ITV1 by part two of the special tribute programme entitled Coronation Street: 50 Years, 50 Moments.
  • Aside from its standard ITV2 repeats, this episode was also repeated on ITV1 later on the same evening at 10.35pm.
  • TV Times synopsis: Horrific news is delivered to loved ones in the aftermath of the crash; a dying man makes a final wish; a traumatised Gary relives his Afghanistan nightmare; and a crushing discovery is made as Sally risks everything to save a friend.
  • Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 14,000,000 viewers (3rd place).
  • This episode was included in the Coronation Street - Tram Crash DVD released by ITV Home Entertainment on 21st February 2011.
  • This episode was repeated on ITV3 on Friday 11th December 2020 at 10.10pm to mark the programme's sixtieth anniversary. This was part of a sequence of episodes shown which had originally been transmitted on or near every tenth anniversary of the show.
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