A sketch was created for Text Santa broadcast on the 21st December 2012 to raise money for charity and was based on Charlies Dickens classic novel A Christmas Carol, and featured a lot of returning ex-cast members as ghosts visiting Norris Cole in the role of the Street's own Scrooge. The programme, with its Coronation Street inserts, was broadcast in two parts at 8.00pm and 12.00 midnight.
The mini-episode was written by Simon Crowther, Damon Rochefort, Susan Oudot and Julie Jones, directed by Kay Patrick, and produced by Kate Oates.
Plot
Cast
- Michelle Collins - Stella Price
- Catherine Tyldesley - Eva Price
- Michelle Keegan - Tina McIntyre
- Mikey North - Gary Windass
- Sam Aston - Chesney Brown
- Malcolm Hebden - Norris Cole
- Eileen Derbyshire - Emily Bishop
- Simon Gregson - Steve McDonald
- Barbara Knox - Rita Sullivan/ Norris' grandmother
- Philip Lowrie - Dennis Tanner/ Norris' grandfather
- Alex Bain - Simon Barlow/ Young Norris
- Sol Heras - Ryan Connor
- Jimmi Harkishin - Dev Alahan
- Johnny Briggs - Ghost of Mike Baldwin
- Tracy Shaw - Ghost of Maxine Peacock
- Patti Clare - Mary Taylor/ Norris' mother
- Peter Baldwin - Ghost of Derek Wilton
- Elizabeth Dawn - Ghost of Vera Duckworth
- William Tarmey - Voice of Jack Duckworth
Guest cast
- Little Mix- Themselves
- Lorraine Kelly - Police Officer
- Madge Harvey (Sheila Reid) - Police Officer