Coronation Street

- Season 10

(1968)

Minnie feels sorry for Ena upon learning that the Mission is to be demolished. Dennis despairs as a group of hippies descends on Number 11. Hilda makes a friend in the park.

Annie begins to worry about Lucille's whereabouts. Hilda is woken up by gongs from next door. Annie guesses that Lucille is with the hippies when Hilda gossips about them, as she found hippy magazines in her bedroom. She sends Jack to drag her home. Robert Croft recites his poetry at No. 11. Dennis finds one of the hippies meditating in the bath naked. The hippies get into Elsie's things. Jack is afraid to enter the fray and gets Dennis to pass the message onto Lucille. Lucille refuses to go. Len is wary about finding Ena somewhere to live as he got landed with her ...

Hilda takes Stan's dirty woolly socks for the wash. Jerry goes to court to sort out his divorce. Annie tells Jack she's given Alfred Wormold a full report of the goings-on at No. 11. Dennis doesn't understand the hippies' lifestyle. George Greenwood entertains Hilda in his work shed. She takes a shine to his budgie Winnie. The hippies are sleeping when Wormold comes knocking so he assumes they've gone. He tells Annie that Dennis is in arrears with the rent. Annie urges him to try again. Stan gets frostbite when working in the Rovers due to the thin socks Hilda gave ...

Stan is suspicious when Hilda treats him well. Hilda can't find her scarf and goes back to George's shed to look for it. Annie takes to her bed because of Lucille. Jack feels that Lucille has to decide to come back herself. Jenny Sutton joins the hippies but tells Dennis she thinks they're crazy. Dennis and Jenny learn about each other as they clean up the mess in the house. Jerry's divorce case is heard in court. He goes through all of his and Myra's marriage difficulties. Agnes Greenwood follows Hilda home from Oakenshaw Park to find out where she lives. Once the ...

Jack becomes very old suddenly through worrying about Lucille. She returns when she gets lonely. Dennis doesn't know if he can trust himself alone in the house with Jenny Sutton. Stan gets Hilda to buy expensive food for him. Jenny is taken on at the Hotel as bar steward Maurice Rowe fancies her. George Greenwood gets Hilda a budgie called Mabel and she decides to keep it with Winnie. Hilda tries to tell Stan she is seeing George. Rowe takes Dennis off bar work and onto waitering again so that he can work with Jenny. When he gropes Jenny in the stockroom, Dennis ...

Dennis threatens to tell the management that Maurice Rowe is on the fiddle. Rowe pretends Dennis beat him and apologises to Jenny. Hilda writes Stan a note telling him of her unfaithfulness. He ignores it. Demolishers Jimmy Gibson and Miklos Zadic recce the factory. Lucille falls for Hungarian Miklos. Agnes Greenwood and Stan worry about the confession element. Elsie phones up and Dennis tells her about Jenny. Len tries to get her to talk about herself but she puts the phone down. Hilda discovers Stan has been entertaining a woman.

The demolishers move into the Street. Miklos promises Minnie he'll make it as painless as possible for Ena. Jenny tells Dennis she knows about him blackmailing Maurice Rowe and thinks he's clever. Ena is given the choice of a council flat or Sunshine Villas Old Folks Home. Jenny realises Dennis fancies her. Hilda investigates Stan's woman. Jerry agrees to take Irma skating to ease her boredom. Hilda tells George Greenwood she can't see him anymore. She agrees to let Mabel stay with Winnie. Dennis discovers Jenny has left for London.

Ena has spent a frozen night in the Vestry with the amenities cut off pending the demolition. She refuses to tell Mr Ironfield where she's going to live afterwards and insists he helps the removal men shift the harmonium. Jerry tells David that Irma hardly stayed on the ice at the rink but spent most of the night in the snack bar. Nevertheless she wants to go again. Dennis is depressed at Jenny's departure. Hilda questions Annie on her views about women working as she's thinking about devoting all of her time to Stan. Annie worries that Hilda's going to hand in her ...

The residents try to clean the dust away from the demolition of the Mission of Glad Tidings. Len worries that Myra could try to jeopardise the divorce. Ena settles into Minnie's and tries to get used to being retired. The Brewery plans to redecorate the Rovers. Annie wants it done in Silver Buckingham wallpaper. The residents get to know Miklos. Jerry discovers Myra has been in the Street. Myra assures Len she is not contesting the divorce but she is interested in Jerry's relationship with Irma. Jerry decides to visit Myra to find out what she's up to.

Ena is curious about Minnie's habits. Myra is thrilled when Jerry calls. She assures him that she has no ulterior motives. Irma and Val chat Miklos up. They arrange a date but then want to back out. Minnie and Ena fall out about household money and sharing. Val and Irma try to set Emily up with Miklos. Len warns Jerry that Myra is up to no good. The Brewery refuse to decorate the Rovers to Annie's specifications so she tells them she'll pay for the decorating. Jack refuses. Miklos takes Emily out. Myra tells Jerry he's under Len's thumb. To show her that she's wrong ...

The Rovers is decorated. Emily tells Irma she and Miklos are getting very friendly. Myra flaunts her new friendship with Jerry. The Walkers change the old pumps. Annie is horrified to discover the factory is to be demolished when the Rovers is to be painted. Miklos worries about the demolition because the factory is so old. Myra calls on Jerry late at night and begs him to tell her that he loves her. She tells him that she is lonely and begs to stay the night.

The demolishers descend on the factory with bulldozers. Len is annoyed at Myra's presence in the house. Bobby goes missing. Minnie thinks Ena has driven him out. Annie strings onions up around the pub to get rid of the paint fumes. Len tells Jerry to get rid of Myra but he is keen to have her around. He warns him that they could be accused of collusion and goes away to leave them to it. The twins follow Bobby into the factory. Myra asks to spend the weekend with Jerry. He agrees. Minnie rescues Bobby. The demolition starts as Susan and Peter cower in the factory.

Ken and Miklos halt the demolition in time to rescue the twins from inside the factory. Myra and Jerry discuss the failings in their marriage. Ena and Minnie struggle to get along living together.

Ena fights her emotions as she prepares to leave the Street. Myra fails to persuade Jerry to give their marriage another try. Ken fears that Val feels let down when he does not send her a valentine.

Lucille takes up with art student Tim Jordan. Jerry is pleased that he feels nothing for Myra. Len and Val take care of Elsie, she gives nothing away. Tim charms the ladies in the Street. Jerry discovers Myra has told the court she's spent the night with him. Minnie advertises in the shop window for a man for companionship. The students collect for rag week. Len assures Jerry he's in the clear as no one knows Myra stayed. Annie throws the students out of the Rovers. Tim bets Lucille he can get the Rovers to pay up for rag week. David tells Minnie to talk to Ena before...

The students campaign for ransom money but Jack doesn't pay up as he's enjoying Annie's absence. Elsie doesn't know how to get in touch with Dennis. Jerry broods about his divorce and is bitter towards Elsie. Minnie becomes an agent for a catalogue. Hilda is annoyed as it is the same firm that she's an agent for. Annie enjoys her captivity at the University and gladly pays the students five guineas. She poses in handcuffs for the evening paper. Tim Jordan asks Lucille to appear in the rag procession on a float as a 1920s Bathing Beauty. Hilda warns Minnie off her ...

Jack is a bundle of nerves and hasn't told Annie about Jerry's request. He shocks Annie by telling her to shut up when she goes on at him about taking a parcel to the post office. Len tells Jerry he was out of order asking Jack to lie for him. Jerry feels he has no other choice. Elsie sets tongues wagging by coming into the Corner Shop looking a mess. Jack is afraid of lying in court but wants to help Jerry. Miklos arranges to meet Albert at the Rovers to give him his dad's collection of Hungarian coins. Mr Stock tells Jack about a mate who got done for perjury before...

Albert tells PC Conway that Miklos stole the coins. David likes the idea of living somewhere where he doesn't know anyone. The residents worry about Elsie, living in a pigsty in No. 11. Miklos accuses Albert of slandering him. He refuses to tell Albert where he spent the day. Miklos tells Emily he was visiting a friend in hospital. The police catch the thief trying to sell the coins. He's a casual worker from the building site. George Dickinson turns up and asks Jerry to take Myra back. Elsie breaks down.

Len is perturbed to hear gossip about Elsie hiding away inside Number 11. David confides in Ken about his plan to play football once more. Miklos and Emily enjoy an impromptu lunch together.

David tells Irma he played football and never had a twinge but she slaps his face in anger. He tells her that he wants to play professionally again - for a team in Australia. The Barlows worry as Dennis sends furniture from London to store with them. Irma doesn't want to go to Australia. She tells David he can go on his own. She is shocked when Hilda says they'll come as well. Emily and Miklos realise they have no ties - they can do anything they want to. Elsie ventures into the Rovers. Annie gives her a free gin. Miklos kisses Emily.

Hilda gets on everyone's nerves about Australia. Dennis and Jenny Sutton travel up from London, needing a base. He gets her to pretend they are married to put the neighbours off. Hilda is stunned when Stan tells her that she can go to Australia - on her own. He's not leaving England. David tells Irma he realises they can't go to Australia. She tells him that she thinks she's pregnant. Dennis introduces Jenny to a surprised Elsie as "Mrs Tanner".

Elsie refuses to believe Dennis is married. Emily worries that Miklos is too passionate. Jenny tells Elsie they're not married. She tells them they can't sleep together. She locks Dennis into the parlour. David is told the Australian job is his. Irma realises they'd be stupid not to go to Australia when she sees the picture of the house that goes with the job. Dennis is annoyed that Elsie is playing Miss Morality. She dislikes Jenny and thinks it's only infatuation. Hilda breaks down when she is told about the emigrating. Dennis gets a job selling hairdressing ...

Val lets Ken believe she's opening a men's barber shop. He is furious. Len thinks Jerry is running his life. Irma worries that no one is buying the shop because of the slum clearances. Ronald Wilde thinks he'll get shoddy workmanship from Jerry and Len for £180 a unit, but gives them the contract. David puts the sale in the hands of an agent. Len thinks the tender is too low. Jerry knows they'll make no money out of it but is thinking of the future. Len doesn't want to expand; he likes things the way they are. Jerry tells him he'll take the contract on himself.

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Dennis and Jenny find it hard living with Elsie. Ken and Val plan a picnic but the car won't start. Emily is surprised at the amount of time she spends in the Rovers. She tells Val she fancies Miklos but doesn't know if she could sleep with him. Minnie amazes Ken by getting the car to work. Lucille feels Miklos is wasted on Emily. Miklos lets Emily's hair down and tries to get her into bed. He is angry when she stops him. She tells him that she tried and breaks down.

Len agrees to work on the maisonettes. Jenny threatens to leave unless Elsie is nicer to her. David tells the Gazette about his Australia plans in an attempt to interest people in the shop. Emily tells Val that she wants Miklos and wants to marry him but he doesn't want roots. David is horrified when he reads the report in the paper. Miklos tells Val it is because he cares for Emily that he can't pursue her - he knows he'll hurt her. The story on David says that "Young people want more out of life that this town can offer; a vista of dirty back streets, railway arches...

Emily is upset that Miklos is moving on and about the way she found out the news. He asks to see her later on to talk. Dennis is upset that no one has remembered his birthday. Jenny decides it's time she got a job. Mrs Margaret Clegg looks over the Corner Shop after seeing the advert in the Gazette and tells David it's exactly what she's looking for. She says she'll return with her husband. Miklos tells Jerry he'll be gone in three weeks' time. Elsie tells Len she doesn't want to be bitchy with Jenny but can't help herself as she feels she's too much like her. He ...

Jerry wants to give Stan a chance to prove himself as a plumber but Len thinks it's a bad idea. Maggie tells Irma she's interested in herbalism. Len tells Stan he can't be their plumber; they're going to get someone else. Stan walks out of the Yard. Les works at the shop with the Barlows. All the OAP flats are allocated but Len puts pressure on Mr Ironfield at the council to house Ena. She has been allocated a flat two miles away. Elsie admits she wants Jenny out of No. 11.

Jenny packs but Dennis stops her returning to London. Hilda is horrified that Stan has resigned from the Yard. Len goes to Nottingham as Stanley is ill. Val sees an artist's impression of the new maisonettes and thinks they look great. Dennis persuades Minnie to take Jenny in. Stan plans to get a labouring job at the building site. Dennis is amazed as Minnie guards Jenny's virtue. David and Irma pack. Val calls Ken a stick-in-the-mud for not being interested in the maisonettes. Hilda discovers drayman Vince Boyle tried to settle in Australia but couldn't. She asks him...

Irma has last minute doubts about emigrating. Stan is taken on at the building site for the maisonettes by foreman Wilf Jones. Val tells Ken that No.9 is getting on her nerves. Hilda tells Irma she sent Vince Boyle round. Irma accuses her of trying to wreck her marriage and they both break down. Les paints over the Barlows' name on the shop. The residents see the Barlows off as they leave for Australia. Jenny feels there's not much chance of Dennis and her ever settling down. She tells Minnie that Elsie is still making her feel uncomfortable. Minnie decides to tackle ...

Albert reminisces that it's fifty years since the Battle of the Lys but neither Dennis nor Minnie are interested. Maggie introduces Elsie to her son Gordon, who is an accounts' clerk. Albert complains that no one cares about the war but Ken cheers him up when he tells him that he has a book on the battle he can borrow. Minnie makes Elsie see Jenny is quite nice. Elsie worries that she isn't liked. Gordon gets annoyed when Les interrupts his studies and shows little respect for him. Dennis thinks he and Jenny should buy a flat. Elsie calls at No. 5 and tries to talk to...

Gordon looks for Les. Maggie is pleased he's not in the pub. Dennis takes Minnie to the zoo to please Jenny. Maggie is relieved when Les returns after just having a walk. Albert gets together with some old war friends. They all disagree about the Battle they're discussing. It becomes clear that Albert missed the Battle because he'd got lost whilst being on patrol. Ray Langton turns up planning to apply for the plumber's job at the Yard.

Ray tells Jerry he has grown up a lot and needs a job. Jerry takes him on. Emily returns from Scotland and looks for somewhere to live. She tells Val that Miklos has gone to Newcastle and she doesn't regret the holiday. Annie invites Emily to move into Joan's room as her guest and doesn't give Emily the chance to say no. Shirley Walton, Ray's ex-girlfriend, looks for him. Emily moves into the Rovers. Stan scalds his foot with tea from the urn. The Walkers and Lucille go down with a bug. Ray skives off work to take Shirley to the pictures. Emily is left holding the ...

Emily is harassed by workmen in the Rovers and threatens to strike. Stan pretends his foot is painful to get sympathy from Hilda. He is horrified when Hilda tells him to show the workmen that he's not workshy. Shirley is annoyed when Ray calls her "Lucille". Annie is annoyed when Emily proves a success in the pub. The workmen ban Stan from the canteen. Ray is worried to discover Len is returning. Stan drops a partition from the second floor level, onto the building site where his mates are working.

Stan is sacked from the site but can't bring himself to tell Hilda. Dennis wants a big wedding and they set the date for 29th May. Jenny reveals that Monica is getting married during the same month. Hilda finds out about Stan and tells him to ask Len to take him back. Len gives Stan his job back. Mr Sutton refuses to pay for two weddings and backs Monica because she's marrying a bank manager. Dennis decides they'll marry in Weatherfield. Albert tries to match-make between Lucille and Gordon. Len refuses to have Ray working at the Yard.

Jerry stops Len and Ray fighting. He makes Len see that Ray is a good plumber and they need one. He tells Len that he and Ray are very alike. In response, Len refuses to sack Stan. Dennis looks forward to his £100 commission. The residents think it's unnatural that Les Clegg is never in the Rovers. Shirley Walton feels threatened by Lucille being around. She tells Ray she'll kill her if he goes near her. Dennis is horrified when he only gets £25 wages for the month. Elsie begins to look for a job; she doesn't want to use Steve's money. Elsie discovers a bundle of £5 ...

Ronald Wilde tells Len to get Stan off the site. Len refuses so Wilde calls a union meeting. Lucille warns Shirley off Ray. The builders threaten a strike if Stan works with them. Len argues that he is in charge of the plumbers. Hilda butts in when Reg Barton calls Stan useless and incompetent and she has to be led away by Stan. Lucille asks Gordon to help her with the Gamma Garments accounts. He agrees, much to Maggie's disapproval. Elsie fears that Dennis has stolen some money. Ray shows Val drawings of the maisonettes' interiors. Len and Jerry agree to take Stan ...

The residents are shocked to discover someone has broken the shop window. Gordon is furious but covers up for Les having smashed it with an empty bottle. Jenny gets Elsie an interview at Ashworths. Les tells Maggie he can't help himself anymore. She tries to cover up for him but worries how they'll pay for it. Hilda thinks Stan broke the window whilst drunk. Val drinks with Ray in the Rovers rather than cook Ken's dinner. Dennis tells Elsie he borrowed the money from a moneylender, at 48% interest. Thinking the Cleggs are insured, Hilda makes Stan confess. The Cleggs ...

Maggie tells the Ogdens not to worry as the insurance will take care of the window. Gordon is angry that Les is happy to let Stan take the blame. Maggie stops Les from telling Stan the truth. Lucille advises Val to make Ken's cosy life a bit uncosy so that he'll consider moving. Jenny wonders why Dennis is so keen on a church wedding. The vicar, the Rev Peter Hope, puts Dennis off when he realises he is not a churchgoer and just wants the ceremony. Dennis asks Jerry to be his best man. Jerry refuses; he's off weddings. Val tries to make Ken see that No. 9 is too small...

Val is angry at Ken's hypocrisy considering his affair with Jackie Marsh, two years previously. She swears she is not interested in Ray. Weatherfield prepares for a Royal visit. Dennis tries to get in contact with Jed and discovers he's in Blackpool. Maggie tries to put Lucille off Gordon. Len, Jerry and Ray finish the maisonette plumbing contract. Ken tells Val he's put them on the list for a maisonette. Gordon finds Lucille fascinating but finds himself out of his depth. Jerry tells Len that "Fairclough and Booth" have finished as a partnership.

It is Gordon's eighteenth birthday. Jerry tells Len he doesn't know why he's leaving but he wants to make a fresh start somewhere else. Gordon is confused when Lucille offers him a celebratory drink in the Rovers. Jerry agrees to be best man before he leaves. Gordon drinks the same as Ray to prove his manhood. The Stotherts look round No.9. Maggie is upset that Gordon has been drinking with Lucille. She is angry to discover he skipped night school to see Lucille. She is worried that people will find out about Les. Ray entertains Lucille in his car. Ken tells the ...

Maggie asks Annie to keep Lucille away from Gordon; he has his studies and she wants something better for him than Lucille. Annie accuses her of smothering Gordon and of making him lead a miserable life. Maggie accuses her of corrupting Gordon and walks out. Dennis refuses to have the reception in the Rovers and books the Lancastria. Val is upset at the way Ken treats her like a schoolchild. Gordon is keen to have a relationship with Lucille. They arrange a date and Lucille stands Ray up. Gordon tells Maggie he's out with a college friend. Jenny is pleased when Dennis...

Dennis is suspicious when Elsie makes him a slap-up breakfast. She tells him that it's a special one for his last day as a single man. Dennis tells her the vicar at St. Mary's Church won't marry them so they're getting married in a registry office. A morning suit arrives for him as he forgot to cancel the order. Jenny's mum writes to say she can't attend the wedding as she's having an operation. Minnie worries that Ena hasn't replied to the wedding invitation and she's due back. Albert collects for the wedding present from all the neighbours. Linda arrives for the ...

Dennis and Jenny wake early on the day of their nuptials. Jerry performs his best man's duties before bidding farewell to Weatherfield. Maggie is alarmed when Ena claims to have heard of Les.

Dennis gets the contract for the South West and Midlands. Len moves Ena into a maisonette: No. 6. Ray takes Lucille out for the day. Mr Ironfield tells the Barlows they have also been allocated one of the maisonettes. Ken is a bit put out as he thought they wouldn't get one. Ray's van breaks down. Ena is pleased as her maisonette is on the foundations of the Vestry. Les's team wins at bowls. He asks Maggie to join the celebrations at the club but she feels he can be trusted to go on his own. Lucille is annoyed at the non-event date with Ray and agrees to go out with ...

Maggie worries about Les. Gordon goes looking for him. Ena tells Maggie she knows who they are and listens to her. Maggie is pleased to talk to someone. Dennis is summoned to an executive breakfast with his boss. Val notices an ad in the Gazette with the Rovers' phone number: "Refined lady seeks stimulating opportunity. Anything considered." Dennis is annoyed when he lets it slip to his boss that he's married as the company are against married employees. Ena sits with Maggie all night. Dennis' boss is impressed that he left Jenny for the firm on his wedding night. Ray...

Elsie and Dot both start at MacAverty's Department Store, Elsie demonstrating in the food hall and Dot in lingerie. Les in unconscious in hospital with concussion. Ken gives first refusal to Dickie and Audrey. Len tells him that he'll buy the house straight away. Albert decides to take the Fusiliers' Museum job. Dickie has £550 saved and asks his dad to lend him another £400 - he agrees. Gordon wants Les to know he's sorry. Len gets Fleming interested in No.3, telling him it'd go for £400. He persuades the kids that it'll be fun to do up and they agree. Elsie gets a ...

Elsie gives Dennis £125 of Steve's money as a wedding present from Steve. The floor caves in at No. 3. Ray assures Dickie that the house is sound. Len promises to do it up for nothing. Dennis pays back the money. Jenny gets Ashworths to transfer her to the Bristol branch. Les asks the hospital if he can see a psychiatrist about his drinking. They tell Maggie it'll mean a long time in a mental hospital. Ronald Wilde gives Len another contract at £185 per unit. Emily prepares for an interview. Jenny makes plans over the phone with Linda in secret. The residents wish the...

Annie learns the truth behind Les Clegg's stay in hospital. Ken and Len finally strike a deal. Val discovers that Elsie has a surprise coming to her.

Annie and Ray disapprove of Lucille's attachment to Gordon. Elsie's nephew Gary Bailey makes his presence felt. The Barlows move across the street into their maisonette.

Gary tries to tell Elsie the car is an investment. Stan buys I-spy Dwyer's window cleaning round off him for £45. Dickie and Audrey go shopping for a double bed. Len is told to fire Stan or the contract with Ronald Wilde is off. Stan resigns before Len can sack him. Emily gives Elsie a ride in the car. She realises the car is going to cost a fortune to keep up. Stan gives Elsie a driving lesson at 5.00pm. Hilda is furious when they haven't returned at 10.00pm. Elsie and Stan run out of petrol on the moors.

Hilda confronts Elsie and demands to know how she spent the night with Stan. Len encourages Maggie to integrate herself into the community. The Barlows befriend Dickie and Audrey.

Hilda insists on spending £1 from Stan on a shammy leather as it's classier. Ena hands Effie her own nightdress that she took down when it was drying the previous day - the Sabbath - saying that people in the area respect Sundays. Effie quotes the commandment "Thou shall not steal" back to her. Elsie decides to sell the car because its running costs are so high and writes out an advert. Maggie and Gordon are in Llandudno for the week but he has sent Lucille a letter. Ena refuses Elsie's advert because there are too many abbreviations in it. Len fixes a dripping tap ...

The Ogdens dine at a Chinese restaurant to celebrate Stan's new job. Jack and Effie reminisce over old times. Ray seeks lodgings in Coronation Street.

Ena comes down with a poker and threatens the hidden intruders. They prove to be two young boys who have broken through the storeroom window. Annie keeps Jack awake with her jealousy over Effie and warns him she'll want to know all about the two of them in the morning. Frank Pickles is terrified of Ena calling the police but his elder brother Billy is more sanguine. She lets them go but demands they return tomorrow to do odd jobs. The next morning, Jack escapes Annie's questions. Gary writes to Elsie with his excuses for leaving. She tells an interested Lucille that ...

Emily and Lucille frantically prepare for a Gamma Garments sale suddenly imposed on them by head office. A queue builds up outside the shop. Emily receives a call to say that Mr Papagopolous is calling round later that day. Effie invites Ena round to try and convince her that nothing untoward was happening between her and Jack. Ena tells her that Annie won't be as understanding as her. As Jack goes off to a brewery meeting, Annie questions him as to why he got in so late. Minnie is shocked to discover that Ena is considering telling Annie. Talk of the foxtrot in the ...

Annie is short with Jack before she leaves early to call on Elsie and confirm her story. Annie is shocked to hear Ray calling downstairs as she didn't know he was going to be a lodger in No. 11. Dickie and Audrey have returned. Audrey studies for a school exam. Ray enjoys his first breakfast from his landlady. Elsie gives him his own key. Len isn't happy to see Ray doing odd jobs for Elsie round the house. Ena comes to see Annie and tells her about Jack and Effie. Jack runs out to avoid trouble. Ena is put out when Annie doesn't seem to mind however Annie is annoyed ...

Audrey looks up recipes. Hilda simmers about Stan and the woman at No. 19 Inkerman Street, knowing that he under-charged her, and likens the situation to Effie and Jack, giving Annie pause for thought. Ray returns early for a cup of tea. Elsie makes it quite clear that she can handle his cheek. Hilda calls on Audrey to sign her up for Stan's window cleaning. She is baking a cake for Dickie's birthday but ruins it. Hilda takes it off her hands and hears from Audrey that she had no cake, photographs or bouquet for the wedding and grows suspicious. Jack visits Effie who ...

Hilda stirs it with Annie, telling her that Jack was with Effie when she took her note round last night. Annie refuses to let him go to the bowls club with Effie, insisting he goes shopping with her. Ray complains to Elsie that girls nowadays have no maturity. She doesn't like his pointed comments. Albert sends a letter to Minnie from Bury telling her about his new life. She invites Gordon and Lucille to tea to celebrate Bobby's birthday. Emily can't find a full-time job aside from her yard book-keeping work. Ena annoys Elsie when she drops hints about her and Ray. ...

Emily helps out at the Corner Shop. Hilda gossips about the Flemings. Elsie is sharp with the regulars in the Rovers. Hilda tries to force Stan to go to the cinema with her to see La Planète des singes (1968). Minnie is touched when Effie gives Bobby a present of a tin of sardines, making Ena jealous. Elsie drinks alone in the Rovers. Gordon, Lucille and Dickie talk about opting out but Audrey points out that hippies rely on dole money paid for by other people. Ena and Annie talk about Jack and Minnie being easily led. Annie keeps Jack busy behind the bar washing glasses. Ena is sharp-tongued ...

Emily is surprised to see Stan in the yard when she arrives for work, he having got over the fence to repair his window-cleaning ladder. Ray sports a bruised cheek. Len isn't pleased to see he's turned up for work. Ray insists he never laid a finger on Elsie and tells him to check with her. Hilda and Annie insist they won't attend the Fleming's party as they disapprove of them living over the brush but Elsie takes issue with them. Elsie tells Len she was just sick of Ray watching her, saying things, and to forget the matter. Val returns home from the shops to find Ken...

Convict Frank Riley holds a terrified Valerie hostage in the flat. Ken remains unaware of the drama at home as he presides over his play rehearsal. The regulars in the Rovers speculate as to the criminal's whereabouts.

Ken continues the play rehearsals and is coerced into giving Pamela Dickenson a lift home because of the escapee. Convict Frank Riley traps Val in No.14. He tells her to sit still. Annie tries to stir it with Ena about Effie but gets short shrift. Len passes on to the regulars the news that the police are concentrating their search on Victoria Street where Riley used to live with a woman. To protect the twins, Val tells Riley she has no children and has only just married. A nervous Elsie goes to No. 3 with some chips so as not to be alone but decides to go to the ...

Frank Riley blames Val for alerting the police. She begs him to leave. Ena joins Elsie and the Flemings in No. 3 as does Len. He advises them to stay together as they worry about Val and the kids. Det. Insp. Sharp takes Ken to the Maisonettes walkway to get a better idea of the inside of the flat. They use a loudhailer to tell Riley to come out. Ken has trouble keeping calm. Riley produces a crowbar. The neighbours hear the loudhailer and grow concerned. The police realise they can't break the door down. Sharp gets Ken to phone Val and he tells her that she must shut ...

Annie prepares for her speech by going to the library and consulting their reference section. Val still isn't sleeping well. Ken demands to know what happened between her and Frank Riley but she just wants to be left alone. Audrey, Dickie and Gordon go to the swimming baths together. Minnie tells Ena she's had a letter from an old "gentleman friend" of hers who is going to visit them later that day but she won't say who it is - she wants it to be a surprise. Mr Ironfield of the council calls at No. 9 to see Len who is out. He's nervous about Ena's whereabouts. Val ...

Ena decides to resist the Devil and continue to praise God on Sunday mornings. She accuses Effie of making the complaint. Effie ignores her. Audrey goes job hunting. Ena goes to the Town Hall to see the housing officer. Val lays on a birthday tea for Albert. Clifford Sykes, the housing officer, tells Ena she can't hold prayer meetings at No. 6. She tells Minnie to round up her regulars. Audrey gets a job at the petrol station on Union Street for £8 a week. The housing people call on Ena during a prayer meeting and tell her that if she doesn't stop she will lose her ...

Dickie spends his money going out with Ray. Val regrets sending the letter. Ena is amazed to discover it was Val. Val apologises and agrees that Ena can play 9.30 - 11.30am, and 6.00 - 8.00pm. Annie tells Jack that she spent the evening in a cinema. Maggie reveals that Les has discharged himself and has gone to work with his brother in Stafford. Dickie wants to give up his apprenticeship to get a labouring job so that they can have money, upsetting Audrey.

Dickie realises he'd be better off serving his apprenticeship. Rag-and-Bone man Tommy Deakin looks for somewhere to keep Dolores, the donkey that pulls his cart. Gregg Flint returns to the area from Germany. He is sorry to hear that the Tanners have split up but tells Elsie that he did warn her. Ray tells Audrey she should enter the "Miss Petrol Pump Beauty Contest". Emily takes care of Dolores so Tommy can go into hospital.

Emily keeps Dolores in the corner shop back yard. Audrey wins the area's heat in the contest on the strength of a photo she sent in. Dickie isn't that keen. Dolores puts people off shopping at the shop. Annie refuses to have Dolores in her yard before discovering Emily has already installed her. Steve phones Gregg and tells him that he wants to see Elsie.

Gregg and Dot refuse to tell Elsie about Steve. Annie allows Dolores to stay overnight. Joe Donelli and Gary Strauss return to the Street. Dolores disappears. Dave Smith turns up and tells Elsie he needs her for a business venture. Emily discovers Tommy Deakin has really been on holiday in Majorca. Audrey gets her 'O' Level results. Tommy gives Emily a wooden donkey. Dave shows Elsie that he's bought Gamma Garments and has turned it into a florists - "The Pink Posy". He tells her it's all hers.

Elsie starts work at "The Pink Posy". Dickie is upset about Audrey walking about a stage in her bikini. Audrey wins the contest and the prize of £50. Emily asks Dave for a job at the florist but he says no - she's too old. The MC, Norman Forshaw, tries to push Audrey into making beauty contests a career. She refuses. Steve keeps trying to get in contact with Elsie. Gordon is annoyed when Lucille flirts with Gary Strauss. Maggie agrees to Val helping at the shop whilst Ena is on holiday. Emily has no money to pay her rent. Gregg visits Steve and discovers he wants ...

Steve phones Elsie. She tells him that she is not returning to him. Lucille tells Gordon she enjoys Gary Strauss' company. She is alarmed when Gordon fights Gary. She tells Gordon to stop telling her what to do. Emily has an interview as a receptionist for the Import and Export Office. Mr Gunter takes her on as he thinks she is gullible.

Emily is run around at the shipping office. Elsie grows tired of Steve hounding her. Lucille asks Elsie for a job at the florist. Elsie takes a taxi to visit Steve at Claydon Court. Lucille and Gordon apologise to each other. Elsie runs away from Steve's in tears.

Gregg gives Steve's address to Len. Emily realises she is the only secretary at the firm, although they claim wages for three. She tells her boss she is not a sucker and walks out after putting the police on to the firm's crooked deals. Len and Dave don't know whether to help Elsie or not. Ena returns from holiday to take back her job at the Corner Shop but Val refuses to leave as she needs the money.

Elsie prepares to turn down Steve's invitation to return to America. Val dreads Ena's reaction to her working in the shop. The vicar has a proposition for Emily.

Elsie fields awkward questions about her marriage from the police. Gregg's callous reaction to Steve's death shocks Dot. Rumours of foul play spread around the street.

The police interview the residents and find out about Stan stealing the cigarette case. Joe and Gary give each other alibis but the police don't believe them. Elsie gives Val as an alibi. Val agrees to back her up. Len's fist is bandaged. He says he whacked it on a cistern. The police realise Val didn't see Elsie and want to know why she is covering up for her. The police want to see Gregg and Len.

Elsie apologises to the police for roping Val in. The police tell her that Steve left everything to her in his will. She tells them she didn't know this. Stan worries that he's going to be suspected because he was with Clara Regan at 19 Inkerman Street. Len's fingerprints are taken and he is questioned. Len tells Elsie that he could have killed Steve - for her. Gary Strauss and Joe Donelli fly off to Hamburg. Ray is questioned by the police, as is Val. Gregg tells the police he was with a Sally Wells in Altrincham. Stan tells Hilda he knew all about her and George ...

Ronald Wilde is annoyed that Len is neglecting the contract. Len's fingerprints are all over Steve's flat. He tells them that he went to hit Steve but hit the wall and left him. Stan and Hilda swap jobs. The police tell Len he has to take part in an identity parade. The press interview the residents. Dot discovers that Gregg was with another woman. Len is let go after the parade. Len and Elsie discover Steve owed Dave £1,000.

Dot is upset at Gregg's alibi of being with another woman. Hilda enjoys the job swapping when she earns more than Stan. Dave discovers that Len has told the police that Steve owed him £1,000. The police take Elsie to the station.

Gregg finishes with Dot. At the inquest, Elsie and Len are questioned and both admit to rowing with Steve. The jury returns an open verdict. Ray and Len lose the contract with Ronald Wilde because Len is not available for work.

Hilda is shocked to discover Stan did a good job cleaning the Rovers. Dave tries to bring Elsie out of herself. Ray wonders where Len has got to and he keeps Ronald Wilde hanging on. Jill Morris turns up at the shop looking for Irma. She is upset to hear the Barlows have emigrated. Wilde tells Ray they can still have the contract if Len signs a penalty clause. Jill runs away from Gordon. Ray discovers Len has run off with the petty cash.

Ray has trouble coping without Len. Ronald Wilde refuses to take the lads back on the hospital site but Ray promises them their wages. Elsie refuses to let Dave give her driving lessons. Jill Morris's mum is in hospital again, Hilda wants to take her in but Stan doesn't. Jill overhears Stan saying he doesn't want her.

Dave asks Elsie to go on holiday with him looking at flower shops but she isn't sure. Gordon resents Lucille's efforts to help Ray find work. Hilda hides Jill Morris in the spare room. Lucille lets it slip to Elsie that Len has disappeared.

Elsie agrees to go to Wakefield with Dave and they leave together. Lucille is confused when Gordon has a date with another girl. Maggie approves of the move. Stan finds Jill Morris hiding in his bed.

Albert looks for somewhere to spend his holiday. Stan takes Jill on his round and begins to like her. Audrey rows with Gordon over the way he is treating Lucille. Albert dumps himself on the Flemings for the week rather than inconvenience Val. Emily tells Ray the firm is sinking fast.

Albert moves his bed into No.3. Jill Morris's mum's boyfriend takes her back, upsetting Stan. Emily tells Ray there's no money left in the business to pay the bills. He realises he'll have to lay the men off. Gordon tells Maggie he's going to marry Lucille.

Albert wears out both Audrey and her purse. Gordon proposes to Lucille on her sickbed. She accepts. Albert reveals he has another two weeks holiday. Effie returns, her sister-in-law having died. Maggie and Annie take the news of the engagement badly.

One of the Yard's cheques for £45 bounces and Ray is given three days to clear it. Audrey can't cope with Albert any more. Effie's television is repossessed and she tells Maggie she spent all her savings paying off her sister-in-law's debts. Ena advises Audrey to get in touch with a lady called Alice Pickins. Len phones Emily and says he's returning.

Alice Pickins turns up to sort Albert out. Effie tells Val to keep Susan and Peter in order as they bother her. Len returns and refuses to tell Ray where he's been. Jack offers to lend Effie some money but she refuses. Alice has designs on a horrified Albert.

Alice Pickins turns up to sort Albert out. Effie tells Val to keep Susan and Peter in order as they bother her. Len returns and refuses to tell Ray where he's been. Jack offers to lend Effie some money but she refuses. Alice has designs on a horrified Albert.

Jack is in hospital with extensive bruising on his leg and shock after being hit by a motorbike. Annie accuses Lucille of causing the accident by being out with Gordon. Maggie upsets Lucille by blaming her for the accident. Minnie finds Bobby stuck on the viaduct. Stan agrees to fetch him down and discovers it is not Bobby. Lucille overhears Annie slagging her off and is upset. Annie and Maggie agree that they don't want Gordon and Lucille seeing each other. Gordon tells Maggie he's had enough of her.

The Ogdens plan their silver wedding party. Minnie takes in the stray. Lucille tells Maggie she loves Gordon. Maggie tells her to stay away from him. Ken takes up the trumpet again. Maggie tells Gordon that she will not give him her permission to marry. Gordon tells Lucille they should give their relationship a rest. He then changes his mind and tells her they could run away and get married.

Gordon and Lucille's disappearance causes consternation for Maggie and the Walkers. Stan and Hilda celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. Ena learns a secret concerning Mrs. Spicer.

Minnie worries that she'll never find Bobby. Lucille and Gordon return. Gordon tries to explain to the Walkers but Jack throws him out. He is shocked when Maggie refuses to discuss the matter with him. Maggie tells Ena that Effie has no money. Ena tells Effie she'd like to help her sort out her pension. Maggie stuns Gordon by going out with Len.

Ena sends Effie off to the Social Security. Len advises Maggie not to turn Gordon into a mother's boy. Val worries about meeting some of Ken's friends. Maggie tells him she only wants him as a friend. Val and 'Kenny' go to the Hepworths' party. Gordon sits his exams on Merchantile Law. Reverend James asks Emily to help produce a children's panto for Christmas. Val finds herself being sexually insulted at the party and is disgusted to find three babies crying in a bedroom. She is horrified that Ken enjoyed the party.

Ken talks Val into seeing the Hepworths again. Emily tries to drum up support for the panto. Martin Hepworth advises Ken to get Val off to work. No one attends the panto meeting and Emily threatens blackmail. Minnie announces that the cat will be called Sunny Jim. Ena tells Len that Elsie is due back.

Emily and Reverend James decide the panto will be "Aladdin". Elsie returns and Ena tells her about Len taking Maggie out. Emily starts to blackmail the residents for cooperation. Marj Griffin arrives in the Rovers to the men's delight. Len can't cope with Elsie and Maggie and then Marj tells him that she's left her husband for him. The Barlows entertain Martin and Jo Hepworth, Ken makes Val make ratatouille and is embarrassed when Albert calls round. Emily casts the panto. Ken tells Val he wants to spend Christmas abroad.

The residents prepare for the panto. "Abanazer Gordon" starts to lose his voice. Len lets Marj Griffin stay at No. 9 and agrees to play Abanazer. Annie insists she is given a song in the show. Val is stunned when Ken announces they are going on holiday to Majorca for Christmas.

The residents perform the pantomime 'Aladdin' for the children at the community centre. Ken and Val prepare to set off for Christmas in the sun. Stan and Len conceal some beer backstage.

Len, Elsie and Ray endure Marjorie's unwanted presence on Christmas Day. Emily's fondness for the Reverend James does not go unnoticed. Ken and Valerie enjoy the day at home with Albert and the twins.

Ken advises Albert to move to Bury completely. Albert thinks that his life is in the Street although he can't afford to keep two places on. Val suggests he gets someone to share the house with him. Marj Griffin is excited to think that Len is going to fight Basil over her. Len isn't so sure and tells her to leave. Basil arrives and dumps Marj's things on Len and tells him he's welcome to her. Albert asks Effie to be his sharer. Ray advises Len to scare Marj off by asking her to marry him. He asks and Marj feels nervous. Effie agrees to move into No.1. Len is horrified...