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January
Hilda camps out all night for a £5 colour TV in Perkins'
January sales. She is so keen to be interviewed on local radio
that she loses her place in the queue, and the bargain. Annie
commands Fred to get the Rover a quick MOT and chauffeur her and
a party of Lady Licensed Victuallers to Southport. Bet borrows
Ken's taxi-driver's peaked cap for him.
Ernest Bishop is murdered by shotgun raiders during a wage snatch
at the Warehouse. He dies on the operating table. After the funeral
Enmily goes away to be alone with her grief.
February
Ken Barlow dates Albert's chiropodist, divorcee Sally Robson.
Gail, Suzie and Elsie suspect they have rats in the rafters. They
turn out to be pigeons, which have gained entry through a missing
slate in the Ogden's roof. Suzie's foot slips through the Odgen's
ceiling and Hilda retaliates by pushing a broom through Elsie's.
The Small Claims Court rules that they each pay for their own
repairs.
Alf proposes again to Renee, but she confides in Rita that she
wants to be loved for herself, not the shop. When Alf hears this
from Len he tells her he loves her, and she accepts.
March
Suzie Birchall runs into trouble for using Mike Baldwin's phone
to ring a boyfriend in France. Alf and Renee are married and spend
their honeymoon in Capri. Len spends the night in jail for being
drunk and disorderly at Alf's stag party. Ernest's killers get
life imprisonment.
Elsie receives her decree nisi from Alan and goes out on the town.
After being picked up by a commercial traveller who mistakes her
for a tart, she goes away to think things over. Ena returns to
find the Snug taken over by Albert's British Legion chums, but
quickly reasserts herself. Ken Barlow annoys Gail and Suzie by
picking an Easter Bonnet Competition winner from another street
to prove he is not biased.
April
Len is dropped as Ratepayers candidate after his night in the
cells. Rita, angry at his suggestive remarks to the WPC who arrested
him, locks him out of the bedroom. Stan is jokingly squirted with
perfume by Bet, and Hilda suspects him of infidelity.
Mavis tells Derek a few home truths when he breaks the news that
his mother has selected a wife for him. Alf and Renee, back from
honeymoon, have difficulty removing Bet from the Corner Shop flat.
May
Ken organizes a bank holiday Lancashire Night at the Rovers, while
Annie is in Jersey. Police, investiating the theft of her Rover,
book everyone for drinking after hours. Annie returns deeply shocked,
but her Rover is recovered with a note on the windscreen: 'Your
tappets need adjusting'.
The Flying Horse challenges the Rovers to a sponsored pram race.
Eddie, pushed by Mavis, gives up and is blackballed from the Rovers.
He goes to thc Flying Horse to share their winning barrel of beer,
but is banned from there too.
June
Fred Gee is told by brewery chief Richard Cresswell that he can
take over the Mechanics Arms - providing he has a wife. He is
turned down by Bet, Betty, and Alma Walsh, the barmaid at the
Flying Horse.
Hilda asks Mike Baldwin for a new brush, and is promptly sacked
for damaging her existing broom. The factory is ringed by pickets
and Mike tries to bring in non-union labour. Elsie returns and
passes the word around that she wishes to be known as Elsie Tanner
again.
July
Mike Baldwin climbs down and offers Hilda her job back. Alf Roberts,
upset at the prospect of his mother-in-law moving in, asks Bet
to stay. Len is in debt when a contractor goes broke. He launches
an emergency plumbing service, and Rita goes back to singing.
Ena cannot afford to replace her forty-year-old bed, but refuses
to accept charity. Eddie, Len, Ray and Emily break in and install
a new one. Ena, miffed but grateful, tells them, tongue-in-cheek
that her life savings were in the mattress. Well-meaning Emily
takes in a battered wife, who eventually rejoins her husband and
turns on Emily.
August
Stan and Eddie hope for big money cleaning stained glass windows.
They clean St Margaret's, where the vicar thanks them for their
charity and arranges for them to clean St Chad's as well. Baker
Joe Dawson opens a cafe next door to the Kabin, employing Emily
as manageress.
Annie Walker vies with Bet to be photographed for the cover of
the new brewery magazine. The editor, to Annie's horror opts for
a picture of Eddie and Betty Turpin at the bar. Hilda, disgusted
at her high water rates, insists that Stan takes a bath each day
to get their money's-worth. The bath overflows, ruining her Alpine
'muriel'. She replaces it with a seascape to complement the plaster
ducks.
September
Ken's son Peter arrives to continue his education in Weatherfield.
Albert blames an outbreak of food poisoning on Annie's pies. The
problem is traced to vegetables from Albert's allotment which
had been sprayed with insecticide.
Ray Langton dates Janice Stubbs, a black waitress fron Dawson's
Cafe. They decide to cool things in case Deirdre finds out. Elsie,
who has a liaison wlth taxi-driver Ron Mather, hears that he has
another woman, but she turns out to be a ballroom-dancing partner.
October
Annie Walkcr, suffering with back trouble, is examined by a bogus
doctor who is really no more than a hospital porter. 'He handled
me!" she moans. Deirdre confronts Ray about his affair, and
ponders her future. Ken Barlow reluctantly allows Peter to join
the Navy.
Unknown to Hilda, Stan and Eddie rent out their handcart and go
to the races with the proceeds. Hilda finds it parked and wheels
it home, only to be stopped by a policeman who discovers that
it is loaded with stolen lead.
November
Elsie goes to Majorca with taxi-man Ron, and is wooed with champagne
by wealthy Oldham exile Harry Payne. Elsie warns a jealous Ron:
if he tries to rule her life, there will be trouble. Deirdre's
marriage is on the rocks - Ray takes a building job in Holland,
leaving her alone with Tracy at Nº5.
Mike Baldwin decides it is too quiet on the Western Front, and
closes the shop down. Eddie offers to help cook an Old Folk's
Supper at the Centre, but burns the food. The chip shop is closed,
so he collects tins from door to door and warms up a spaghetti
supper.
December
Suzie Birchall seeks her fortune in London. Illiterate Karen Barnes
seeks reading lessons from Ken Barlow, who ignores advice that
her jailbird husband is extremely jealous. Deirdre receives an
ultimatum from Ray- join him, or sell the house. Brian Tilsley
gatecrashes a party at Elsie's and makes a date with Gail.