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January
Gail secretly changes her baby's name from David Daniel to Nicholas
Paul, to prevent his initials hecoming DDT. Frankie Baldwin appears
and repays Fred's money, but reveals that the Vice Squad are after
him. The cheque bounces. Ken buys a Volkswagen Beetle, but Albert
refuses to ride in a 'Jerry car'.
Ken and Deirdre rekindle their friendship, but she stands Ken
up when a Dutch friend of Ray's arrives with a present for Tracy.
Eddie and his mates enter the 'Cleanest Dustcart Competition'.
February
Ken and Deirdre make up, but Mike Baldwin steps in to ask her
on a date. Fred Gee tosses pie crusts onto the dustcart roof attracting
a flock of pigeons. Eddie and Co. wash off the dirt in time to
tie for first prize.
Annie departs on a cruise, bringing in relief manager Gordon Lewis,
a tough disciplinarian. He suspends Fred for drinking free Scotch,
and accuses Betty of short-changing. Elsie makes a play for rugged
trucker Wally Randle who eats at the cafe.
March
Ken takes beautician Sonia Price to Mike Baldwin's flat-warming
party. Mike whisks her to a night-club, leaving Ken with Deirdre.
Annie returns to find her staff gone and new barmaids installed.
She restores everything to normal and sends an unflattering report
on Lewis to the brewery.
Arnold Swain returns to terrorize Emily and is admitted to a mental
home. Emily holidays in Malta with Mavis to recuperate. Annie
invites Fred's presentable new ladyfriend Eunice Nuttall to supper,
and dampens Fred's ardour by sending her home in a taxi. Hilda
packs her washing for the laundrette in a bin liner, and the dustmen
take it to the tip.
April
Fred, promised his own pub when he marries, proposes to Eunice,
and she accepts. Annie offers them a room at the Rovers for £10
a week. Ken has plans to marry Deirdre, but Brian and Gail's marriage
hits a rocky patch. Elsie takes to the gin when Wally Randle rejects
her advances. She realizes she is getting old. Elsie picks up
roughneck Bill Fielding and takes him home for the night. When
she goes to work, disgusted with herself, his jealous wife breaks
in and slashes all Elsie's clothes.
May
Jack Duckworth turns Vera out because she has a boyfriend, Harry.
Bert Tilsley begs him to take her back, but Jack is happier on
his own. Vera returns after a bout of conscience. Fred and Eunice
marry at Weatherfield Register Office. Albert, who expects to
move in with Ken and Deirdre when they marry, is told they are
thinking of moving away. When he is alone he quietly weeps. Colin
Jackson, a friend of Gail and Brian, makes advances to Gail when
Brian is out. She kicks him out, and Brian breaks off the friendship.
June
Fred is turned down for his own pub - Eunice was sacked for stealing
when she was a barmaid. Broody Rita wants to adopt a child. Len
will not consider it, but they agree to foster. Ken and Deirdre
book the wedding and ask a delighted Albert if they can move in
with him. Emily and Mavis plan to go to London for the Royal Wedding.
July
Annie orders Fred and Eunice to leave, but relents when his replacement
cannot take the job. Ken and Deirdre are married at All Saints
Church and honeymoon in Corfu. Decorator Marcus Dodds starts work
on the Rovers. He turns out to be an amateur artist, and persuades
Mavis to pose nude for him. They both have second thoughts and
call it off. Elsie is offered a machinist's joh at the factory.
Len and Rita, overjoved, hear they have heen selected to foster
a thirteen-year-old.
August
Fred and Eunice move out of the Rovers into her father's flat.
Len and Rita foster likeable John Spencer while his mother is
in hospital. Brian has an affair with flirtatious garage customer
Glenda Fox, and an angry Gail gives him a warning. Jack and Vera
Duckworth celebrate their twenty-fourth wedding anniversary. Tracy
gets chicken pox, and a worried Alhert moves in with Emily in
case he catches it.
September
Albert is banned from the Ogden's as a domino-sharp', after beating
them two nights in succession. Fred and Eunice move into the Community
Centre as caretakers. Bet Lynch organizes the brewery's 'Mr and
Mrs' competition, but Annie wonders if any Street marriages will
stand up to it. Gail and Brian's victory is drowned in a row between
all the other couples. Hilda gets a job cleaning Mike Baldwin's
luxury flat. Mike's father Frankie is back, in the money, with
a dazzling secretary on his arm. Brian Tilsley, working at a filling
station, tackles a boy trying to rob the till, and puts him on
the hospital critical list.
October
Brian is arrested for unlawful wounding. Gail's mother Audrey,
gives shampoo and sets in the back of the Corner Shop while Alf
is away. Alf, completely smitten, turns a blind eye, and starts
gossip by painting out Renee's name on the shop sign. Mike Baldwin,
left with orders on his hands when a customer goes bankrupt, opens
a market stall to clear the stock.
November
Vera deserts Ida and Ivy on the stall to help a rival stallholder
who fancies her. Brian is cleared in court of the assault charge.
Audrey Potter talks a besotted Alf into buying her a car. When
he proposes she backs away quickly and goes back to her old boyfriend.
Fred Gee is asked to leave the Centre because he is rude to the
public.
December
The councillor who sacks Fred, offers them jobs at his private
hotel. Eunice accepts, but Fred refuses and goes back to the Rovers.
Their marriage appears to be over. Emily receives news that Arnold
Swain has died and left her £2,000. Annie, in her endless
quest for sophistication, launches a Cocktail Hour at the Rovers.