Episode 1239
Production code	P694/239
ITV transmission date	29th November 1972 (Wednesday)
Stories by	Harry Driver Esther Rose Tony Perrin
Writer	Leslie Duxbury
Designer	Ed Buziak
Director	Joe Boyer
Executive Producer	H.V. Kershaw
Producer	Eric Prytherch
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Previous episode	27th November 1972
Next episode	4th December 1972

PlotEdit

Tommy and Dirty Dick are served with notice to quit the stable. Alf and Len bend over backwards to be nice to people. Maggie tells Ken that Norma is vulnerable. Hilda is annoyed that she is paid the same as Bessie Proctor when she is senior cleaner. Billy and Rita embarrass Len in front of Mayor Alderman Chapman at the opening of The Capricorn. Rita gets into a fight with a drunken woman and ends up on Chapman's lap, all to the delight of Alf and Alderman Rogers.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
• Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
• Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
• Maggie Clegg - Irene Sutcliffe
• Alf Roberts - Bryan Mosley
• Kenneth Barlow - William Roache
• Norma Ford - Diana Davies
• Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
• Rita Littlewood - Barbara Mullaney
• Billy Walker - Kenneth Farrington
• Annie Walker - Doris Speed
• Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
• Bet Lynch - Julie Goodyear

Guest castEdit

• Benny Lewis - Jeremy Young
• Bessie Proctor - Jill Summers
• Mayor Alderman Chapman - Frank Crompton
• Alderman Rogers - Robert Dorning
• Tipsy Woman - Meg Johnson
• The Derek Hilton Trio

PlacesEdit

• Rovers Return Inn - Public
• Community Centre flat - Living room
• Corner Shop - Shop, Living quarters
• The Capricorn

NotesEdit

• Jill Summers makes a pre-Phyllis Pearce appearance as Bessie Proctor.
• Meg Johnson makes a pre-Eunice Nuttall appearance as the Tipsy Woman at The Capricorn club.
• Ten months before her debut as Tricia Hopkins, Kathy Jones appears as a barmaid at the Capricorn.
• TV Times synopsis: Punch-up at Club Capricorn.
• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 7,224,000 homes (8th place).

Commercial releasesEdit

This episode was included on the 1972 disc of the Network DVD collection Coronation Street: The 1970s, released on 25th July 2005.