Episode 1684
Production code	P694/684
ITV transmission date	7th March 1977 (Monday)
Stories by	Esther Rose Peter Tonkinson
Script editor	Leslie Duxbury
Writer	Kenneth Eastaugh
Designer	Geoff Bentley
Director	Bill Gilmour
Producer	Bill Podmore
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PlotEdit

Elsie agrees to let Suzie stay another week when she buys her a birthday present. Bet refuses to leave No.5. Suzie buys Elsie a face mask. To please her Suzie decides to clean her soot-filled chimney with a brick. Len receives an invite to Stanley Fairclough's wedding. Rita tells him she'd like to go with him. He tells her how Stanley doesn't really want him to go. Suzie drops the brick down the wrong chimney and covers the Ogdens' parlour, and the Ogdens themselves, in soot.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• Gail Potter - Helen Worth
• Suzie Birchall - Cheryl Murray
• Elsie Howard - Patricia Phoenix
• Rita Littlewood - Barbara Mullaney
• Bet Lynch - Julie Goodyear
• Mavis Riley - Thelma Barlow
• Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
• Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
• Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
• Fred Gee - Fred Feast
• Annie Walker - Doris Speed
• Renee Bradshaw - Madge Hindle

Guest castEdit

None

NotesEdit

• TV Times synopsis: Who ends up covered in soot when Suzie Birchall and Gail Potter try to sweep Elsie Howard's chimney?
• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 9,150,000 homes (4th place).

Commercial releasesEdit

This episode was included on the 1977 disc of the Network DVD collection Coronation Street: The 1970s, released on 25th July 2005.