Episode 1699
Production code	P694/699
ITV transmission date	27th April 1977 (Wednesday)
Stories by	Esther Rose Peter Tonkinson
Script editor	Leslie Duxbury
Writer	Brian Finch
Designer	Eric Deakins
Director	June Wyndham Davies
Producer	Bill Podmore
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PlotEdit

Alf, Fred, Mavis and Renee set off on their fishing trip. Deirdre refuses to listen to Ray over the christening. A hungry Suzie arranges a date between Ted Brownlow and Elsie hoping he'll bring food with him. Renee falls in the river. Mavis tries to rescue her and is pulled into the water, the boat overturns and Fred falls in. Ted arrives and takes Elsie alone out for Sunday lunch. Suzie is stunned. The vicar of St Luke's, Reverend Copley, tells Deirdre he won't baptise Tracy because the Langtons don't go to church.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• Elsie Howard - Patricia Phoenix
• Mavis Riley - Thelma Barlow
• Fred Gee - Fred Feast
• Alf Roberts - Bryan Mosley
• Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
• Eddie Yeats - Geoffrey Hughes
• Renee Bradshaw - Madge Hindle
• Ray Langton - Neville Buswell
• Deirdre Langton - Anne Kirkbride
• Gail Potter - Helen Worth
• Suzie Birchall - Cheryl Murray
• Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
• Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
• Ernest Bishop - Stephen Hancock
• Tracy Langton - Christabel Finch

Guest castEdit

• Ted Brownlow - Barrie Cookson
• Reverend Copley - William Abney

PlacesEdit

• Rovers Return Inn - Public
• 5 Coronation Street - Living room
• 11 Coronation Street - Back room/kitchen
• Corner Shop
• The Kabin
• River Irwell

NotesEdit

• TV Times synopsis: Four go on a disastrous fishing trip…
• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 8,841,000 homes (2nd place).