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Episode 1814

Production code	P694/814
ITV transmission date	5th June 1978 (Monday)
Stories by	Esther Rose Peter Tonkinson
Script editor	Leslie Duxbury
Writer	Barry Hill
Designer	Geoff Bentley
Director	Stephen Butcher
Producer	Bill Podmore
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PlotEdit

Fred looks forward to taking the tenancy of The Mechanics on Commercial Road but needs a wife. He asks Betty if she'd take him on. She doesn't want to get married again. Len asks Alf to lend him £3,000. Alf tells him he hasn't got it; he's paid off Renee's mortgage and can't sell his house. Fred considers Bet as a wife and starts being nice to her. Len refuses to take more money out with The Kabin as security and tells Ray it's up to him to find the money and advises him to take a second mortgage out. Deirdre refuses to take out a bigger mortgage on No.5. She tells him there's no way Len or Rita will stand by and let the business collapse. Rita is furious with the Langtons. She reveals that she knows a rich man who once offered to lend her any money if ever she needed it. Len doesn't like the idea. Betty tells Bet that Fred is going to propose to her.

CastEdit

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Guest castEdit

None

PlacesEdit

Rovers Return Inn - Public and back room
9 Coronation Street - Back room/kitchen
Corner Shop
Builder's Yard and office

NotesEdit

TV Times synopsis: Fred Gee looks around for a likely lass to become the wife he needs if he is to get his own oub. Rita Fairclough wants Len to pass the firm's cash problems on to Ray Langton, but it seems Deirdre has other ideas.
Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 12,300,000 viewers (3rd place).

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Episode 1814 (5th June 1978)

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