Episode 1822 (3rd July 1978)

Episode 1822
Production code	P694/822
ITV transmission date	3rd July 1978 (Monday)
Stories by	Esther Rose Peter Tonkinson
Script editor	Leslie Duxbury
Writer	John Stevenson
Designer	Eric Deakins
Director	Richard Stroud
Producer	Bill Podmore
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Previous episode	28th June 1978
Next episode	5th July 1978

PlotEdit

Emily sees Ena at the hospital and worries that something is wrong. Mike brings in blacklegs to make the orders up. Steve urges him to talk to Ivy and negotiate. Ena tells Emily she's having back trouble. Fred shelves the idea of his own pub and finishes with Alma Walsh. Ray is working so hard on the hotel job that he forgets his wedding anniversary. Ivy demands Hilda takes her turn on the picket. Emily worries about Ena's back and asks Eddie to try to help her. Ena tells Eddie her bed is causing her back trouble. Hilda leaves the picket line to go to work at the Abattoir. Mike brings the black legs in. Muriel Clough tries to stop them but fails. The pickets smash the van up and break a window demanding that the black legs leave.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• Ivy Tilsley - Lynne Perrie
• Vera Duckworth - Elizabeth Dawn
• Mavis Riley - Thelma Barlow
• Eddie Yeats - Geoffrey Hughes
• Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
• Mike Baldwin - Johnny Briggs
• Steve Fisher - Lawrence Mullin
• Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
• Annie Walker - Doris Speed
• Fred Gee - Fred Feast
• Deirdre Langton - Anne Kirkbride
• Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
• Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix (Credited as "Elsie Howard")
• Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
• Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
• Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
• Ida Clough - Helene Palmer

Guest castEdit

• Muriel Clough - Angela Catherall
• Phyllis Jameson - Lizzie McKenzie
• Joyce Banks - Patricia Ford

PlacesEdit

• Coronation Street exterior
• Rovers Return Inn - Public/Snug
• 13 Coronation Street - Back room and kitchen
• Community Centre flat - Living room
• Baldwin's Casuals - Office, sewing room and loading bay
• The Kabin

NotesEdit

• TV Times synopsis: What will happen when boss Mike Baldwin tries to break the strike with blackleg labour? Will Eddie Yeats find out what Ena Sharples' trouble is?
• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 12,750,000 viewers (8th place).