Plot
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Jim Sedgewick renames the cafe "Jim's Cafe". When one of the girls can't go to France, Ida and Ivy both want the place. Mike tosses a coin. He tells Ivy she can go even though the coin comes up in Ida's favour. Elsie goes for an interview at a gown shop. She doesn't get the job. Hilda, Vera and Ivy leave for France and Vera tries to chat up the Coach Driver. When a lorry driver, Fangio, pats Gail's bottom, Emily threatens to throw him out. She tells Sedgewick the place is a pigsty and refuses to work in it anymore. Len tells Mavis that Rita will be back. Rita contacts Ralph Lancaster for work, telling him that she's left Len. He asks her to see him.
Cast
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Regular cast
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- Rita Fairclough - Barbara Knox
- Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
- Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
- Gail Tilsley - Helen Worth
- Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
- Ida Clough - Helene Palmer
- Ivy Tilsley - Lynne Perrie
- Vera Duckworth - Elizabeth Dawn
- Mike Baldwin - Johnny Briggs
- Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
- Annie Walker - Doris Speed
- Bert Tilsley - Peter Dudley
- Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
- Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
- Mavis Riley - Thelma Barlow
Guest cast
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- Mrs Poppy Watts - Margaret Burton
- Jim Sedgewick - Michael O'Hagan
- Mrs Bolton - Frances Cox
- Fangio - Peter Dean
- Vic - Mark Fletcher
- Coach Driver - Robert Hickson
Places
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- Coronation Street exterior
- Rovers Return Inn - Public
- Baldwin's Casuals - Sewing room
- The Kabin
- Jim's Cafe
- Poppy Watts's boarding house - Rita's room and hallway
Notes
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- TV Times synopsis: Who's pinching a lady's bottom - and how does she react? Out of work and living alone in digs, Rita Fairclough decides to approach nightclub owner Ralph Lancaster for help…
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 17,800,000 viewers (5th place).
Notable dialogue
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Annie Walker: "What was that dreadful noise?"
Hilda Ogden "Oh, there wasn't none, Mrs Walker. It was only me singing."
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