Episode 1961 (16th January 1980)

Episode 1961
Production code	P694/961
ITV transmission date	16th January 1980 (Wednesday)
Stories by	Peter Tonkinson Esther Rose
Writer	H.V. Kershaw
Designer	Eric Deakins
Director	Malcolm Taylor
Producer	Bill Podmore
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PlotEdit

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.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• 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 castEdit

• Mrs Poppy Watts - Margaret Burton
• Jim Sedgewick - Michael O'Hagan
• Mrs Bolton - Frances Cox
• Fangio - Peter Dean
• Vic - Mark Fletcher
• Coach Driver - Robert Hickson

PlacesEdit

• 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

NotesEdit

• 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 dialogueEdit

Annie Walker: "What was that dreadful noise?"
Hilda Ogden "Oh, there wasn't none, Mrs Walker. It was only me singing."