Plot
It's Boxing Day. Lucille is thrilled with her transistor radio and shows it off to everyone. Harry worries when Len doesn't make his usual appearance at No.7 over Christmas. He wonders if the rumours about him failing a medical are true when Harry Bailey looks for Len at the Rovers despite it being a holiday. Ena supervises as the residents clear up the Mission. Elsie is upset that the Cheveskis are going home next week. Christine is embarrassed when Frank gives her a brooch. Frank thinks Christine is avoiding him. Ken advises him to talk it over with her. Lucille asks Ena what she knows about Len. Ena tells her off for being nosy. Frank asks Christine why she hasn't been round to No.3. With some reluctance, she tells him how Val snubbed her. Len tells Harry he didn't feel up to coming over on Christmas Day. Frank demands an explanation for Val's behaviour towards Christine. Ken thinks she was unwise to turn Christine away as it gives the impression that Christine is after Frank. Frank is offended when he calls the idea ridiculous. Fired up by their success, Swindley and Emily trade ideas for their next project. Emily pictures Swindley in a dressing gown in Private Lives à la Noël Coward. Frank tells Christine it's all sorted and they agree to be friends. Harry sees Harry Bailey talking to Len at the Mission. Len tells him that Nellie and Stanley are going to live in Nottingham with Harry.
Cast
Regular cast
- Annie Walker - Doris Speed
- Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
- Frank Barlow - Frank Pemberton
- Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
- Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
- Martha Longhurst - Lynne Carol
- Concepta Hewitt - Doreen Keogh
- Harry Hewitt - Ivan Beavis
- Lucille Hewitt - Jennifer Moss
- Valerie Barlow - Anne Reid
- Kenneth Barlow - William Roache
- Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
- Florrie Lindley - Betty Alberge
- Leonard Swindley - Arthur Lowe
- Miss Nugent - Eileen Derbyshire
- Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
- Jerry Booth - Graham Haberfield
- Jed Stone - Kenneth Cope
- Ivan Cheveski - Ernst Walder
- Linda Cheveski - Anne Cunningham
- Christine Appleby - Christine Hargreaves
Guest cast
Places
- 7 Coronation Street - Back room
- 11 Coronation Street - Back room
- Glad Tidings Mission Hall - Main hall and side room
Notes
- From Episode 172 (6th August 1962) to Episode 459 (5th May 1965) the programme featured a standardised cast list for the regular characters. This means that in this episode the following were credited but did not appear: Jack Walker (Arthur Leslie), Doreen Lostock (Angela Crow) and Sheila Birtles (Eileen Mayers). The photocaption of Ordsall over which these are run is a reversed one to the usual.
- TV Times synopsis: Christine and Frank talk it over; and Len Fairclough breaks his silence
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 5,166,000 homes (14th place).
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