Episode 2831
Production code	P694/1831
ITV transmission date	16th May 1988 (Monday)
Story associates	Tom Elliott Paul Abbott
Writer	Adele Rose
Designer	Ann Swarbrick
Director	Tim Sullivan
Producer	Bill Podmore
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PlotEdit

Mike takes Sandra Stubbs on to clean his flat. Alan talks Alec into having a burglar alarm fitted and gives him an estimate. Don offers to decorate No.5 for Ivy. Percy barricades himself inside his flat. Deirdre talks him into negotiations. Deirdre tells him she's managed to get him a flat in Rosamund Street. Ivy tells Don that today would have been her thirty-first wedding anniversary. She tells him the memory doesn't hurt anymore. Percy agrees to take the flat but it won't be ready for two months and he has to vacate the Community Centre in a week. He refuses to move into the Irwell Road flat temporarily, fearing he'll be stuck in it. He tells Deirdre he'll move in with Emily.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• Ken Barlow - William Roache
• Deirdre Barlow - Anne Kirkbride
• Audrey Roberts - Sue Nicholls
• Sandra Stubbs - Sally Watts
• Mike Baldwin - Johnny Briggs
• Percy Sugden - Bill Waddington
• Ivy Tilsley - Lynne Perrie
• Alan Bradley - Mark Eden
• Alec Gilroy - Roy Barraclough
• Jack Duckworth - William Tarmey
• Vera Duckworth - Elizabeth Dawn
• Brian Tilsley - Christopher Quinten
• Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
• Martin Platt - Sean Wilson
• Gloria Todd - Sue Jenkins
• Don Brennan - Geoff Hinsliff
• Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
• Gail Tilsley - Helen Worth

Guest castEdit

• Mr Hindley - Steve Halliwell
• Woman - Cathy Raymond
• Workman - Craig Ralph

PlacesEdit

• Coronation Street
• Rovers Return Inn - Public bar, hallway
• 1 Coronation Street - Back rooms
• 5 Coronation Street - Downstairs rooms
• Corner Shop
• Community Centre flat
• Rosamund Street - OAP flats exterior

NotesEdit

• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 13,850,000 viewers (3rd place).

Notable dialogueEdit

Alan Bradley: "Women want a bloke they can look up to and all they find are wimps. It doesn't matter how liberated they are, deep down they all want the bloke to take charge."