Episode 514 (15th November 1965)

PlotEdit

Clara looks for cleaning work for extra money. Ena tells Val about her son who died through lack of nourishment. Sandra agrees to store one hundred and forty four boxes of crackers at Gamma Garments' loft for Dennis not knowing that the loft is damp because of a faulty pipe. Emily is disappointed in Sandra because of her lax attitude. With Val at night school, Ken nips to the Rovers for a packet of cigarettes leaving Peter and Susan alone. A piece of coal falls from the fire at No.9 and starts to burn.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• Lionel Petty - Edward Evans
• Annie Walker - Doris Speed
• Jack Walker - Arthur Leslie
• Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
• Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
• Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
• Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
• Dennis Tanner - Philip Lowrie
• Miss Nugent - Eileen Derbyshire
• Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
• Irma Ogden - Sandra Gough
• Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
• Sandra Petty - Heather Moore
• Kenneth Barlow - William Roache
• Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
• Valerie Barlow - Anne Reid

Guest castEdit

• Clara Midgeley - Betty Hardy

NotesEdit

• TV Times synopsis: In which Dennis tries to go crackers
• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 4,710,000 homes (chart placing unknown - the BBC scheduled Steptoe and Son directly opposite this episode of Coronation Street resulting in a lower than usual figure).

Notable dialogueEdit

Ken Barlow (about Ena Sharples): "She's forever quoting the Bible and trying to give people the impression she's so good but she's more unchristian than a lot of heathens."