Episode 569
Production code	P228/569
ITV transmission date	25th May 1966 (Wednesday)
Stories by	Harry Driver Susan Pleat Leslie Duxbury
Writer	Geoffrey Lancashire
Designer	Terry Pritchard
Director	Bob Hird
Executive Producer	H.V. Kershaw
Producer	Peter Eckersley
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PlotEdit

Minnie has been overworking and is told to rest. Bobby goes down with flu and they are both nursed by Jed. Stan starts with his ice cream van. The skeleton staff moves into the factory in readiness for the opening and two of them, Bet Lynch and her friend Cilla investigate the Rovers. Stan does well in the ice cream van. Irma and Lucille get jobs at the factory, as welders. Annie is horrified. Jack reminds her that she started off in the weaving shed. Irma gives Hilda the job of assistant at the shop. David is annoyed. Ice cream baroness, Mary Bonnetti catches Stan on her patch and declares war on him.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• David Barlow - Alan Rothwell
• Annie Walker - Doris Speed
• Jack Walker - Arthur Leslie
• Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
• Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
• Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
• Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
• Lucille Hewitt - Jennifer Moss
• Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
• Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
• Irma Barlow - Sandra Gough
• Jed Stone - Kenneth Cope
• Bet Lynch - Julie Goodyear

Guest castEdit

• Wally Tanner - George Betton
• Ruth Winter - Colette O'Neill
• Mrs Bonnetti - Lila Kaye
• Boy - Ian Dawson
• Cilla - Sandra Downes

NotesEdit

• First appearance of Bet Lynch.
• TV Times synopsis: Irma and Lucille change jobs and Hilda joins in
• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 8,100,000 homes (3rd place).

Notable dialogueEdit

Annie Walker: "Goodness knows, I have always shunned snobbishness, but there are limits as to how far one can condescend."

Commercial releasesEdit

This episode was included on the 1966 disc of the Network DVD collection Coronation Street: The 1960s, released on 31st July 2006.