Episode 5546 (20th July 2003)

Plot[]

Shelley is dazed as Bev busies herself with cancelling the wedding. Peter hammers on the back door of the Rovers until Bev lets him in - he's determined to talk to Shelley. Peter begs for another chance and Shelley finally relents and agrees to marry him, believing him when he tells her that he loves her and will make her happy. Dev tells Sunita that he'll be thinking of her and him when he listens to the marriage vows later that day. Bev asks Shelley to postpone the wedding to give Peter the chance to prove himself trustworthy. Adam tells Peter and Ciaran that Tracy has been making odd comments about the wedding, so Peter asks Ciaran to keep an eye on her throughout the service. Peter frets when Shelley is late, but the wedding goes ahead without incident. Lucy registers the birth of Simon John Richards. On the way home, she and Simon stop outside St. Christopher's Church as a small crowd gather while a photographer sets up, but as the baby starts crying, she heads off home and narrowly misses seeing Peter and Shelley emerge. Harry is overcome with emotion outside the church. He later explains to Rita that he had married at that church twenty years previously, before his wife left him. Bev makes up with Peter, determined not to lose Shelley by being against her marriage. Sunita is annoyed at the wedding dinner when an inebriated Ciaran tries to provoke Dev. She later angrily ends the relationship, when Ciaran surprises her - and himself - by proposing. She accepts but Ciaran asks her not to tell anyone yet. Tracy tries to seduce Andy Jennings, but gets rejected. Bev reminds Tracy of their bet, before Tracy drops the rest of the Rohypnol tablets from the hen night into Roy's champagne. She calls a taxi and takes a drugged Roy back to her house. Shelley conveys to Peter her feeling that she's taken a gamble on him - he assures her that he's a dead cert. Tracy takes Roy up to her bedroom and begins to undress him.

Cast[]

Regular cast[]

Shelley Barlow - Sally Lindsay
Bev Unwin - Susie Blake
Peter Barlow - Chris Gascoyne
Ciaran McCarthy - Keith Duffy
Deirdre Rachid - Anne Kirkbride
Ken Barlow - William Roache
Adam Barlow - Iain De Caestecker
Lucy Barlow - Katy Carmichael
Dev Alahan - Jimmi Harkishin
Sunita Parekh - Shobna Gulati
Tracy Preston - Kate Ford
Ashley Peacock - Steven Arnold
Fred Elliott - John Savident
Rita Sullivan - Barbara Knox
Roy Cropper - David Neilson
Harry Flagg - Iain Rogerson
Sally Webster - Sally Whittaker
Patrick Tussel - Trevor Dwyer-Lynch
Simon Richards - Jake & Oscar Hartley (Uncredited)

Guest cast[]

Places[]

Coronation Street
Rovers Return Inn - Back room, hallway and yard
1 Coronation Street - Back room, kitchen, hallway and Tracy's bedroom
19a Victoria Street - Living room/kitchen
Lucy Barlow's flat - Living room/kitchen
St. Christopher's Church - Interior and exterior
Weatherfield Register Office - Registrar's office
Abbey Court Hotel - Lonsdale Suite, guest bedroom and exterior

Notes[]

This was a one-hour episode.
In a continuity error, the registrar's computer screen displays Lucy Barlow's maiden name, despite stating she has recorded her married name, and Lucy remarking that she has yet to revert to "Richards".
The scenes at St. Christopher's Church were recorded at St. Mary's Church in Prestwich while the reception scenes at the Abbey Court Hotel were recorded at the Acton Court Hotel on Buxton Road, Stockport, which was demolished in 2010.
TV Times synopsis: Peter grows increasingly desperate and begs Shelley to marry him; Tracy resorts to devious methods to win her bet and get Roy into bed; and Sunita is left stunned by a proposal.
Viewing Figures: UK broadcast - 12,700,000 viewers (1st place).
This episode was included in the Network DVD collection Coronation Street: The Best of 2000-2009, released on 31st October 2011.

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