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January
Stan Ogden's dole is stopped when he turns down work, and
he has to take a job as a coal heaver. Dennis Tanner resigns from
the yard after setting fire to Len's kitchen with a blow-lamp
while decorating. He takes up an offer from Miss Nugent at Gamma
Garments, and persuades Lucille to join him.
lmposter Percy Bridge poses as Paul Cheveski's canal rescuer and
is rewarded by Elsie. Bookie Dave Smith exposes him by producing
Paul's cap, proving that it was he who rescued him. Ena's daughter
Vera dies of a brain tumor.
February
Stan Ogden fills Dennis' old job at Len's yard and makes an
impressive start by spraining his back and having the first week
off sick. The new-look Gamma Garments opens: Miss Nugent invites
Councillor Fairclough to cut the tape, but Dennis has booked a
beauty queen without telling her.
Albert Tatlock is knocked unconscious during a raid on Dave Smith's
shop, while placing a bet for Minnie. Ena launches a petition
to have it closed down. Ken Barlow is protesting too - he joins
a banned student demonstration against the Vietnam War.
March
Ken is arrested at the demonstration and fined £5. On
grounds of conscience he opts for seven days' jail instead. Emily
Nugent timidly takes the plunge and has swimming lessons from
Jerry Booth.
Annie Walker rows with Jack over his answers to money questions
in a light-hearted truth game in the Rovers. Jack storms out and
spends the night with Albert Tatlock. Frosty Annie is convinced
he slept with Elsie Tanner, but Ena steps in and reconciles them.
April
Minnie Caldwell's £50 insurance policy matures after
thirty years, but she immediately loses £20 to a con-man
masquerading as a plumber. Ken Barlow turns down a council nomination
for the Ratepayers' Party and his brother David becomes coach
to Weatherfield Hotspurs - an all-ladies soccer team.
The Yanks are coming: Elsie gets a phone call from American wartime
friend, Master Sergeant Steve Tanner, who has been posted to Burtonwood.
Meanwhile, Gregg Flint, who served at the base during the war,
returns with a pal named Gerry Strauss, and resumes his friendship
with Dot Greenhalgh.
May
Lucille celebrates her eighteenth birthday. Elsie and Steve Tanner
rekindle their twenty-year-old flame. Len Fairclough is returned
unopposed in the local elections.
Then disaster: a goods train ploughs through the Viaduct parapet
and plunges into the Street. Ena Sharples is buried under the
wreckage and dug out by David Barlow. A local girl, Sonia Peters,
is killed. Her boyfriend, Jimmy Conway, is dragged from the rubble
by rescuer Jerry Booth. Ena, still suffering from bruises and
shock, discharges herself from Weatherfield Hospital and turns
up at the Rovers.
June
GI Steve Tanner is beaten up by Dot Greenhalgh's husband, who
mistakes him for Gregg Flint. Steve takes Elsie for a night out
to the romantic Roebuck Inn, Cheshire, and proposes to her. Elsie
accepts.
Dennis Tanner's blonde Swedish girlfriend Inga Olsen returns home,
and he takes a bar job in Amsterdam to be nearer to her. Ena enters
Coronation Street for the 'Best Kept Street' Competition. Less
than two weeks later squatters Betty Lawson, and her sons Clifford
and Ronnie, take over Nº3.
July
Ken Barlow rows with Val about her sympathetic attitude to the
squatters, and demands that Len has them evicted. Lucille sends
for cosmetics brochures in Annie's name, but the joke backfires
- Anne wins a weekend in Paris with a film star as Cuty Beauty's
millionth customer.
A £300 deficiency is discovered in Fairclough and Booth's
accounts. Len has been secretly investing in council property
without telling Jerry. Dennis Tanner returns with Inga's sister
Karen, his new girlfriend. He applies to make her his au pair,
and signs the letter Steve Tanner.
August
Dennis, visited by a consular official, borrows Val's twins and
persuades Lucille to masquerade as his wife. The official tumbles
the ruse and orders Karen into proper employment
Hilda is seen boarding a Liverpool-bound bus in her house-slippers.
Police find her wandering disturbed near the Pier Head. Her purse
contains £40 which Stan held as treasurer of the Rovers
Outing Fund. The money is refunded but Stan loses it to Albert
Tatlock in a card game. Steve Tanner and Len challenge Albert
to pitch-and-toss to get the money back, but he wins again. Albert
finally hands it over to teach Stan a lesson. Emily organizes
a coach trip to Tatton Park.
September
Steve and Elsie marry at St Stephen's Methodist Church, Warrington
near the air base, and leave for a honeymoon in Lisbon. Tragedy
mars the occasion as Harry Hewitt, back from Ireland for the wedding,
is crushed to death when a jack collapses under Len's van. Concepta
arrives to identify the body. With Elsie away, Dennis Tanner takes
in theatrical lodgers - a girls' pipe band followed by two acrobats,
the Pinelli Brothers, and their mother Mrs Cooke.
October
Len Fairclough's son, Stanley, comes to stay with him, but there
is friction between them. Stanley sets fire to the yard, to get
back at his father, and is overcome by the flames. Len attempts
to drag him free, but collapses. Stan Ogden rescues them both,
and Stanley goes back to his stepfather Harry Bailey. Emily Nugent
visits a marriage bureau and makes a date with farmer Frank Starkey.
She visits his farm, but finds she is terrified of cows, and the
liaison ends.
November
Elsie Tanner's overpowering American mother-in-law Emmeline arrives
to inspect Elsie. She clearly disapproves and there is a first-class
row. Ena Sharples turns down an offer to move to St Annes and
become housekeeper for her late husband's wealthy friend Henry
Foster.
Emily tries the marriage bureau again and becomes engaged to private
hotelier Douglas Preston, who is dominated by his sister Amy.
Emily regretfully breaks it off when she realizes that his only
motive is escape.
December
Annie Walker visits a football match to broaden her outlook. Provoked
by hooligans she hurls a rattle at them and smashes a window.
A stunned Annie is arrested and a toilet roll, planted by a supporter,
is found in her bag. The charge is dropped when Len intercedes.
Irma, who has had a miscarriage, is turned down for adoption.
She and David take a foster child, Jill Morris, for Christmas.
Elsie and Steve leave Ringway on a flight to Boston. Dennis wastes
no time in turning Nº11 into a hippy commune. Albert Tatlock
organizes a Christmas tug-of-war against the Flying Horse. The
Rovers lose and Albert grudgingly awards the winners a pint of
beer each.