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January
Ken Barlow is appointed Deputy Head at Bessie Street School, under
Wilfred Perkins. Annie has a lunch date with Commander Prince,
and invites him to the Rovers for an intimate dinner. There can
be no romance between them, she tells him.
Football director Dave Smith sells Eddie Duncan to Torquay United.
He leaves without Bet, but Irma follows him. Billy Walker sells
his share in the garage to Alan for £2,500. A bearded Ernest
Bishop returns from Spain.
February
Stan promises Hilda a trip to Paris for her birthday. They miss
the plane and spend the day in the airport, but pretend they have
been abroad. To Wilfred Perkins' disapproval, Ken Barlow strikes
up an acquaintance with Rita Bates, whose son Terry is a pupil.
Albert Tatlock is appointed assistant caretaker at the Community
Centre after a break-in in which a colour TV is stolen. Betty
and Cyril Turpin offer to buy Irma's share in the Corner Shop
from Maggie. She turns them down and borrows money from her son
Gordon to buy it herself.
March
Jerry Booth builds an 11 ft sailing dinghy, Shangri-la,
in Len's yard. With Ray and Stan aboard, it capsizes on its maiden
voyage. Elsie's eleven-year-old grandson, Paul Cheveski, stays
with her for a short holiday. Emily, due to be married, refuses
to move to Eccles.
April
Ernest and Emily are married on Easter Monday at Mawdesley Street
Congregational Church. Mavis Riley, Emily's workmate at the Mark
Brittain Warehouse, is bridesmaid. After a reception at the Rovers
the couple honeymoon in Edale. Mavis begins a friendship with
Jerry Booth, and the Bishops return to set up home at Nº3.
Ken moves out to live next door with Albert Tatlock.
May
Ken's headmaster learns that he is becoming more involved with
Mrs Bates, and warns him to end the relationship. Len immediately
starts an affair with her and discovers that she is not married
to Harry Bates, and is not Terry's mother.
Stan, now a lorry driver, has had an accident delivering bananas
to Newcastle. Hilda's brother Archie Crabtree moves in during
Stan's absence and delights Hilda by building a porch over the
front door He is told to remove it because there was no planning
permission. Stan returns from hospital and opens a window-cleaning
round with a borrowed handcart.
June
Elsie's £300 endowment policy - taken out when Dennis was
a baby - matures, and she has a pink bathroom suite installed
at Nº11. Stan draws up a territorial agreement with his tough
window-cleaning rivals, the Henshaws, and ends up with a demolished
street.
Maggie has a new assistant, Norma Ford, and is suspicious about
the conflicting stories she tells. Maggie discovers that Norma's
father is not in hospital, as she claims, but in prison. Len resumes
his relationship with 'Mrs Bates', who is singing at the New Victoria
Working Men's Club under her own name, Rita Littlewood.
July
Benny Lewis opens a new betting shop in Dave Smith's old premises.
Emily and Ena ask him to restrict Minnie's betting because of
her gambling problem. When Hilda takes a job at the betting shop
cleaning, Annie sacks her from the Rovers.
Alan Howard's ex-wife Laura calls, offering to wipe off the debt
of £2,000 he borrowed to buy the garage. Elsie insists that
they will pay it in full.
August
Bookie Benny Lewis proposes to Rita Littlewood, and she accepts,
but later jilts him for Len Fairclough. Lucille, Hilda, Emily
and Elsie each become victims of a peeping-tom. A Street vigilante
committee catches Stan in suspicious circumstances but he is cleared
when a man is charged.
Maggie Clegg rneets draughtsman Ron Cooke through a lonely hearts
ad which Norma placed without her knowledge. She stops seeing
him when he confesses to being an ex-alcoholic.
September
Ena is on the Street outing to Preston Guild when her grandson
Colin Lomax and his wife Karen call from West Hartlepool. Their
baby Jason is kidnaped from outside the Rovers, but found by Emily
Bishop and Betty Turpin.
Alf Roberts' wife Phyllis dies in hospital. Lucille finds Annie
depressed and suspects that she has taken an overdose. The hospital
uses a stomach pump, but discovers that she has only had four
tablets. Tommy Deakin and Dirty Dick dispute the ownership of
Dolores the donkey.
October
Weatherfield Pub Olympics: Stan Ogden wins a beer drinking contest
against Piggy Owen of the Flying Horse. Concepta Hewitt arrives
from Ireland to visit Lucille with her new fiancee Sean Regan.
Ray Langton lends Sharon Duffy, barmaid at the Vine, the keys
to bookie Benny's flat to impress her. She arranges for her boyfriend
to burgle the place, and £5,000 is missing.
November
Jacko Ford is arrested for the burglary and remanded to Risley
after Hilda admits that she once showed him round Benny's penthouse
flat. Concepta returns to Ireland with Sean, unaware that he made
a pass at Bet Lynch.
Rita sings at the newly-open Capricorn Club, opened by Alan Howard,
Jimmy Frazer and Benny Lewis. A tipsy woman calls her a 'brass-faced
bitch' for dancing with her husband, and Rita hits her across
the face.
December
Hilda, reinstated at the Rovers, now has three cleaning johs -
the pub, the betting shop and the Capricorn. Stan contemplates
retirement. Len and Alf Roberts are both in the running as next
Mayor of Weatherfield. Everyone takes part in Ernest and Emily's
'1940s Show' on Christmas Day. Annie, not unexpectedly, plays
the part of Brittania.
Stan is accused of co-habiting with the lady from 19 Inkerman
Street, and her social security benefit is stopped. Hilda clears
his name and ends the affair for good.