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January
Emily is upset that Dawson's has been taken over by Jim Sedgewick,
who turns it into a transport cafe and installs a juke box. Unable
to stand it any longer, she walks out and Elsie takes over as
manageress. Rita walks out on Len after a blazing row about improving
the house, and disappears. Hilda returns from the exchange visit
to France to find that Stan has rented out the house as a love
nest to Eddie and Fred and their girlfriends.
February
Ken tells Deirdre he won't risk a third marriage hecause he is
too old, and Deirdre knows it is over. Mavis receives obscene
phone calls, and the police persuade her to arrange a meeting
with the man. As they lie in wait Eddie stops to chat to her and
is leapt upon by officers.
Len finds Rita working in a Blackpool laundrette, but she refuses
to return. The Ogdens have great expectations - Stan receives
a solicitor's letter telling him that he is a beneficiary in a
customer's will.
March
Annie irks the Rovers staff by installing a bell to summon them.
Fred chauffeurs Annie and her VIP guest, Olive Taylor-Brown, to
a Ladies' Evening, but leaves her handbag containing the tickets
on the car roof. Annie humiliated, is refused admission.
Stan's legacy turns out to be £100 and a pot dog. Elsie,
now into bed and breakfast, takes in a romeo lorry driver, and
has to throw his bags into the Street. Mike Baldwin discovers
that shop steward Ivy has not been democratically elected, and
insists on a ballot.
April
Ivy scrapes home with three votes over Ida Clough. Ena Sharples
leaves for St Annes and appears for the last time. The Rovers
enters a barbershop quartet competition. Organizer Fred Gee is
thrown out for singing flat, and Renee is substituted, disguised
as a man. The Flying Horse wins.
Brian and Gail go house-hunting and put down a deposit on a £16,000
plot. Hilda reads money in Stan's cup, and drags him to the bingo
hall. They lose the jackpot - and Vera Duckworth wins a seaside
holiday.
May
Gail and Brian have mortgage problems, until Ivy secretly gives
them her £300 holiday savings. Rita returns to work permanently
at the Kabin. Arnold Swain, a client at Emily's new typing agency,
asks her for a date - her first since Ernest's death.
Stan is barred from the Rovers for arguing about bar prices. Annie
lifts the ban when Ken defends his right to free speech. Bet throws
out her new live-in lover Dan Johnson, for assaulting one of her
flat neighbours in a fit of jealousy.
June
Ivy Tilsley is promoted to factory supervisor. Pet shop owner
Arnold Swain proposes to Emily, who turlns him down, but wants
to remain friends. Gail forgets to take the Pill and becomes pregnant.
Eddie puts up a hanging basket for Mavis and brings the ceiling
down. Mavis and her budgie have to move into Len's while repairs
are done.
Renee thinks of selling the shop, and searches for a nice sub-post
office in Grange-over-Sands. Ken runs a charity raffle. The prize
- a date with a mysterious Mr Wonderful.
July
Hilda wins and finds out that her escort is Mike Baldwin, who
offers her £40 to call it off. Alf and Renee sell the shop
and celebrate at a country pub. Renee drives home, but stalls
at traffic lights. As Alf jumps out to take over a lorry hits
the car, flinging Renee through the windscreen. She dies in hospital,
and Alf is breathalysed.
Elsie falls asleep and sets the armchair on fire, but Hilda arrives
to borrow a cup of sugar and saves her life. Hilda basks in free
brndy, milking every drop of glory, until Elsie explodes and their
natural emnity resumes.
August
Emily changes her mind and agrees to a September wedding. Alf
Roberts decides to keep the shop after Renee's funeral. Brian
and Gail are pressured by a salesman to buy a new 'micro-bijou'
house. Hilda is thrown out of the factory pools syndicate for
not paying her dues. She takes the copy coupon from the sewing
room noticeboard, and substitutes one with winning results.
September
The elated factory girls, thinking they have won a fortune, discover
that Hilda has conned them, and insist that Mike Baldwin sacks
her. Arnold and Emily marry at Weatherfield Register Office.
Elsie's grandson, Martin Cheveski, runs into trouble with his
girlfriend's father for getting her drunk. Bet loses her handbag
in the sales at Marshall's store. A hoaxer rings to ask her to
collect it and, when she is out, her flat is stripped by burglars.
October
Rovcrs regulars raise £56 for Bet. Emily is worried by a
belligerent change in Arnold's character. Martin and his girlfriend
Karen defy her father's ban and continue dating. Brian is sacked
from the garage for taking his mother-in-law out in a client's
car. Fred Gee holds a birthday party while Annie is away, and
scratches her sideboard. She insists that he pays for the French
polishing.
November
When Eddie Yeats publicly discloses the contents of Annie's dustbin,
she demands to have the refuse team changed. Weatherfield binmen
boycott the Rovers. Stan is prevented from removing the rubbish
in his handcart, and Fred from smugling it out in the Rover. Annie
has to climb down and apologize
Len, tired of taunts from Rita on how the Yard is run, suggests
they swop jobs. Rita takes over the Yard, and lands a substantial
business deal. Stan develops an itching problem in the Rovers,
and blames the rubbish.
December
Stan is delivered a body blow - the doctor tells him he is allergic
to beer. He climbs on the wagon a broke man, until the doctor
diagnoses that eggs are to blame. A smirking Hilda informs Annie
that she has taken on a charlady, Brenda Palin. Hilda sacks he
when Annie offers Brenda a job at the Rovers.
Mike Baldwin's slippery father Frankie disappears to London with
£70 Fred has invested in a video project. Arnold Swain,
to Emily's horror, is exposed as a bigamist. He begs for another
chance, but a distraught Emily sends him packing. Gail gives birth
to a 7lb 2oz baby boy.