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FEBRUARY 2
It's been Tony Gordon week on Corrie this week;
he's been giving everyone the evil eye. He wheels in Jed Stone from
his flat in Wigan to do a turn in the Rovers which proves to all who
see him that Jed's not as dead as Maria said he was. Emily's shocked
to see Jed but over the moon and glad to reunite chap with cat and
cap. Sunny Jim the cat looked pleased to see Jed but the cap's
comments went unrecorded. Anyway, all this Jed business gets Carla
suspicious and she wings it to Wigan to treat Jed to a liquid lunch.
Jed's scared to tell Carla that Tony tried to kill him but when she
spots the marks on his neck, she realise her worst fears about Tony
are true after all. Run, Carla, run. Instead, she tackles Tony and
her mind works overtime, especially when she hears from Emily that
Jed's had a heart attack after an altercation and she spots Tony's
henchman back on the Street.
So Jed's not dead and Ted's
turned up too. Yes, Gail's dad Ted Page is back on the cobbles this
week, providing a shoulder for Ken to unload his guilty pleasures
about Martha and her loveboat. “Lovely mugs,” says Ken to Martha
when he takes a guilt trip onboard SS Utopia with Martha. It was an
unusual chat up line, but it seemed to work nonetheless. The couple
get cosy and he helps her read through her part as Blanche (not that
Blanche) in am am-dram production of A Streetcar Named Desire. But
Ken's phone rings to remind him that he needs to pick up Simon from
school. He cajoles Leanne into doing his duty for him as he stays on
the canal for another drink with Martha, sipping from her lovely
mugs.
In the Kabin, Norris is fair excited when Mary wins a
motorhome in a prize competition. The pair of them are joint winners
and over a swift half in the Rovers, draw up a timetable for renting
it out with peak season and holidays coloured in on both their
diaries.
There's a fight on the cobbles, yawn, when
the Windass clan (aka Shameless-lite) hit out at the Platts. I don't
like the Windasses. Not ‘cos they're common, violent thugs, just
because they're not good. Anyway, David fights with Gary over Tina
and David throws the first punch but ends up in t'hospital. Where's
nurse Platt when you need him? Tina lies to the cops and says Gary
threw the first punch.
It's darts night in the Rovers
as the feckless fellas take on The Dread Arrows, a team which
feature darts champ Phil ‘the Power' Taylor on their team, and of
course that team win. Eddie Windass takes to the oche and
expectations are high but his dart hits the pub light, bounces off
and spears Ena Sharples. I did a sharp intake of breath at this
point. Eddie runs out of the pub with the Dread Arrows in full
flight behind him, having recognised him as a fly-by-night from
previous darts games who owes them a whole load of cash.
Best line of the week went to Rosie Webster when she went
into Roy's Rolls and complained to Ken behind the counter about the
classical music playing in the café. “It's Elgar!” says Ken, to
which Rosie replied: “What does the L stand for? Loser?” Brilliant
stuff from writer Jayne Hollinson. There was more for Rosie to pout
about this week when attention turns to sister Sophie Webster. She's
started dating Ben from school. Not only is he tall, dark and
handsome, he's polite, cheerful and gets up at 5am to do swimming
training too. And he's religious which doesn't need to be a bad
thing but somehow mostly is when it turns up on the
Street.
At Weatherfield Hospital, Janice takes a fag break
from her community service in the canteen and sits, chats and smokes
with Mike, one of the patients. After they've puffed and chuffed,
Mike stands to head back indoors but has a heart attack and dies. (I
can just picture this actor finding out he had a part on Coronation
Street. He reads page one of his script and his eyes fill with glee:
A role on the Street! At last! And then he reads page two: Oh,
bugger.) Janice is beside herself with grief and when his widow
sends her a bouquet of flowers, Janice gets to thinking about what
she's doing wi' her life and reckons she'd be better saving lives
rather than stitching pants. Good on yer, girl. But when she
mentions to Leanne that she's thinking of going into nursing, well,
would you let Janice Battersby give you a bed-bath? “No, nurse
Battersby. I said prick his boil!” Anyway, she asks her old mucker
Ken to give her some tuition so she can get a handful of GCSE's.
Ken's not keen, you can tell, but she reminds him how much time
Leanne's putting in looking after his grandson and another guilt
trip flickers behind Barlow's brain.
And that's just about
that for this week.
Coronation Street writers this week were
David Lane, Jayne Hollinson, Lucy Gannon, Martin Allen and Mark
Burt.
Glenda
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