- NOVEMBER 9
Gail Platt and
water are not a good mix. Scared of
canals, waterways and wicked men, Gail?s life hasn?t been the same
since Brian was stabbed up the alley and she?s not had a smile on her face since
1984 when Ivy Tilsley fluffed her lines. So Gail?s smiling again and
that can only be a bad sign. And there?s
water involved, which means her future?s not bright, it?s possibly
fatal. Joe steers
his love boat into Gail?s dry dock and asks her to marry him and the
silly mare says yes. David?s not
best pleased, but then he never is, and while Tina wishes her dad
and Gail well, she?s not too happy to have David as a
brother. Meanwhile,
Joe cracks open the champagne on the sofa (while one of my all-time
favourite songs played in the background, The
Pioneer?s Let Your Yeah be Yeah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3j9i4EYTm8&feature=fvw
and swears
undying love while the debt collectors gather and
take his van as part payment. He also loses
his job, but hey, he?s still got that
boat. He might be
up salt creek with no paddle but he has got that boat, which he
names Gail Force, of
course. You?d have thought Gail
would?ve whispered those magic three little
words into Joe?s
ear at a time such as this - Citizen?s Advice Bureau ? but Gail
doesn?t know what she?s letting herself in
for when she
agrees to become Mrs McIntyre and there, my friends, lies the fun of
it all.
There?s a wet
drip, drip, drip outside of Tony Gordon?s bedroom
window but it?s not the rain belting down from the
Salford skies, it?s
Roy Cropper who?s taken to stalking.
Roy stands in the
rain in the middle of the night, sending evil thoughts to Tony who
he knows has killed Liam. Hayley and
Maria are at their wits end and beg
Roy to leave Tony
alone but Roy?s got to do
what a man?s got to do. He goes
uber-weird and plays to his strengths, keeping an eye out
for Tony, who
needs it more than
most.
Emily?s niece
Freda returns as she?s lost her job and needs somewhere to
stay. She brings
with her a spare leg that she?s nicked from her disabled boss, which
I thought rather mean. I?m not keen
on Freda, me. She does have
some wonderful comic moments with Graeme this week
though. He asks her
to show him some rude sign language (do you point up one finger
or two?) but in
the end she tells him: ?I assume I?m not lip reading you properly
but you just say weird things!?
Over in The
Kabin, Norris takes on
yet another new assistant when Horace Steel
arrives.
Horace and
Norris not only
look-a-like and wear the same clothes, they?re brothers under the
skin. ?There?s two
of them!? yells Simon when he sees the
poor man?s Gilbert
and George behind the
counter.
Meanwhile,
over at the Barlows, Deirdre?s disastrous cheese straws weren?t the
only talking point when Simon?s other granddad,
George, pops in
for
tea. Blanche takes
a fancy to the fella after he mistakes her
for Ken?s wife,
and she sets her cap at him in a way that only Blanche
could.
At the
factory, Tony takes
on Hayley as supervisor and office
manager and the girls are all huffed, especially Sally as she
thought she was in charge.
Jack?s back on
the Street this week. He?s
worried Connie?s
on the prowl to satiate her lust when he spots her by his bedroom
door, hand on his
doorknob, ready to
break down and enter his room as he
sleeps. He wants to
move back in with Tyrone but Connie?s confused and wonders why
Jack?s not speaking to her any more. Anyway, the
truth comes out and Connie says she?s been sleepwalking: ?I?m like
Alfred Wainwright once I get started?, she says, (yeah, right) and
that?s why she hovers on the landing at night like a dog on
heat. It?s not
because she fancies Jack, she says, and he breathes a sigh of relief
when he says that?s good because he doesn?t fancy her either (yeah,
right).
And in Fiz?s
house, she cleans the place from top to bottom in preparation
for
John being
released from jail but she?s still not happy with the way the house
looks. Kirk comes up
with the one good idea he?s had since he?s been on the show and
decorates the place
while Fiz is out, enlisting help from Chesney, David and
Zoe. Aww, why
can?t Kirkeh and Fiz get back together again? Oh, yes I remember,
it?s because she?s now married to a kidnapping, pervert
ex-con.
And that?s
just about that for this
week.
Coronation Street
writers this week were David
Lane, Jonathan
Harvey, Damon Rochefort, Debbie
Oates and Mark Wadlow.
Find out
more about the
Coronation
Street writing
team.
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Glenda
Young
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