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The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

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#1 Fri Dec 09 1960

S1:E1

There's a new arrival in Coronation Street: Florrie Lindley, who is taking over the Corner Shop. Her first day on the job is not without incident as she runs into the local busy-body Ena Sharples. Meanwhile, Elsie Tanner is on at her son, Dennis, to get some work but he reminds her that it's not easy for someone who's just got out of prison. Later, there's a misunderstanding when Elsie accuses Dennis of taking money from her purse when in fact it was her daughter Linda. Also, Linda tells Elsie that she's leaving her husband. Elsie says she'll believe it when she sees it! At number 3, there's unrest at the Barlow's. Young Kenneth Barlow has an argument with his father, Frank, when he announces that he's met a girl and he's taking her to the Imperial Hotel. Frank argues that Ken has all but forgotten his working class roots.

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#2 Wed Dec 14 1960

S1:E2

Florrie is caught by the police selling firelighters after seven. Christine is annoyed that Ena is telling everyone that May has gone mad and breaks down. Kids scratch Susan's Dad's car. Ida embarrasses Ken by showing Susan his baby photos. Ivan turns up at the Rovers. Esther takes charge of Christine. Susan embarrases Ken by going into the Rovers. Linda bumps into Ivan.

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#3 Fri Dec 16 1960

S1:E3

Linda rows with Ivan for following her to Weatherfield. Swindley gives Ena a warning over her frequenting the Rovers. Elsie lets Ivan stay the night in the front parlour. They force Linda telling them she's pregnant. Ivan tells Linda he wants the baby. May returns from hospital and wonders what the neighbours will say.

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#4 Wed Dec 21 1960

S1:E4

Lucille runs away to be at No.7, Esther helps Harry to look after her. Swindley catches Ena at the Rovers. He upsets her and she collapses. Dennis turns up with a wad of money.

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#5 Fri 23 Dec 1960

S1:E5

Dennis reveals he got the £25 at the dogs. Ena recovers in hospital. Lucille goes missing whilst in Esther's care. Concepta returns from Ireland and asks the Walkers if they'll have her back. May is upset when Christine doesn't want to see Malcolm anymore. Ena is visited by Vera and Martha. Ena accuses Martha of being after her job. Christine accuses Malcolm of being ashamed of her but he invites her to the rugby club dance. Lucille turns up having gone Christmas shopping. The police call for Dennis.

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#6 Wed 28 Dec 1960

S1:E6

May complains of pains, Christine thinks she's attention seeking. Dennis refuses to tell Elsie why the police want him. Ena is convinced she's going to die. Lucille dresses up in Christine's dress and marks it. Dennis reveals the police suspect him of breaking and entering on the night he won the money, and hasn't an alibi. Harry reveals he saw Dennis at the dogs winning the money. Malcolm and Christine go to the dance. Ena walks out of hospital and back to the Mission.

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#7 Fri Dec 30 1960

S1:E7

The doctor tells Ena she's got senile decay. Florrie is in the paper after being fined £1 in court. Ena throws Martha out of the Mission. May tries to summon help over her headaches but dies in the hallway. The hospital give Christine, May's wedding ring. Dennis gets a job front of house at a club where he sees his father.

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#8 Wed Jan 04 1961

S2:E1

Christine is annoyed that Malcolm didn't see her over her mourning period and slams the door in his face. Ken and his student friends make ban-the-bomb posters until Ida orders them out of the house. Arnold Tanner turns up at No.11 after fifteen years and asks Elsie to give him a divorce so that he can marry Norah Dawson. She refuses and they argue before he storms out. Ena, seeing Arnold leaving the house from her vestry window, spreads it about that Elsie's got a fella. Harry is promoted to inspector at the bus depot.

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#9 Fri Jan 06 1961

S2:E2

Harry packs Lucille's items for her to return to the orphanage after the Christmas holidays.

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#10 Wed Jan 11 1961

S2:E3

Elsie is in a foul mood and tells Linda that the cause is Ena, who she overheard in the Rovers Return telling people that she has a boyfriend.

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#11 Fri Jan 13 1961

S2:E4

Elsie threatens Ena in the Rovers and tells her the man is, in fact, Arnold. The milkman can't raise Albert - Ken and David break into No.1 to find Albert collapsed in the kitchen. Dr. Tinsley feels that Albert's daughter, Beattie, ought to look after Albert. Christine gets a bill from the plumbers for £1, 1/3. The plumber's mate, Joe Makinson, takes the bill back in sympathy when she can't pay it. Ida alerts Beattie to Albert's collapse and condition but Albert refuses to live with his daughter. Elsie has some beauty cream and starts to relax when Arnold arrives to have a chat.

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#12 Wed 18 Jan 1961

S2:E5

Beattie refuses to return home until Albert agrees to come with her.

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#13 Fri Jan 20 1961

S2:E6

Frank warns Ida again not to go running round after Albert and snaps at Ken when he thinks he's siding with his mother.

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#14 Mon Mar 13 1961

S2:E19

The womenfolk watch as Jack escorts Joan to St. Thomas' church. They are late when the car won't start. Weatherfield County FC are interested in signing David up. The Walkers entertain their family at the Rovers after the reception at The Ridgeway although the majority of the Davies family have not come back, being teetotallers. However they endure Gordon's Uncle Fred all evening before discovering he is not a relative at all but just a friend of the family.

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#15 Mon Apr 17 1961

S2:E29

Dr. Graham tells Ena she has only twisted her ankle. Swindley insists she still leaves the Mission. Martha grows alarmed as Ena takes her house over. Emily moves into the vestry as temporary caretaker. Ken spends time at Marian Lund's flat. She is a librarian at the university and eleven years his senior. He tells her that he loves her. Ena tricks Martha into parting with her precious whisky. Albert gives Swindley a petition for the reinstatement of Ena. Marian tells Ken not to tell his parents about her yet. Christine tells Esther she doesn't want to get engaged to Joe but doesn't know how to tell him.

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#16 Mon Sep 11 1961

S2:E71

Nancy Leathers hears from the Council that they have an OAP bungalow for her. Frank worries that Ida is late home from visiting Beattie's. Dennis is summoned to Lenny Phillips' office. Ken calls on Beattie Pearson and discovers Ida has not been there. Lenny tells Dennis he is not at all talented but wants him to work for him as a talent scout. Frank contacts the police who realise that her description matches that of a woman who was knocked down in Gray Street and is dead. They arrive in the Street to tell him.

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#17 Mon Oct 02 1961

S2:E77

Concepta and Harry are married at St. Theresa's where Lucille is the bridesmaid and Len is the best man. Linda is jealous when Ivan and Nona Willis spend the day together working in the Rovers. At the reception, the Hewitts receive telegrams from Alice Burgess, David Barlow, Billy Walker, Joan Davies, Ivan and Nona. Dot Greenhalgh fancies Bill but Alf tries to get him interested in Elsie - something which doesn't go unnoticed by Ena. Harry and Concepta go on honeymoon and book into the Cresta Hotel at Port Erin on the Isle of Man.

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#18 Mon Oct 16 1961

S2:E81

Swindley organises the evening's trip to the Blackpool illuminations. Doreen agrees to become the new barmaid and gives her notice in to Swindley. Two young lads and clerks from the Town Hall, Phil Braithwaite and Norman Dobson, arrive looking for digs in the area. Jack, Ena, Minnie, Martha, Albert, Ken, Val, Frank, Christine, Dennis, Jed, Jean, Elsie, Bill, Alf, Doreen, Swindley and Emily go to Blackpool. Brian looks after Esther, in bed with flu. Elsie and Bill become brazen in their affair. The coach leaves with Ena still having her palm read by a Fortune Teller.

episode image Wed 8 Nov, 1961
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#19 Wed 8 Nov, 1961

S2:E88

Elsie apologies to Annie. The Cheveskis receive a letter from a workmate of Ivan's in Canada. His photos of the affluent life there interest Linda. Elsie and Ena confront each other in the Street and verbally attack each other as the residents look on. Dennis has to stop Elsie from hitting Ena, who ends the fight by shouting that if she had written the letter she would have had the decency to sign it. Elsie realises with shock that she's right. The argument over, the residents wonder who did write it.

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#20 Wed 22 Nov, 1961

S2:E92

Frank rows with Ken for not telling him he'd given up his job. He refuses to let Dennis get him a job. Ken tells him he's not prepared to listen to him calling him 'idle' anymore and he'd do any job to pay his way. Minnie buys a see-through nightie from Swindley. Word spreads that Ken asked Dennis for a job - Elsie is amused. Returning from an Adam Faith concert Christine meets Ken at the station coffee room. He tells her he's leaving for London but she makes him realise that he's running away from himself and he returns home.

episode image Mon 12 Feb, 1962
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#21 Mon 12 Feb, 1962

S3:E13

The "Ex-student slams neighbours" story appears in the paper: Len and Harry grow very angry over the article. Frank rows with Ken, ashamed of his disloyalty to his class. He tells Ken he can't write any more articles. Harry wants to write complaining to the papers but Len feels it would do no good. Elsie feels the article was well-written but warns Ken that Len is after him. Len insults Ken to Frank and refuses to apologise causing Frank almost to fight him in the Street. Ken realises he'll have to stand up to the residents. When he tries to put across his view point in the Rovers, Len hits him and they brawl across the pub, Ken being knocked out.

episode image Wed 7 Mar 1962
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#22 Wed 7 Mar 1962

S3:E20

Dennis sells more tickets than seats and the concert is over-booked. Ena discovers that the performers, the "Blue Streak Rockets", were banned and the police tell them they cannot perform. The Walkers go to a Brewery Dance, planning to stay the night in a plush hotel. Ena locks the piano lid but Minnie opens it with a hair pin. She entertains the audience of four hundred with constant renditions of Goodbye, Dolly Gray. Captain Johnson and his troupe break down but send the sealions, Bunny and Sherry on. Dennis has to cancel the concert, causing an uproar. Ena gets drunk with the Rockets. Dennis is stuck with the Rockets and sealions for the night. He gets the Rovers' key off Concepta and installs them in the pub. The Walkers return home to find sealions in the bath and the Rockets in their bed

episode image Wed 21 Mar 1962
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#23 Wed 21 Mar 1962

S3:E24

Annie has found out the truth about Jack's mystery illness and when she returns from her investigations, the Rovers becomes a different place again as she loads job after job on Jack. After a good deal of thought, Harry and Len enter Lucky Lolita for the races in the last hope that she will get back to her old form. Back at the Vestry, Ena falls to the floor with a mild stroke and, as the night wears on, nobody comes to help her.

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#24 Mon 3 Jan 2011 Part 1

S52:E1

The police began their investigation into Tracy's attack by questioning Steve, and Sally discovered Sophie and Sian in bed together.

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#25 Mon 3 Jan 2011 Part 2

S52:E2

Tyrone and Sally kissed, and Sophie and Sian found their relationship challenged.

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#26 Thu 6 Jan 2011

S52:E3

A terrified Gary got locked in a van and Kevin suspected something was going on between Tyrone and Sally.

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#27 Fri 7 Jan 2011 Part 1

S52:E4

Kevin's anger boiled over after Sally wound him up and he attacked Tyrone

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#28 Fri 7 Jan 2011 Part 2

S52:E5

The police gave Becky a hard time and Kevin told his girls baby Jack was his priority.

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#29 Mon 10 Jan 2011 Part 1

S52:E6

The Websters argued about selling the house and John and Claire had confessions to make.

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#30 Mon 10 Jan 2011 Part 2

S52:E7

John confessed to Joy that Colin was dead and the shock was too much to bear for the sick old lady.

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#31 Thurs 13 Jan 2011

S52:E8

Claire was shocked by Graeme's advice and Joy's body was found.

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#32 Fri 14 Jan 2011 Part 1

S52:E9

Nick provided Peter with alcohol and Claire was persuaded to run away to France.

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#33 Fri 14 Jan 2011 Part 2

S52:E10

Claire made her escape helped by her neighbours and Leanne almost caught Peter having a drink.

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#34 Mon 17 Jan 2011 Part 1

S52:E11

Nick took Peter for a drink and Rosie and Eileen clashed over a roof tile!

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#35 Mon 17 Jan 2011 Part 2

S52:E12

Ciaran clashed with Nick and Peter over their drinking and Gary began to open up to Izzy.

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#36 Thu 20 Jan 2011

S52:E13

Jason punches the insurance man which doesn't help Eileen's cause and Gary speaks to Quinney's parents.

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#37 Fri 21 Jan 2011 Part 1

S52:E14

Did temptation get the better of Eileen when Carla handed her a blank cheque for Owen for £10,000?

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#38 Fri 21 Jan 2011 Part 2

S52:E15

A drunken Janice disturbed a robbery at her flat and was it the end of the road for Michelle and Ciaran?

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#39 Mon 24 Jan 2011 Part 1

S52:E16

After Michelle and Ciaran admitted they loved each other, Ciaran pleaded with his girlfriend to join him on the cruise ship.

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#40 Mon 24 Jan 2011 Part 2

S52:E17

Eileen shook in her boots as Owen threatened her and Dr Carter suggested that due to his mental state, John should be assessed in hospital.

Cast & Chracters

character image Ken Barlow

Ken Barlow

Actor: William Roache

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