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==Plot==

==Plot==



[[Kevin Webster|Kevin]] starts work at [[Walker's Garage]]. [[Kimberley Taylor|Kimberley]] tells [[Curly Watts|Curly]] that the man is her cousin [[Adrian Gosthorpe]] and he is lodging with them. Curly is horrified. [[Rita Fairclough|Rita]] is annoyed
at

local
remarks about the trolley race. [[
Alma

Sedgewick
|
Alma
]]
assures
[[
Audrey
Roberts|
Audrey
]]
that
[[
Ken

Barlow
|
Ken
]]
is

just
a
mate
. [[
Phyllis

Pearce
|
Phyllis
]]
tells
[[
Reg

Holdsworth
|
Reg
]] that [[
Vera

Duckworth|Vera
]]
is

spreading
the
word

about

the

trolley

fix
.
Curly

follows

Adrian

and

finds

out

that

he

works
at a
[[Weatherfield

&

County

Building

Society|building

society]]

where

he

is

a

mortgage

manager
.
[[Terry

Seymour]]

threatens

to

take

Kevin

to

court

if

he
doesn't
pay

up
.
[[Alf

Roberts|Alf]]

refuses
to
do

any

of
the repairs.
He
trips over a rotten riser and falls down the stairs. Reg sacks Vera.

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[[Jack Duckworth|Jack]] tells [[Vera Duckworth|Vera]] to stop gossiping about the trolley race as she'll end up losing her job.
[[Kevin Webster|Kevin]] starts work at [[Walker's Garage]]. [[Kimberley Taylor|Kimberley]] tells [[Curly Watts|Curly]] that the man
he saw
is her cousin [[Adrian Gosthorpe]] and he is lodging with them. Curly is horrified. [[Rita Fairclough|Rita]] is annoyed
when

[[Phyllis Pearce|Phyllis]] makes
remarks about the trolley race
being a fix
. [[
Ken

Barlow
|
Ken
]]
leaves
[[
Alf
Roberts|
Alf
]]
the
[[
15a

Coronation Street
|
flat
]]
key

for the workmen but Alf hasn't called anyone, holding to his view that the flat doesn't need any repairs. Kevin likes Walker's and gets on with his new colleagues. Rita complains to Reg that people know the draw was
a
fiddle and tells him to back off for a while
. [[
Alma

Sedgewick
|
Alma
]]
assures
[[
Audrey

Roberts
|
Audrey
]] that
Ken is just a mate. Reg buys Phyllis a drink and tries to get to the source of the gossip. Phyllis tells him she got it from Vera.
[[
Terry

Seymour
]]
gives

[[Sally Webster|Sally]]
the
bill

for

his

motor

repairs
.
Sally

passes

on

Kevin's

offer

to

pay

£400

and the rest
at
£10
a
week.

He

won't

wait

two

years

to

get

his

money

back

and demands full payment now or he'll sue
.
Kimberley

insists

there's

nothing

going

on

between

her

and

Adrian. Curly
doesn't
believe

her and wonders if they were together while she was engaged to him
.
Ken

is

dismayed
to
learn

that

Alf isn't bothering with
the repairs
and accuses him of viewing his rent purely as profit
.
While they're arguing, Alf
trips over a rotten riser and falls down the stairs
. He escapes with some bruises. Sally worries they'll lose the [[13 Coronation Street|house]] because of Terry Seymour and cries. Curly follows Kimberley and finds out that Adrian works at a [[Weatherfield & County Building Society|building society]] where he is a mortgage manager
. Reg sacks Vera.



==Cast==

==Cast==

===Regular cast===

===Regular cast===

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*Unknown streets

*Unknown streets

==Notes==

==Notes==



*[[Terence Plummer]] was credited as a Stunt Double on this episode.

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*[[Terence Plummer]] was credited as a Stunt Double on this episode
for [[Alf Roberts|Alf]]'s fall down the stairs
.



*
''
[[
TV

Times
]]
''

synopsis:
[[Reg Holdsworth
|Reg
]]
becomes

paranoid

that

everyone

is

talking

about

him.

Accusations fly
at [[Bettabuys]].

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*
The
[[
Granada

Plus
]]
repeat of this episode on [[9th December]] [[2002]] was edited down for timing reasons and omitted the first 8" of the last scene of the episode, in which
[[Reg Holdsworth]]
walks

into

a

cleaning

bucket

left

by

[[Vera

Duckworth]]
at [[Bettabuys]].

+

*''[[TV Times]]'' synopsis: Reg becomes paranoid that everyone is talking about him. Accusations fly at [[Bettabuys]].

*[[Viewing Figures]]: UK broadcast - 17,670,000 viewers (5th place).

*[[Viewing Figures]]: UK broadcast - 17,670,000 viewers (5th place).

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==Notable dialogue==

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[[Alf Roberts]] (about [[Ken Barlow]]): "Just think about it. Look, 'e's left 'is wife, 'e was always a ladies man. Well, 'e 'ad three wives for a start, didn't 'e? Now 'e's got a flat of 'is own playing soppy music, what does that tell yer? I know what it tells me, e's likely walking about up there in a smoking jacket, and 'eaven knows what 'e's smoking... Just listen to that, it's like 'avin Noel Coward up there."

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