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Four episodes of Coronation Street from April 1983

Chalkie Whiteley's attempts to sell his house are sabotaged by the vengeful Phyllis Pearce, who has very personal motives for wanting him to stay put. The campaign against the proposed nightclub gathers pace, with Ken Barlow predictably leading the charge. There are some very funny scenes involving Victor Pendlebury and Mavis Riley, when the former prepares to take her on a camping holiday in the Lake District.


Mavis: "Y' know, people have been trying to put me off, telling me stories about tents blowing away and creepy crawlies and even snakes....I just took it in my stride, I mean we haven't got any snakes in this country, have we?"

Victor: "Well, of course we have."

Mavis: "We have?"

Victor: "Three varieties, if you count the slow worm, though that's not really a snake at all".

Mavis: "It isn't?"

Victor: "No, it's a legless lizard actually, I'll teach you how to recognize them.... "

Mavis: "Victor, I don't like snakes!"

Victor: "They're very interesting creatures, and quite harmless....well, the adder is poisonous of course, but you're quite safe if you don't attack it."

Mavis: "I wouldn't dream of attacking an adder!"

Victor: "Well, you've nothing to worry about then...."

Mind Over Murder.

....and also of the Television, Films & Video forum, though one or two people haven't noticed, it seems.

I'm thinking that Kraichgauer might have a dry sense of humour.

4 episodes of Coronation Street from the second half of April 1983

Resistance continues to the night club plans - Mike Baldwin gets a brick through his office window and there's an angry public meeting which ends in disorder. The project is given the go-ahead however, and will be known as the Graffiti Club. Elsewhere, Suzie Birchall's estranged husband, whom she'd married in London, tracks her down to Weatherfield and beats her up in Elsie Howard's front room.

Craig of the Creek

Billy The Kid.
Luke Cage.
Evil Lives Here.

Four episodes of Coronation Street from early May 1983.

Fred Gee takes fellow Rovers bar staff Bet Lynch and Betty Turpin for a drive in the countryside on the Mayday Bank Holiday. However, the handbrake falls off, and the car (the Rover that had belonged to Annie Walker) ends up in a lake. There are bitter recriminations between Fred and Brian Tilsley, who had just serviced the car, and between Fred and the women, who demand compensation for their damaged clothes. Ken Barlow impressed the editor of the Weatherfield Recorder at the protest meeting, and she offers him a regular column in the paper.

Gentleman Jack, S2E4