The BEST episodes of Coronation Street season 10
Every episode of Coronation Street season 10, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Coronation Street season 10!
Follows the lives of the residents of the fictional Coronation Street, located in Greater Manchester, which is made up mainly of working-class people.
#1 - 4 Jun 1969
Season 10 - Episode 45 - Aired 6/4/1969
Hilda wonders what Cyril Turpin does for a living but no one's met him yet. An amused Lucille returns the library books - Beer Brewing for Beginners and How To Make Your First Million - after Stan "loses" them in the betting shop, aware of what he's up to as they were taken out on 9th July 1964 and she knows that he could be in for a hefty fine and a court appearance. Val's good night's sleep hasn't improved her temper but she tells Ken she will try not to take offence at anything that Edith says.
#2 - 23 Jul 1969
Season 10 - Episode 58 - Aired 7/23/1969
Hilda is nervous around Cyril and questions him about his investigation of the stolen suit lengths. Annie fusses over Jack, worried over his health. Albert is laid up in bed with bruised ribs and a broken arm. Elsie and Len visit and bring a present of a bottle of rum. Alice is nursing him, receiving no gratitude whatsoever. Ena and Emily return drunk from the ceremony to collect the prize for Ernie's photo of Ena. Ray buys some of the sixteen suit lengths from Hilda. Stan arrives home drunk but sobers up when Hilda tells him that Cyril is on his case. He insists that he bought the lengths from a man down the market. In the middle of the night, Ena hears noises from the camera shop below and thinks it's Emily. Annie refuses to buy any of the lengths from Hilda. Annie breaks down, having got it into her head that Jack failed his brewery medical and something is wrong with him. To put her mind at ease he agrees to go to the doctor. Hilda tries to flog some lengths to Elsie. Emily tells E
#3 - 21 Jul 1969
Season 10 - Episode 57 - Aired 7/21/1969
Dickie celebrates his twentieth birthday. Lucille helps out Ray at his yard without telling Len. Hilda finds the £50 in Stan's trouser pocket and demands to know where he got it from. Annie worries that Jack's medical let them down. Emily advises her to ask the brewery outright. Councillor Farnsworth asks Elsie to talk to Len but she refuses. Jack tells Hilda that Elsie gave Stan the £50. Hilda runs round to the florists demanding to know what’s going on. Hilda taunts her with gossip about her and Len and Elsie throws her out. A group of pensioners go on the trip to the Fusiliers' Museum in Bury but Alice misses the bus there. Stan sells suit lengths that he has bought with the £50. Ray gives Alice a lift in his van to Bury. Len plans to leave the council. Elsie wants Ena to help Len but Ena tells her that only she can help. Betty tells a troubled Hilda that some cloth has been stolen from a tailor's. Annie cannot find out from the brewery the truth about why they were turned down. Els
#4 - 16 Jul 1969
Season 10 - Episode 56 - Aired 7/16/1969
Emily shows Ena a photograph of her that Ernie has taken for a competition. Ena tells Alice Pickins when Albert is visiting her so she can drop in and grab him for a day out. Albert isn't pleased. Ray starts business at his yard. Stan refuses him when tells him that he wants him to be his labourer. Annie announces a farewell party in the Rovers with a Spanish theme. Councillor Farnsworth visits Elsie, worried about why Len is missing council meetings. Len feels put out when Ray takes his customers, including repairs. Dickie and Audrey decide to have a belated wedding photograph taken. Sir Hubert Ridley tells Douglas Cresswell that the Walkers are too old for the Majorca pub. Jack and Annie visit Newton & Ridley where they are given the bad news by Cresswell, saying the board have not ratified his decision. The Ogdens and the Flemings have portraits of themselves taken. Annie tells the regulars that they decided to turn the brewery down as it's not the type of bar they thought it would
#5 - 9 Jul 1969
Season 10 - Episode 55 - Aired 7/9/1969
Emily helps Ernie decorate the camera shop flat but Minnie warns them that Ena won't like the wallpaper they're putting up. Maggie warns Lucille that Len is planning to shop Ray. Ena inspects the flat, telling Ernie that she likes the wallpaper and she picked it herself. Dickie encourages Audrey to go out with Ray thinking he will cheer her up but she feels uneasy about it and asks Elsie's advice. Ray needs three months' rent in advance for a builder's yard and a reference. Ena moves into the flat after giving Ernie a final list of requirements. Lucille asks Len to give Ray a chance and he tells her that he's not going to tell the brewery about the theft. Jack goes for a medical at the brewery and to have a passport photograph taken. Annie asks Grimshaws to value their furniture. Jack breaks the news to Lucille that she can't come with them to Majorca as there's only accommodation for him and Annie and the brewery only want it for a married couple. Lucille gets upset, thinking she's be
#6 - 7 Jul 1969
Season 10 - Episode 54 - Aired 7/7/1969
Annie looks forward with glee to the result of Ena and Emily reading her letter. Dickie looks forward to being 20 next week. Annie is amused when Emily is late getting up, thinking she's hiding herself away, though she tells Jack she blames Ena for the incident. Jack has misgivings about starting again in Majorca. Emily tells Annie that they've decided not to read the letter, instead making one last appeal to her to see sense. She insists they read it. Elsie refuses to let Ray be her lodger and Maggie is cold towards him. Having put it off, Ena and Emily finally read the letter. Emily feels ashamed and argues with Ena who feels no guilt over the situation. Minnie tells Ernie that Ena wants the camera shop flat inspected for rats before she moves in. Len refuses Ken's suggestion that he calls off the deal to sell his van. Ken and Maggie wonder if Ena will brave the Rov
#7 - 2 Jul 1969
Season 10 - Episode 53 - Aired 7/2/1969
Jack isn't totally against moving to Majorca but will only promise to think it over. In front of Hilda and Emily, he and Annie put on a show of extreme domestic discord. Annie asks Emily to get Ernie to develop her holiday snaps but asks her to pass on the message to be discrete with them, making her and Hilda think the very worst. Len is chirpy about the brewery contract. An uncomfortable Lucille tells him not to make too big a thing of it. Ken finds a buyer at the college for Len's van. Douglas arrives at the Rovers with flowers for Annie. Hilda is appalled while an amused Elsie, Maggie and Betty play along with thinking Annie's had an affair. Ray is delighted to hear from Lucille that he has the contract and tells her he's setting up on his own. She's appalled. Hilda rushes to tell Ena about the flowers. She still refuses to let Ernie take her photo. Elsie refuses Lucille's entreaties to inform Len of his business loss. Len celebrates with several bottles in No.9. Lucille breaks the
#8 - 30 Jun 1969
Season 10 - Episode 52 - Aired 6/30/1969
A contented Annie flies back from Majorca with Douglas Cresswell of Newton & Ridley. Back at the Rovers, Jack rages how someone can break up a thirty-year old marriage. Ken returns from Glasgow, having left Val and the twins up there for a while. He advises Len to phone Elsie. He does so and hears from Sheila that Elsie has left but she doesn't know where she's gone. Ena refuses Ernie's request that he photographs her. Elsie returns to the street and hears from Ken that Len thinks she has a fella. Hilda is put out to hear that Betty knew of Elsie's return before she did. Ray delays telling Len about the possible brewery deal, wanting to keep it for himself. To stop Hilda annoying Jack with tactless remarks, Ena and Emily tell her that Annie has a fancy man, but to keep it quiet. Lucille tells Len that Elsie is back. Jack goes to the airport as the plane descends into Manchester.
#9 - 25 Jun 1969
Season 10 - Episode 51 - Aired 6/25/1969
Ena tells Ernie that she plans to move into the flat next week but wants to reopen the matter of her wages. An upset Emily tells her that they're on the edge of an abyss with Jack and Annie. With Stan's bike out of commission, Ray gives him the yard's handcart so he can continue his window-cleaning round rather than laze around. Ray tells Len about Sheila's phone call but he feigns disinterest. In Scarborough, Sheila insists that Elsie goes shopping with her to stop her brooding. Jack tells Len to keep away from Elsie, knowing full well his words will prompt him into doing the exact opposite. Jack is amazed at the way that Hilda does exactly what Stan tells her to do. Ena tells Maggie she won't be able to help out any more. Maggie hastily turns down Cyril's suggestion that she gets Betty to help out as she has Val to cover. Annie sends a telegram to say she's arriving at Ringway Airport at 3.00pm on Monday with Mr Cresswell. Lucille wonders who he can be, but Jack pretends he doesn't
#10 - 23 Jun 1969
Season 10 - Episode 50 - Aired 6/18/1969
Lucille and Ray have let themselves into No.11 and found a piece of paper with a Scarborough phone number on it. They wonder who Elsie knows there. Emily finishes at the playgroup, ready to begin work at the camera shop, and tells Jack she can't work behind the bar any more. Emily and Ena are concerned what will happen when he finds out about Annie's dalliance. Jack tells Ray of a building job at the Fletcher's Arms, a Newton & Ridley pub in Manchester but tells him they won't employ Fairclough and Booth because of the incident over Jerry's accident three years before. Ray determines to change the yard's reputation with them. Ray phones the number - it's Sheila Crossley's. She tells him that she hasn't seen Elsie when in fact she is sat in the room with her.
#11 - 16 Jun 1969
Season 10 - Episode 48 - Aired 6/16/1969
Emily hides Annie's postcard to Lucille from Jack when it arrives at the Rovers. He wonders why she hasn't written. He almost catches Ena and Emily talking about him. Elsie is down after hearing Len's news. Not knowing the reason behind it, Jack hears about her depression from Hilda's gossip and he goes to see Elsie. Annoyed with Len, he wants to tell him it was Elsie's money he was given. Elsie tells him about Len's proposed engagement to a girl named Janet Reid who he met at the Town Hall where she works. Elsie persuades Jack not to say anything as she thinks Len deserves real happiness.
#12 - 11 Jun 1969
Season 10 - Episode 47 - Aired 6/11/1969
Emily tries to get Hilda to help more in the Rovers in Annie's absence but she refuses while Betty's behind the bar. Emily tells Ena she doesn't like their deception and hopes that she's wrong about the contents of the letter. Betty makes breakfast for a grateful Jack and suggests he takes the morning off with a game of bowls and also the afternoon to watch cricket. Val tells Elsie that she and Ken are at loggerheads over Edith. Elsie buys a birthday card for Paul's eighth birthday. Jack is annoyed when Len says he can't get shut of Elsie. Ray takes Betty on at darts. Jack tells Elsie what Len said. Ena passes on a message to Val that Alfred Tatlock has rung her with an urgent message about her mother.
#13 - 9 Jun 1969
Season 10 - Episode 46 - Aired 6/9/1969
Minnie has received a postcard from Ena saying she's returning at 10.00am, a week early, and gets supplies in. Hilda tries to spread gossip about Edith but Betty knows more than her on the subject. Minnie alarms Jack by saying that Annie is also returning. Cyril tells Stan that there will just be a fine on the books, no other prosecution, but his bike outside the front of the house has several illegal things wrong with it. He goes on to annoy Len and Ray when he points out the state of the yard's gate lock and van. Ena returns, full of complaints about Majorca, but without Annie.
#14 - 28 Jul 1969
Season 10 - Episode 59 - Aired 7/28/1969
Jack gets tired of Annie's fussing. Elsie suggests that she should go to Doctor Mackay herself to get the truth out of him. Hilda demands to know from Stan what he's going to do about the suit lengths and getting Elsie her money back. Emily has her first-ever commission to take wedding photographs, much to Ena's disdain. They are puzzled as to who has moved the heavy lights in the studio by several feet. Annie tells Hilda she is slack-spined and threatens to sack her if she is late again. Albert enjoys a visit from Cyril and tells him about some of his more salubrious exploits in the army, before discovering he used to be a military policeman.
#15 - 28 May 1969
Season 10 - Episode 43 - Aired 5/28/1969
Elsie and Maggie suffer upset stomachs from the Hilda’s cooking and Stan’s punch. Minnie has received another postcard from Ena saying that she’s stood on a sea urchin. Val refuses to let Edith take Peter and Susan to Belle Vue on her own. Her mother’s presence is beginning to get on her nerves. Dickie gets a job on a building site, labouring for £14 a week. Audrey makes plans to return some of the HP items to economise.
#16 - 26 May 1969
Season 10 - Episode 42 - Aired 5/26/1969
Jack has received a postcard from Annie in Majorca. Ena’s postcard to Minnie hints that she prefers Morecambe, but a Spanish phrase written as a P.S. puzzles her friend. At a loose end, Elsie can’t find anyone to spend the bank holiday with her. With their hire purchase debt of £250, Dickie decides to brave the arcade and fix the machines for Eddie Goulden. Audrey translates the phrase as “Milk Stout, thank you”.
#17 - 21 May 1969
Season 10 - Episode 41 - Aired 5/21/1969
Dickie is too frightened to go to work. He tells Ray how Eddie Goulden wants him to fix the machines for him. Annie gets depressed as she receives no post from the brewery. Audrey tells Dickie he's not to go back to the arcade but he reminds her of the £200 on hire purchase. Ena tries to get Len to get the arcade closed but he refuses. Annie gets a telegram telling her she's won the "Perfect Landlady" competition.
#18 - 19 May 1969
Season 10 - Episode 40 - Aired 5/19/1969
Audrey celebrates her eighteenth birthday. Dickie buys her a mod watch. Edith offers Ken financial help towards a house. Val returns from hospital. Ray buys Audrey her first legal drink in the Rovers. Edith takes the Barlows round a show house. Val doesn't want to leave the street, no matter what plans Edith has for the 'executive family'. Dickie is threatened by thugs at the arcade.
#19 - 14 May 1969
Season 10 - Episode 39 - Aired 5/14/1969
Ena helps out in the shop with Val in hospital. Audrey starts spending too much. Ena tells Dickie that dignity is more important than money. Audrey spends over £200 on hire purchase. Brewery rep, Mr Bracegirdle gets drunk and flirts with Annie. Jack throws him out.
#20 - 12 May 1969
Season 10 - Episode 38 - Aired 5/12/1969
Audrey admits to Dickie that she likes the extra money he’s bringing in. Hilda rushes round her work at the Rovers, determined to be on the spot when Edith arrives now that Val is in hospital. Ray puzzles Annie when he checks that she will be serving at lunch time. Edith prefers the (Maisonette)|flat to No.9 as she feels it gives Ken and Val more privacy. She’s proven wrong when Hilda bursts in to see her. Audrey and Lucille go on a shopping spree. Edith doesn’t take to Hilda and is grateful when Elsie, also calling in, gets rid of her by telling her that she’s just spotted Stan talking to his fancy piece from Inkerman Street. However, Elsie makes herself equally at home, annoying Edith all over again. Ray tells Ena and Maggie that his plan about Annie is gathering pace. At the yard, Ray meets old friend Connie Robinson. He tells her he wants her to pose as pub landlady from Hyde.
#21 - 7 May 1969
Season 10 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/7/1969
Ray is surprised when he finds Stan preparing for work early in the yard, but the answer comes clear when Hilda comes running in for her missing housekeeping and finds out that her husband is failing to meet his quota. Hilda insists he cleans forty houses a day. Ken wants Val to have a private operation on her knee even though it will cost over £200. Ray makes it clear to Lucille that she was wrong to tell Audrey about Dickie's job. Meanwhile, Audrey asks Dickie about his work and is unhappy when she doesn't get the truth out of him.
#22 - 5 May 1969
Season 10 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/5/1969
Stan moans about the taxation stoppages that Ray has put on his wages but accepts the offer of a bonus for doing more houses each day. Lucille is touched by a card and a present of stockings that Ray has bought her for her birthday. Rag and bone man Jobber Pilling calls at the Rovers with a sack of old clogs that Annie has paid for. Jack finds out that she intends to decorate the pub with old Lancashire memorabilia and a consignment of old miners' lamps are on the way. Val returns from the doctors and says she just needs to rest her knee, but she confides in Elsie that she's in need of an operation. She can't be bothered with the waiting lists.
#23 - 30 Apr 1969
Season 10 - Episode 35 - Aired 4/30/1969
Annie tries to get Hilda to sign a nomination form for the "Perfect Landlady" competition, but she holds out, asking for the sixpence an hour pay rise they discussed two months before. Dickie didn't home until 1.00am the night before and he shoots out again, saying he'll be just as late this time. Ena thinks Audrey ought to put her foot down. Val's knee is still hurting, and Ena tells her to get it looked at. Len has gone to Nottingham to see Stanley. Stan suggests to Ray that he looks out for yard work while cleaning windows. Val worries that there are money problems in the Fleming's marriage.
#24 - 28 Apr 1969
Season 10 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/28/1969
Ray offers to give Audrey a lift to work as Dickie wants to skive from the college and go to the cinema. Hilda enjoys getting favours from Annie as she is still trying to win the "Perfect Landlady" competition. Lucille is bored with hearing about the contest. Dickie gets annoyed at Ray's familiar attitude towards Audrey. Ena and Albert take Peter and Susan out. Val's knee hurts and Ken thinks she's doing too much. Annie collects nominations for the competition. Minnie doesn't know what to write on her form. Albert has taken Peter to his allotment rather than spend the day with Ena. Stan, Hilda and Ken disagree on what makes a perfect pub.
#25 - 23 Apr 1969
Season 10 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/23/1969
The OAP Clubhouse sit-in continues as the pensioners sing protests over Mr Ironfield's attempts to talk. When they quieten, Ena shows him a map showing him an alternative site for the car park on the Red Rec. He won't listen to his excuses as to why it isn't practical. Dave calls on Val to tell her to keep out of his business. Ken orders him out but once he has gone he also orders his wife not to get involved. Ena won't let Ironfield leave until he's heard them out, even though it is late in the evening.