The BEST episodes of Coronation Street season 17
Every episode of Coronation Street season 17, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Coronation Street season 17!
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 - Episode 1630 (30th August 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 69 - Aired 8/30/1976
Ray stays in hospital for observation. The Haggerty boys, Kevin and Jimmy, run amok in the Street. Roy Thornley doesn't know Doreen is divorcing him or that she is citing Gail. Elsie asks him not to defend the divorce. Hilda's washing is stolen, she thinks the Haggerty boys took it. Ray discharges himself from hospital, his arm in a sling. Roy apologises to Gail. She tells him she hates him; her reputation will be ruined. Stan steals the Haggertys' washing. Gail breaks down when Roy decides to defend the divorce. Renee returns the Ogdens' washing; she took it in when it was raining and put it in her machine. Stan is worried about taking the Haggertys' washing back, having heard about the size of Mr Haggerty.
#2 - Episode 1643 (13th October 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 82 - Aired 10/13/1976
Len comes to. Elsie rows with Rita for hitting him. Mavis entertains the customers in the Rovers with her comic songs and has too much to drink. Bet makes her stay at the Rovers for the night as Annie is in Jersey. Dr. Brooks gives Len the all clear but advises him to take it easy. Rita apologises to him. Mike Baldwin gives Ernie the wages clerk job for £45. Doreen Thornley rings Elsie and tells her that Roy has moved in with Sylvia Matthews so she's citing her now and not Gail. She also tells her Roy and Sylvia are moving on and giving the shop up. The Bishops celebrate with an Italian meal. Bet, Rita and Elsie fuss round Len: he enjoys it. He tells them that if he doesn't rest he'll end up in hospital.
#3 - Episode 1641 (6th October 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 80 - Aired 10/6/1976
Stan enjoys not being able to work. Bet puts her foot in it when she lets slip that they send out for wine when it's needed. Hilda is depressed because Stan spends all day in the Rovers, Len decides to build Stan a cart for her sake. Ernie hands the shop over to Terry. Annie puts her hopes on Walter Jenkins but he launches into an attack on pubs. The magistrates grant the application and Renee gets her licence. Renee offers Annie the hand of friendship but she doesn't want it. Bet is angry when Annie blames her. She tells Annie that everyone knew she wasn't going to win, she was just fighting it out of spite. Annie offers Renee an olive branch and offers her any help she might need about selling alcohol. Hilda finds the new cart outside No.13 and guesses who made it. To their mock horror, she kisses Len, Ray and Terry but also buys them drinks as a thank-you. Ernie gets an interview at the rebuilt warehouse.
#4 - Episode 1640 (4th October 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 79 - Aired 10/4/1976
Ernie looks after the shop whilst Renee goes to court. Stan spends £4 of the compensation on drink. Bet goes to court with Annie whilst Ken goes with Renee. The magistrates hear their case. Ernie gets a job interview and worries that Renee won't be back in time. Renee has 276 signatures on her petition and she feels that the area needs an off-licence. Annie's solicitor, Peter Smith, brings up the fact that Renee has been reported for opening on Sundays. He accuses her of just being after the profits. Ken tells the magistrates that an off-licence would be convenient. Annie tells the court that she believes the Rovers fulfills all the neighbours' needs.
#5 - Episode 1639 (29th September 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 78 - Aired 9/29/1976
Fred and Terry fear legally they were responsible for the crash as the dog owners. Alf's car repairs are £60. Len chairs as Annie, Alf, the Ogdens, Fred and Terry meet to sort out responsibility. The parents refuse to give Eddie the benefit of the doubt. Eddie is hurt that he can't look after the kids any more. Hilda demands compensation and loss of earnings. Len reminds the Ogdens that Alan gave Stan the cart for free and Ray sold him the ladders for £2. Alf reveals he can't claim on his insurance because it'll cost him more than the £60 repairs; he'll lose his no-claims bonus. Terry and Fred say they're the injured party as their £30 dog has run off. Annie refuses to pay anyone. Bet advises Annie to set a good example. Annie agrees to pay half the cost of the car repairs and suggests that she, Alf, Fred and Terry all pay £2.50 compensation to Stan. Stan agrees but Hilda is disappointed. Renee decides to sell the shop if she doesn't get the licence.
#6 - Episode 1638 (27th September 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 77 - Aired 9/27/1976
Annie and Alf are stunned after their crash. Alf blames Annie, she blames Terry and he blames Albert who has disappeared. Hilda lays into Alf when she finds the cart under his car. Eddie disciplines the kids by tickling them. He gets an old car for the playground. Fred searches for the dog after the crash. Hilda claims £50 damages from Annie and Fred. Albert goes to Glasgow when Hilda threatens to sue him for letting the dog loose. Ken decides that Eddie should be paid for his work. Len organises a meeting to sort out Hilda's claims. The parents tell Ken they don't want Eddie being near their children because of his criminal record and threaten to go over his head.
#7 - Episode 1637 (22nd September 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 76 - Aired 9/22/1976
Deirdre tells Ray she wants her bike back - as a bike. Albert enjoys looking after Fred's Folly. Eddie stores playground equipment at the Community Centre. Len agrees to take Elsie to a council dinner, entertaining a delegation of French men. Stan lends Eddie his cart to move some of the playground stuff. Walter Jenkins, from the Weatherfield Anti-Drink League petitions people outside the shop. He swears to oppose Renee at the court. Alf is tricked into giving Annie a driving lesson. Terry gives the bike to Eddie for the playground. Eddie and the kids start to build the playground. Ken offers to testify to Renee's good character in court. Annie swerves to avoid the dog in the Street and hits Stan's cart.
#8 - Episode 1636 (20th September 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 75 - Aired 9/20/1976
The doctor tells Deirdre to stop riding her bike. Betty is forced to do Annie's shopping at the Corner Shop. Renee calls Terry "Judas" for drinking in the Rovers. When the Community Centre's nursery leader is ill, Eddie gives Ken a hand with the children. Albert charges Fred and Alf for keeping the dog at his house. Ken is impressed by Eddie's handling of children. He wants to build an adventure playground at the back of the centre. Eddie agrees to help the kids organise themselves. Mavis agrees to buy Deirdre's bike for £5 but Ray and Len turn it into an exercise machine for Fred's Folly but the dog isn't interested.
#9 - Episode 1635 (15th September 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 74 - Aired 9/15/1976
Fred, Alf and Terry search for the dog. Albert has taken Fred's Folly in. Renee starts a petition in favour of the off-licence as it will help in court. Hilda signs it "Crabtree" so as not to offend Annie. Deirdre agrees to Ray's pram when he says he'll change the baby's nappies. Annie starts a petition against the off-licence. Albert discovers who owns the dog and suggests that Fred and Alf offer a reward. He then returns the dog for the £3 reward. Alf takes the dog to his house but it escapes again and returns to Albert. Ray can't have the pram back as the lad has turned it into a trolley. Annie bans Renee from the Rovers. In retaliation Renee tells her she won't be served in the shop.
#10 - Episode 1634 (13th September 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 73 - Aired 9/13/1976
Fred keeps the greyhound in the Rovers' cellar. He, Alf and Terry can't believe they spent £30 when drunk on the dog. Fred tries to keep Annie away from the cellar. Ray does the pram up in the yard as a surprise for Deirdre. Annie finds the dog in the cellar and releases it, thinking it fell through the trap door. The dog runs away. Deirdre gives the pram to young Darren Briscoe to carry round his bonfire wood in. Terry is so hung-over he can't remember buying the dog. Renee puts up official notices that she is applying for a drinks licence. Sylvia Matthews rings Gail and tells her that she's reconsidered her sacking and that she can keep her job. Ray is furious that Deirdre gave the pram away while she is furious that he wanted it for their child. Albert buys dog food from Renee who worries that he's hard up.
#11 - Episode 1633 (8th September 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 72 - Aired 9/8/1976
Gail refuses to work her notice. Fred, Terry and Alf plan another night with the dogs as the track wasn't open the night before. Albert is in profit as he sells his vegetables to the old folk. Elsie forces Gail to work at the shop. Ray buys a second-hand pram. Deirdre thinks Gail could take Sylvia Matthews to the industrial tribunal for unfair dismissal. Elsie threatens to take Sylvia to a tribunal on Gail's behalf. Fred, Alf and Terry buy a greyhound, Fred's Folly from Joe Mooney.
#12 - Episode 1632 (6th September 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 71 - Aired 9/6/1976
Gail runs away. She thinks of going to London but Rita puts her off and lets her catch up on some sleep in The Kabin flat. When she feels better she returns to work. Fred, Alf and Terry go to the dogs for the night. Eddie and Stan start selling Albert's vegetables off Stan's cart. Albert stops them when Ena suggests he sells them direct to the Darby and Joan club. Sylvia Matthews tackles Gail over her affair with Roy Thornley and sacks her.
#13 - Episode 1631 (1st September 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 70 - Aired 9/1/1976
Roy Thornley asks Gail to brazen it out and lie in court - she refuses. Stan returns the washing when he hears Jim Haggerty, the father of the boys, is in prison. Elsie decides to see Doreen Thornley when Gail says she can't. Stan runs into newly released Jim when he returns the washing. Doreen tells Elsie she had Gail and Roy followed; they spent two hours in the shop after midnight together. Jim gives Stan a black eye. Doreen refuses to believe Gail was the innocent party. Elsie asks her if she could name someone else. When Doreen thinks Gail is a trollop, Gail appears and breaks down. Doreen refuses to believe she isn't a homewrecker.
#14 - Episode 1644 (18th October 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 83 - Aired 10/18/1976
Rita runs herself down, doing the papers and looking after Len. The regulars tease Alf for helping Renee put some shelves up at the shop. Renee's fiancé Harry McClean arrives on leave. She introduces him to Terry. Rita finds it hard to cope at No.9. Her agent demands to know what she's going to do about Torquay. Len tells her to take the job if she wants it but she declines it as she feels Len needs her. Ray has a check up at the doctor's and learns the doctor signed Len off the sick two days ago.
#15 - Episode 1629 (25th August 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 68 - Aired 8/25/1976
Jack Barker rigs some scaffolding. Amy Wilton thinks there's something wrong with Mavis for not marrying before. Ray falls from the scaffolding and is rushed to the infirmary. Mrs Wilton doesn't like Mavis and tells Derek that she won't do; she and Derek are too alike, he needs someone with spirit. Len realises Barker rigged the scaffolding and fights him. Annie learns how the car was crashed by the vicar. Gail discovers Doreen Thornley is citing her in her divorce case when she gets a court petition.
#16 - Episode 1628 (23rd August 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 67 - Aired 8/23/1976
Derek Wilton tells Mavis he's taking her to see his mother. She is terrified at what might happen. Annie returns. Bet and Betty can't bring themselves to ask about the crash. Len prompts an investigation at the site and Jack Barker is reprimanded by the unionist Joe Stark. Mrs. Wilton gives Mavis the third degree.
#17 - Episode 1626 (16th August 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 65 - Aired 8/16/1976
Rita gets Ernie a job at the Gatsby Club, two nights a week, but one of them is a stag night. Len, Ray and Terry do contract work on a building site, with Terry working full-time. Hilda tells Emily that Ernie will be playing at stag nights. Annie goes to see Joan, the residents wonder why. Ernie tells Emily he needs to feel that he's earning money. Builder Jack Barker taunts the yard men just for the sake of it. News reaches the Rovers that Annie's driving lesson ended with her crashing the car into a lamp post. To Emily's disgust, Ernie agrees to play at the Gatsby.
#18 - Episode 1625 (11th August 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 64 - Aired 8/11/1976
Elsie doesn't know if she should tell Gail that Roy Thornley is married. Emily finds the hospital exhausting. Elsie tells Gail about Roy's family but she doesn't believe her. Annie is annoyed when Hilda broadcasts the fact that it's her birthday. Elsie gives Roy the message from his wife in front of Gail. He tells Gail it was only a game - what did she expect? She gives him back his bracelet but he tells her he can't give her back her virginity. A young man arrives at the Rovers, wears thick spectacles and drinks several pints before saying that he is there to take Annie on her first driving lesson. It then transpires that he is a friend of Eddie's called Cliff Humphries who he called in in an attempt to set up an unamused Annie. Eddie does a paper round at The Kabin. Instructor Don Grady gives Annie her first proper lesson, to the residents' amusement.
#19 - Episode 1624 (9th August 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 63 - Aired 8/9/1976
Annie decides to learn to drive. Gail is angry at Elsie's interference in her life. She accuses her of being jealous of her youth. Gail walks out of the shop. Annie is annoyed when the regulars hint she's too old to drive. Elsie threatens to tell Sylvia Matthews about the affair if he doesn't stop it. Deirdre agrees to talk to Gail for Elsie but Gail tells her she's only jealous. Roy Thornley's wife phones and tells Elsie she and the children will be returning from London in the morning. Gail tells Roy she loves him.
#20 - Episode 1623 (4th August 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 62 - Aired 8/4/1976
Terry misses the army. Bertha apologises to Albert and gives him £10. Annie discovers Nellie Harvey had to have eighty-six lessons to pass her test. Albert is horrified when Bertha kisses him. Elsie is upset when Gail loses one of her earrings whilst out with Roy Thornley. Nat Lumley threatens to thump Albert when he hears about the kiss but Ena intervenes and separates the two men. Elsie finds the lost earring in the stockroom. Len makes her realise that Roy must be married when he points out that he has to entertain Gail at the shop. Nellie challenges Annie to learn to drive in less than eighty-six lessons when she goads her.
#21 - Episode 1622 (2nd August 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 61 - Aired 8/2/1976
Elsie worries that Roy Thornley will hurt Gail. Ernie is horrified that Emily has sold her ring for £100. She makes him see that they are not beggars. Nellie Harvey shows off her new Mini and shocks Annie by telling her she's passed her test. Albert demands money from Bertha Lumley but she refuses to give him any. Emily gets a job as an orderly at the hospital. She tells Ernie that they also need a porter but he refuses to apply.
#22 - Episode 1621 (28th July 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 60 - Aired 7/28/1976
Len asks Rita if she wants a break in the Lake District with him. She turns him down as she's singing. Elsie makes Gail stay in the shop for her lunch so Roy Thornley joins her. The Inland Revenue demand £300 from Ernie but he hasn't got it. Nat Lumley catches up with Albert but asks him to keep taking Bertha Lumley to bingo for his sake as she's happy when she keeps winning. Gail is nervous as Roy comes on strong. Ernie decides to sell his cameras. Emily is horrified. Albert agrees to take Bertha to bingo twice a week if Nat covers all his expenses. Elsie discovers Gail and Roy have closed the shop for lunch and that Gail is drunk. Albert and Bertha win £20 at bingo. She refuses to share it with him. Emily sells her engagement ring.
#23 - Episode 1620 (26th July 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 59 - Aired 7/26/1976
Emily goes in search of a job, Ernie doesn't like the idea of her working if he isn't. Fred is annoyed as Annie spoilt his evening with Vera. Roy Thornley takes Gail out for lunch, to her surprise. Bertha Lumley thinks Albert's lucky and refuses to leave him alone. Elsie advises Gail to watch herself with Roy. Renee tells Ernie she'll let them have credit if they want it. Mavis looks for clothes for her holidays and gets on Rita's nerves. Nathaniel Lumley looks for Albert. Roy takes Gail out for the night.
#24 - Episode 1619 (21st July 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 58 - Aired 7/21/1976
Bertha Lumley doesn't let Albert forget £50 of the winnings is hers. Vera tries to get Fred to skive off work. He refuses but agrees to see her for the night. Annie agrees to him entertaining her for a meal and promises to be discreet. Ernie receives £17.50 a week social, plus the interest on his mortgage. He discovers he owes £100 VAT. He and Emily clear out and close the Camera Shop. Eddie chats Vera up. She lets him buy her four gins before getting ready for her date with Fred. Albert plans to go to Glasgow and treat Peter and Susan. He is worried that Bertha is after him. Annie is horrified that Fred's lady friend is the common Vera. She decides to play gooseberry. Bertha's daughter, Freda Todd, tells Albert she's always getting off with men at bingo and her dad has threatened to kill the next one.
#25 - Episode 1618 (19th July 1976)
Season 17 - Episode 57 - Aired 7/19/1976
Albert mourns his vandalised marrow. The Gazette refuses to take Ernie on the staff as he's not in the National Union of Journalists. Hilda spreads the news round that Ernie has gone bust. Albert accuses Ray of vandalising his marrow. Ernie goes to the job centre. Ray apologises to Albert and gives him £2 compensation. Ernie doesn't qualify to go on the Executive Register and has to claim supplementary benefit. Edna Gee's friend, Vera Duckworth, calls on Fred. Albert goes to bingo and meets Bertha Lumley. They go halves and win the £100 jackpot.