The BEST episodes of Coronation Street season 19

#1 - 26th June 1978

Season 19 - Episode 51 - Aired 6/26/1978

Bet tells Alf he did the wrong thing sleeping at the old house; Renee will think they've been up to something. Suzie and Gail discover that if the strike affects sales at the Western Front through shortages then one of them might lose their job. Renee returns a day early. Hilda can't cope without the factory money. Suzie and Gail cross the picket line to get stock for the shop. They are mobbed on their way out and have the denim taken off them. Ken tells Renee that Alf was driven to sleeping in the old house because of Bet.

#2 - 11th September 1978

Season 19 - Episode 73 - Aired 9/11/1978

Elsie and Gail both suffer from stomach complaints. Albert has a stomachache and blames it on Annie's beer. At the cafe, Janice gets fed up with Ray flirting with her. He asks her out, telling her Deirdre doesn't keep him in chains. He tells her he'll meet her that night. She isn't sure if he means it or not. Ray tells Deirdre his evening appointment is with a contractor. Annie is annoyed when all the customers who are ill say they ate pies in the Rovers. Albert accuses her of starting a food poisoning epidemic. Ray waits for Janice but she doesn't turn up.

#3 - 6th September 1978

Season 19 - Episode 72 - Aired 9/6/1978

Mike suffers from a bad hangover. Edith Tatlock and Peter Barlow pack and plan to sneak off to the station but Peter wants to say goodbye to Albert first. Mike loses the order as the buyer goes elsewhere. Mike is furious. Ron Mather calls on Mike for his money. Mike refuses to believe he didn't pay him and accuses Ron of trying it on. Ken finds Edith and Peter with their packed bags. He tells them Peter is staying with him. Ron tells Mike he wouldn't bother fiddling him for £1.40. Mike pays up and is made to look stupid. Ken makes Peter see that for his own sake he should stay so Ken can supervise his re-sits. Alf decorates the living room, covering the damp patches. Hilda cadges the rest of the paint off Renee to use at No.13. Edith returns to Glasgow alone. Ken promises Peter it'll be alright and asks him to trust him.

#4 - 31st July 1978

Season 19 - Episode 61 - Aired 7/31/1978

With Hilda away for the day, Stan and Eddie decide to go to the races but need money. Workmen start work on the shop next to The Kabin, changing it into a tea room for Joe Dawson. Emily grows tired of working at the hospital, as she's carrying around the depression that has built up during the day. Dawson tells Rita he's a baker with a shop in Armitage Street - the new shop will be an outlet. Eddie and Stan offer to clean the windows at St. Margaret's Church. The vicar, the Rev A. Challenor, is grateful, thinking they're doing it out of charity. Rita works the grotty working men's clubs. Dawson decides not to tell Rita the shop is going to be a cafe.

#5 - 26th July 1978

Season 19 - Episode 60 - Aired 7/26/1978

Ray and Len start doing emergency work on Sundays. Emily is annoyed at Brenda Summers' lack of drive as she spends all her time thinking about John. Ralph Lancaster assures Rita she's not past it and suggests she tries the British Legion. She doesn't like the idea of singing in a Working Men's Club. John tells Brenda he wants her to come home. Emily tells him Brenda is not returning to him. Ray and Len can't bring themselves to con the customers by charging the earth and Len only charges Mrs Holt £5 instead of the planned £30 for unblocking her toilet. Rita and Deirdre think it's sweet. Emily is speechless when Brenda returns to John.

#6 - 24th July 1978

Season 19 - Episode 59 - Aired 7/24/1978

Deirdre plans to get a job as a barmaid but Ray stops her. Len tells Rita he'll have to get a job on an oil rig to earn a lot of money. She is horrified and goes to see Ralph Lancaster. Emily tries to look after the children as Brenda Summers withdraws into herself. She tries to get her to talk to Ken but she refuses. Emily urges Brenda to take out a court injunction against John but she doesn't want him to go to prison. Betty calls in an emergency plumber when she has a leak and is charged £20. Alf worries that she's been conned. Len looks at the pipe and tells her it's only been patched. She is annoyed with herself. Ray suggests he and Len go into the emergency call-out game. Rita asks Ralph for a job but he tells her he's booked up. She feels past it when she sees he's got a new band in.

#7 - 19th July 1978

Season 19 - Episode 58 - Aired 7/19/1978

Emily promises to help Brenda Summers start a new life. Len tells Rita he may have to sell The Kabin. Emily is horrified when John Summers pushes his way into the house looking for Brenda. He accuses Emily of coming between him and his wife. Len decides he's going to hang on to The Kabin. The bank agrees to the Yard paying back the loan £60 a week for two years. He tells the Langtons they've got to find their £30 share. Rita calls Len a hypocrite when he asks her to start singing at the Gatsby Club again to help financially. She refuses to be used. John Summers dumps the children, Wayne and Samantha, on Brenda at Emily's.

#8 - 17th July 1978

Season 19 - Episode 57 - Aired 7/17/1978

The Langtons and Faircloughs can't believe the hotel job has backfired. Ray tells Jim Conran's partner Dick Rawlins that the Yard still wants payment from him. Rawlins tells him the receivers have been called in and they'll eventually get some money. Emily feels sorry for battered wife Brenda Summers who she meets at the hospital. Rita worries that Len will want to sell The Kabin for funds. Emily tells Brenda she can stay at No.3 for the night. She hopes she'll see a social worker.

#9 - 12th July 1978

Season 19 - Episode 56 - Aired 7/12/1978

Neither Renee nor Alf want Daisy Hibbert to live with them. Elsie decides to take the job at Spencer's sewing room. Emily is embarrassed as she, Ray and Eddie break into Ena's flat. They take Ena's old bed and replace it with a new one. Elsie tells Mike she might work for him or Spencer's. Alf and Renee decide to let Bet stay at the flat so Daisy can't move in. Elsie tells Mike she'll return to the factory but wants a £5 rise. He refuses the rise but is glad she's returning. Renee tells Bet she can stay. Bet doesn't let on she knows Daisy wants the room. Ena is thrilled with the bed but tells everyone she's contacted the police; her life savings were in the mattress. When the residents begin to panic she tells them she's only joking. Ray tells Len the hotel developers have gone bust. They've lost the £3,000 plus the profit.

#10 - 10th July 1978

Season 19 - Episode 55 - Aired 7/10/1978

Bet looks for a new flat. Renee feels bad about it. Joe leaves Daisy Hibbert so Renee goes to visit her in Lancaster. Eddie and Emily collect £40 for Ena's new bed. She is touched but refuses to accept their charity. Albert suggests the residents replace Ena's bed with a new one so she can't object. Bet finds a flat in Gas Street but needs a cooker. Alf says she can have his old one. Elsie lands a supervisor's job in Salford. She doesn't know if she wants it or not; she wants to reassess her life. Eddie breaks into Ena's flat and leaves the money. She returns it. Emily gets Eddie to steal Ena's bed so she has to accept the money. Renee is upset as Joe has taken all Daisy's money. She feels that she'll have to let her have the flat. Alf is horrified at the thought.

#11 - 5th July 1978

Season 19 - Episode 54 - Aired 7/5/1978

The blacklegs refuse to touch the machines as they didn't know anything about the strike. Mike pays them to sit around and chat to make the pickets think they are working. Annie phones the police over the riot at the factory. The blacklegs fear the pickets will get them and refuse to stay in the factory. Annie lifts the ban on Eddie drinking in the Rovers. Ena refuses to ask the Social Services for a bed. The police make a clearing in the picket to get the blacklegs out of the factory. Eddie starts a collection to buy Ena a new bed. Mike tells Ivy he'll take Hilda back but refuses to pay the girls for the time they've had off. The girls vote to return to work. Mike offers Elsie her old job at the factory. She asks for time to think it over. She feels that the job belonged to Elsie Howard and she wants a fresh start for Elsie Tanner. Hilda is horrified that the strikers have gone back to work and she's got her job back. She worries that the factory girls will beat her up if she continues at the Abattoir so gives it up.

#12 - 3rd July 1978

Season 19 - Episode 53 - Aired 7/3/1978

Emily sees Ena at the hospital and worries that something is wrong. Mike brings in blacklegs to make the orders up. Steve urges him to talk to Ivy and negotiate. Ena tells Emily she's having back trouble. Fred shelves the idea of his own pub and finishes with Alma Walsh. Ray is working so hard on the hotel job that he forgets his wedding anniversary. Ivy demands Hilda takes her turn on the picket. Emily worries about Ena's back and asks Eddie to try to help her. Ena tells Eddie her bed is causing her back trouble. Hilda leaves the picket line to go to work at the Abattoir. Mike brings the black legs in. Muriel Clough tries to stop them but fails. The pickets smash the van up and break a window demanding that the black legs leave.

#13 - 28th June 1978

Season 19 - Episode 52 - Aired 6/28/1978

Alf tells Renee he moved out to stop people talking about him and Bet. She tells him it was the worst thing he could have done; now people will think something was going on. Hilda goes for a job cleaning the offices at the Abattoir. Mike plans to switch the important orders to another firm, Cottams. Ida tells Renee that she saw Alf and Bet in their nightclothes at the same bedroom window. Hilda gets the Abattoir job but feels guilty as the girls are still striking. Renee realises there's only one way to stop Bet's tricks. Fred takes Alma Walsh out again. Ivy tells the Union Rep at Cottams about the strike. She agrees that her girls won't touch the orders. Renee tells Bet to find somewhere else to live. Mike decides to bring in non-union labour to finish the orders.

#14 - 13th September 1978

Season 19 - Episode 74 - Aired 9/13/1978

Elsie receives tickets for the Miami Modes annual dinner and dance. Some of the factory girls are ill and Albert blames Annie's pies. Janice Stubbs tells Ray she thought he was joking about a date. They arrange another date. Annie discovers everyone is talking about her pies being off. Deirdre plans a night out with Ray but he says he's got overtime. Annie tells Joe Dawson that the pies she ordered from him are bad. Ray takes Janice to a pub, he tells her he fancies her and they enjoy each other's company. Eddie buys all the untouched pies off Annie at half price. Dawson gets to Annie first and buys them at full price. She tells him she doesn't want his pies again. Janice refuses to let Ray come into her flat but agrees to another date. Elsie invites Ron Mather to the dance. Ray feels guilty about two-timing Deirdre.

#15 - 21st June 1978

Season 19 - Episode 50 - Aired 6/21/1978

Alf is annoyed as Bet refuses to give him any privacy. Elsie looks for a job. When the pickets make too much noise, Alf and Bet appear at the same bedroom window to quieten them, causing embarrassment on Alf's part. Steve crosses the picket line to get into work. Mike doesn't want to miss an order so he sends the denim to London to be made up. The van driver refuses to cross the picket line so Steve has to get the denim out. Ivy catches him trying to leave with the van and gets the girls to block his path. She steals the van keys so he can't move it. Alf gets annoyed as people talk about him living with Bet. He sleeps at his old house. Mike and Steve man the sewing machines but can't do the job properly. Elsie changes her name back to "Tanner".

#16 - 19th June 1978

Season 19 - Episode 49 - Aired 6/19/1978

Steve tries to stop Ivy from calling a strike. Annie returns from the Health farm. Elsie returns from Birmingham to find a load of unpaid bills. Ida opposes the strike as Hilda isn't a member of the union. The majority of the factory girls agree to strike. Ivy is shaken when the union refuses to back the strike as Hilda is not a union member. Hilda is thrilled that the factory is on strike because of her. Mike accuses Ivy of striking to get at him. The girls walk out. Vera organises a picket line at the factory. Steve tries to stop Ivy from calling a strike. Annie returns from the Health farm. Elsie returns from Birmingham to find a load of unpaid bills. Ida opposes the strike as Hilda isn't a member of the union. The majority of the factory girls agree to strike. Ivy is shaken when the union refuses to back the strike as Hilda is not a union member. Hilda is thrilled that the factory is on strike because of her. Mike accuses Ivy of striking to get at him. The girls walk out. Vera organises a picket line at the factory.

#17 - 14th June 1978

Season 19 - Episode 48 - Aired 6/14/1978

Alf talks Renee into visiting Daisy Hibbert. Ivy is appalled that Mike sacked Hilda. She feels that if he gets away with sacking her he could sack them all. Fred takes Alma Walsh out in the Rover. Ivy accuses Mike of victimisation. He accuses her of stirring. The Rover has a flat tyre and whilst Fred changes it, Alma chats him up. Ivy calls a union meeting. She tells Mike that the workforce demand Hilda's reinstatement. When he refuses she threatens to bring the factory out on strike. Renee goes to see Daisy, leaving Alf alone with Bet.

#18 - 12th June 1978

Season 19 - Episode 47 - Aired 6/12/1978

Betty worries that Fred will get hurt whilst he looks for a wife. Hilda needs a new brush to clean the factory. Steve agrees to her having one. She puts a bill in for new cleaning equipment. Mike refuses to give any to her, thinking she'll use it all at home. Renee worries that Daisy Hibbert's having trouble at home with Joe. Alf thinks she's fussing over nothing. Fred's date stands him up. Hilda refuses to clean the factory until she gets new cleaning equipment. Len and Ray work overtime on the hotel job to meet the finishing date. Fred takes an interest in Alma Walsh when he discovers she isn't married. Mike accuses Hilda of cutting up her broom. She threatens to strike so he sacks her.

#19 - 7th June 1978

Season 19 - Episode 46 - Aired 6/7/1978

Alf tries to matchmake between Bet and Fred to get rid of her. Rita wants to borrow the money from old friend Eric Summers but Len refuses to entertain the idea of getting money from one of Rita's old "fancy men". Fred proposes to Bet. She tells him she'd have to love whoever she marries and turns him down. The loan officer at the bank says he'll have to refer the matter of a further loan to his boss, which Len is certain will result in a refusal. Rita arranges for Eric to come the house without telling Len. Len agrees to see him to get Rita off his back. Eric offers Len £3,000 at almost 30% interest, twice the rate as would a bank. Len tells him that he'd rather go bust than borrow money off of a loan-shark. Eric casually insults Len several times as he leaves. The bank agrees to lend Len £3,000, putting him £6,000 in debt. Fred goes wife-hunting.

#20 - 5th June 1978

Season 19 - Episode 45 - Aired 6/5/1978

Fred looks forward to taking the tenancy of The Mechanics on Commercial Road but needs a wife. He asks Betty if she'd take him on. She doesn't want to get married again. Len asks Alf to lend him £3,000. Alf tells him he hasn't got it; he's paid off Renee's mortgage and can't sell his house. Fred considers Bet as a wife and starts being nice to her. Len refuses to take more money out with The Kabin as security and tells Ray it's up to him to find the money and advises him to take a second mortgage out. Deirdre refuses to take out a bigger mortgage on No.5. She tells him there's no way Len or Rita will stand by and let the business collapse. Rita is furious with the Langtons. She reveals that she knows a rich man who once offered to lend her any money if ever she needed it. Len doesn't like the idea. Betty tells Bet that Fred is going to propose to her.

#21 - 4th September 1978

Season 19 - Episode 71 - Aired 9/4/1978

Edith Tatlock arrives in Weatherfield to find out why Ken doesn't want Peter to return to Glasgow. Renee worries about the dampness in the wall. Ken tells Edith it's his responsibility to decide what is best for Peter. Ken believes it's more important for Peter to pass his exams than to be happy in Glasgow. Edith is forced to give in. Mike entertains a buyer and gets drunk. Elsie takes his car keys off him and gets Ron Mather to take him home in the taxi. Mike has no money to pay the fare but Ron trusts him. Edith tells Peter she's going back to Glasgow and it's up to him if he wants to return with her.

#22 - 30th January 1978

Season 19 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/30/1978

#23 - 30th August 1978

Season 19 - Episode 70 - Aired 8/30/1978

#24 - 28th August 1978

Season 19 - Episode 69 - Aired 8/28/1978

#25 - 23rd August 1978

Season 19 - Episode 68 - Aired 8/23/1978