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| rdfs:label | - Episode 1 (9th December 1960)
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| rdfs:comment | - At the Corner Shop at the end of Coronation Street, former barmaid and new owner Florrie Lindley takes over from Elsie Lappin who is retiring but staying on a short while to show her the ropes. Elsie advises her to allow some customers tick but not the Tanners from No.11. In that house, Elsie Tanner confronts her son, Dennis, about 2/- missing from her purse. Dennis has been struggling to get a job since getting out of prison but Elsie accuses him of not trying hard enough. She wishes they were more like the respectable Barlow family at No.3. At that house however, student son Ken is in conflict with his postman father Frank who thinks he's being a snob about their working class habits. Ida is interested in a girl he's meeting but Frank objects to his plan to take her to the Imperial Hotel
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| abstract | - At the Corner Shop at the end of Coronation Street, former barmaid and new owner Florrie Lindley takes over from Elsie Lappin who is retiring but staying on a short while to show her the ropes. Elsie advises her to allow some customers tick but not the Tanners from No.11. In that house, Elsie Tanner confronts her son, Dennis, about 2/- missing from her purse. Dennis has been struggling to get a job since getting out of prison but Elsie accuses him of not trying hard enough. She wishes they were more like the respectable Barlow family at No.3. At that house however, student son Ken is in conflict with his postman father Frank who thinks he's being a snob about their working class habits. Ida is interested in a girl he's meeting but Frank objects to his plan to take her to the Imperial Hotel where Ida works in the kitchens. Second son David comes home from his work as an engineering apprentice and learns about the row. Ken takes refuge in the pub on the corner, the Rovers Return Inn, where he gives Dennis a packet of cigarettes when landlady Annie Walker refuses him credit. Elsie's tempestuous married daughter Linda Cheveski is visiting for a week from Warrington. She tells her mother she was the one who borrowed the 2/- from her purse. Elsie realises Linda has left her Polish husband Ivan after another row. Elsie promises to look for a job for her but is dubious that the split is permanent. Florrie serves her most difficult customer - Ena Sharples, the outspoken and fearsome caretaker of the Glad Tidings Mission Hall which sits on the other side of the street. Frank helps David fix the flat tyre of his bicycle on the living room carpet while Ken is next door at No.1 chatting to pensioner Albert Tatlock. He tells Albert that his friend, Susan Cunningham, will be on her way to the hotel by now and it's too late to change his plan. He tells Albert that he doesn't want Susan to see where he comes from. Albert accuses him of becoming a snob. They are interrupted by Ida who tells them that Susan has turned up unannounced at their house. Susan is a down-to-earth girl who gets on well with Frank and David. Ken walks in and finds her waiting for him in the very place he didn't want her to see.
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