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Ronnie Leek Ronnie Leek appeared in two roles in " Coronation Street " : in March 1997 he played an unnamed Det . Sgt . who investigated after the McDonalds were held hostage by Gerry Turner and he returned to the programme between July and November of the same year as DS Dave O ' Grady , a police colleague of Alan McKenna ' s . He has also appeared in " Emmerdale " , " City Central " , " Brookside " , " Always and Everyone " , " Heartbeat " , " Springhill " and many performances in repertory theatre across the country .
Furniture Salesman ( Episode 2206 ) The unnamed Furniture Salesman attended to Ogdens when they went to buy a new three - piece suite . Stan went under duress - and in his best suit - with Hilda determined to make a good impression and £25 in their pockets from Eddie Yeats to go towards their £56 deposit . Hilda found one that she loved though Stan thought the price of £299 was a bit dear . Hilda joined the salesman in praising the quality of the item , excusing Stan as not being very domesticated and claiming that his hobby was golf , rather than the claimed pastime of supping ale . She asked for HP and the salesman took their details but their joint profile of him being a self - employed window cleaner ( who refused to reveal the sum of his earnings ) and her a domestic , neither of them having a bank account , did not lead to a good credit rating . The salesman said that he had to have a word with his manager but Hilda could see the writing on the wall and realised that her dream of having something from the material world wasn ' t coming to come true .
Episode 1670 ( 17th January 1977 ) Plot . Deirdre locks herself away in the flat , ashamed and embarrassed . The residents buy tickets for the dance at the Community Centre . Deirdre phones Emily and asks her not to tell anyone she ' s left the hospital . Emily tells Ernie she wants to go to the Centre dance ; she wants to dress up and enjoy herself but he isn ' t at all keen . Vera and Marie feel that Mike should pay for his workers to go to the dance . He agrees when they nag him . Ray makes excuses for Deirdre saying she ' s still in hospital . Stan refuses to buy tickets for the dance for Hilda . Mike decides to give the shop a new image . He gives electrician Alec Baker the job of redesigning the place . Suzie flirts with him . Eddie buys the Ogdens tickets for the dance . Hilda kisses him . Marie tells Vera she ' s got plans to catch Mike .
Episode 6 ( 28th December 1960 ) Plot . Esther drops off Lucille at No . 13 for the day . She admires the dress that Christine has for the rugby club dance but the lady herself is dissatisfied with it . She and May argue over her bolero jacket made to go with it and Christine storms out . May again has a bad head and sits down , feeling faint . Elsie worries sick over Dennis who has been down to the police station three times since Friday but still won ’ t tell her what ’ s wrong . May has to go to the market and leaves Lucille alone in the house . As soon as she has gone , the young girl starts to investigate the dress . Ena is convinced she ' s going to die and tells Martha she ’ s not welcome when she visits her in hospital . Elsie gets annoyed at “ New Year ” carollers but nevertheless hands them money . She frets that Dennis won ’ t return home . Christine comes home and finds Lucille wearing her dress . Furious , she forces it off her and finds that it ’ s marked . May manages to get it off and Esther borrows a silk stole from Ida for Christine to wear . Malcolm collects her . Dennis comes home and tells Elsie that the police suspect him of breaking and entering a shop and he has no alibi . Martha tells Minnie that she ’ s considering legal action against Ena . Harry mentions to a delighted Elsie in the Rovers that he saw Dennis at the dogs himself and he ’ s willing to tell the police . Ivan tells Dennis who is preparing to pack and run off from trouble . At night , the hospital staff find that Ena has discharged herself . Returning from the dance , Christine and Malcolm see her arrive back home in a taxi .
Episode 2855 ( 10th August 1988 ) Plot . Don organises everyone on the Blackpool trip . Shirley looks after Curly as he gets coach - sick . Arnold Swift takes a shine to Phyllis . Percy sits them together and Phyllis finds Arnold a sport . Percy plans to escort Emily for the day but she spends her time with Mavis . Sandra Stubbs agrees to a night out with Gloria . Mavis is fed up when Percy latches onto Emily and her . Phyllis and Arnold flirt with each other . Malcolm Reid tells Audrey he ' s returning to Canada soon and wants her to come with him . Alf decides to drive to Blackpool to surprise Audrey and Malcolm . Jenny , Martin , Shirley and Curly spend the day in the Pleasure Beach . The Tilsleys and Brennans spend the day on the beach picnicing . Nicky is fed up as Don plays with all his toys . Audrey is flattered but embarrassed by Malcolm ' s attention . He tells her he came over to see what her marriage is like and it ' s obviously bad . He urges her to be selfish . Alf searches Blackpool for Audrey and sees her sitting intimately in a pony carriage with Malcolm . Curly feels sick after the crowd eats and eats all day . Audrey refuses to leave Alf for Malcolm , telling him Alf is her husband and she intends to make their marriage work . Phyllis and Arnold decide to stay in Blackpool and let the coach go . Alf boards the coach and drags Audrey off . He accuses Malcolm of carrying on with her and goes for him . Brian has to hold Alf back . Audrey begs Alf to believe she hasn ' t been unfaithful .
Doris Babbage Doris Babbage was the widow of Eric who died unexpectedly in February 2013 . She turned up at the Rovers with solicitor Andy Wolfe the following month after reading an announcement of his death in the " Gazette " which had been placed by " loving fiancée " Gloria Price . Whilst Gloria was busy planning a lavish funeral for Eric , his solicitor telephoned and informed her that he would be calling round at lunchtime to discuss details of the will . Upon his arrival , he apologised for being late , explaining that he had to pick up Doris en - route . . . It was revealed that not only did Eric and Doris never divorce , she was due to inherit his whole estate as Eric hadn ' t changed his will in years . Claiming that Eric had a penchant for gullible women and Gloria was merely the latest , Doris refused to entertain financing Gloria ' s arrangements , threatening to give Eric a pauper ' s funeral and walked out of the Rovers with the solicitor - gleefully announcing that she was off to Antigua the following morning . Gloria ' s granddaughter Eva eventually shamed her into downgrading the arrangements slightly so that they could pay for the funeral between them . Eva sold a necklace that Eric gave her and Gloria sold her engagement ring so that they could give him the send - off they felt he deserved . In May , Gloria guiltily admitted to daughter Stella that she ' d inherited the sum of £80 , 000 from Eric ' s estate .
Clive Parnell Clive Parnell was Newton & Ridley ' s yuppie promotions manager . In 1990 , he was placed in charge of the promo nights for Pomme de lite cider , touring pubs with the pomme pomme delight girls , scantily - clad women who he referred to as " livestock " . Inevitably the tour soon brought Clive and the girls to the Rovers Return . After clearing it with a surprised Alec Gilroy , Clive fetched the girls in the Pomme de lite minivan , warning them that the landlord was " a bit of a groper " . Steph Barnes and Jenny Bradley refused to go in , embarrassed at being seen in the costumes by their neighbours , but Clive forced them by threatening not to pay them for the promos they ' d already done . Having known about the event beforehand , Des Barnes filled the pub with mates for a laugh , but when he saw various men making a play for Steph he demanded she hand in her notice . Steph later resigned - of her own volition - but when Clive was given the push for fiddling his expenses and trying it on with the girls , Steph was given his old job . In April 1991 , Clive met Steph when they were a holiday at the same destination , apparently by coincidence . Steph was on her own as she ' d had a falling out with Des . According to Steph , Clive pestered her , climbing the balcony to her room and writing a message on her leg cast . Steph remained faithful to Des but when he found a picture of her and Clive together in her holiday snaps , and Clive ' s phone number scribbled on her flight ticket , he walked out and spent the night on a mate ' s sofa . He believed Steph when she told him how Clive had pestered her , but he refused to let Clive get away with it . With Clive now freelance , Des arranged a meeting with him at The Gallery pub down by the canal to discuss a leisurewear promotion , using the name Jack Newton . Upon meeting Des , Clive was upfront with the fact that he pursued Steph , but told him that he got nowhere , thinking it would satisfy Des . This angered Des all the more , but before Des landed a punch , Clive warned him that he did unarmed combat . In the ensuing ' fight ' , Des didn ' t manage a single thump , with Clive easily knocking him to the ground . Having heard about Des ' s scheme from Jack Duckworth , Steph arrived at the scene at that moment and broke up the fight , telling Clive that she wouldn ' t touch him if he was the last man on Earth . Walking away triumphantly , Clive told Steph that she ' d be killed in the rush if he was .
Adrian Mortimer Adrian Mortimer was a man who made contact with Eileen Grimshaw when she started internet dating in March 2015 , desperate to improve her love life . They made an arrangement to meet but she bottled out and the two agreed to get to know each other better by email before they met in person . After a month , and by arrangement , Adrian turned up at Coronation Street to meet an incredibly nervous Eileen . They went for a drink and dinner in Nick ' s Bistro where Eileen found that Adrian was amusing and had a quirky sense of humour that tallied with her own . She refused to allow him in for a nightcap but was quietly delighted with the success of the evening and agreed to see him again . Over the next few weeks , they continued to see each other unaware that Todd Grimshaw , with a hidden dislike for his mother , had set her up by creating a false alias for himself - " Jeff " , a man living in an expensive flat in Dubai and sent her messages , some of them of a sexual nature , which Eileen found flattering . Although feeling somewhat guilty , Eileen continued to correspond with Jeff while still seeing Adrian . When she confessed this to him , he asked that she delete her profile from the dating site in order to prove that they were exclusive to each other . She didn ' t and Todd sent another message from " Jeff " saying that he would be visiting the UK and wanted to meet her . A few weeks later , Adrian made plans to take Eileen away for a romantic break . Todd got wind of this and sent Eileen another message from " Jeff " saying he was flying into Manchester Airport and would meet her at Nick ' s Bistro , wearing a red shirt and would have apple martinis at the ready . Eileen was shocked to find Adrian with Todd in the bar when she arrived and even more so when her son revealed , in front of Adrian , that he was " Jeff " . As Todd started to pour vitriol at his mother , Adrian beat a retreat , telling Eileen that he ' d had a lucky escape . List of appearances . 2015 | style = " width : 20 % ; font - size : 100 % ; vertical - align : top ; text - align : left ; padding - left : 1em ; " | | style = " width : 20 % ; font - size : 100 % ; vertical - align : top ; text - align : left ; padding - left : 1em ; " | | style = " width : 20 % ; font - size : 100 % ; vertical - align : top ; text - align : left ; padding - left : 1em ; " |
Episode 942 ( 5th January 1970 ) Plot . Maggie returns from visiting Les in Birmingham but is coy about when he ' s returning . Ken is worried about the bills and has had enough of Albert living with them . Emily grows irritated at Dickie and Ray ' s table manners when she cooks breakfast for them . Betty refuses to return to work at the Rovers and gets at job at The Flying Horse . The residents start drinking there to avoid the new dress code though Albert insists he ' s supporting the Rovers in the darts challenge . Alan has gone to Leeds and Val wonders if Elsie ' s gone with him . Bernard gets Irma ' s address from Val . She is puzzled by his remark that Irma isn ' t enjoying Australia . Tommy Deakin and Ted Loftus prepare for the darts challenge on the side of The Flying Horse . Len takes a fancy to their barmaid Anita Reynolds . Tommy flatters Betty to put her on the darts team against the Rovers , much to Albert ' s annoyance . She decides to play for the Rovers out of loyalty . Albert also challenges the Horse team to dominoes as well as darts . Maggie reveals to Val that Les is off the drink but is scared he ' ll start drinking again if he returns to her . She ' s agreed to a divorce and feels she can now go out with Len . Dickie and Emily try to persuade Ray to return to working for Len . Maggie buys herself a new coat to go to the Flying Horse . Albert coaches a confused Bernard on how to cheat at dominoes as he ' s decided he ' s on the Rovers team . Maggie is upset when she arrives at the Horse and Len all but ignores her as he chats to Anita . Notable dialogue . Valerie Barlow : " There ' s more rumours than margarine spread round here . "
Episode 75 ( 30th August 1961 ) Plot . The Tanners and Cheveskis get ready for the christening . Dennis is impressed when theatrical agent Lenny Phillips talent spots at the Orinoco Club . Dennis has cards made with the Rovers ' phone number on them . Ena gives the baby a silver cross and chain which belonged to her mother . Paul cries through his christening . His godparents - Jack , Christine and Dennis join Ena and the family for a little party . David scores a home goal in his first match for the London team . Ida decides she will give up work . Betty Ridgeway refuses the Rovers job but the Walkers take on her friend , Nona Willis . Lenny Phillips calls up the Rovers to speak to ' Ricky Dennis ' causing confusion to Jack and Annie .
Anita ( Episode 2922 ) Anita was the receptionist at an opticians where Jack Duckworth got his eyes tested in March 1989 . Although his eyesight had got so bad that he was short - changing customers at the Rovers , Jack resisted the idea of getting glasses due to his vanity and had to be dragged there by Vera . While Jack nervously waited to be seen by optometrist Barbara Wright , the Duckworths had a discussion about Anita ' s glasses , with Jack opining that the large red frames looked like headlights . Vera thought that she ' d suit a pair like hers as it would make her look like a career woman , to which Jack - not the most charitable towards his wife at the best of times - replied that specs didn ' t work miracles ! After Jack collected his prescription , Anita showed him their range of frames . Jack ' s eyes were immediately drawn to an £80 pair , with Jack asking for tinted lenses , but he had to settle for a £25 pair from the budget range which , according to Vera , made him look like a bluebottle .
Episode 7765 ( 25th December 2011 ) Plot . At No . 5 , Chesney and Katy gaze adoringly at baby Joseph . Amy receives a whip and top and a copy of " " from Ken . She is not impressed . Steve tells Stella and Karl that he ' s putting the Rovers up for sale and offer them first refusal . Stella ' s keen but Karl reckons that they can ' t afford it . Eileen spends Christmas at home , alone with a frozen turkey . David ' s thrilled when the family buy him a new laptop for his 21st birthday . Carla ' s thrilled when she opens the necklace from Peter . Stella ' s perturbed when Leanne shows her the new mobile phone that Peter bought her . Kylie invites Becky to join them for lunch at No . 8 but Becky feels out of place and making excuses she leaves . Rita , Dennis , Emily , Norris and Mary have lunch with Roy and Hayley at the café . Sylvia arrives back from her cruise and insists on showing them how she ' s learnt to play the uke - banjo . Stella voices her suspicions about the necklace to Karl but he reckons that Peter must have returned it to the shop and bought Leanne the mobile phone instead . Steve astounds Tracy by telling her that he ' s bought No . 13 from Lloyd so they can live together as a family . Getting down on one knee , Steve proposes to Tracy . She accepts , absolutely thrilled . Becky ' s devastated . Peter sneaks off and has sex with Carla in the factory . Gary and Izzy finally get back together . Owen and Anna are pleased . Becky accidentally sets fire to her flat and falls asleep in a drunken stupor . Gail and Audrey are pleasantly surprised by Kylie ' s cooking efforts . Nick spots the fire in the flat above Street Cars . Hayley phones the fire brigade whilst Nick kicks the door down and rescues Becky . Eileen goes for a drink with Lesley and Paul . Lesley causes a stir in the Rovers but Eileen quickly defends her , explaining that she ' s suffering from dementia . Kylie visits Becky in hospital and promises her that they ' ll expose Tracy for the liar that she is . Notable dialogue . Becky McDonald ( to Deirdre Barlow about Tracy ) : " I ' m going nowhere . So as soon as I ' m better , I ' m gettin ' back on that Street , and I ' m gonna prove to everyone what a lying , manipulative little bitch she is . So you go back . . . You go back and you tell ' er that . . . That she should enjoy Christmas while she can , cos it ' s soon gonna be over . "
Episode 1631 ( 1st September 1976 ) Plot . 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 home - wrecker .
Episode 5812 ( 30th July 2004 ) Plot . Harry ' s nose is put out of joint when he finds that Jamie ' s been taken on as an errand boy at the factory . Mike assures him that his job ' s safe . Tracy invites herself and Amy into Ciaran ' s flat . She can ' t believe how tidy he is . He can ' t believe what a slattern she is . Maya tells Sunita how tired Dev is . Sunita insists that he must take a holiday . Under pressure , Dev agrees although he suspects Maya ' s behind the idea somehow . Emily ' s collecting jumble . Danny lets her have some seconds from the factory and Dev lets her put up a poster in the Corner Shop . Katy and Martin are unnerved when Tommy offers to help Katy move her stuff back into Martin ' s flat . Tommy admits to Angela how much he ' s hurting inside . Ciaran meets Penny for their lunch date . Fred ' s intrigued when he spots them getting cosy . Tracy suspects that Ciaran ' s seeing Penny but he refuses to confirm or deny . Fred spots Tracy leaving Ciaran ' s flat and can ' t believe his eyes , thinking Ciaran must have two women on the go . Katy moves back into Martin ' s flat . Unsuspecting Sarah calls in and her shock turns to fury when she realises that Martin and Katy are back together . As Martin tries to explain , Sarah declares not only has she lost her fiancé and her baby but she ' s lost her dad too . Martin tries to follow her into No . 8 but David closes the door in his face . Cast . Guest cast . " None " Notable dialogue . Ciaran McCarthy : " It ' s not a flying visit , obviously ! " < br > Tracy Barlow : " You wouldn ' t believe the stuff you ' ve gotta lug round for a Rugrat . . . weighs a flippin ' ton . " < br > Ciaran McCarthy : Yeah , yer not joking . " Mike Baldwin ( about Jamie Baldwin ) : " The kid ' s gonna do a few deliveries and muck - in as and when . " < br > Harry Flagg : " I don ' t mind him mucking - in , it ' s the mucking - out I object to . I ' m the cleaner at Underworld . " Sarah Platt : " Oh , just go away . Go back to yer girlfriend . < br > Gail Platt : " I knew this would happen . " < br > Martin Platt : " Oh well , three cheers for psychic Gail ! "
Police Constable ( Episode 2894 ) The Police Constable called at 1 Coronation Street on Christmas Day 1988 to return Deirdre Barlow ' s handbag , recovered from Brian Roscoe ' s flat at Turner House in a police search . Deirdre had escaped from the flat at 4 . 00am that morning , having been held prisoner there by Roscoe since the previous evening when she went there to deliver presents to his two daughters . Roscoe had been acting out of desperation when Deirdre ' s failure to have his family re - housed before Christmas had resulted in his wife Angie leaving him and taking the kids with her . Despite her ordeal , Deirdre remained sympathetic towards Roscoe as he hadn ' t harmed her , however Ken was insistent that the police find him and put him away . The PC then saw himself out , wishing the Barlows all the best for Christmas , adding that with any luck he ' d make his family ' s celebrations in two hours ' time .
Episode 2763 ( 23rd September 1987 ) Plot . Bet plans an exotic dinner party . Jack gets Vera to agree to settle with just a fire . Bet annoys Alec by spending all day preparing for the dinner party . Jack takes possession of the fire and decides to install it himself to save money . Ken is furious when Deirdre is too busy to visit Tracy . Bet is upset when Rita and the Hallidays have to call off the dinner party . She forces Emily and Mavis to take their places . Tracy understands that Deirdre is busy but Ken makes the most of the situation to call Deirdre a bad mother . Bet is upset when the meal is a flop as she ' s such a bad cook . Alec asks her to stick to her lipstick in future .
Customer ( Episode 265 ) The Customer at Miami Modes was caught in the middle of a power struggle between Elsie Tanner and newly promoted department supervisor Christine Appleby when she was dress shopping there in 1963 . While attending to the large woman , Elsie was called away to answer a telephone call , clearing it with the customer first . Naturally , Elsie had a lengthy chat with the caller and was gone for some time , and when she returned to the aisle she found Christine picking out a size 46 dress for the customer . Although the woman wasn ' t inconvenienced by the wait , Christine reprimanded Elsie in front of the customer before directing the woman to the changing rooms . This led a furious Elsie to complain about Christine to personnel , believing that the power had gone to her old friend ' s head .