Coronation Street - Season 2

Season 2
Network
DatesJan 4, 1961 - Nov 22, 1961
Episodes

Season 2Episode 120 min
Wed 4 Jan, 1961
Ken holds a student rally in his house. Arnold visits his family for the first time in fifteen years - to get a divorce.
Jan 4, 1961

Season 2Episode 220 min
Fri 6 Jan, 1961
Harry packs Lucille's items for her to return to the orphanage after the Christmas holidays.
Jan 6, 1961

Season 2Episode 320 min
Wed 11 Jan, 1961
Elsie is in a foul mood and tells Linda that the cause is Ena, who she overheard in the Rovers Return telling people that she has a boyfriend.
Jan 11, 1961

Season 2Episode 420 min
Fri 13 Jan,1961
Elsie threatens Ena in the Rovers and tells her the man is, in fact, Arnold. The milkman can't raise Albert - Ken and David break into No.1 to find Albert collapsed in the kitchen. Dr. Tinsley feels that Albert's daughter, Beattie, ought to look after Albert. Christine gets a bill from the plumbers for £1, 1/3. The plumber's mate, Joe Makinson, takes the bill back in sympathy when she can't pay it. Ida alerts Beattie to Albert's collapse and condition but Albert refuses to live with his daughter. Elsie has some beauty cream and starts to relax when Arnold arrives to have a chat.
Jan 13, 1961

Season 2Episode 520 min
18 Jan 1961
Beattie refuses to return home until Albert agrees to come with her.
Jan 18, 1961

Season 2Episode 620 min
Fri 20 Jan 1961
Frank warns Ida again not to go running round after Albert and snaps at Ken when he thinks he's siding with his mother.
Jan 20, 1961

Season 2Episode 720 min
Jan. 25, 1961
Harry has left a parcel on her Eileen's bus and she wants to give it back.
Jan 25, 1961

Season 2Episode 820 min
Jan. 27, 1961
Elsie tells Dennis to stay in for their repaired television delivery, as well as for Linda and Ivan who are coming to do some shopping for the baby.
Jan 27, 1961

Season 2Episode 920 min
Feb. 1, 1961
Ena objects to the police commandeering the Mission. Swindley and Miss Nugent prepare the hall. The residents of Coronation Street camp down together for the night.
Feb 1, 1961

Season 2Episode 1020 min
Feb. 3, 1961
The Walkers welcome their daughter Joan and her fiance Gordon. Frank disapproves of Ken buying on hire purchase. Dennis tries to get money to spend on a girl at the club.
Feb 3, 1961

Season 2Episode 1120 min
Feb. 8, 1961
Frank castigates Ida when she admits she's bought loose covers on hire purchase.
Feb 8, 1961

Season 2Episode 1220 min
Feb. 15, 1961
Annie castigates Jack due to his drunken behaviour in front of George Davies.
Feb 15, 1961

Season 2Episode 1320 min
Feb. 17, 1961
Feb 17, 1961

Season 2Episode 1420 min
Feb. 22, 1961
Mary Stubbs tells Ida that the residents are being offered the option to buy their houses for £200 each; Ida is interested and wonders how to persuade Frank.
Feb 22, 1961

Season 2Episode 1520 min
Feb. 24, 1961
Martha and Minnie try to get away with under paying their fares but get caught out by Harry.
Feb 24, 1961

Season 2Episode 1620 min
March 1, 1961
Albert boils his kettle and it takes forty-one minutes to boil due to the poor gas pressure.
Mar 1, 1961

Season 2Episode 1720 min
March 3, 1961
Vera Lomax asks Ena to look after her troublesome son Colin for her tomorrow.
Mar 3, 1961

Season 2Episode 1820 min
March 6, 1961
Ena makes the most of spending time with her grandson, Colin. Linda despairs at the latest news of Number 9. Ken snaps when his family mention Susan's name.
Mar 6, 1961

Season 2Episode 1920 min
13 Mar 1961
The womenfolk watch as Jack escorts Joan to St. Thomas' church. They are late when the car won't start. Weatherfield County FC are interested in signing David up. The Walkers entertain their family at the Rovers after the reception at The Ridgeway although the majority of the Davies family have not come back, being teetotallers. However they endure Gordon's Uncle Fred all evening before discovering he is not a relative at all but just a friend of the family.
Mar 13, 1961

Season 2Episode 2020 min
March 15, 1961
Frank writes a circular letter to the residents about opposing the proposed demolition.
Mar 15, 1961

Season 2Episode 2120 min
March 20, 1961
Mar 20, 1961

Season 2Episode 2220 min
March 22, 1961
Mar 22, 1961

Season 2Episode 2320 min
March 27, 1961
Mar 27, 1961

Season 2Episode 2420 min
March 29, 1961
Mar 29, 1961

Season 2Episode 2520 min
Apr. 3, 1961
Apr 3, 1961

Season 2Episode 2620 min
Apr. 5, 1961
Apr 5, 1961

Season 2Episode 2720 min
Apr. 10, 1961
Apr 10, 1961

Season 2Episode 2820 min
Apr. 12, 1961
Apr 12, 1961

Season 2Episode 2920 min
Mon 17 Apr, 1961
Dr. Graham tells Ena she has only twisted her ankle. Swindley insists she still leaves the Mission. Martha grows alarmed as Ena takes her house over. Emily moves into the vestry as temporary caretaker. Ken spends time at Marian Lund's flat. She is a librarian at the university and eleven years his senior. He tells her that he loves her. Ena tricks Martha into parting with her precious whisky. Albert gives Swindley a petition for the reinstatement of Ena. Marian tells Ken not to tell his parents about her yet. Christine tells Esther she doesn't want to get engaged to Joe but doesn't know how to tell him.
Apr 17, 1961

Season 2Episode 3020 min
Apr. 19, 1961
Apr 19, 1961

Season 2Episode 3120 min
Apr. 24, 1961
Apr 24, 1961

Season 2Episode 3220 min
Apr. 26, 1961
Apr 26, 1961

Season 2Episode 3320 min
May 1, 1961
May 1, 1961

Season 2Episode 3420 min
May 3, 1961
May 3, 1961

Season 2Episode 3520 min
May 8, 1961
May 8, 1961

Season 2Episode 3620 min
May 10, 1961
May 10, 1961

Season 2Episode 3720 min
May 15, 1961
May 15, 1961

Season 2Episode 3820 min
May 17, 1961
May 17, 1961

Season 2Episode 3920 min
May 22, 1961
May 22, 1961

Season 2Episode 4020 min
May 24, 1961
May 24, 1961

Season 2Episode 4120 min
May 29, 1961
May 29, 1961

Season 2Episode 4220 min
May 31, 1961
May 31, 1961

Season 2Episode 4320 min
June 5, 1961
Jun 5, 1961

Season 2Episode 7120 min
Mon 11 Sep, 1961
Nancy Leathers hears from the Council that they have an OAP bungalow for her. Frank worries that Ida is late home from visiting Beattie's. Dennis is summoned to Lenny Phillips' office. Ken calls on Beattie Pearson and discovers Ida has not been there. Lenny tells Dennis he is not at all talented but wants him to work for him as a talent scout. Frank contacts the police who realise that her description matches that of a woman who was knocked down in Gray Street and is dead. They arrive in the Street to tell him.
Sep 11, 1961

Season 2Episode 7720 min
Mon 2 Oct, 1961
Concepta and Harry are married at St. Theresa's where Lucille is the bridesmaid and Len is the best man. Linda is jealous when Ivan and Nona Willis spend the day together working in the Rovers. At the reception, the Hewitts receive telegrams from Alice Burgess, David Barlow, Billy Walker, Joan Davies, Ivan and Nona. Dot Greenhalgh fancies Bill but Alf tries to get him interested in Elsie - something which doesn't go unnoticed by Ena. Harry and Concepta go on honeymoon and book into the Cresta Hotel at Port Erin on the Isle of Man.
Oct 2, 1961

Season 2Episode 8120 min
Mon 16 Oct, 1961
Swindley organises the evening's trip to the Blackpool illuminations. Doreen agrees to become the new barmaid and gives her notice in to Swindley. Two young lads and clerks from the Town Hall, Phil Braithwaite and Norman Dobson, arrive looking for digs in the area. Jack, Ena, Minnie, Martha, Albert, Ken, Val, Frank, Christine, Dennis, Jed, Jean, Elsie, Bill, Alf, Doreen, Swindley and Emily go to Blackpool. Brian looks after Esther, in bed with flu. Elsie and Bill become brazen in their affair. The coach leaves with Ena still having her palm read by a Fortune Teller.
Oct 16, 1961

Season 2Episode 8820 min
Wed 8 Nov, 1961
Elsie apologies to Annie. The Cheveskis receive a letter from a workmate of Ivan's in Canada. His photos of the affluent life there interest Linda. Elsie and Ena confront each other in the Street and verbally attack each other as the residents look on. Dennis has to stop Elsie from hitting Ena, who ends the fight by shouting that if she had written the letter she would have had the decency to sign it. Elsie realises with shock that she's right. The argument over, the residents wonder who did write it.
Nov 8, 1961

Season 2Episode 9220 min
Wed 22 Nov, 1961
Frank rows with Ken for not telling him he'd given up his job. He refuses to let Dennis get him a job. Ken tells him he's not prepared to listen to him calling him 'idle' anymore and he'd do any job to pay his way. Minnie buys a see-through nightie from Swindley. Word spreads that Ken asked Dennis for a job - Elsie is amused. Returning from an Adam Faith concert Christine meets Ken at the station coffee room. He tells her he's leaving for London but she makes him realise that he's running away from himself and he returns home.
Nov 22, 1961
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