About this season
The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.
Episodes (27)
1. 2nd January 1980
Aired 2 January 1980 • 24 min
The men return at 7.00am after spending the night with fifteen women at 32 Bessie Street. They go for an early morning "hair of the dog" in the Rovers and decide to tell everyone Alf tripped and fell and they all took him to hospital. As soon as they see their wives they crack and tell the truth. Ken lectures Susan about bringing Roy Stevenson back home. Elsie runs short of money. Fred tells Annie about Alf going to hospital and is annoyed that the others have confessed. Annie finds out the truth when she rings the hospital and pleases the women by presenting their husbands with a bill for their wives' drinks and refuses Fred his request for a night off. Rita is tired of living in what she considers a dump. Elsie considers asking Mike for the supervisor's job now Steve Fisher has left. Susan asks Ken if he intends to marry Deirdre. Annie tells Ivy that Elsie intends to ask for her job back at the factory. Ivy is livid.
2. 7th January 1980
Aired 7 January 1980
Rita tells Len she wants a decent home to live in. Len tells her to make a list of alterations. Jim Sedgewick tells Emily and Gail he's bought the cafe off Joe Dawson. Susan returns to Glasgow. Elsie asks Mike for her old job back, promising she'll be reliable. He tells her that he does need someone to help him at the factory. Gail fears Sedgewick will sack her. Rita gives Len her required alterations for No.9, which include knocking the two rooms into one and a fitted kitchen. She accuses him of not caring and rips the list up. She tells him that she's sick of the way they live. Ivy tells Mike she wants to be made supervisor as she's been doing the job in all but name. She warns him that the girls won't stand for Elsie being taken back on. Sedgewick tells Emily the jobs are safe. He intends to bring a jukebox in, telling her that he's turning the place into a transport cafe to take advantage of the new lorry park on Canal Street - Emily is horrified.
3. 9th January 1980
Aired 9 January 1980
4. 14th January 1980
Aired 14 January 1980
5. 16th January 1980
Aired 16 January 1980
6. 21st January 1980
Aired 21 January 1980
7. 23rd January 1980
Aired 23 January 1980
8. 28th January 1980
Aired 28 January 1980
9. 30th January 1980
Aired 30 January 1980
10. 4th February 1980
Aired 4 February 1980
11. 6th February 1980
Aired 6 February 1980
12. 11th February 1980
Aired 11 February 1980
13. 13th February 1980
Aired 13 February 1980
14. 18th February 1980
Aired 18 February 1980
15. 20th February 1980
Aired 20 February 1980
16. 25th February 1980
Aired 25 February 1980
17. 27th February 1980
Aired 27 February 1980
18. 3rd March 1980
Aired 3 March 1980
19. 5th March 1980
Aired 5 March 1980
20. 10th March 1980
Aired 10 March 1980
21. 12th March 1980
Aired 12 March 1980
22. 17th March 1980
Aired 17 March 1980
23. 19th March 1980
Aired 19 March 1980
24. 24th March 1980
Aired 24 March 1980
61. July 30, 1980
Aired 30 July 1980
65. Aug. 13, 1980
Aired 13 August 1980
105. Wed Dec 31 1980
Aired 31 December 1980 • 24 min