S30 E1 • 2 January 1989

Don doesn't know how to tell Ivy he's lost the cab, but Ivy realises something is going on with Don and Mike and Don is forced to tell her about the poker game and Mike having give him a week to repay the £1000. Mavis gets it into her head that it is time for her and Derek to find a house of their own and decides to come clean to Derek.

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S30 E2 • 4 January 1989

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S30 E3 • 9 January 1989

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S30 E4 • 11 January 1989

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S30 E5 • 16 January 1989

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S30 E6 • 18 January 1989

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S30 E7 • 23 January 1989

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S30 E8 • 25 January 1989

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S30 E9 • 30 January 1989

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S30 E10 • 1 February 1989

Alan gives the receptionist job to Dawn Prescott. Alec tries to fiddle his books. Alan throws an opening party. Brian tells Don that it's none of his business how he spends his evenings. Carole Burns turns up at Alan's grand opening. She threatens to create a scene, calls him a taker and introduces herself to Rita. She tells her that Alan only returned to her for her money. Alan throws her out, she slaps his face. Don tells Ivy about seeing Brian at the nightclub. Rita is convinced that Alan and Carole are finished. The brewery have disclosed Alec's payments on his entertainment job. The taxman tells Alec he could end up in jail for not declaring his earnings.

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S30 E11 • 6 February 1989

Ivy is thrilled to discover that Audrey is babysitting for the Tilsleys which means they must be going out together again. Dawn Prescott discovers that Alan also calls himself Len Fairclough on some of his paperwork. Derek makes an offer for The Willows. Alec considers putting everything in Bet's name and declaring himself bankrupt. Bet talks him out of it. Alan panics when the building society sends mail addressed to "Mr Fairclough" at No.7. Ivy discovers that Gail and Brian are going out separately. Mavis discovers Derek offered £10,000 below the asking price for the bungalow and they've lost it. Alec has to shop all his artistes who didn't pay tax or pay for their taxes as well. Alan finds Dawn attractive and gives her a lift home after taking her for a drink.

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S30 E12 • 8 February 1989

Alan makes Martin work hard installing alarms and plans to take Dawn Prescott out for lunch. Alec doesn't want to shop his clients because he could end up with no acts. Alan has to dump his lunch date with Dawn when Jenny turns up. Alec decides to pay the tax. Bet writes the £8,000 cheque because he finds it too painful. Dawn feels uncomfortable with Alan and feels his life is complicated. Derek doesn't want to buy a house because it's too expensive. Gail tells Ivy that she and Brian are leading separate lives. Their marriage is over, they don't love each other anymore.

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S30 E13 • 13 February 1989

Emily has double-glazing installed in No.3. Ivy begs Brian to work at his marriage. Ken calls on the Stubbs' and finds Jason with a load of lager louts. Brian tells Don that his marriage is finished because of his nights out with mates and women. Ken tells Sandra about Jason's drinking. Vera decides she wants No.9 stoneclad. Sandra finds the Police at home enquiring about Jason's actions. Brian asks Gail for a fresh start. She tells him that she doesn't love him and wants a divorce.

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S30 E14 • 15 February 1989

Sandra Stubbs refuses to let Jason out of her sight. Gail wants Nicky to have a father but doesn't want Brian. She wishes she'd never married him again. The stone-cladders start work on No.9. Sandra accuses Ken of reporting Jason to the police and rows with him in the Rovers. Brian tells Don that Gail wants a divorce. He refuses to give Nicky up. Gail tells Brian she knew when they married again that it would never work. Brian tells her to get out if she wants to go; he's not letting her take Nicky away from him - she's a rotten mother and a hard, selfish bitch. Sandra apologises to Ken for rowing with him. The authorities say Jason can't be left on his own. Brian leaves a disco with a girl. She is bothered by youths, he tries to help her and is stabbed. They run off before Brian dies on the ground.

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S30 E15 • 20 February 1989

The police tell Gail that Brian is dead. Audrey rushes to comfort her and helps her identify the body. Alf breaks the news to the Brennans. Ivy collapses. Gail and Ivy are united in grief. Nicky wonders where Brian is. Alan asks Dawn Prescott out, telling her that Rita is just his landlady. She doesn't believe he's a free agent. Alec contacts Wally Simpson about the Middle East tour. Gail refuses to give Brian a Catholic funeral. Sandra Stubbs tells Bet that she's got to see a social worker about Jason's drinking. She thinks Jason is going to be taken off her.

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S30 E16 • 22 February 1989

Vera loves the stone cladding and is upset that nobody else does. Wally Simpson asks Alec to take the tour immediately. Bet tells him to go for the money, she'll cope. Gail tells Don that she'll bury Brian as she sees fit; it's nothing to do with Ivy. Ivy feels that it was Gail who killed Brian by driving him out of the house. Mrs Lambert, the social worker, tells Sandra Stubbs that it's against the law for Jason to be left on his own whilst she works at the Rovers. Alec leaves on tour. Alan gives Dawn Prescott more responsibility but tells her that he'll need time to train her. Sandra resigns from the Rovers and moves to her mother's. She rows with Alf for serving Jason with the lager. Alan takes Dawn for a meal. He is shocked when Mike sees them. Ivy asks Gail not to deny her a Catholic burial. They row and she accuses her of killing Brian. Gail tells her that Brian was out with another woman when he was killed.

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S30 E17 • 27 February 1989

Gail, Nicky, Audrey, Alf, Ivy, Don, Kevin, Sally and Phyllis bury Brian. Ivy breaks down as Brian is buried as a Protestant. Gail remains composed. Alan is given an order for a warehouse job. Ivy ignores Gail and refuses to make her peace with her. She goes home rather than to the funeral tea. Derek and Mavis plan a dinner party to impress DP. Alan tells Dawn that he respects her and fancies her. She tells him their relationship is strictly business. Don talks Ivy into seeing Gail. She rows with her but tells her that her conscience is clear. She says that she'll never forgive Gail; she's dead as well as far as Ivy's concerned.

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S30 E18 • 1 March 1989

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S30 E19 • 6 March 1989

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S30 E20 • 8 March 1989

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S30 E21 • 13 March 1989

Jenny prepares for her joint eighteenth birthday party with Joanne Cresswell at the Mortlake Hotel. Tom Casey tells Kevin that he'd like him to stay on at the garage as manager. Rita goes to the building society and discovers Alan would have needed the deeds to No.7 to mortgage it. Arthur Dabner takes Emily to lunch and she has her hair done specially for the occasion. Rita discovers Alan has photocopied the deeds. Percy is put out that Emily is going out with Arthur. Bet interviews Tina Fowler for the barmaid's job. Before they go to the party, Rita tackles Alan about his fraud. He struggles to keep calm. Jenny phones home when Rita and Alan don't show up at the Mortlake. Rita tells Alan she's contacted the building society and he's finished. She answers the phone but Alan pushes her away, hitting her. Jenny hears Rita's screams as Alan continues his attack and she gets Martin to quickly drive her home. Alan beats Rita around the room before smothering her face with a cushion. Jenny arrives home to find Rita unconscious with Alan still covering her. He rushes out of the house, Martin gives chase but Alan drives off as an ambulance is called.

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S30 E22 • 15 March 1989

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S30 E23 • 20 March 1989

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S30 E24 • 22 March 1989

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S30 E25 • 27 March 1989

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S30 E26 • 29 March 1989

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S30 E27 • 3 April 1989

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S30 E28 • 5 April 1989

Curly sits his exam after spending the night on the sofa. Shirley packs her bags and tells Curly she's going home ­ they're poles apart and there's no point in going on. She wants fun in her life, but Curly begs her not to go, unfortunately it doesn't do any good. Emily plans a cosy meal for Arthur. He tells her that he spent the day with Babs, thinking Percy has told her. He tells her he's getting back with Babs. Emily finds it strange that Percy didn't mention anything.

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S30 E29 • 10 April 1989

When Mark arrives late for work Kevin lays into him and makes him work into his lunch hour, but the later Kevin fires Mark for being inefficient. Curly hangs round the factory, waiting for Shirley, but she doesn't want to talk to him and gets Mike to see him off. Curly finally tells Shirley they have to talk, but she just wants to get on with her life. Derek and Mavis view a semi in Kingsley Road and she is annoyed when he puts in a low offer on the house. Jenny gets a letter form Alan and decides to go to Risley to visit him.

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S30 E30 • 12 April 1989

Tom tells Kevin he went too far sacking Mark. Kevin refuses to take Mark back and threatens to leave himself. Kevin misses Mark's cheek and gives him his job back. Rita is upset that jenny is visiting Alan. She fears he'll turn her against her. Alan asks Jenny to get Rita to play down what happened, but Jenny is disgusted that Alan showed no concern for her. Derek plans to take up jogging to help him through his pension medical.

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S30 E31 • 17 April 1989

Curly locks himself in the flat and Audrey fears he may be suicidal. He plays Shirley's tapes loud and Alf is annoyed as it drives the customers off. Percy volunteers to follow Curly's every movement to make sure he doesn't kill himself. He follows him in the supermarket and arouses suspicion by hiding in the aisles. Bet begins to miss Alec, but Paul Rigby invites Bet to a night club, telling her Alec asked him to keep an eye on her.

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S30 E32 • 19 April 1989

Mavis doesn't want to give up the Kabin but Derek tell her he'll need her soothing touch at home. Mavis confides in Rita that she'll be leaving the Kabin because Derek wants her at home and Rita, obviously surprised, accused Derek of ruining Mavis' life. Alf grows tired of Curly stuck in the flat owing him money, so when Martin tricks Curly into letting him in the flat, he turns on Curly telling him that he is pathetic. Betty fears that Bet is playing with fire going out with Paul, but Bet assures her he's just a mate.

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S30 E33 • 24 April 1989

Rita and Mavis are being a little bit cool to each other causing Mavis to accuse Rita of being snide and small minded about her move. Stella tries to find out how Bet is coping. Bet tells her Paul has been looking after her. Stella invites her out for a girl's night. Mavis accuses Rita of being snide and small-minded over her move. Ray Griffiths tells Derek his blood pressure and heart rate is too high. Ray is worried his ability to cope with stress, but Derek is moved from sales to dispatch and is furious. He refuses to take the insult lying down. Alma moves builders into the flat. She confides in Gail, telling her she's having sell her house because of the divorce and is moving into the flat over the café.

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S30 E34 • 26 April 1989

Bet is annoyed after Paul tries it on with her in the back of a taxi. He apologises and she agrees to go out with him again. Bet tells Betty what happened and assures her that she can handle him. Betty is still worried about her and her reputation. Nicky gets into a bit of trouble at school for bullying, but to make matters worse Alma is annoyed to discover that Gail has been looking after Nicky all afternoon. Derek tries to see DP but DP doesn't want to see him. Derek sends DP a memo saying transfer to dispatch is unacceptable and he's having to reconsider his position.

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S30 E35 • 1 May 1989

Alec returns 3 weeks early and discovers that Bet has gone to the cinema. Betty tries desperately to get in contact with Bet, but to no luck. Bet and Paul return at midnight and Bet is thrilled to see Alec, but he thinks she's been unfaithful and throws Paul out. Gail is still upset that Nicky continues to think Brian is still alive. She feels that he's becoming a handful. Nicky thinks Gail is responsible for Brian's absence and attacks her. She tells him Brian is never returning and begs him to love her. Derek tries to contact DP at home, telling DP he'd love to work in dispatch but DP refuses to take him back. Alf finally gets to Curly and demands £80 in rent from him.

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S30 E36 • 3 May 1989

Curly offers Alf £5, which is all that he has. Alf however doesn't accept and throws Curly out. Vera takes Curly in because of his friendship to Terry. After Nicky disappears from the house Gail begins her search for him. Audrey makes Gail contact the police whilst she and Ivy search the streets. Nicky goes to the garage to see Brian, but Mark takes him home where Gail tries to make him see that Brian won't be coming back. Alec is adamant that Bet has been unfaithful. However to prove him wrong Bet lays on a romantic meal for Alec. Unfortunately thinks don't go the way she planned and Alec tells her he's convinced she's been unfaithful and that he wants a divorce.

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S30 E37 • 8 May 1989

Vera makes a fuss of Curly. Mavis tells Derek she knows he's lost his job. He promises her everything will be alright. Ivy tells Alma she thinks Gail should leave the cafe to look after Nicky. Bet gets herself a solicitor. Alec is horrified as he thought she'd admit to adultery and beg forgiveness. Derek looks for a job. Jack agrees to let Curly stay for £10 a week. Rita persuades Mavis to stay on at The Kabin as she's the only breadwinner now. Colin Dearing, the solicitor, advises Bet to stay on at the Rovers. She wants to divorce Alec on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour and his relationship with Megan Morgan and her twelve budgies. Derek is determined to go ahead with buying the semi. He accuses Rita of panicking Mavis and tells her Mavis will be leaving The Kabin. As his counter-attack Alec tells Bet she's not dependable so she's fired from the Rovers.

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S30 E38 • 10 May 1989

Bet refuses to move out of the Rovers, but Alec insists she doesn't work behind the bar. Betty is shocked to hear Alec has sacked her. Following his solicitor's advice, Alec makes the first move to be nice to Bet, but fears she has had lunch with another man. Although Bet had lunch with Rita, she decides not to correct his mistake, causing Alec to call Betty in as a witness. Alma tells Gail she can cope without her at the café is she wants to give up work, but Gail tells Ivy she's returning to work, that Nicky doesn't want to be tied to her apron strings. Ivy offers her money to stay at home, but Gail refuses, saying she's a mother but she also has her own life to lead. Mavis tires to stall the sale of the house, by giving Mr Goodman, the solicitor, the run around. Finally Derek agrees to pull out of the house buying after he breaks down in the Kabin.

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S30 E39 • 15 May 1989

Gail returns to work to find that Alma has cut down on the quantity of food and put the prices up. Gail thinks it's ridiculous to charge 40p for a cup of tea. Don suggests Ivy gives p her job to look after the children but she likes work too much, but it is Audrey who is annoyed when she finds out that Ivy offered Gail financial help. Stella asks Alec why he's saying Bet and Paul are having an affair. She tells him Bet's too old for Paul, but when Alec tells her he found them together in the pub after midnight, Stella refuses to leave before she has seen Bet.

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S30 E40 • 17 May 1989

Alec wants Bet to move out, but she refuses to leave her home, which causes more problems when Alec finds out that she refuses to wash, and iron his clothes or cook his food. Gail is upset by Alma's attitude, wanting to get rid of the old poor customers. Alma puts Christine and Phyllis on half time as they're over staffed and Gail walks out when Alma keeps putting her down. Don assures Ivy hat he doesn't want to use the dog, Harry's Luck, for gambling, but she is adamant that the dog must go. However, Don plans to race Harry's Luck and offers Alf half a share. When Harry Slinger turns up to pay Don the £40 for the dog, he refuses to give him up, telling Ivy she'll be a gold mine.

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S30 E41 • 22 May 1989

Alec finds it hard coping with the staff without Bet's management, which Bet herself finds funny watching Alec going under. To make matters worse Alec is forced to wear a Hawaiian shirt as it is the only one that is clean, but he decides the best thing to do is to contact the Home Care agency for a housekeeper. Don gets Audrey to persuade Alf to have a share in Lucky. Audrey fancies herself as an owner's wife. Alma sorts out her divorce, leaving Phyllis and Christine on their own in the café, but when Percy complains about the food at the café, Alma throws him out and closes the café as she can't cope.

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S30 E42 • 24 May 1989

The agency refuses to supply anymore housekeepers for Alec. Meanwhile Bet packs and leaves the Rovers, accusing Alec of moving his tart into the pub. She tells him she's going to fight him for every penny she can't get, but first she starts looking for a job. When Phyllis accuses Percy of being awkward Alma fires her for creating a fuss. Finally Alma asks Gail to return to the café as she's not cut out to run the place and she offer her a partnership. The Brennan's and Roberts go to the races, but things change really quickly when Lucky loses her race.

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S30 E43 • 29 May 1989

Megan has designs on Alec and the Rovers, but Alec urges Megan not to be so intimate with him as Bet might cite her in the divorce. When Betty discovers that Bet has left the Rovers and has stayed the night at Rita's, she walks out. Bet gives Alf £20 and tells him she's moving into the shop flat, without giving him a chance to say no. Mavis puts Derek onto a job advertised in the paper and Derek decides to make an appointment for the job. Finally, Don decides to get rid of Lucky, as he hasn't got the time to look after her.

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S30 E44 • 31 May 1989

Alec asks the staff to rally round in Bet and Betty's absence. He refuses to let Bet into the house to get her clothes. However waiting in the wings is Jack and Vera, who long to be the landlords of the Rovers. So in anticipation The Duckworths decide to get No. 9 valuated, which causes Vera a lot of excitement, as she can't wait to be landlady of the Rovers. Bet in the meantime gets a job as a barmaid at the Flying Horse. Audrey asks Ivy to take Lucky on with her, cutting the men out, which Ivy readily aggress to. Jack goes to the Brewery and sees Nigel Ridley and tells him Bet has left Alec and swears his loyalty to the brewery. Derek is given the sales position at Chuckles Novelties, selling false noses and jumping frogs.

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S30 E45 • 5 June 1989

Derek starts work, but is upset when no one seems to show an interest in the novelties. Mavis is evasive to Rita over what he's doing and becomes extremely embarrassed when Derek forces Rita to stock his novelties at the Kabin. Audrey puts pressure on Alf to get Bet out the flat and Nigel calls at the Rovers on a survey. He tells Alec he knows all about his marital problems and is surprised to see Megan flaunt herself around in front of him. Alec fears that Bet has shopped him to the brewery and swears vengeance. Gail is pleased when mike gives her advice over a partnership in the café. Mike impresses Alma when he tells Gail she'd be a fool not to buy into the café.

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S30 E46 • 7 June 1989

Megan begins to get very annoyed when Alec keeps her from the bar. Alec goes to the Flying Horse to visit Bet, but when Marge tell him that Bet was sacked because she was unsuitable, Alec lays into her telling her that Bet is a lady not a trollop like herself. Alec tells Bet he believes that she was not unfaithful. After which they are reconciled and she tells him he can stay the night with her.

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S30 E47 • 12 June 1989

Bet refuses to return to the Rovers until Megan has left. Alec tells Megan she must leave and she accuses him of using her, but she agrees to take financial compensation and leaves. Jack and Vera however, are flabbergasted to discover Bet is back. Bet returns to the Rovers, she doesn't like the way she and Alec are being polite to each other, but Alec has a peace offering in the form of a delayed honeymoon. Deirdre tells Ken how stupid her committees are getting and they were thinking of inviting Batman and Prince Charles to open an abattoir but rejected them both. Gail returns to working in the café.

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S30 E48 • 14 June 1989

Jack discovers the Gilroy's are going on holiday at short notice. He realises he'll be in charge and plans to show the brewery how well he can run a pub. Meanwhile, Bet is buying new clothes for the holiday. As the Gilroy's leave for Spain, Jack is shocked to discover that Betty has returned to take charge. Phyllis is shocked when Gail tells her she can't return to the café, because they can't afford to pay her. Phyllis breaks down, feeling useless. Alma discovers the Roberts are Mike's friends and befriends them. Ken buys a trilby in order to question Deirdre about Council business. He knows about he closure of a day nursery and she tells him he can't print anything about he nursery as she's involved on the committee.

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S30 E49 • 19 June 1989

Curly decides to try his luck and asks Tina out but she rejects him. Tina urges Curly to go the banger racing so that she can watch Mark. Alma lays on a romantic meal, Mike toasts her with champagne and they both feed each other oysters. However, the evening is ruined when Alma gets sick, so Mike decides it may be best to leave and get an early night. Deirdre decides to stick it out instead of resigning. She attends a Planning Committee meeting, but Councillor Rafferty asks that Deirdre leave the meeting, calling her a mole. The committee backs him so Deirdre leaves, under protest. Committee secretary, Wendy Crozier, informs Ken that Deirdre left the meeting and gives him a copy of the minutes.

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S30 E50 • 21 June 1989

Deirdre discovers someone from the Planning Committee is the mole when Ken knows about her leaving the meeting. Deirdre is then shunned by all her Council friends and breaks down and Ken promises to vindicate her. Alma feels she can't face Mike, but is thrilled when he taker her out. She tries to encourage him to talk about her feelings. Mark tells Tina she's too old from him and then flirts with martin and is hurt when he tells her she's too brassy. Sally decides to tell Kevin she intends to have a time trial in the banger.

Première diffusion : 21 juin 1989