CORONATION STREET: (DOUBLESODE) 9956/&/9957

Coronation Street: ​Episode 9956 airs, Friday 20 December 2019, on ITV/STV/UTV at 19:30.
Coronation Street: ​Episode 9957 airs, Wednesday 18 December 2019, on ITV/STV/UTV at 20:00.

Devised by Tony Warren
Written by Jan McVerry (9956)
Written by Steven Fay (9957)
Directed by Nickie Lister
Series Producer: Iain MacLeod

As Robert waits in his cell to set off for court, he’s puzzled to learn from Paula there’s been a delay as new information has come to light. 

Gary gets wise to Derek.  Derek offers to delay the factory sale for Nick and Sarah until they raise the cash, if they can lay down £10,000 right now.  Nick and Sarah ask the factory workers to raise the money.  Derek explains to Izzy he needs money to take his kids on a promised holiday to Florida or he’ll lose them forever so Izzy approaches Gary for a loan to fund her share of the factory.  Gary is seething that Derek is trying to sell a building that actually belongs to him by pulling a fast one.  Gary corners Derek in The Rovers Return’s ouside beer garden at the rear.  Feigning confidence, Derek points out his company is named on the factory deeds so Gary can’t stop him selling.  A menacing Gary insists otherwise. 

Roy tries to extend a holly branch.  Roy goes over to Richard and Mina’s flat to find the landlord hammering on the door demanding unpaid rent money.  Nina ignores Roy’s attempts to get her to open the door and remains barricaded in the flat.  Carla and Roy return to Nina’s home and through the locked door, Roy shares memories of his lonely childhood with Nina.  He is encouraged when Nina replies through the letterbox.

Meanwhile, Jenny invites Rita to spend the afternoon at Winter Wonderland.  Jenny collects Rita from her flat but the excitement evaporates when Rita takes offence at being treated like a charity case and calls off the outing, leaving Jenny baffled.

Elsewhere, Tyrone and Fiz decide to punish Hope for disrupting the school nativity.  Tyrone and Fiz set Hope to work cleaning the house. 

CAST

Andrew Whyment as Kirk Sutherland
Sally Ann Matthews as Jenny Connor
Kym Marsh as Michelle Connor
Mollie Gallagher as Nina Lucas
Tina O'Brien as Sarah Platt
Barbara Knox as Rita Tanner
Peter Ash as Paul Foreman
Tristan Gemmill as Robert Preston
Ryan Prescott as Ryan Connor
​Antony Cotton as Sean Tully
Isabella Flanagan as Hope Stape
Ellie Leach as Faye Windass
Stirling Gallacher as Paula Martin
Kerri Quinn as Vicky Jefferies
Jennie McAlpine as Fiona "Fiz" Stape
Cherylee Houston as Izzy Armstrong
David Neilson as Roy Cropper
Alan Halsall as Tyrone Dobbs
Dolly-Rose Campbell as Gemma Winter
Sally Dynevor as Sally Metcalfe
Ben Price as Nick Tilsley
Mikey North as Gary Windass
Alison King as Carla Connor
Lottie Henshall as Jade Rowan
Stephen Hoyle as PC Connolly
​Ray Castleton as Landlord