Missing Coronation Street episode?

[T Morgan]

According to Coronation Street Wiki at coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_1202_(24th_July_1972), episode 1202 TX 24 July 1972 is the only episode missing from the archives. If you scroll down to Notes, you can see all the detail. It says “It would appear that soon after transmission of Episode 1202 in 1972, the only copy of it was either lost, destroyed or erased.”

But based on previous discussions on this forum, all episodes exist. So is the Coronation Street Wiki site wrong?

Some older forum threads also state that there are a few episodes which are not in good enough condition to be viewed. I wonder if that’s true?

[Stuart Douglas]

Mar 10, 2024 21:36:41 GMT T Morgan said:

According to Coronation Street Wiki at coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_1202_(24th_July_1972), episode 1202 TX 24 July 1972 is the only episode missing from the archives. If you scroll down to Notes, you can see all the detail. It says “It would appear that soon after transmission of Episode 1202 in 1972, the only copy of it was either lost, destroyed or erased.”

But based on previous discussions on this forum, all episodes exist. So is the Coronation Street Wiki site wrong?

Some older forum threads also state that there are a few episodes which are not in good enough condition to be viewed. I wonder if that’s true?

Granada's solution to the gap in their programme is quite interesting (taken from lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/Coronation_Street_Episode_1202_(Only_Lost_Episode)#Discovered_as_Missing)

Reconstitution
Realising the narrative gap in the story could affect the sale to the overseas market, Granada then attempted to try to find anything they had to recreate the episode. However the production were unable to locate a single copy of the script from either the Writer Adele Rose, or in the Archive, but they found an detailed Outline of the synopsis which included the Cast List and the Sets used for each scene as well as shots used.

P694/203A
Under the title P694/203A, Granada got the following actors: Doris Speed, Betty Driver, Stephen Hancock, Robert Keegan, Peter Adamson, Barbara Mullaney, Irene Sutcliffe and Jeremy Young and only three sets: The Rovers, Rita Littlewood’s flat and Benny Lewis’s flat to recreate about 8 minutes of 1202 as the opening part to an now abridged version of Episode 1203 in order to create an episode of normal length, the only scene that was kept from the original outline in this revision was Annie firing Jacko.

This revised version has never been transmitted in the United Kingdom and, presumably, the complete version of Episode 1203 has never been sold abroad.