0005 Dec 23 1960

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best, Auntie Corrie -- [e-mail]
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p.s. I am looking for these episodes:
2000 - May 31 (I only have a partial - 3 min over-written 9:40 - 12:40)
2001 - Jan 22 (I only have the first half)
2001 - June 8 (I only have a partial - missing 3 min at end)
2002 - Oct 18 (often it is actually a mislabeled 20th Oct)
2003 - March 28 (I only have a partial - missing 3 min at end)
2004 - May 28 mine is a damaged mix of two episodes
Also looking for these pre-April 1976 episodes..
- from Granada Plus rebroadcasts (Please check your old video tapes!)
0986 - 6th July 1970 -- Transmitted on Saturday, 9th November, 1996.
1232 - 6th November 1972 -- Transmitted on Saturday, 8th February, 1997.
1313 - 15th August 1973 -- Transmitted on Saturday, 12th October, 1996.
1473 - 3rd March 1975 -- Transmitted on Saturday, 7th June, 1997.
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[@eat_a_dick_trudeau]

2:06 Phillip Lawrie drops his line and Pat Phoenix scrambles, quick as a whip to cover for him and save the scene. I bet there were a few hearts turning over in that studio as this was going out live. I have immense respect for the early actors and actresses in this program.

[@AndrewLawsonjughead67]

That Violet Carson is a true gem she totally emotes that character in every line she speaks

[@user-wq6jx2tn1e]

Whenever I’ve had a bad day, I just watch one of these brilliant classic episodes and they instantly cheer me up.

[@suesmith3744]

Aww , love these old episodes so much , used to watch corrie with my mum , this reminds me of her . My mum died in 1971 when I was 9 years old . However I remember these characters so clearly , Elsie, Annie and Jack Walker , Minnie Coldwell ( and her cat 🤣) Ena Sharples , Stan and Hilda ... I could go on and on , nice memories .

[@denisemanfre9542]

The one playing Malcolm is Cherie Blair's father Anthony Booth, he later married Pat Phoenix (Elsie Tanner) just before she died

[@williamf4544]

I remember the mid sixties going with my Grannie to the Co-op ( before it was self service - you got served at long counters much like the corner shopbut on a bigger scale) - we had to walk past rows of Coronation Street type houses built for the miners - they all got pulled down a few years later

[@higsterful]

Coronation Street was so good in the 1960's & 1970's.... because the characters felt real..... genuine....and the scripts were interesting and kept you gripped.....

[@teacherbruno1989]

It gets better episode by episode. Coronation Street is truly wonderful!😍 I find fascinating the old ladies' conversations, always talking about other people's lives, which it can be very funny sometimes. Nonetheless, the familes' discussions are really exciting as well. Not to mention the couples' arguments, they can get quite heated which is often amusing. Simply amazing! 😊

[@grantfindlay2537]

Love these old classics thank you for sharing

[@BillyPilgrim1959]

It's great to go back to the beginning. Thank you

[@chris7921]

Ena Sharples is just comedy gold 😂

[@Jackles22]

These are brilliant. Thank you lots

[@envsf03]

my nan said that her mum use to watch this when she was little. it feels so different but it feels cosy ❤❤

[@starquant5217]

That 25 pounds in 1960 is worth about 600 pounds in today's money or $1,140 dollars in Aussie money.

[@seltaeb3302]

Dennis Tanner tripped on his lines 2.05min but spluttered on. It's fast talk with Elsie. Considering the 'Kitchen Sink' films were just around the grubby corner, Corrie was ahead of the game & must have influenced Saturday Night Sunday Morning writers/directors, even Hard Day's Night come to that. An exhilarating period that past me & millions more. Corrie now reflects nothing.

[@hannahmcgahan8920]

Awww Mary from the Royle Family x

[@williamf4544]

Ena Sharples might have been a bit scary but they managed to make her quite funny at times

[@MePeterNicholls]

I think that was the point of her. Scare the kids and amuse the adults

[@anitageorge9028]

Thank you so much. 🤗

[@Gerry_Davies]

When I grow up I want to be Ena Sharples

[@drennanspitzer6387]

Love this! Please keep uploading! ❤️

[@haighsbakery4410]

Lovely to see the old corrie after years of filming

[@marymckay9426]

Mr Swindley sounds like Alistair Sim on occasion

[@michealbrett4909]

10 /10

[@Sarah77637]

Christine reminds me of Keira Knightley

[@louisaeggleton3426]

“I’ve never learned the phone”. Bless! Lucille is missing. It would be so much easier if we could just track her i-phone. Yay, Lucille was just shopping for Chrissie Pressies. She’s in the good books; but it looks like Dennis might be in the bad books instead. Not a lot of drama again in this episode but I sure felt tension when Martha accepted to take Ena’s job (and lodgings). It will be nice to see Christine dressed up.

[@happiness4812]

Now the older people have never learned texting 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

[@alexanderjones9572]

Did the nurse call Ena “Grandma?” Thought you were meant to show respect for patients...

[@stephenwoodman6015]

I just read today that we lost another resident of the Street. Ray Langdon died on Christmas Day at his home in LAS VEGAS. He was 77

[@seltaeb3302]

Las Vegas! Should be more Blackpool. How did he end up there?

[@paullynton-green6570]

He was a croupier.

[@Ryujenini]

I can never understand the kids screaming stuff

[@fintan3563]

I’m glad they dropped those noisy kids!

[@hannahmcgahan8920]

I love these old Corrie episodes the modern ones are crap x

[@carolineg1872]

19:44 Reminds me of Des Foster....who Bet Lynch fell for.

[@ronaldcustard4636]

Wonder how long it would take to watch all of Corrie from day one everyday

[@francesgillotti1378]

I watched when I had cancer it was great company. The day I finished I was cold turkeyed kept missing it but I couldn’t watched after 1990 it wasn’t good then .

[@seltaeb3302]

@@francesgillotti1378 the 90s were the last good I think, the Rover's Bet-Alec show was hilarious, plus Rita & what's his name was pretty dramatic but come the 2000s it was the end but reflected the society out there. Here the acting & writing was Bafta winning churned out twice weekly. Now it's a plethora of episodes weekly & thus it strains & stretches storytelling. RIP Corrie.

[@Lucy0809]

Why is Elsie’s cooker in the dining room? 🤷‍♀️😂

[@emgee81]

It's actually the back room/kitchen that leads out into the yard. In Victorian houses there's many variations of this room depending on the plot size etc. The front rooms were kept for 'best' or when visitors came round. When the new, larger houses in the late 50's & early 60's were built they often had a through lounge/diner and a separate galley kitchen with a serving hatch built into the wall. Those that were still being built with two separate rooms downstairs still also had a separate kitchen with the back-door going out to the garden. Most people who bought houses like these later on in the 1970's (like my in-laws) took down the wall in-between and created their own through lounge anyway as it was still the fashion! Nowadays we call it 'open-plan' and charge a small fortune for the privilege ;)

[@jaredini]

There is still a scullery/kitchen behind that door, that others in the street used as a kitchen, where do you think the sink is? Later on Elsie had the dining room knocked into the scullery and the cooker went in there with a new fitted kitchen. Others had the sink and cooker in the dining room too, namely Len Fairclough which became Duckworths. Lots of people did have cookers in dining rooms, heats the room and better than cooking in a cold scullery. Yes, the front room/parlour was used for best and afaik the current residents still do. All the houses are the same, the Ogdens used the scullery as a kitchen.

[@helengazzara8725]

Oh dear Lucy - how old are you? 😁 These people didn’t live in Buckingham Palace you know! And they probably have outside dunnies. That’s a toilet outside in the yard - if there is one.

[@LeviJamesRE]

Are you blind? Have you not seen the layout of Fiz and Tyrones house? It's just the exact same except reversed instead. So it's not abnormal.

[@masseydriverb3582]

It the same as my granny's farmhouse kitchen where she had a porch with a gas cooker and sink and in the kitchen there was a table a fridge and a range also where the plates and cups were kept also had a sitting room

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Mary from next door.

[@narcher91]

Pete Shields was just thinking the exact same thing!

[@mickeyh1961]

Just wondering how do I get Subtitles off ?

[@mickeyh1961]

No worries found how to

[@Newpegasuspainter]

I like the fact that Tony Warren based his characters on gay men he had met in gay bars in Salford.

[@francesgillotti1378]

They are so rude

[@helengazzara8725]

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