0007 Dec 30 1960

(This belongs to ITV) - - -
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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[@waynedumas5523]

As an American, i lovr these English Telly. That Eda Shaples is one tough Cookie 🍪

[@MN-tf4ek]

Due to covid19 we are social distancing, and your old corra epsidoes are keeping us entertained

[@suzannelacy8093]

Mary , Bless you 🙍 I was thinking the same thing about these old episodes because it's almost 7am and I can't sleep because the World is suffering . Stay safe .

[@lindabiggs3905]

Yeah and in another lock down Christmas 2020

[@seltaeb3302]

Corrie.

[@seltaeb3302]

@@suzannelacy8093 it's been suffering from the year dot so you can't get any sleep much..

[@geowynleda4641]

When I was a child this is what it was really like. Everyone knew everyone else and their business, a street was a community. When there was a death two of the ladies would go around the street taking a collection for a wreath. Funny it was always the women who took charge of these things, the men kept out of it except to give condolences to the bereaved. There was always a battleaxe in the street, ours was Mrs Dabs. She had none of Ena's redeeming qualities and the kids hated her.

[@jaynehinds3339]

Missing those days badly xx

[@alexanderjones9572]

"Shut up!" So that's how the doctor wins Ena's respect. 😂😂😂

[@chrismanning675]

@Coronation Street Storyline Peter Susan I Am Doing Coronation Street Ray Langton Hair Ray Langton Sideburns Scenes Storyline December 30 1960

[@maireadmeehan2931]

Did Ena always look at the camera like that? I wasn't expecting it the first time. It's giving me the heebee geebees 😅😅😅.

[@jasbegs1258]

I really loved this episode= classic - from tears (Christine's regret) to laughter (Ena and the doctor) - just fabulous - you care about these characters - unlike today - that storyline with Leeann and that child - God forgive me, i couldn't care less - and they have dragged it on for an eternity.

[@Shane-Flanagan]

Your so right! They were real characters, larger than life but yet so normal. Characters and stories nowadays are all the same, the heart of the show is gone.

[@Lucy0809]

I have no idea what happens now 🤷‍♀️

[@glamdolly30]

I abandoned watching modern Corrie around 10 years ago, when the latest serial killer/sex abuse storyline dragged on far too long. And they had made the once fabulous and feisty Rita into a sweet, simple-minded, little old lady - which was never her character! She should have become another fearsome Ena - but with glamour!

[@fintan3563]

Rest in Peace, May. We hardly knew ye! 🖤🖤🖤

[@CyberSlammer2024]

In a terrible bizarre Twist of Fate the actress who plays Christine died herself in 1984 of a brain hemorrhage in real life at the age of 45, how shocking is that!!

[@danrobinson572]

Deja vu that is!!

[@Lucy0809]

Omg 😮

[@Nats99]

Very sad.

[@haighsbakery4410]

Sad to see someone die in such a great and amazing show

[@swaggerjagg22]

This Mrs Hardman's storyline (where christine shouted at her) shows that life is to short and you shouldn't fight like that especially with parents

[@carolineg1872]

It depends what the argument is about. Life is too short to deal with toxicity.

[@ddrose06]

The actress that played Mrs. Hardman, died in 2000. The actress that played Christine, died in the mid 1980's. I've been watching Corrie for 50 years, but I never watched the 60's episodes. I'm doing that now, and enjoying it. I wouldn't watch today's Corrie, if you paid me. Cheers!

[@Lucy0809]

@@ddrose06 wow that’s interesting, so the daughter died first? 🤷‍♀️

[@chris7921]

@@Lucy0809 yes from the same condition that her Mum died from in the show, a brain tumour

[@Lucy0809]

@chris that’s sad 😢

[@connielincoln8681]

Ty auntie luv these episodes big fan from nz ty

[@wally280]

I was 6 yrs old then...TIME FLIES!

[@annglaister]

Me too❤

[@dominewimbury2039]

Aww poor May Hardman

[@glamdolly30]

6:26 Elsie: "Ave you tried the tallboy?" LOL! Elsie luv - he's tried EVERY boy!

[@chrismanning675]

@Coronation Street Storyline Peter Susan I Am Doing Coronation Street Ray Langton Hair Ray Langton Sideburns Scenes Storyline December 30 1960

[@alexanderjones9572]

"You're not ready for the grave yet." "Crematorium!" So Ena wants the same funeral as I want!

[@clairmarie3130]

I agree with Elsie they should have given it to Christine. That was tacky to redraw.

[@francofan100]

A full bottle of whiskey to a bereaved person though?

[@praxisdev1884]

I'd love to have seen a young Ena Sharples.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

love seeing mary from next door.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Esther was just like Rita is now! How she was with Christine, that's just how Rita'd be!

[@alexanderjones9572]

Another one Esther reminds me of is Emily. Either of them would’ve taken charge of Christine.

[@chrismanning675]

I believe May Hardman was the shows first death.

[@alexanderjones9572]

So, Malcolm's shown his true colours! I agree with Martha and Concepta, he should be much more supportive if he has any feelings for Christine!

[@seltaeb3302]

Just ep7 & you've been wrote out dead, not even heart massage to the Bee Gees Tragedy could have saved you. A confident episode with nice touches & a great script & actors, this drama has a future & maybe more episodes in it..

[@juliewhitead5257]

Brilliant coronation street the olde are the best

[@PacyMitchEditz]

May was the very first death in the show with in 7 episodes a death now look 59 years later there's maybe like 152 deaths

[@julieanncarter6797]

7's ...

[@angelamarsters9169]

And how many of those have been at the hands of those flaming endless serial killers....

[@michealbrett4909]

10/10

[@alexanderjones9572]

Well, to be fair, Ena, you were the one who kicked off when Florrie wouldn't serve you after seven pm!

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

yes

[@alexanderjones9572]

"Oo, sounds like the crack of doom, dunnit!" So Elsie's read Lord of the Rings!

[@bernadettemcinerney7284]

The crack of doom is mentioned in the Bible and in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

[@user-cvbnm]

i feel bad for May Hardman. just to die 21 days after it began

[@user-js3rg9sj1k]

I noticed the Rover,s....at the end credit,s...looked different....door way...and window,s...were very different.

[@londonlady227]

Hearing Mrs Walker drop her 'h's" is very disconcerting. Her accent became far more cut glass as the years went by.

[@haighsbakery4410]

She hadn't been in the show for long

[@skelkankaos]

The drama is ramping up...

[@ryanwhiteguitar668]

8:54 "I thought you was a ghost" hahaha

[@atomicsnowflake]

Omg, Ena Sharples was so awful 😂

[@TheBlizzardcat]

Her dancing days were over long ago 😆

[@fannycraddock99]

Ena was only 61 in this episode!

[@alexanderjones9572]

fannycraddock99 And May was only 48! Not much older than I am now!

[@susanthomas5464]

Same age as me !

[@clairmarie3130]

Wow. A hard 61 LOL!

[@scorpioguy3234]

It’s so strange by today’s standards how people looked much older back then... but then again they lived through war, rations,etc.... it took a toll on them... But they could sure survive better than we probably could today

[@iangraham9988]

Phillip LeJeune I would assume rationing of red meat and sugar probably made then a bit healthier then us today.

[@alexanderjones9572]

How did May die? In the 40th anniversary book, it says 'heart attack' but that didn't look like a heart attack! Looked like a blood clot or something.

[@Julia-hs7vh]

Alexander Jones A brain tumour.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Sherbet Fountain Thanks. That probably explains Christine's guilt afterwards for thinking May was just putting it on.Its also probably why, in Ena's words, May 'stood in the middle of Coronation Street screaming blue murder' before she was taken to hospital. But it begs the question-what sort of hospital would discharge May without even considering a brain tumour? I know medicine was less advanced then, but they shouldn't have just ruled it out-which was why Christine thought nothing was wrong! As the doctor said to Ena-when someone's in hospital, their life is the hospital's responsibility!

[@iangraham9988]

Alexander Jones But they still had x-rays and blood tests (if the tumor was cancerous) in 1960.

[@Nats99]

​@alexanderjones9572 Even nowadays, they don't routinely consider brain tumours when people have psychiatric episodes.

[@notthefather3919]

May I, an American, ask a question? Were these early years live like American soaps at the time?

[@francesgillotti1378]

Notthefather nothing is like an American soap thank goodness 😅

[@kevinlongman007]

Yes they were live.

[@notthefather3919]

@@kevinlongman007 thanks for a useful answer.

[@doubledeckers]

It was live only for the first three months. During that period they would do the Friday episode live and then immediately record an episode for the following Wednesday. However even the recorded episodes would have been done as if they were live. Stopping and starting the tape was frowned on unless there was a serious mistake.

[@ss51-857]

American boomer here Ours were more Corny less dialogue and more organ music no humor less clever all around imo.

[@Lucy0809]

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

[@atomicsnowflake]

They had two rooms in those terraced houses. The front room was kept for good and not used every day. The back room was used as the kitchen and every day living activities. They kept the fire and stove going in there.

[@Lucy0809]

@@atomicsnowflake so where did the kitchen come from then?! 🤷‍♀️😂

[@Nats99]

​@@Lucy0809I think Elsie later knocked through to the scullery and turned it into a kitchen.

[@robertbrighton9797]

Wasn’t this performed live?

[@alexanderjones9572]

What did Dennis say when Elsie asked what time she should expect him back?

[@JonathanMarcusGSmith]

"Wi' milk"

[@Lucy0809]

Dennis gives me the creeps, something off about him, he was even worse when he came back 🤮

[@chris7921]

The shopkeeper and the woman that died with the haemorrhage look very alike

[@chrismanning675]

When did wall outside shop disappear like any road?

[@francofan100]

They moved the viaduct bridge a bit further back after the train crash in 1967

[@Tony-hx2fj]

did these houses on coronation street have inside toilets as they were probably built 5o years before 1960 ?

[@glamdolly30]

Good call! They'd have had privies out the back, I guess that's what the yard was for. But they must have had proper loos, showers etc fitted years later, tho it's hard to work out where they put them. They were 2 bed houses & all very small rooms. Makes me laff that they would have 3 or more people residig - where did they all sleep??? Like the late 70s, Elsie & her 2 lodgers Suzie & Gail, the girls must have shared a bedroom! Also Jim, Liz & their boys Steve & Amdy, they had to share I guess but they were 15 yrs or older, is that really likely?

[@londonlady227]

​​@@glamdolly30s I mentioned before, they could convert the parlour or front room into another bedroom. I think when Linda stayed she slept with Elsie, s was shown before the wedding of Dennis, but I dont know about when Ivan was there. I think by that time Dennis had married himself maybe...as for the McDonald twins, they shared a room. Gail and Susie shared a room. As for the cludgies, the outside loos, they all had them but many had inside toilets by that time, usually with a small bath, sink.

[@glamdolly30]

@@londonlady227 Thanks for the background info. 'Cludgies' is such a funny word - I haven't heard it in ages! I wonder how it first came about?

[@londonlady227]

@@glamdolly30 it's actually derives from Scotland. Probably from 'closet' or 'lodge' or the sound of a toilet flushing..onomatopoeic...

[@glamdolly30]

@@londonlady227 Onomatopoeia - Another lovely word!

[@wcwnumber1fan]

Wb

[@francesgillotti1378]

lee sheard poor Ena always looked old I’ve watched this show from 1960 - 2020

[@Lucy0809]

Such a big mistake to kill off Martha for the bloody Ogdens 😮

[@michealbrett4909]

10 /10