0012 - 18th January 1961

[@Ross.Cavendish]

Pat Phoenix was a brilliant actress.

[@marshamulvey9186]

I was to young when these was on but I'm enjoying these old one better than the once now adays

[@mettainacan7813]

My mum was only 10 when this was on so I wasn't around yet, but I love these episodes, I haven't watched the black and white ones so much thinking they were a bit dated but they are not, they are pure quality

[@lyndaoneill6483]

Another great old episode,really enjoying these.Forget how much smoking went on back then,heaps better these days I think.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Annie sounds a lot more ‘common’ than in later episodes!

[@Sarah-z1f6c]

No. 13 looks so different and much bigger here than when Stan and Hilda lived there.

[@cdmc965]

I am addicted to these. As a Texan ,its amazing to watch.

[@franceshaypenny8481]

Aren't they a gem? They even have some Yank characters.

[@louisaeggleton3426]

Things seem a bit cold between Harry and Concepta. Cliff Richard and Billy Fury - flavour of the month. It was nice of Ena to offer the safety pin. I’m glad they’re friends again. I really enjoyed this episode. My favourite character at the moment

[@mettainacan7813]

Albert looks exactly the same has he does 20 years later, Beety seems a bit more genuine with her father back then

[@connielincoln8681]

Ty so much for uploading these episodes great fan from nz here 💓

[@juleerowley9706]

Lol its hilarious how you can see the camera mans shadow on the wall 😂

[@londonlady227]

Typical insurance companies, they'll take your money but won't pay out.

[@alisongrace4334]

This is when I was born.

[@davidfos84]

Arnold looks like Elsie's dad and Elsie looks too young to have those kids.

[@helengazzara8725]

Arnold is actually only 42 in real life here. He was born in 1919. He looks about seventy.

[@helengazzara8725]

Sorry - got that wrong. The actor was apparently 62, but he was playing someone born in 1919. There must have been a shortage of actors then, or the producers weren’t too fussed about the ages.

[@chrismanning675]

@Coronation Street Storyline Peter Susan I Am Doing Coronation Street Ray Langton Hair Ray Langton Sideburns Scenes Storyline 18th January 1961

[@alexanderjones9572]

In the conversation between Ena and Martha, there seems to be some lag ( or whatever you call it) between their lips moving and the sound of their voices.

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

I've noticed synchronisation problems in a few episodes. Probsbly sonething to do how they were transferred. It's more noticeablecwith Ena because of how fast she talks.

[@obrien6320]

Frank Barlow never had a nice word for anyone.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Harry did well apologising to Concepta. He didn't do right by her.

[@moulinrouge5716]

Thinking about Elsie being asked for an divorce, I remember my Grandma telling me, she got refused a divorce, I presume by the courts and it must of been in the sixties, and her husband was violent and constantly committing adultery, it wouldn't be easy to get an divorce back then, or so I thought 🤔

[@denismoynihan4996]

Betti had her eye on that sideboard of Albert's for year's after this episode. Didn't Ken and Deirdre sell it on after Ambers death?

[@swaggerjagg22]

N13 coronation street (christine Hardman) seems much bigger than when the Ogdens moved in

[@helengazzara8725]

The daughter looks about seventy.

[@patrikwright2658]

I was 5yrs and 3days old.dont remember this episode.

[@angelliss666]

You can see the shadow of the microphone (boom operator) on the wall at 12:08 :)

[@starquant5217]

When you go out on a first date and the person your with gets rip roaring drunk... Red Flag.

[@sanderslongdrive]

Doreen Keogh was a lovely looking lady.

[@chrismanning675]

Attractive.

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

Mary from The Royle Family, and Mrs Doyle's friend in Father Ted.

[@anonUK]

​@@gilgameshofuruk4060 The "I don't believe it" episode.

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

@@anonUK Yes! When Graham Norton was left buried under a pile of rocks in a forbidden cave.

[@bunty6268]

Wondrous 😅🤗

[@michealbrett1983]

10 /10

[@themistermillson]

So Albert's daughter Beattie is supposed to be 27 here. The actress playing her was 49. A bit of miscating I think.

[@Lucy0809]

themistermillson never really saw much of her after either!

[@vl6357]

Really! I was putting her around 45 in my head. 27 never.

[@iangraham9988]

themistermillson I think her birthdate was given in one of the novelizations but those tended to play fast and loose with the continuity . I think in one of them they had Blanche Hunt going out with Dave Smith during the war even though official continuity wise, she would been 10 yrs old

[@alexanderjones9572]

I thought she looked too near Albert’s age to be his daughter!

[@reddiva1544]

She looks like Annie Walker!..

[@francofan100]

Elsie and Arnold's version of their marriage is different to Daran Little's later backstory. Also they probably should have got a younger actor to play Arnold.

[@CrookedIproductions]

Just looked. The character of Arnold Tanner was born in 1919, per the Coronation Street Wikipedia. The actor who played him, Frank Crawshaw, was born in 1899! He was 20 years older than the character he played. Why they got a 61-year-old actor to play a 41-year-old character is beyond me.

[@francofan100]

The birthdate probably wasn't set in stone back then. The wiki also says Elsie warned Arnold away with a shotgun, whereas here it's clear he left her and she was upset about it.

[@robertdoherty2001]

That’s nothing-get a load of Beatty! How old’s Albert-115?

[@francofan100]

That looked even worse when the character (and actress) returned in 1984 for Albert's death storyline. She looked 92!

[@CrookedIproductions]

@@francofan100 The same Coronation Street Wikipedia said that Beattie was born in 1933 -- so here she would have been 28. Gabrielle Daye, who played Beattie, was born in 1911 (so she was 50 here)! Albert was born in 1895, so here Albert's supposed to be in his mid-60s. Jack Howarth was born in 1896, so they were close with the casting there.

[@themistermillson]

Arnold tanner is supposed to be 41 here but the actor playing him is 61.

[@Lucy0809]

themistermillson I think he carried on acting TIL the 1980’s and his words were so slurred he was hard to understand!

[@alexanderjones9572]

Well when there’s Ken Barlow ( who looks similar at twenty to in 2020 when he’s 80) they can get away with having a 61 year old playing a 41 year old!

[@iangraham9988]

How large was Weatherford supposed to be in 1961? Because everybody acts like Beattie lives on the other side of Manchester when she probably lived in the same neighborhood where Audrey lives now.

[@chrismanning675]

Never heard of Weatherford. Fictional or non fictional.

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

Tge people in some areas are like that. "It's only two miles away" "But it's two buses, I'm not going that far"

[@happiness4812]

7:32 take the money Elsie!!!

[@clairmarie3130]

What are the "optics" Jack asks Conceptia about?

[@martinharris6610]

Clair Marie The devices that spirits bottles are fitted into behind the bar. They’re designed to serve a certain amount of liquid at one time.

[@clairmarie3130]

@@martinharris6610 thank you!! ✌

[@carolineg1872]

Designed to serve a "gill".

[@alexanderjones9572]

Wouldn’t it make things easier for Elsie too if she gave Arnold a divorce? I mean they’ll never be happily married again, will they?

[@lindabiggs3905]

It's called revenge ha ha

[@williamf4544]

Beattie was a babe

[@rnrn607]

I dont like the way Alberts daughter is dismissing her father while he talks from his heart. Shut up girl and listen, one day you will be old too

[@Sarah-z1f6c]

Harry Hewitt and Concepta 🥱

[@Sarah-z1f6c]

Ena talks so fast, sometimes it’s so hard to understand what she’s saying