0923 Oct 29 1969

(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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[@Mullenaround]

Extremely well directed by Howard Baker who having directed earlier episodes returned for this one as he was experienced in using film.Some of the shots are very 1960's movie style.

[@pauldg837]

What a funny line, Hilda telling Stan that the Oxford boat doesn't sink because the 8 rowers are educated! 😂 The scripts were really fantastic.

[@jasbegs1258]

Great episode building up suspense-to the climax - so well done. Jack and Annie are gold. They were more innovative then - love how the ending credits start - not the usual music.

[@anthonylyons9810]

Wednesday 29th October 1969 was the day we got our first Colour Telly from DER. . BBC1 and Granada were running Colour Trade tests in preparation for the Official start of Colour Tv on 15th November 1969. I'm sure that the episode of Coronation St Broadcast that night was in Colour.

[@jasbegs1258]

In the following episode in colour- you can see how amazing Elsie looks and her outfit too.

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

Elsie Aline was reason enough for the series to go into colour!

[@alexanderjones9572]

Nice reference by Minnie to Martha, then Ena says ‘We all have to go sometime.’ Little do either of them know what danger they’re ALL in!

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

It always seemed unrealistic to me how in later years if a character was written out they'd never be mentioned again, not even in passing. I'm sure other characters were mentioned after they'd left in the earlier ones. The Archers still occasionally mention characters who departed in the sixties. It doesn't matter if you've never heard of them, it just adds background.

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

I'd forgotten what an absolute knob Ray Langton was.

[@annoldham3018]

Love the pre decimal currency episodes. Haven't a clue how much the bar bill was.😂🥰

[@pollyanne234]

120 pennies in a pound

[@ysgol3]

@@pollyanne234 240!

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

£2.17 approximately. 12 pence in a shilling, twenty shillings in a pound. 4d was a third of a shilling, which after decimalisation would be a third of 5p. We kept the same silver coins for a long time after decimalisation and used them a 5p and 10p. It wasn't uncommon in the 70s to find a George VI or even a George V coin in your change.

[@arthurvasey]

@@gilgameshofuruk4060A lot of people - particularly foreigners - might’ve mistaken a tanner - a little silver sixpence - for 6p! It was effectively tuppence-ha’penny in one coin - the only circumstance in which 6 + 6 = 5! We used to call them “Elsies” - Elsie Tanners!

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

@@arthurvasey When I was very small, I thought they were named after Elsie!

[@alexanderjones9572]

Bet Ken never thought he’d end up as stepdad to Ray’s daughter in years to come!

[@mral8145]

Great jack walker throwback line! He ask Annie if she had a penny when they visited the mine!

[@lyndaoneill6483]

Wish I had watched this one first,just watched after the bus crash.Great vintage corrie at its best.

[@JH-lt6hn]

Eric Thompson of Magic Roundabout no less.

[@jamierobinson9097]

Notice at the end of the credits the music sounds as if the tape gets stuck!!

[@leoparkes7536]

Yes! I always thought that seemed appropriate considering how everything had careered off the rails within the story.

[@sandranurrington9827]

Was born in between this episode and the next one

[@jimkeary7781]

I remember seeing that episode when it was originally broadcast. The bus crash sticks in my mind. I didn't see the follow-up episodes.

[@michelealexander955]

Jim Keary is this how Ray Langton ended up in a wheelchair? I'm always wondering why he was in a wheelchair in some episodes?

[@jimkeary7781]

Probably, Michele. I can't swear to it as I have never seen those episodes. Just before the crash Ray is standing in the bus leading a sing-song, so he probably got the worst of it.

[@ohuntermc9321]

well you can watch them now, there on here.

[@qn2h]

The first follow-up of this episode was partly in colour

[@vinnysamways63]

@@michelealexander955 It was, yes.

[@joejohnson6763]

I read somewhere that this episode was meant to be shot in colour hence the storyline and being in the Lakes but for some reason they couldn't do it.

[@anonUK]

Probably logistics problems- Granada wouldn't have had enough colour cameras at that point to send 100 miles up the M6. The hospital scenes would have been shot in the studios, so no problem there.

[@MJ69ism]

I think this is the only time Emily nugent let her hair down with Stan bless her

[@cerneuffington2656]

This should have been the first episode in colour, but it ended up being the final episode in B&W.

[@FITTMANN]

18th Nov 1970 back to black and white due to a strike over camera operators having to handle the mew cameras and feeling they needed to be paid more.

[@alphauktelepictures]

@@FITTMANN I read the strike was in solidarity with sound engineers who wanted a payrise in line with the cameramen

[@anonUK]

​@alphauktelepictures Yes they did, although stereo sound on TV didn't come in for another 20 years. I guess back in the 50s, nobody looked at the contracts and planned ahead.

[@bluethunder6801]

Magical mystery tour coach

[@alfiehanrattysfakeairings3010]

Ow my ears during the closing credits :(

[@alexanderjones9572]

Seems like all the adults were on the trip. Where were Peter and Susan? Surely SOMEONE was looking after them!

[@cherylreznor181]

Lucille?

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

Soap opera children exist only when required. Tracey spent her entire childhood listening to tapes in her bedroom.

[@alexanderjones9572]

@@gilgameshofuruk4060 I’m noticing that in Emmerdale ( watching the classics)Take Cathy and Heath. They exist ( I’m in 2016) but aside from the odd passing reference, don’t seem to exist. Of course, this changes with Cathy’s big story in a few years, ( current Emmerdale) but where I’m at now in 2016-Bob just makes the odd reference to them.

[@blue_cec2625]

this is the final episodes to be broadcast in black and white. until 1970-71 ITV colour-strike And Granada Said On This Episode That The People Could Have Died After This Crash Happened.

[@PacyMitchEditz]

Well this was meant to be the first colour episode

[@nemo-nb3gh]

That bloke trying to scarper away with that man's wife is a nutter . something awful is going to happen, i can feel it

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

He'll be sorry. Mark my words. He'll like as not end up in a wheelchair until a mildly implausible moment when he suddenly remembers he can walk again.

[@anncharles5438]

Great footage of old Coronation Street, do you have any footage of Janice Langton, Rays sister (played by Paula Wilcox) stay safe

[@beckyneopolitan8945]

How did you get these copies of Corrie? Are they a dvd box set?

[@Ollie_1022.]

Funny 1967 train crash 1969 coach crash 2010 tram crash then Steve Mcdonald bus crash All the Same crashes different characters

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

On the 60th(?) anniversary, Radio Times did a spoof diary of Gail Potter (later Potter-Tisley-Platt-and Co.) from the sixties. In it she wrote that she was thinking of moving to Coronation Street, despite the recent tram crash. "It's not as if that's likely to happen again, is it?"

[@007beck9]

It's a shame the next episode is the first ever colour episode this would of been a lovely episode in colour.

[@PacyMitchEditz]

Well this was meant to be the first colour episode

[@michealbrett1983]

10/10

[@kotuploads]

What’s the spiky thing on the bus where the driver is

[@jonnnewman5893]

Pity this episode wasn't in colour, I'm sure it would have looked amazing as they were out of the street for the day.

[@seamusellis1450]

It was the last Black and White episode..

[@PacyMitchEditz]

​@@seamusellis1450well until the strike in 1970-1971

[@PC-lu3zf]

Last ever black and white episode.

[@Keepingitrespectfulmostly.]

Only thing not really credible here is the police not seeing the coach parked up in car park, just after passing 3 out of towners, walking in the road to the coach. Coach firm might of had designated rest stops on route they could pass onto the police. Also police would be aware already where toilets and rest stops were for coaches. Ah, the joys of poetic licence fiction allows. Response to video only.

[@Sarah77637]

Someone please explain 'spend a penny' to me

[@joannegray5138]

Some public conveniences used to charge one pence (a penny) to use them. Hence, you had to "spend a penny" to use the toilet.

[@adeybabesUK]

Would this have been broadcast in colour originally?

[@anonUK]

This episode was black and white. The following episode was partially in colour. This would have been the last completely B&W episode had it not been for strike action in 1970-71 which stopped colour transmissions.

[@TheGramophoneGirl]

I think this one was planned to be the first colour one but they couldn't get the colour film so used b&w instead. It appears to have been recorded via colour equipment due to the resolution. Shame, as it would have been great in colour.

[@CliveEvans-oj2nn]

Where's Lucille

[@ysgol3]

Unfortunately this is missing the part when Val takes her bra off and jumps in the lake.

[@cliveevans9795]

Where's Albert??

[@cliveevans9795]

And Lucille

[@jayradical3515]

Were are they at

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

The Lake District, Cumbria. Home of Beatrix Potter.

[@JonHunt1969]

Why didnt reg just hit the brakes?! They could’ve stopped the accident

[@scottpeacock5492]

The coach had faulity breaks.

[@JonHunt1969]

@@scottpeacock5492what’s ur proof and time bc I can’t recall the episode saying the coach had faulty brakes

[@jennymartinez4051]

LAST. AND. (1932). AND.

[@darganx]

The woman on the police radio sounds like Susie Blake (Sally Webster's mum?) but she'd be too young surely?

[@alphauktelepictures]

It was Diana Davies who later joined the cast as Norma Ford.

[@jennymartinez4051]

IS. 1932. AND. NOT. 1969. AND. (1932). AND. AND.

[@jennymartinez4051]

JUNE. 25. 1932. AND. (1932). AND. AND. AND.

[@jayrobthorn6847]

Is the young woman who is having the affair called Audrey is it who we know now as Audrey Roberts?.

[@nkt1]

No: coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Gillian_McCann

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

No.

[@arthurvasey]

That was Audrey Fleming - not sure what happened to her! Audrey Roberts was originally Audrey Potter - mother of Gail Potter-Tilsley-Platt-Hillman-Rodwell and Stephen Reid!

[@Lucy0809]

Worst mistake ever killing off Martha for the bloody Ogdens 🤮😡

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

The Ogdens were coming into the series anyway. The producers decided they needed a family that better reflected the sixties demographic. They were supposed to have four children originally, as that was the average number in families then. Apparently.

[@princessbecky90]

I can't believe that Minnie kept on and on about Martha again because she's whinging and whining like a baby! 😠

[@elizabethross-watson9792]

What the producer, (or what ever he was) did to Martha was cruel and it broke her heart and everyone elses in the cast.

[@jasbegs1258]

I can believe it- it is perfectly natural for friends to reflect on those no longer with us.

[@michealbrett1983]

10/10