0937 Dec 17 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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[@JustSean413]

Thank you for the uploads,loving these old coronation street episodes.Can we have some more of these old Christmas classic episodes please.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

me too. having a ball.

[@ceephaxx]

Interesting to see how they toned down the colours compared to the episode from November '69. The wooden fixtures in the Rovers particularly, which I presume were such a bright yellow colour because they were calibrated for B&W cameras. In this episode the browns look much more natural.

[@marcse7en]

Jack Walker (Arthur Leslie) is a great character and a great actor! 👍

[@sammydingdong4540]

Ken's wife Valerie giving an electrifying performance as usual ............

[@tracyg7002]

The look on Annie walker's face when she confronted Hilda. Like she knew for sure Hilda was a thief. Unbelievable!

[@marcse7en]

Not many people would have watched this in colour in 1969!

[@martinabsolom2231]

I used to go to my grandparents to watch Star Trek on their colour TV in 69.

[@pauldg837]

That was the year that we got our first colour TV. I remember us watching absolutely everything just to enjoy how great it was. All the friends of my parents often came over, especially if there was something special to watch. Happy days they were. ❤

[@stevencassidy6982]

You can tell its the late sixties - look at Lens moustache!

[@joannegray5138]

Perfecting the porno tache look several years before Kevin Webster moved to the Street 😜

[@sandrahat5514]

Steven Cassidy vt

[@paulmartin3682]

I was 14 month old when this was aired

[@scorpioguy3234]

Joanne Gray LMAO touché

[@anonUK]

Those taches lasted into the early 80s.

[@marcse7en]

I've noticed that a lot of early colour videotape recordings are of very good picture quality. Recorded on 2" Quadruplex videotape, the reason for the excellent picture is probably that the cameras and VTR's were all relatively new. As the equipment ages and wears, the picture naturally deteriorates.

[@martinandrews7387]

I would love to know how well the old video tapes have kept.Have Granada had to copy to newer formats,or do the originals still play at high quality.

[@johntomlinson6849]

@@martinandrews7387 The original tapes are now with the BFI in Berkhamstead as 2 inch quad is now a redundant technology. Before handing them over ITV copied them over to digital and that's what you're watching here.

[@martinandrews7387]

@@johntomlinson6849 Thanks Andrew for the reply. Interesting to know that.

[@londonlady227]

Agreed, it's really clear.

[@seamusellis1450]

Did Granada use Marconi MkVIl s or EMI 2001s ?

[@clairmarie3130]

Mrs. Walker is another character everyone loves but me. Besides being a nasty judgemental witch the way she always raises her eyes when talking drives me nuts.

[@reddiva1544]

Clair Marie Yea i quite agree i didn’t like her much either thought she was very nasty she always blamed ppl before asking n she always looked down on them thinking she was better wen she wasn’t!..

[@woohooboy]

Annie was a snob through and through. Not really my cup of tea either as a character. Jack soften her when he was around. After he died, she really took on the whole "Lady of the Manor" attitude...... When Bet Lynch became landlady, she was more relatable and likable. She had the sterness and authority of a woman in charge, but never thought of herself as being a cut above her customers. She was funny and much more easy going than Annie ever was

[@michellefalleur960]

No, the character Annie wasn't that nice at all, an aspiring snob, but Doris Speed , who played her, was brilliant.

[@trishfisher7748]

That ray lad wants a good slap very ignored character

[@Sarah-z1f6c]

I love Irma Ogden. They should have kept her character on.

[@briandelaney9710]

Sarah Oy. She was the Queen of Sarcasm

[@annoldham3018]

I am enjoying these episodes. Never knew Irma as I was only 4 when she left. Great to see her. Love the pre decimal prices in the shop and down t Rovers. 🥰

[@alexanderjones9572]

Still alive, isn’t she? What’s to stop her coming back as the 2020 answer to her ‘mam’, Hilda? (I mean ok, Sandra Gough’s nearly 80 now, but that’s about the same age as Ken or Rita.)

[@woohooboy]

Kind of hard to do that when the actress up and suddenly quit the series. In fact Sandra Gough really left the producers of "Corrie" in a pickle when she left the show with no prior notice and never returning back to the program. A number of storylines had to be hastily rewritten as a result

[@woohooboy]

@@alexanderjones9572 - Irma was far smarter than her poor mother and father. There is just no reason for her to come back. "Corrie" tried to reintroduce a character who had been off the show for more than forty years (with Dennis Tanner) back in 2011 and the experiment just didn't work. After the nostalgia of seeing him back wore off, it quickly became apparent that Dennis had no actual reason for being in Weatherfield and he was largely consigned to playing nothing more than a supporting role in many storylines until the character was axed in 2014. Irma has no roots left in the Street and aside from being Ken's former sister in law, nobody else knows her. She has no connection to anyone else. It would be difficult to incorporate an elderly woman into the shows current storylines in a meaningful way. "Corrie" is having a tough enough time finding things to do with it's curent lineup of older female characters (Rita and Audrey) whose screentime has been noticably reduced in recent years.

[@johnrider5701]

Back when coronation street was a gritty soap and not a shitty soap..

[@lyndaoneill6483]

Great, great old episodes So many good old actors, fun and games all over again.

[@connielincoln8681]

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

[@ianstrange5674]

Annie Walker was incredibly snooty....rather like Mrs Thatcher.🙄

[@unclejoe7958]

Ian Strange growing up in the 70’s and 80’s I couldn’t stand that woman. Everything about her.

[@mikeelmira]

Uncle Joe I liked her after Jack died

[@ardennite1]

Yes; wonderful, isn’t it !

[@mikeelmira]

Episodes she is in are among my favorites .

[@darganx]

I agree, of the same age watching in the 70/80s she used to irritate! Only through watching these old episodes can I appreciate how Doris Speed really amped up her role. Like a legend of the silent screen in her own delusional world..

[@londonlady227]

Mrs Walker soon forgot her words spoken in the hospital (coach crash) to Hilda about being a friend rather than a employee. And doing that today, suspending someone on suspicion of theft without any evidence....that would result in a huge lawsuit.

[@ysgol3]

Val's so gorgeous. And nowadays Ken NEVER mentions her.

[@damiencrowley5546]

The thing is time goes on and people become a faded memory when there's that much going on in the present day. I sometimes forgot about people I knew in the 80s and 90s but occasionally get a reminder.

[@ysgol3]

@@damiencrowley5546 Well, yes, but he was MARRIED to her !

[@jonathanyoung4605]

Anne Reid, she was in dinner ladies too ;) took he awhile to remember where i had seen her before.

[@ysgol3]

@@jonathanyoung4605 And she's now in the wonderful Last Tango In Halifax.

[@mikeelmira]

@@ysgol3 and mother of his children,. Ken said at his last marriage to Deirdre that she was the only woman he ever loved , I thought , what about Val?

[@chrismanning675]

Langtons hair and sideburns are on their journey.

[@lyndaoneill6483]

These oldies are brilliant.They look so young loving them.

[@cbbrownclaire62]

Lovely dialogue between Ray and Emily about love and marriage.

[@andrewsmith4242]

The good old days of Coronation Street.

[@shaunw9270]

I was born in '69 and watched Corrie since I was a little kid .. I never knew the Ogdens had a daughter . Great stuff 👌

[@Frank-ww5qq]

They also had a son named Trevor he came back when Stan died

[@glynnevans1851]

@@Frank-ww5qq hi Joyce, your correct but did thee Ogden daughter Erma marry David Barlow ' kens brother n David had a serious road accident. Kind regards Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands 🤗🤗

[@nosmoking4933]

Love these old episodes. Never seen mrs walkers husband or even betty's husband. I never even knew the ogdens had kids! When I watched it in the 1980s I don't think I ever seen their kids at all.

[@williamf4544]

4 kids Trevor ,Irma (real name Freda) ,Sylvia , and another boy whose name i cant remember - we only ever seen Irma and Trevor tho the other two had been taken into care before the Ogdens moved into the street

[@shaunw9270]

Me too ! I watched in the 70's & 80's and they never seemed to mention their children ,so I presumed they had none .

[@shaunw9270]

@@williamf4544 Interesting , thanks !

[@alexanderjones9572]

Who else has been Googling past characters ( Florrie Lindley, Christine Hardman, Martha Longhurst, Harry Hewitt) just to see what they’ve looked like in COLOUR?

[@user-gv5bs3os5i]

Pat Phoenix never seams to age she would have 46 in this episode still a good ĺooker and as for ray langton i never could stand him

[@alisongrace4334]

I love Doris Speed. Brilliant actress.

[@michellefalleur960]

She really is, really inhabited that part, absolutely brilliant, as you say.

[@pauldg837]

Well she enjoyed a very long life, considering back then the average lifespan was a lot shorter than it is today. She lived until she was 95. I can remember back then, that most working people only lived a few years past the retirement age of 65. So she did very well.

[@martin123abcd]

Deformation of character brilliant line

[@Muninman]

ironic words from Jack Walker (Arthur Leslie) given that he was dead 6 months after this episode...

[@jasbegs1258]

Really enjoyed this- thanks for sharing.

[@jameskeeth4037]

Deformation. Hilda was fabulous

[@corinnewoolley9822]

Pat Phoenix always thought she was the irreplaceable star in Corrie, insisted on a more expensive wardrobe, silly really, she was mostly single and had minimum wage jobs as Elsie, she would never be able to afford them, she was very popular and greatly missed, died too young.

[@glynnevans1851]

Your so right Corinne. Pat Phoenix was a One Off and very professional and not ego driven like they r today .I always thought Elsie was mega Sexy and would have luved to see her n Len get wed They always had a Crush on each other sadly it wasn't in the script. Kind regards Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands 🤗🤗

[@williamf4544]

She was irreplaceable

[@angelamarsters9169]

I believe Pat Phoenix turned up in her own outfits and insisted on wearing them information from her documentary

[@seamusellis1450]

She played a Blackpool landlady in a comedy called Constant Hot Water after she left Corrie...sadly I believe it's presumed to be wiped?

[@anonUK]

​@@seamusellis1450 I'm guessing the title was the best joke in the series.

[@bojack40]

Bernard is Renee from Allo Allo 😂😂😂😂

[@anonUK]

Gorden Kaye

[@connielincoln8681]

😂

[@ysgol3]

Brilliant scene between Ena and Jack, purely character driven, in which Ena refers to her last, less than pleasant words to her daughter without needing to mention her name.

[@Sarah-z1f6c]

What was wrong with Ray?

[@greggildersleeve3484]

Injured in the coach crash that occurred in the 29 Oct 1969 episode.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Didn’t realise there were any colour 60s episodes! Nearly up to this one-can’t wait!

[@crevrath7374]

Corries first Colour ep was just before this in November 1969 . Then for a few months in late 1970 till early 1971 it temporarily went back to Black n White due the ITV Colour strike.

[@roderickscott7429]

Shame sandra had a lttle stumble with her line about wheeling ray out the pub , it was funny , well worth a re-take ,

[@MultiJeangenie]

From the uploaded archived 60s episodes on this site they all fluffed their lines from time to time.

[@roderickscott7429]

@@leighbennett1961 can,t remember who she was now , it was 4 years now

[@Poisynn]

Damn again they jumped episodes just about gonna cry lol please find the lost episodes please please

[@jackplayz1116]

The colour is sick for 60s

[@dylankirby3935]

The vast majority of people wouldn’t have enjoyed it in colour though because they were so expensive.

[@brianmcneill1972]

do you have the previous episide when irma returns?

[@joanneadair9227]

Go on, Hilda. You tell her!

[@Rockthecasbah3535]

Stan was about 55 Years Young here Hilda was only 43 the difference with people of that age these days 😮

[@njf669x]

What happened to the necklace ..? love these early episodes :-)

[@dawnkeir549]

Turned out the lady whose necklace it was had came and got it without Annie knowing

[@ysgol3]

@@dawnkeir549 All Emily's fault as usual the cow.

[@PC-lu3zf]

Welcome to colour that’s what my mum said when it finally changed to real colour

[@kevinlongman007]

I'm wondering why when Val Barlow died it was in black and white. Was that during the ITV technicians strike?

[@unclejoe7958]

Kev L I remember one of Ken’s wives died in a house fire. It could have been Val.

[@kevinlongman007]

@@unclejoe7958 Yes it was Val. Since found out it was due to a strike.

[@geenasmith7209]

What year does she die? Is the episode on here?

[@kevinlongman007]

@@geenasmith7209 January 1971 and I have seen that episode on here somewhere.

[@scorpioguy3234]

Lol Poor ‘BerrrNerd’ Bernard that speach of ‘is... him & his sister were a bit strange

[@blue_cec2625]

this is the first time that the titles were finally in colour.

[@blue_cec2625]

or is it?

[@JM-bv4hc]

@BlueIsTher Lol

[@mikehudson8884]

I wonder what happened to the Ogdens stairs, the hallway looks different!!

[@swedishdissident3406]

As it was the first color episode it looks as though they had got round to adapting the scenery. The coulurs look drab perhaps because B&W needed higher contrast for back round. You will notice in the later epesodes 1970s when use of colour tv is established the scenery is optimised for coulor with brighter colours.

[@ysgol3]

Ken hasn't touched his horn since Val was fried.

[@greggildersleeve3484]

There was a story line shortly after Val's death when he hooked up with his old friend, Dave Robbins, and a drummer to form a trio. Their rehearsals drove Albert, who lived next door, nuts. But Dave and the drummer jilted Ken for another horn player. To my knowledge, that's the last time he played the horn.

[@ysgol3]

@@greggildersleeve3484 Valerie nearly ran off with Dave in about 1964 because of Kenneth's revolting nature, if only she had, she'd be living contentedly now on their pensions with no faulty hairdryer in sight.

[@greggildersleeve3484]

@@ysgol3 It's fun to speculate . . . given what I've seen of Dave, he would have gotten bored with Val and left her before long. Val and Ken were well-suited to each other.

[@markstevens9660]

Elsie Tanner cracks me up .... her clothes don’t match her home and Job/lifestyle ....🤷🏼‍♂️

[@carolineg1872]

I know, couture clothes yet she's always searching for the rent money.

[@SkyeandsSummer]

Got to love our Elsie 🤨🤨🤨

[@darganx]

Ideas way above her station, our Elsie

[@ysgol3]

LOL apparently she'd wear her own outfit no matter what the director said! That's power for you!

[@kelleycampbell4282]

didn't she work in a dress shop so got her clothes at a discount?

[@Rebekah347]

That artificial tree of the Barlows~!! LoL xx

[@murphy9039]

Ray was a bully.

[@stancrouch9642]

Len & Ray were made for each other.

[@darganx]

Ray was a snake - I wouldn't trust him round my girlfriend that's for sure.

[@ysgol3]

Why Kenneth doesn't chuck them all out, lock the doors, strip Valerie, then ignore Christmas and simply spend endless days rolling around with her I shall never ever understand.

[@teeteringonthebrink.305]

That's a very amusing comment and one I wholeheartedly agree with. Val (Anne Reid) was certainly a gorgeous lady.

[@ysgol3]

@@teeteringonthebrink.305 Aw, thank you - but please remember, I saw her first (possibly) so she's mine!!

[@teeteringonthebrink.305]

@@ysgol3 Well, okay. Just this once I'll step aside - but it is with great reluctance.

[@ysgol3]

@@teeteringonthebrink.305 That's wonderful of you. I assure you that you'll be welcome to speak to her, as long as I'm present of course🙃.

[@teeteringonthebrink.305]

@@ysgol3 That's very generous, thank you. I have just one question - does Ken have a say in any of this?

[@chrisnatmills7802]

that xmas tree looks a bit weedy

[@liambeasley4152]

Does anyone have the episodes 8th April 1970 1st February 1971 10th February 1975 1st October 1975

[@shashik8847]

Enjoying these so much

[@richardsharpe2966]

Gorden Kaye in Corrie played a barber but how long was he in Corrie for

[@jayrox40]

From 17th November 1969 to 29th June 1970. 37 episodes.

[@Newpegasuspainter]

Annie Walker was the prototype for Endora in Bewtiched.

[@alisongrace4334]

Alan Howard was not a ‘very good looking fella’ at all! Why they all kept saying it is beyond me.

[@Dabhach1]

He was one of a particular type of man who carried a certain cachet in post war Britain. Not so much the looks as the ability to project a kind of quiet maleness. Possibly it had something to do with the Second World War. The English are still fighting that one.

[@scorpioguy3234]

Alison Grace,i agree with you about Alan Howard, he wasn’t ugly looking, But he certainly wasnt handsome..there are traces of him probably looking a bit good in his youth but seeing him especially in color he has a jaundice looking face which would be about right considering that he was a severe alcoholic in real life he just looks so worn out like he’s been on a Binger in alot of episodes, sad really

[@annoldham3018]

Too be honest, the Street didn't have a great deal of talent. A girl couldn't be too fussy!😆

[@cbbrownclaire62]

I think Alan Howard was very handsome, good figure, tall, nice eyes.

[@mariabrabiner7491]

Fab episode, thank you. Elsie is fab. Can we have more of December 69, especially New Years Eve please

[@SueGarden]

Emily looks after Ray she was different in the 60s but she still got the power SU garden

[@SueGarden]

Ray never told dee if he lost of nerves of his feet issues poor fella until Ray wearing platforms oh dear SU garden

[@darganx]

It's René from Allo Allo! I hardly noticed.

[@jennalewis2671]

Have you got 1st December 1969

[@momsterous]

As soon as they went colour they realized how "hot" the sets looked and aged/toned the green stripe wallpaper in the pub and changed the wood colour. :D At one point in the bus crash episode, Betty matched the hospital curtains perfectly; that would never happen now.

[@ianstrange5674]

😂

[@michealbrett1983]

10/10

[@markstevens9660]

Was len in the village people 😜 ..🕺💃🕺

[@SkyeandsSummer]

LOL

[@mikeelmira]

I hate the way they decorated Christmas trees

[@darganx]

That tree reminds me of mine when I was a kid 😁😁😁

[@londonlady227]

It looks as anemic and as insipid as Ken.

[@paulmartin3682]

I was 14 month old when this was aired

[@PacyMitchEditz]

I wasn't born until 53 years later in September of 2004 so I watch the old episode

[@PacyMitchEditz]

I remember every episode from 2008-now tho

[@alliemaria532]

Was 9 months old when this was on

[@eileenlocke7877]

Luv it

[@danrobinson572]

My wife was 3 weeks old on this date.

[@drssexy2142]

nobody cares about your stat

[@swedishdissident3406]

It is tanks to people like Stan Hogden the uk needs immigrants. However he is a likable roug.

[@drssexy2142]

thanks, Ogden, likeable, rogue

[@happiness4812]

Ooohh I get it! He's work shy so someone has to lend a hand😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nosmoking4933]

Ha ha Len seems to forget his lines at 18.22 😁

[@ysgol3]

LOL - maybe though he delayed his line because Betty arrived a little late.

[@MultiJeangenie]

Just like I said to roderick scott, from the uploaded archived 60s episodes I've watched on KZbin, they all fluffed their lines from time to time.

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

@ Nosmo King: Peter Adamson, who portrayed Len, had just conquered his alcoholism so he hesitated over the pints line because he knew from experience what drinking could do. I read this in Patricia Phoenix's autobiography.

[@Poisynn]

What happened to David Barlow Irma husband

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

@ Azymus XIII: He emigrated to Australia then died in a road accident along with his young son Darren.

[@cliveevans9795]

Have you. Got.the episode where the mission gets demolished or the one where Valerie.barlow dies

[@lucyjane103]

Ogdens daughter seemed mis cast. She looks too old, and her square face and nose , too many hair extensions, just didn't fit, I think...

[@bitlikethat]

“Oh not another one”.... is this young nan from Catherine Tate? ????????

[@stevenhighams4190]

Irma was there before Stan and Hilda.

[@JonHunt1969]

This is Corrie in colour [1969]

[@excelents]

21:58 4th Wall Break.

[@josephlenehan4461]

Joe and 😀🇮🇪

[@happiness4812]

17:36 can i have a pint Jack? You tell her Stan😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Julia-hs7vh]

Turn on subtitles. You're welcome.

[@hollandwawasan1221]

😂😅

[@jennymartinez4051]

1932. AND. AND. AND. AND. IN. FLASHES. COLOR. AND. (1932). AND. AND. AND. AND.

[@jennymartinez4051]

1932.