0962 16th March 1970

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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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[@glamdolly30]

Love Elsie's big smile! She was a real STAR, just like the movie glamour girls of the 1950s - Liz Taylor, Crawford, Deitrich, Lollobrigida etc, she has that mystery & larger-thah-life magic.

[@BLTKellys]

Mystery? There was no mystery about Elsie Tanner. Common as muck.

[@glamdolly30]

@@BLTKellys Pat Phoenix, the actress who breathed life and magic into the character of Elsie Tanner had huge charisma. That was my point and her enduring popularity confirms it.

[@BLTKellys]

@@glamdolly30 You used the word 'mystery', which is laughable.

[@glamdolly30]

@@BLTKellys The biggest mystery here is your shitty attitude. Is it just Pat Phoenix who upsets you or all successful, popular women?

[@patriotictwinsuk5484]

@@BLTKellys hold on a minute, didn’t Elsie have a bit of a voice, every now and again she would sing and it was glorious.

[@annoldham3018]

At home my Stan is corseted! What an episode that would be. 😁

[@Frank-ww5qq]

thank you love this era of corrie

[@liamb8644]

Elsie simply radiates in this episode.

[@firebyrd437]

I was a child when this aired. I can't remember it, I never watch Coronation Street now, haven't for years, this was from a time of simple entertainment without, sex, swearing and violence

[@londonlady227]

Pat really was glorious, they lit her very well. Everyone else in a scene with her withered in her shadow although Anne Reid held her own.

[@ysgol3]

Kenneth the Philosopher King being as boring as he still is 50+ years later.

[@londonlady227]

He was a smug git then and a smug git now.

[@ysgol3]

@@londonlady227 Yes, and he saw the wondrous Valerie naked thousands of times. There is no God, there is no justice 😭.

[@jstewart3517]

Wishy washy never excepts fault never raised 1 of his many off spring but sure knew everything 😊

[@paulchristopher3887]

Dont you just love Hilda. Some of the things shes says are dynamite

[@patriotictwinsuk5484]

Paul Christopher Hilda Hogden was a very special actress, very talented.

[@patriciachambers1323]

Love coronation street Elsie tanner fabulous actress

[@GreenerHill]

Manchester's Sophia Loren. :)

[@amyclarke41]

good acting then 😁

[@SkyeandsSummer]

Nobody does it like Elsie she was one of the greatest on Corrie 😎😎😎

[@glamdolly30]

@@SkyeandsSummer Agreed, Pat was a special actress - glam, charismatic, much loved & above all, a true STAR & those are very rare!

[@gordonbennett5638]

Yes she was a well loved character but Pat Phoenix was not a good actress.

[@briandelaney9710]

“Morning comrade ! Hey no politics ‘ere!”

[@glamdolly30]

Did Jack Walker die this year - it was very quick & I believe he had disappeared by Christmas 1970? Very sad, he was a popular actor & much loved by the cast.

[@andyrob3259]

Correct. June 1970.

[@artemiszeus9735]

He died on holiday.

[@londonlady227]

30th June Cardigan, Wales of a heart attack. Arthur Leslie was the first character to be written out of the soap and his character's funeral took place off screen, 8 July 1970, unlike some other screen characters. Doris Speed considered leaving to but was persuaded to stay. Leslie Arthur is buried in Blackpool. His son, Tony Broughton, went on to appear on several episodes of Corrie in 4 different roles in the 90's and 00's.

[@glamdolly30]

@@londonlady227 Thanks so much for the info, very interesting background and much appreciated. Thank God Doris Speed was persuaded to stay - she really came into her own once the character Annie was a widow, running the Rovers single handed. Had she left, we'd have missed out on some of Corrie's finest plots and scenes. Doris Speed was a wonderful actress - it's very sad she didn't get the big exit storyline she deserved, due to unfortunate circumstances in her personal life including a burglary. If ever a character deserved a grand exit, it was Annie Walker!

[@malimbep4298]

​@@andyrob3259The month and year I was born. 😊

[@alanberkeley7282]

Jack Howarth was actually in the Army in the First World War!

[@baronmeduse]

I didn't know Gorden Kaye (aka Rene Artois of 'Allo 'Allo) had been in Corrie. 1970 is a couple of years before I started watching. Hilda's correction from 'corseted' to 'cosseted', comedy gold.

[@jasbegs1258]

Got the impression he was a "Denis" stand in- trying to re-create that kind of comedy character.

[@andyrob3259]

I often come across many people that later became stars in their own shows in Corrie that I never knew were in it. Most in the 60’s.

[@shaunwakefield9793]

Elise always Dressed to kill

[@aidenajarvis6808]

Most of what she wore, was her own clothing

[@glamdolly30]

Hilda's terrible wig LMAO! She's actually a pretty lady. & Betty was fairly slim here. Betty's hubby was played by the real life hubby of Mollie Sugdeh - who also starred from time to time as Mrs Walker's rival pub lady Mrs Harvey.

[@bojack40]

glamdolly20 Nellie Harvey if I remember correctly 😄

[@gilliangrant8764]

Cyril Turpin also had another catch phrase "Language Timothy" in the sitcom Sorry.

[@glamdolly30]

@@gilliangrant8764 Oh yes, I found some episodes of the Ronnie Corbett sitcom 'Sorry' on KZbin recently - the actress Cheryl Murray who played Corrie's Suzie Birchall was in one of them! Small world!

[@jstewart3517]

Annie'svis more laughable guess no stylish on the set

[@paulmajor8865]

I would like to see the 18th, May 1970 episode herd the storyline was brill

[@MrJames1keene]

Love the way the camera zooooms in on a actors exspression s 😀

[@michaelgregory8322]

Len, plz get rid of that stupid tash,

[@th8257]

coronation street is such great social history. Looking at so many of the older episodes, it's clear that there's a huge gender divide in a way that there just isn't now. Men and women pushed to keep very separate socially.

[@jaynestagg9460]

Love uncle Albert😃

[@patriotictwinsuk5484]

Jayne Stagg hello Albert, I’ll have half.

[@GreenerHill]

Jack Walker and Albert Tatlock - brothers? They looked very similar. :)

[@scorpioguy3234]

Eee Hilda chuck, Where did you get that dreadful wig? LOL

[@ingridogilvie3664]

Albert Tatlock, always got to mention the war.Does,n't matter what the conversation is he will make a point to bring it up. I mean, wasn't he the only one fighting, i think he was.

[@stevencassidy6982]

This is jack walker s last year

[@nelliedailey1917]

Sad. He was a gentleman.

[@williamf4544]

@@nelliedailey1917 Yes thats the word that came to mind for me too but you beat me to it

[@andyrob3259]

He was dead in June.

[@annoldham3018]

Would love to have seen him first time round. Love these episodes as I get to meet Jack, Valerie, Irma and David (man from Picture Box!) as I missed out on them. Only vaguely remember Alan, Jerry and Lucille from 70s so got to know them better too.

[@BNCA70]

The lighting's the same in every scene - uncosiest pub in Britain!

[@jasbegs1258]

Great episode - a bit like a watered down carry on... but sterling work.

[@traciegullis6861]

Brilliant 👏

[@glamdolly30]

Mr Kaye later of 'Allo Allo' fame - hilarious that the sitcom had him play a lothario with females after him everywhere. This early role shows he was always as gay as a goose!

[@nosmoking4933]

Is betty's husband the one that played the father in the tv comedy series sorry?

[@johnmangham2802]

Language Timothy!

[@cooperlee1]

Love that era was that greengrass from heartbeat .. the music buyer?

[@darganx]

Bill Maynard, The Gaffer.. always one for a laugh!

[@dyanehowland7084]

Hilda looks fab in a wig 😮

[@carcrashncrazy]

Anyone know where I can find episode 1002 with valerie leigh playing Irene Barnes 26th August 1970, much appreciated.

[@stevewynnearts]

Its sounds like i dreamt it but i used to hang around in a boozer with one of the writers in corrie.got some ideas there alright.

[@ohuntermc9321]

Do you by any chance have 13th April 1970?

[@craig1538]

Buggernation Street.

[@cn4936]

Len Fairclough with a tash? Nooooo

[@jasonbrooks6562]

Barlow was thought,boring even back then.

[@laurallama73]

Ken Barlow was perfect for those women who didn’t need a guy with an ounce of machismo.

[@alliemaria532]

Barlow was born boring still is

[@glamdolly30]

Yes & he was always so bloody pleased with himself!

[@glamdolly30]

@Alberto You're not alone!

[@huiawalker203]

Very hypocritical.Took the high ground but always mucked around on all his wives

[@paulmajor8865]

Do you have the episode when Cyril got Keith in the yard

[@williamf4544]

Never seen that episode but wish i had - i always thought that Cyril character was that way inclined

[@PoliticalSligo]

william f how dare you scurrilous about Cyril Turpin like that! He adored his wife Betty!

[@londonlady227]

10:44 Selwyn Froggitt actor Bill Maynard.

[@ysgol3]

Poor Valerie - fantastic puppies and less than a year to live.

[@dianewalker4633]

The character was killed off, but not Anne Reid who is the person playing the character. She is still alive today. Given the nature of your comment you probably don't realise that Val isn't a real person.

[@ysgol3]

@@dianewalker4633 WOW ??? Seriously ??? No, really truly seriously, you sound like a half- wit. You may possibly not be one, so why sound like one??

[@MarkGenner-xz4zu]

11:48 End Of Part One ❤

[@KeithDeley]

Annie walker, wig on

[@nathanlee5182]

Did people really eat tinned stews and tinned fruit in those days???

[@honeylambb9864]

@Nathan Lee - In Canada, we did eat tinned fruit in the winter because getting fresh fruit was very expensive and impossible to find if you lived in small isolated villages. Apples and oranges were plentiful all year round but it was common not to see fresh peaches and pears and other fruits until at least well into springtime. As for fruit like watermelon, that was impossible to find until at least the end of June. We did do our own canning but that was mostly for jelly, jams and relish. People were still making fresh stews for the most part but things like tinned stews and frozen TV dinners were just starting to become popular. Women were just starting to go into the workforce in 1970, so tinned and frozen foods were becoming more popular because of convenience.

[@bojack40]

Yes. Ask anyone over fifty to tell you what ‘Cling peaches’ and Carnation milk tasted like?

[@gordonbennett5638]

They still do.

[@cbbrownclaire62]

There was much less choice in shops in those days, and tinned fruit was mainly peaches. But people were generally all slim in those days and didn't eat all day long like they do now.

[@patriotictwinsuk5484]

We ate tinned fruit and custard, my Nann made trifles and jelly also. My mum and Dad divorced around that time, so later that year I was pushing 9 and a half, by then I was living with my Dad and he worked, so I had to make my way to my nann’s after school, she cooked home made stuffed lamb hearts, all sown up to stop the stuffing leaking out, steamed steak puddings in those white bowls with string tying up the Muslin so it was sealed, everything was home cooked, but some families were different, they may have taken tinned stews, we are from the working class part of Paddington W9. Then we would watch Coronation Street, after dinner was all cleaned up, every single one of them were unbelievable characters, looking back I can see the working classes still had pride back then, but the rot of cultural Marxism had already set in.

[@jstewart3517]

Annie is a controlling, uncle albert is a control one hom and Annie should have been a pair 😅😅😅

[@amz0707]

Gosh Elsie looks scarily like Thatcher in these colour eps!

[@annoldham3018]

She would see herself as more of a Barbara Castle. 😆

[@amyclarke41]

ok tv

[@kathystahl4690]

The hair stylists n make up needs fired Anne's hair wig is 🤣🤣

[@chriswaring5565]

CLAUDE JEREMIAH GREENGRASS& AT 7:16 HE LOOKS LIKE FRED WEST

[@Lucy0809]

It now shows they should have never have got rid of Martha. Ogdens big mistake

[@nguyendailam6703]

Edited Copy

[@Lucy0809]

Elsie- worst acting ever!