1502 18 June 1975

[@Uksoapfan]

Ernest Bishop could be really nasty at times. Nice to have a brief return for Martha even in just voice form, Martha Longhurst I mean, not the boat woman who Ken dated 34 years later lol.

[@bethshields4903]

Ernest was a miserable bugger I think .

[@rogertemple7313]

"Martha's character was the third member of the trio of her,Ena & Minnie which added the humor but when actress who played was let go early on this was sort of tribute to the character with Betty seeing her ghost."-🤔. 🌐📻🌐.

[@popazz1]

Search on KZbin for Victoria Wood's excellent parody of the 3 women of the snug in Corrie. VW plays Ena, Julie Walters is Martha and Lil Rouhly plays Minnie. It's a damn good reproduction, down to the grainy black & white camera work and crackly sound. There's also a nod to Martha leaving the Street. Well worth a view.

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

'appen I might, John Paul Dixon, after I've riddled my klinkers and sided my pots. And make sure you don't set up in your own front room as a so called hairstylist.

[@jasbegs1258]

I notice in several episodes around this time they toyed with characters voices talking to themselves - Betty's in this episode, Gail in another. Not sure if this works, but def more innovative then.

[@murphy9039]

Yes, never seemed to happen since in Corrie, many '70s Corrie episodes had many occasions like this such as incidental music at Elsie and Alan's wedding in 1970 and again in the episode of Emily & Ernest's wedding in 1972 which also ended the episode with a jazzed up version of the Corrie theme.

[@stephenwoodman6015]

It would be fun to see the ghost of Martha Llonghurst !

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

I thought that in 1975. Did they? Like heck as like did they. I still haven't forgiven them.

[@connied2451]

Ray Langton's looking more and more like Little Lord Fauntleroy...

[@SUPER_WOLFMOON]

Totally ridiculous hair!

[@kanga888]

I think he was quite sexy back in the day

[@ericmaine]

and those jeans are SUPER tight!

[@SuperNapalm666]

@@ericmaine great bum

[@ZowieBBowie]

haha

[@RonMotta1972]

I love Ena and Minnie’s reactions. They know EXACTLY who Betty’s talking about as soon as they hear the words “snug” and “stout.”

[@vinniex3098]

I remember this particular episode. I was a little kid and I just recall Betty hearing voices in the pub…it scared me to death and I told my parents I wanted the light on when I went to bed!

[@mickeyh1961]

As usual Ken trying to discredit another's experience, refusing point blank the idea of the spirit world and possibility of life after death

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

Ken's always been The Street's version of Mr Logic from Viz comic.

[@londonlady227]

Why does everyone flock around Ken to get his opinion like he's some kind of guru?

[@sherylbarker9465]

Ken thinks he's a clever dick, he gets on my last nerve

[@stormhawk3319]

Despised Ken Barlow. Everything he said and did

[@seansmith445]

Not many still alive from this era.

[@roderickscott7429]

Ernie tripping over his line a little thats the effect Albert s moaning and grumping can have !

[@GeorgeyTheApe]

Shame they couldn't find a way to show the ghost or at least some kind of figure.

[@GeorgeyTheApe]

@Coronation Street Storyline Peter Susan how do you mean?

[@GeorgeyTheApe]

@Coronation Street Storyline Peter Susan There aren't that many clips from 1975 around.

[@GeorgeyTheApe]

@Coronation Street Storyline Peter Susan I can tell.

[@Uksoapfan]

Yes, seeing as the other poster went off on a tangent about a totally unrelated topic regarding Peter and Susan, I think it would have been good if Lynne Carol briefly reprised the role as a figure of Betty's imagination.

[@Sarah-z1f6c]

But Betty never met Martha Longhurst as she died before Betty joined the rovers

[@SUPER_WOLFMOON]

Ray's hair mop is hilarious!

[@alisongrace4334]

I had a bf with hairdo like that in 1974. Really ridiculous. I didn’t like it like that, even though it was the fashion. I’m not too keen on men’s fashionable haircuts now, either.

[@lindabiggs3905]

Was the fashion, look at 70s pop stars

[@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351]

Ray’s ‘Prince Valiant Hair’ is ridiculous, check out the episode with his (& Deirdre’s) wedding day (05/07/75, I think?) & his hair looks even worse than it does in this episode, believe it or not 🙈😂

[@bibakroll8999]

@@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351 Still far better than the nazi cuts British men have these days.

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

@@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351 He looked like he spent longer on his hair than Deirdre did on hers.

[@glamdolly30]

As I recall Corrie did a similar storyline after Ivy Brennan's death in the 1990s, with people saying they'd seen her ghost around. They didn't get Lynne Perrie back to be the ghost - should have done but I think they'd fallen out (she was sacked for having ridiculous cosmetic surgery on her lips that made her look like a trout). With that face she'd have made a very scary ghost!

[@alisongrace4334]

I remember that.

[@michaelprince5458]

Wish they would show that

[@alexanderjones9572]

Think they had a figure at the window (vague) of her and Don’s room, and Don looked up and heard a noise on the wind like ‘Donnn...’

[@gilliangrant8764]

Yes, Vera Duckworth saw Ivy's ghost on the landing of no. 5, which was Ivy's house. Then Don heard something at the window of their bedroom and Sarah Platt saw her waving at her from the bedroom window from across the street. The storyline just died after that, never to be mentioned again.

[@sconesindi2222]

Oh gosh and Jack did an exorcism! "Omnibus, minibus, Nintendo"! 😅

[@alexanderjones9572]

Not being pedantic, but Minnie saying she remembers seeing Martha’s glasses lying on that table-presumably when she died. How? Martha died at Frank Barlow’s party-and Minnie was away then!

[@darganx]

Minnie, or rather Margot the actress, refused to do the episode in protest of them killing off Martha's character.

[@Velasca]

Was she not on about the glasses that were knocking about in the previous episode?

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

Martha wasn't wearing her beret the night she died either, she was all dressed up with a Thornton's Continental on her head.

[@imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580]

I remember seeing this episode, when it was originally broadcast in 1975, I was too scared to go to bed! I was 5 years old though 😉

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

I was 11 and thought the show was going to get exciting.

[@JanePilkington]

Whenever you have an experience, people always try to prove it's a coincidence.

[@Sarah-z1f6c]

What happened to Deirdre and Billy’s June 1st wedding? 🎩 👰🏽

[@SkyeandsSummer]

Billy called it off and went Jersey to live

[@londonlady227]

She preferred Ray and married him only weeks later....I think Ken Farrington wanted to leave so they had to rewrite it..

[@mattsawyer343]

Sod off Ken!

[@christopherpeden1124]

Earnest: I don't want to get tiddly oh the times I've said that normally on my 8th pint

[@alexanderjones9572]

So Betty’s really stopping Bet having Thursday off because she covered for her after Martin (Bet’s son) died?

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

She's clutching at straws because she's scared.

[@jstewart3517]

Albert is enough to drive anyone bonker miserable old plank

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

Come on, Len, that was slander, not libel. Slander is Spoken, Libel is in Letters. Letters as in writing. I couldn't think of a better way of remembering than that.

[@darganx]

You learn something every day..

[@mattsawyer343]

Didn’t realise Ernie was a Tory!

[@SueGarden]

Poor dee always have issues untill she passed away 2015 nice one Anne 👍

[@DaveyC95]

Ken Barlow. A man who thinks he was better than everybody else, and supposedly well educated And yet, he spent his whole life living in Coronation Street Boring character, crap actor

[@londonlady227]

Bet to Betty about seeing Martha's ghost.."are you sure you weren't at th'optics"...

[@daros194]

Charles Foster dj! Later continuity announcer for Granada

[@SueGarden]

Auntie Corrie Ernest look like Norman a bit with the glass poor Emily had to take a man with glasses 😅😅

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Bette only gets one day off a week??!

[@alexanderjones9572]

Odd plot about the ghost. Why would Betty ( who never even knew Martha) suddenly imagine seeing her ghost? That’d be like on today’s Corrie Evelyn or Yasmin or someone suddenly imagining Vera’s ghost!

[@bsaunders5271]

You don't necessarily have to have known the person when they were alive, to see their ghost after they have passed..

[@darganx]

@@bsaunders5271 Exactly, that's the thing about ghosts.. you don't have to know them or else they wouldn't be scary!

[@michealbrett1983]

10/10

[@stevencassidy6982]

this is Susi Hush's worst episode

[@williamf4544]

I thought it was a good episode - the ghost of poor Martha Longurst oooooo creepy

[@glamdolly30]

Was Susi Hush the producer?

[@williamf4544]

@@glamdolly30 Sound like what they had for lunch in the green room if you ask me

[@annoldham3018]

Awful episode. Better off down t flyin orse!🐴🐴🐴

[@Del-yv1qy]

All a load of ....

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

Bet did say "t flyin orse" but "t" is Yorkshire! Lancashire is "th". I'm appalled.

[@londonlady227]

​@@gilgameshofuruk4060down flying th'orse....