Coronation Street - April 1978

[@bernadetteaspinall6710]

Thanks for all the 70s episodes .. a pure joy

[@EveEve5]

Thank you for another 70s episode, my favourite decade X 🌟

[@jackwatson3944]

Why

[@EveEve5]

@@jackwatson3944 Likeable and relatable characters with simple and believable storylines.

[@mikehudson8884]

@@EveEve5 Exactly so.

[@mrsWELCOME008]

Thanks for this, I am sooooooo grateful - 1978 and 1979 had some hilarious episodes.

[@mikehudson8884]

Watch them while you can. Other fans have taken the time to post these wonderful episodes in three hour blocks only to be taken off by You Tube. I can't understand why when so many people like myself enjoy them so much more than the ones today.

[@professionalgun6674]

@@mikehudson8884 Those were my monthly blocks, I was the first Mike and YT took them away.

[@mikehudson8884]

@@professionalgun6674 It was and is much appreciated. Takes me back to a happier time. What we watched and listened to in our youth. It's a very good tonic.

[@RianSiniscalco]

@@professionalgun6674 wanted to say a personal Thankyou for these amazing uploads!! I’m currently off work going through a bought of depression. I was born in 92 so obviously never seen the glory years and watching these episodes are the highlight of my days right now

[@harbster2]

I agree. So funny. Better than today's "comedy's".

[@theresapierce3934]

These old episodes knock spots off today's crap.

[@andywright3450]

Your so right there deffo

[@ellenjohnson3346]

I don't even watch Corrie anymore,havnt for years,they spoilt it when they started to do murders and them getting away with it and just the general change in storylines,was or is anyone happy anymore,totaly destroyed what them brilliant writers in the early years did,so really treat to watch the good stuff again,thank you,but I do have to say what they used to say back then they wldnt get away with now,Ray lantern calling his wife speccie four eyes? I hated Ray Lantern and so glad when he was gone,arrogant pain in the neck,never liked him,he was a horrible man.

[@Keepingitrespectfulmostly.]

Last time I ever bothered watching Corrie. Was when Ena Sharples, Albert Tatlock, Stan and Hilda Ogden, Eddie Yates, Mrs Walker etc were in it. The Golden years of Corrie for me.

[@nitad4203]

Thank you so much for taking the time to upload these great episodes.

[@JulieConway-p3o]

Im 43 and love these old episodes thanks

[@stevenhighams4190]

The way Bet played Renee and Alf was pure genius.

[@5gx673]

And Stan and Hilda 😁

[@glamdolly30]

Bet was such a naughty minx - utterly shameless how she manipulated poor Alf and Renee and wouldn't move out. Of course the newlyweds didn't want that bottle- blonde cuckoo sharing their cramped nest, as Bet well knew! They were a middle aged childless couple, who found themselves with a very annoying, deluded 'teenage daughter' in the shape of Bet Lynch - very unfair! I did enjoy the way Bet mercilessly teased and flirted with cuddly teddy bear Alf though. And even better, when he got his revenge by pretending he fancied her. He scared her to death. Priceless!

[@glamdolly30]

The character Mavis Riley turned 40 in April 1978, but in reality the actress who played her, Thelma Barlow, turned 49 on 19th June that year. Thelma is 4 years older than Barbara Knox (Rita Fairclough/Tanner), who turned 90 on 30th September 2023. Rita is still in Coronation Street and Barbara has played her for over 50 years, making her the second longest-serving soap actor in the world after William Roache, who has played Ken Barlow since Corrie's first ever episode in December 1960. At time of writing (October 2023), I'm thrilled to say Thelma Barlow is still with us, aged 94, living in beautiful Dorset.

[@bethshields4903]

Such a great pair.

[@dalemale]

I really enjoy this show. I wish it was streaming somewhere,.

[@samclements8567]

Thanks for uploading these episodes really enjoy all of them

[@stevensharks3256]

The good day's 70s

[@philstrachan]

Thank you so much for posting these videos! I'm reliving my childhood! Coronation Street aired in Australia, not sure how far behind we were, and ran for many years then they suddenly stopped. A few years later it continued running - can't remember how kong - then was axed again. With the introduction of streaming services, we can see it inline now. I'm 56 and these episodes are sooo long ago but am loving seeing them again. I went to Granada in 1990 and had a tour of the Street and a pint in the Rovers. 🇦🇺📺🎭✨️👏👍🍻

[@PJ1996-y5r]

1976 was a great year 💯

[@paullynton-green6570]

The best summer l can remember.

[@lyn4108]

I'm 50, just😂I was born in 1974 think they was a heatwave then, I grew up watching Corrie, always with cuppa tea or mam would watch while doing her ironing, I love going back in time and even earlier than I remember x

[@katy4779]

"Lyin' there with yer gob open like an extinct volcano" Hilda was hilarious. 😄😄😄

[@OliverClothesofff]

Lol, I read this comment as Hilda was saying it! Love this show!

[@katy4779]

@@OliverClothesofff 😄😄😄

[@cise748]

Thank you from Australia, I’ve always wanted yo watch this show and it’s thanx to you tgat I’m now able to get to know everyone x

[@lorraineydays57]

Watching from the Emerald Isle for the second time round, loving the trip back in time.👍

[@roderickscott7429]

remaining episodes are 10th, 12th, 17th, 19th, 24th and 26th. ( april 3 , Baldwins factory for sale. april 5 ,Len booted off council. )

[@algie-t2w]

Len's entire work in the Yard only ever consists of picking up a bit of wood, looking along it's length and then putting it down.

[@sherylbarker9465]

Lol, my exact thoughts

[@zoyablake9538]

😂😂😂 yes!

[@loonylinda]

thanks i love the brill 70;s episodes

[@williamf4544]

IM FORTY TOMORROW - one of the many many top funny moments we got from Corrie back then

[@francesgillotti1378]

Mavis looks way older than 40

[@williamf4544]

@@francesgillotti1378 A lot of people looked older back then - trying to look young was frowned upon and people gossiped about you calling you things like mutton dressed as lamb or a cheap floosy of course its gone to the other extreme now with old ladies like Amanda Holden and Carol Vorderman wearing skirts up to their hedgehogs and flashing their big boobies pretending theyre real

[@stevenhighams4190]

Brilliant!

[@Scottfree166]

@@francesgillotti1378 Thelma Barlow, who plays Mavis was born in June 1929, so when this was filmed she was almost 49 years old, having her playing a 40 year old was stretching credibility slightly, lol 😂

[@ddrose06]

Poor Hilda. She had absolutely nothing in her life except other people's dirty laundry.

[@KuchiKopi179]

I know Thelma Barlow was 49 in the episode, but have to admit people looked so much older back then. Nowadays the average 50 year old looks 40-45, probably because of the environment they grew up in, better food and health and skincare being shoved down everyone's throat.

[@sanderslongdrive]

England used to be a major manufacturer and many of the jobs were brutally hard and work environments noxious. Such caused premature ageing and early death. My family were employed by British Steel and the environment often so foul that washing could not be hung out to dry. My grandfather died age 32 and my uncle not much older. His job was to wheel a wheelbarrow containing 4 cwt. (204 kg.) of iron ore which alone he had to manually tip. His wage in the 1960s was around £20. per week out of which he purchased his work wear. There was no safety clothing or safety anything! Food was then actually more natural, good, and wholesome. (If interested read 'Bygone Stanton,' by Danny Corns and Andrew Knighton).

[@glamdolly30]

@@sanderslongdrive Wow, fascinating, real history, thanks for sharing. Dying in your 30s due to hard manual labour literally wearing out your body before its time is brutal, but it happened a lot. No welfare state back then. If men didn't work, their families didn't eat. And a visit to the doctor was beyond most pockets, so only if a child was desperately ill was medical attention even considered. It's a cliche I know, but people don't know they're born today.

[@bethshields4903]

@@glamdolly30so true. The working classes just didn’t matter. It’s very sad , and unfair.

[@ddrose06]

Oh look! Derek's made a fool out of Mavis. He makes a fool out of her several times, before she marries the collosal flaming Burke. After they're married, he makes a fool out of her, every fortnight, like clockwork.

[@glamdolly30]

I was annoyed when Mavis finally married dreary Derek, he was such a get to her over the years, he really didn't deserve her. I'm not surprised they killed him off, even the writers got bored of him!

[@Chillmax]

Triple Snowball, that'll do me, Christmas every year!!

[@joegee6434]

Whatever Alf wants, Alf gets. Reeny should learn to say no.

[@kathystahl4690]

Seems Rita spend as much effort in her own marriage instead of Mavis n Dorie

[@samba3968]

I’m just advising people to Use an external hardrive or a usb. Because I guarantee you that this will be taken down in months to come. Because a few years ago someone managed to have every single Corrie episode from 1960-2019 so I would advise that if you ever want to return to watching these old Corrie episodes and big storylines that you use an external hardrive or a usb.

[@KuchiKopi179]

True😊

[@glamdolly30]

Can you save the episodes from KZbin then???

[@connielincoln8681]

I've downloaded most of the episodes on my you tube channel so I can save and watch later so lucky

[@kevinwearing7720]

Must be something about that ale served in the Rovers, several of the cast members have lived into their 80's and 90's

[@Mitch87121]

Any chance of early 70s please I have been loving them thank you 😊

[@TheGlassman63]

Yes that would be great. Problem is we would have to infiltrate the Granada vaults to do so, with the exception of a handful each year that were released on DVD. Only episodes from the 5th April 1976 onwards that were screed by the satellite tv channel Granada Plus are generally available. This carried on until Granada Plus ended with the 9th Feb 1994 the final show they screened.

[@rabbit64sj91]

@@TheGlassman63 that's very interesting to know. The Granada Plus end date was my 30th birthday, rather interestingly. ☺

[@Mitch87121]

@Sodham G'morris thank u ☺️

[@Mitch87121]

@@TheGlassman63 it would be awesome

[@glamdolly30]

There are some early seventies eps to be found on YT - also the excellent 'Daily Motion' website.

[@shylinh5939]

Bet looks great playing a well behaved demure girl, toned down makeup, hair band, pearls, tiny earrings, buttons done up to the neck and not a flash of leopard print.

[@christinefougere]

Well behaved!!!! All that stirring between Hilda and Stan. Suckholing Alf and Renee because she knows they want her gone.

[@christinefougere]

Imagine in 1978 you couldn't make noise in a resedential neighbourhood. Boy have times changed, every single car now has boom boxes blaring and motorcycles have mufflers that sound like gunshots going off all night, lol. There is so much noise in resendial neighbourhoods now people are flocking to the bush.

[@ginagina9720]

I wonder what year the cafe was introduced onto the street? I remember my mam watching these old ones in the 70s so many fond memories

[@gilliangrant8764]

Mrs Seddon, Kevin Webster's future mother in law in the court house talking to Rita!

[@glamdolly30]

Wow, good catch! Corrie was always recycling actors like that. Earlier this year Alf and Renee visited a jewellers to buy her engagement ring, and were served by none other than Peter Dudley - who came back in 1979 as Bert Tilsley. The horrid councillor who wanted Ena evicted from her home this year also returned as a different character - Emily's bigamous husband Arnold Swain.

[@seansmith445]

So, Emily is supposed to be a committed Christian and yet she broke one on the Ten Commandments here by telling a direct lie 21:13 Tut tut.

[@mineshshah9214]

Ray was a nasty piece of work!

[@williamf4544]

Thats the type i go for - mores the pity

[@ddrose06]

I never liked Ray. There was nothing to like.

[@williamf4544]

@@ddrose06 I can understand why derdrie went for him - some people like a partner that needs taming - almost like a challenge - and to be fair no one filled a shirt or pair of jeans quite like him back then on the street

[@ddrose06]

@@williamf4544 I'll take your word for it. To me, he had nothing going for him. I mean to say, he wasn't even that much of a drinking partner, when he was with his "mates," at the pub. You never see him making merry, laughing and getting others laughing. He always seemed to be on his guard, and for the life of me, I can't see why Len took some much buck, from Ray.

[@anothercomment]

A pure narcissist he was. The scene where Elsie hits him with her bag in the Rovers was a classic; he deserved it.

[@imthedaddy3477]

9.42. They must have needed scaffolding to change the lightbulb.

[@francesgillotti1378]

Where does Rita cook the Bacon butties ? It seems odd to cook in a dark room with no windows.😅

[@glamdolly30]

That 2 table cafe round the back of the Kabin was ridiculous. Whoever heard of a caff in a newsagents?!

[@timmytrimble4069]

Dont ask how The Rovers function room fits in next to the snug.

[@paullynton-green6570]

It's Ronnie rycott.

[@jayrox40]

Can you post May 1978 please.

[@liamoification]

Imagine a court case like this in this day and age! It would be laughed out of court.

[@James-zw6wb]

A trial in search of a crime. The whole premise was contrived and, yes, laughable.The lawyer for the crown behaved as if he were prosecuting a capital murder. Way over the top.

[@pigknickers2975]

Stan as man-about-town sex symbol is just too funny. So well played, Lynch rubbing it in so well.

[@johnlarkin3821]

"She's not the only 'uzzy wot wears that muck ... it"s tuppence a bucket full..." there's a whole play in one line from Hilda ...

[@Leonie-h2e]

Yes thankyou I've had a few! Hour entertainment

[@juliewhitead5257]

Coronation Street at it best

[@nandsall9492]

Its amazing how much air-time Mavis and Derek took over the years to achieve next to nothing

[@francesgillotti1378]

Does Len have curvature of the spine ?

[@KuchiKopi179]

No, I think he just out on weight with age.

[@glamdolly30]

He's a very strange shape I agree, hard to see how he got the role when Len was supposed to be such a hit with women. He's a warty little toad! And why are his shirts always unbuttoned to the waist? SHUDDER!

[@swaggerjagg22]

Rita and Mavis make me laugh ahahah

[@Chillmax]

Derrick's Beryl unfortunately didn't retain leading roles after this, shame. You can often see her as an extra in the background, or perhaps as a non speaking actor. If I recall rightly she was in AbFab, where Patsy & Edina attack her in the street, in a road rage incident, very funny, but stupidly cut by the BBC in later transmissions due to similar stories in the news.

[@williamf4544]

I dont believe for one minute poor Len said those disgusting things to that policewoman

[@Handlebar-MustDash]

'Ooooorse Linament!' 😂

[@shaneobrien2257]

“By ‘eck/by the ‘eck” count….. 347.

[@michealbrett1983]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@williamf4544]

I liked Ray - walking about with his big tool box

[@notonyournelly5475]

but your name is William

[@williamf4544]

@@notonyournelly5475 Yes - whats your point exactly ?

[@glamdolly30]

@@williamf4544 LOL!!!!

[@LFnDC]

All I see are tight pants - and not much else. Give me Steve - based on his nose profile.

[@francesgillotti1378]

Black pudding 🤮🤢the blood of an innocent animal 😢

[@KuchiKopi179]

🙄

[@MyMargo111]

Yummy

[@marieince1479]

couldnt stand alf rita or dreary boy they get on my nerves .

[@francesgillotti1378]

Don’t kill the ducks bread will make them ill.

[@KuchiKopi179]

Umm, a lot of ducks and swans have died due to starvation because people stopped feeding them bread (they thought like you btw). Yes, while bread isn't chocked full of nutrition, at least it will make sure the poor birds aren't starving to death. New guidelines says to feed them only as much as they can eat, this ensures the uneaten bread doesn't rot and cause algae to grow everywhere, also stops rats I suppose.

[@susi-emily]

@@KuchiKopi179 Thank you for that bit of common sense. As someone who worked in bird rescue, I know it is perfectly ok to give ducks, geese, swans, etc. bread. For one thing, they enjoy it. Try feeding bread to a grebe, or a heron and you'll find they won't eat it because they don't like it. Ducks and swans love bread. Incidentally, the only reason word went around that bread is bad for water birds is because of biased research that was bought and paid for by a company who produces food for ducks and swans!

[@francesgillotti1378]

Don’t give ducks bread it upsets their tummy and makes them sick 🤮

[@susi-emily]

No, it doesn't.

[@carolmarsden5391]

I don't like ray langton

[@emobloom]

Rita is a bully

[@familypeters8316]

Tarra