Coronation Street - April 1983

[@bsaunders5271]

I love the fact that in those days, the action centred on middle aged people, and people in their thirties upward. Hardly a kid or teenager in sight, and I loved that about it.

[@02bher1]

Me too; and the actors were more passionate about their roles too. Today with Stephan going around killing people and kids drugging drinks in school dances and such it is awful to watch. I know that sometimes it happens but we don't have to be plunged in it day after day.

[@olgagarcia5710]

You’re right.

[@mickeyh1961]

Same here it had more meaning then better acting , plot lines way better and most important of all a great sense of humour unlike today's depressing excuse for entertainment

[@natashakinsley6642]

It was so true, and it was like a normal Street, I don't know any streets in Manchester. That are like what it is now in coronation street. I feel they have lost their way. Tony Warren would be turning in his grave. Coronation Street is definitely not what it should be

[@irenemorley75]

You don't like kids as well as women then🙄

[@junesymonds8340]

Thankyou so much for downloading these solid gold episodes. The acting and scripts back then were so entertaining.

[@SOLARSHED13]

Don't you mean UPLOADS.

[@Leonie-h2e]

Yes many thanks the original writer thanks you also

[@Leonie-h2e]

Alf all fired up

[@cromer1968]

I'm sure you put a lot of time into these downloads. Thank you so much!

[@SOLARSHED13]

Don't you mean UPLOADS.

[@michaelroberts7374]

Pure quality! Now it's full of kids screaming at each other!! Here it's great acting and characters taking the piss out of each other. In short, great TV

[@markdavies5933]

Yes it was so gritty and well written all character based not overblown situations like now. 1983 was a favourite year and definitely all the soaps back then seem to have been far better written

[@DoctorDuckie1964]

So you prefer the adults screaming at each other instead?😂

[@MultiKs22]

@@DoctorDuckie1964 the adults knew how to act properly and with their own accent like chalky Eddie Stan and Len etc . they didn't have to impersonate accents from people who live in Liverpool Manchester and London. this was coronation street as it should be not like todays crap street all drugs. murder killing and raping . its pathetic i glad i stopped watching it 15 years ago

[@cherylreznor181]

Murdering each other

[@traceydaizy]

Well of course it seems like it's full of kids now. You got older and everyone looks like a kid now 😂😂

[@jstewart3517]

Ken n Deirdre deserve each other

[@elterrifico9522]

Stanley cracking open that beer at the meeting was gold!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@williamf4544]

That Rita Fairclough would have sold her Grannie if it meant getting a new pair of curtains and a dishwasher

[@lawrencejhutchinson]

Thanks for this! I was working in Italy back then so I missed so many episodes.

[@michaelroberts7374]

Where bouts Lol?

[@user-lx6bl2wd8g]

Really enjoying these. The characterization was marvellous in the early 80's. Now they have no depth. The writers to day aren't a patch on those from that time.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Some odd camera angles in this month! First at Ken and Deirdre’s as everyone leaves, then at Chalkie’s as Phyllis arrives...

[@bsaunders5271]

It may have been in one of the last month's episodes rather than in this video, but I love the camera angle when Alf falls over Bet's shoe on the stairs. The shot of Len's reaction is priceless too.

[@SOLARSHED13]

​@@bsaunders5271shoe not show.

[@IhaveMy0pinion]

Who cares

[@lewisgreen2957]

Poor Stan doesn’t look well,bless him..

[@EM-yk1dw]

Bernard Youens had had a stroke and was sadly very unwell now. R I P

[@acesigma06]

Sadly Bernard had already endured a heart attack and stroke, and was suffering with Arthritis, in his neck and knees. such a great character

[@johnlarkin-i3z]

Bernard Youens said that the Stan character was his creation ... and a great achievement it was, too ...

[@SOLARSHED13]

​@@EM-yk1dwhe was still smoking though.

[@BernadetteSwemmer-jz7yl]

​@SOLARSHED13 well at least he left still enjoying some of life's small pleasures. Cheers Stan...rip Bernard Youens..🎉

[@angelfish08]

I absolutely adore these Corrie throw backs 🥰🥰… Rita n Mavis were always comedy gold 🤣🤣 xxx

[@bigregful]

Really sad watching Bert Tilsley in decline and mirroring a similar fate to the actor Peter Dudley. Watching this back it is tragic knowing that he will be dead in a few months. He played a really decent character.

[@mikebaldwin611]

Alf sitting on the fence. A true politician.

[@josephbland3904]

Alf was nowt but a jumped up small time civil servant… He was an old washerwoman when it came to gossip & scandal mongering..

[@cherylreznor181]

He also tryed it on with ever shop keeper till he got the shop..

[@algie-t2w]

Alf is the archetypal local Councillor. Slippery as s bar of soap.

[@elainedoe1981]

Pompous Ken and interfering Emily were made for each other, regardless of age difference!

[@derekhorne8076]

Actually, Eileen Derbyshire and William Roache are the same age (though I think Ken is probably younger than Emily)

[@irenemorley75]

@@derekhorne8076 🤔Are they the same age or not🙄🙄🙄🤭

[@derekhorne8076]

@irenemorley75. Irene. The actors are the same age as each other, whereas the characters they play are different ages. For example, William Roache is 91 years old. However, Ken Barlow is 81. Eileen Derbyshire is also 91. I'm not sure if, in the story, Emily Bishop is the same age as the actress that plays her or not. However, whilst in real life the actors are the same age as each other, I believe the character of Emily is older than the character of Ken.

[@IhaveMy0pinion]

Oh yeah definitely.... I never ever liked ken

[@MissMarie1377]

Derdrie hates mike now for WHAT reason? She is ridiculous

[@josephbland3904]

Yes Dreardre armour plate glasses snearing Barlow was a spiteful gossip monger & a total piece of work… She only marryKenneth for a free meal ticket… She was annoying.

[@annmc8392]

I thought the same. The word Hypocrite comes to mind.

[@joshirley2308]

She should have stayed with him

[@bsaunders5271]

She will have had to force herself to hate him in order to be on Ken's (deeply boring) side now.

[@stormhawk3319]

Chalkie & Phyllis made a good abrasive double act. Strange how Chalkie didn’t last in the street.

[@MultiKs22]

he later went on to appear in Emmerdale farm in 1989 as Pete whitely the grandfather of peter whitely who Kate Hughes ran down on the Rosa mound road coming home form the pub in August 1990.

[@MultiKs22]

he later went on to appear in Emmerdale farm in 1989 as Pete whitely the grandfather of peter whitely who Kate Hughes ran down on the Rosa mound road coming home form the pub in August 1990.

[@4oclocktimefortea794]

Emily is such a sanctimonious goody goody. She always thinks she is right about everything. Her, Ken and Deidre are so annoying.

[@josephbland3904]

Yep.. totally agree… Those trio were a self righteous pompous pious jumped up bunch… All grey gravy.. sticking there upturned noses into other’s business & forever taking the high moral ground… Especially Ken & Emily… banging there drums.. they always assumed they were in the right 100% of the time… It got boring mostly.. Always enjoyed it when other characters told them strap& took them down a peg or two…

[@HelloImNik]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that - poking her nose into every single thing, telling people what they should do, ugh

[@vinniex3098]

Love Emily. Such a god fearing woman and an underrated beauty. Her cheekbones are classic and her eyes are lovely. I actually can’t believe that she hardly any men fancying her when dull and dowdy Mavis had men falling at her feet 😳

[@Jackles22]

That woman on the committee with the brown mullet is quite entertaining. She would have been a good regular character 😂

[@Iamjames1985]

Ugh the start of Ken and the Weatherfield Recorder, Ugh!

[@mr-yw2jb]

Suzie Birchall's sparkle was missing from her second stint in the street. When she first appeared in 1977 and subsequently took up lodgings with Gail at Elsie's she was a breath of fresh air, legendary, brilliant, the character had energy and sparkle. This time around she just happened to be a shadow of her former self, as flat as the proverbial pancake and a complete waste of the script writers time.

[@cromer1968]

There are times in both of her stints that I can't stand her. Other times she's comical

[@bsaunders5271]

I think her part was written that way

[@traceybuckley1442]

Weren't she diagnosed with MS during her first stint on corrie.

[@ddrose06]

Couldn't stand that enitled bitch. Credit to the actress.

[@acesigma06]

@@traceybuckley1442 yes

[@danaciszewski7536]

Can Ken's head get any bigger?

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

E.T. "Oh 'im wi the long neck? What about 'im with the short neck then, Alf Roberts?" Hilda is pure quality 😂❤️ Just realised, it's a young Nelson the barman from 'Life on Mars' that borrows the tools off Len. What was that Bert bought off Mavis, sounded like he asked for a packet of mint cake!??

[@susi-emily]

I've not got to that bit yet, but he may well have asked for mint cake, as in Kendal Mint Cake. It's a slab of hard mint fondant from Kendal in Cumbria. It's really nice, if you have a sweet tooth.

[@Handlebar-MustDash]

How does Deirdre manage to push out her 👀 eyeballs every time she speaks ?

[@HelloImNik]

she starts doing it with her neck in later years

[@BazGent-t2r]

😅😅😅😅

[@mral8145]

46?! I’m 42 and she looks like my granny! 😂

[@HelloImNik]

Mavis always looked like a granny whatever age she was ahaha

[@michaelhammett9016]

stan and eddie and chalkie drunk hilirious and yellow lines

[@davidjones6470]

Totally agree 👍

[@bernicecox5208]

That was hilarious…

[@allanjoseph5601]

Poor old Stan…🥺

[@itallia666]

Im steadily becoming to think that forked tongue Emily is a right piece of work! Her simpering, whimsical Miss Put Upon, is her outer persona but shes really an interfearing narcissistic bully However, im thoroughly enjoying Every video because each & every one gives up another Hero & Villain... Sometimes its Mrs Hitler Emily Or twittering Mavis, Savage Suzie, Boring Barlow, Tetchy Tatlock, Rude Rita, Lionmouth Len, Awful Alf, Bolshy Baldwin, Irritating Ivy, Vicious Vera They all have their moments & Undercurrents of hidden depths Springing forth to vex us or Enchant us... its all part & parcel Of the brilliant Coronation Street!!! Still loving every episode & loving to hate the current bully in vogue! Emily is one superb actress, she can certainly stir up the aggro! Thanking Professional Gun 66 You have made so many of us so happy! Regards 🇬🇧👧

[@barbarapalmer8224]

Well said

[@nicolataylor6011]

Interesting camara angels! Annie Walker makes me sick how she treats Stan and Hilda ..

[@johnlarkin3821]

Annie Walker needs the Ogdens to make her seem posh.

[@iala2058]

I heard Thelma Barlow ‘Mavis’ fart in my WHSmith in Basingstoke back in the 80’s. My friend and I laughed and laughed….. good times.💭😊

[@annmc8392]

Deirdre and Mavis have a lot in common, boring smug men.

[@michaelhammett9016]

good old len giving this lad a job

[@FreshlySqueezed77]

Poor Suzie at the end 😯😪 Also turns out that Suzie's ?!£*$! played by actor Terence Hillyer also played another corrie character Sean Skinner later in the mid-90s - he was Des Barnes' boss! I knew he looked familiar! 😀

[@SOLARSHED13]

Suzies ?!£*$! What the fuck does that mean?????????

[@alexanderjones9572]

Listening to Victor talking about 🐍 is enough to put anyone off camping!

[@stormhawk3319]

Roy Valentine looked set to be the first regular black character in the show but when the shit hit the fan with Peter Adamson his character was dropped.

[@ciarabyrne4952]

What happened?

[@James-zw6wb]

In all of Elsie's vast experience of life and men, she failed to learn that gas-lighting narcissists are smooth-talking pathological liars and friends are always given the benefit of the doubt. But, then again, this latest arrival is wearing pants, and our Elsie was always a sucker for a pair of pants.

[@ghostdemon7936]

I was surprised and disappointed that Elsie was taken in by Terry. Given her experience with blokes though, she seems naive after all these years at this point. Suzi gets on my nerves but to have her old friend not believe her husband hit her is a double whammy. The obsession with being married and putting up with abusive behaviour is unreasonable. It's irrelevant how long the resltionship and whether someone is married or not. Some people are so desperate to be in a relationship they accept anything for "the sake of their marriage". Elsie was one big let down on this occasion. Shame on her.

[@lindarowe8550]

The lady looking at chalkie's house went on a few years later playing Alec gilroy's daughter who died in a car accident.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Really? So she played Vicki s mother!

[@lindarowe8550]

@@alexanderjones9572 yes

[@pamib29]

She was Alecs daughter Sandra Arden played by Kathy Jamieson. She was also Maggie Brady in How we Used To Live etc along with a few other Corrie actors who went on to like herself play a few different characters over the years. She’s married to John McArdle who in 1982 was the lorry driver Scouse Sammy,that helped Marion find Eddie in Liverpool then he was back in 1985 as DC Meadows🙂

[@philstrachan]

Can't have heating in a flower shop ~ I'm with Elsie - I never thought about that either; but makes sense! 😂🇦🇺📺👍

[@alexanderjones9572]

Who else wondered if ‘Terry’ might be Terry Duckworth at first? I mean he sounds a similar character!

[@ddrose06]

Good Lord! Victor must have been extraordinarily close with his granny.

[@HelloImNik]

much like our Mave

[@irenemorley75]

Why would anyone think of opening a night club on Coronation St, that would be like opening a night club in a grave yard🤭🤣🤣🤣🙄

[@lawrencejhutchinson]

Mavis says "I'm not 50, I'm 46!" when in fact she was 53 when this was filmed!

[@mattburke3457]

I'm sitting here watching this thinking, "is she REALLY going camping!?"

[@bibakroll8999]

The actor may have been 53 but the character was 46.

[@irenemorley75]

@@bibakroll8999 But looks 66

[@vinniex3098]

She’s in her 90s now and doesn’t look much older than she did back then haha

[@ellerburn]

I've seen lots of these episodes now but I cant recall seeing so much from the ceiling. Was this a new trend and did it last long ?

[@alexanderjones9572]

Eddie gets more like a Liverpudlian Del Boy! “Yeah, well see the people that had ‘em ( the chairs), their religion said they ‘ad to sit on the floor.”

[@memoir4you]

Did Mike's Scotch glass break @1:41 or did he drop it ? 😅

[@Keepingitrespectfulmostly.]

1:24:52 "sparrow legs" 😂😂🐦

[@Deborah4Antiques]

I'm no fan of Suzie, she's out for herself.

[@gailwilkinson8848]

Quite sure if Deidrie had left Ken and gone to Mike Baldwin instead she would not of been objecting to the "Disc/ Cocktail bar" being opened

[@ShenaThompson-wi7te]

Why can't we have Corrie in date order?

[@Staggercfc]

Len's new apprentice is played by Tony Marshall who went on to play quirky pub barman Nelson in Life On Mars. He was told by producers to affect a Jamaican accent as Nelson which Marshall , whose own accent was naturally Mancunian, wasn't altogether happy with.

[@joejohnson6763]

He was originally meant to be a long term character but when Peter Adamson was suspended and later sacked there was no way they could keep him.

[@vinniex3098]

Tony Marshall also played Noel in Casualty for many years until he was killed off with his character dying of covid in a special episode

[@alisonroberts5228]

All the pies , chips and alcohol they consume ..... daily 🤣!! Coronary ischaemia waiting to happen!

[@HelloImNik]

Stan is starting to look like a turtle with legs, he's very leaned over

[@MissMaevisDavis]

I know. He had severe arthritis in his neck and knees, also having had a heart attack and stroke later, poor man. A great character in the street.

[@paulinecorreia5538]

I can only imagine Mavis going 😮camping. 😂 I’ll love 💗 2 watch that 4 sure. 😅 😅😅😂

[@Bessie66]

1:41:00 Mike bangs his whiskey glass too hard on the bar and breaks it 😂

[@claredrew8039]

It made me laugh 😂

[@johnlarkin-i3z]

"We are going camping, Mavis ..." says Victor ... the men in this era of Coronation Street just give orders to the women, rather than ask them what they want to do; when Hilda is off colour, for example, even such as Terry Duckworth take over, and start dictating what she should do ...

[@bernadetteaspinall6710]

Don’t how but Mavis managed to make her feet look terrified in that tent..😂😂😂

[@TraceyMella]

What's with the weird camera angles?

[@Bessie66]

Very strange camera angles @ 14.24

[@joannamaxwell]

Birds Eye at The Barlows 😂

[@simplywonderful1]

The smoking 🚬 it’s quite shocking

[@vinniex3098]

Is that Noel from Casualty when he was a kid that Len offered a job to?

[@alexanderjones9572]

Does anyone mention the proposed nightclub to the couple possibly buying no. 9 off Chalkie? Bet that’d affect their decision!

[@professionalgun6674]

Of course someone does.

[@alexanderjones9572]

@@professionalgun6674 As I’ve just seen. A certain purple-rinsed, gravelly-voiced old lady.

[@professionalgun6674]

@@alexanderjones9572 She's great I love her.

[@thertraumatic]

2:35:40 I can't believe Elsie invited Susie's literal stalker/abuser in, she really is the original pick-me girl. Edit because I got to the end of the episode: GOD I hate Elsie so much. Susie told her that he hit her and she still left her alone with him, she's the worst on so many levels.

[@eyezj7412]

Quite a few of the women in this era had the same attitude. Elsie and Lynch were probably the worst

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

1:31:58 & 2:11:35 classic Phyllis 😂

[@sunnyshine2215]

Mavis’s constant twittering is quite amusing

[@nicolemelnyk152]

Mavis is STUPID!

[@robclark4507]

Is this the end len fairclough

[@queendeirdre7436]

Mavis and Victor's feet sticking out of that tent 😅😅😅😅

[@ddrose06]

Ahhhh. Hilda can't afford principles, or to be a good neighbor. All she can afford, is to play whatever role that pays her, and impose the principles, she can't afford, onto others she deems unprincipled. But, heaven forfend anyone call her a hypocrite, for speaking out of both sides of her gob.

[@josephbland3904]

Yep our Hilda had more faces than a town hall clock.. Deep down she had a loyal good heart though…

[@jstewart3517]

Is that the dog statue that ended up in Duckworths

[@GinaRussell-c2c]

I’m sure it was and jack sold it to a shop then it ended up being smashed by Vera

[@MrIrrepressible]

Chalky starting to grow on me lol

[@DuderinoDeux]

Jowls Pigeons and Pies!

[@michaelroberts7374]

Top down innovation cameras!!

[@lisahornby6770]

Can’t stand ken

[@francesgillotti1378]

Awe he is so Dreamy 😘

[@bibakroll8999]

@@francesgillotti1378 More like a nightmare!

[@stormhawk3319]

Me too. Boring, patronising failure of a man.

[@MissMarie1377]

With the voice of Kermit the frog

[@eat_a_dick_trudeau]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks he sounds like Kermit.

[@alisonboydell7143]

Kendal mistakes. Ilove them

[@alexanderjones9572]

Mr Cheetham ( on seeing the factory girls leaving) “Hope we don’t have that row every day!” Mrs Cheetham “It’ll be quiet the rest of the time.” Don’t count on it!

[@queendeirdre7436]

Suzy really doesn't look well. Good bless her.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Very Boring!

[@nicholasgargano7396]

Bert's acting is awful

[@madwatermelon1316]

The actor who played him was very poorly by this stage.

[@bsaunders5271]

He'd had a stroke.

[@septembervirgo3723]

Bert isn’t an actor, he’s a character in Coronation Street.

[@josephbland3904]

Tough break to Ken & the agitating coffee club around his place… The Club got passed… Ken was always a looser….

[@deee1776]

I think Suzie met her match!!

[@paulinecorreia5538]

This show is excellent as usual. 🎉Camping, disco 🪩 debate, it’s alway’s real funny 😆 @ great.🎉🎉❤❤❤