Coronation Street - April 1985

[@john-y1i6l]

The Brian "actor" was just playing himself - as thick as a brick.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

I agree

[@rickmoore4482]

He had the rugged good looks but that was all he had. He had no personality whatsoever.

[@karensmith7927]

@@rickmoore4482didn’t even have the good looks in my opinion 😂

[@janicecameron3688]

Some of the wives in this program are nags. Hilda is the best character. And great actress. 👍

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

I miss those old phones when you could physically slam the receiver down!

[@nicolataylor6011]

Haha yes!

[@londonlady227]

I agree and the art of conversation was alive and well as you didn't know who was calling. Yes there were answer machines but still, 6ou picked the phone up.

[@olgagarcia5710]

Lol

[@daniellefrancis1476]

@@londonlady227I was scared of my answering machine as a little kid. The woman’s voice who said how many messages you have was really creepy! 🙈😂

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Oh, here we go again. The last time she wanted a new house Gayle whined, moaned, and stomped her feet like a 2 year old. Now she wants another house and Brian says no, so she just leaves because she isn’t getting what she wants! She needs to grow up!!

[@alisonroberts5228]

Wilf looks like Leo Sayer!!

[@jonathancheetham7683]

Dr Lowther has a voice like rich velvet.

[@rbr2023]

I thought Hilda bought Nicky that fire engine, not Brian 🤔

[@tinaquinn9042]

It's a pity they changed Terry he was so lovely

[@soniaclarkstewart]

Maybe if he stayed at Hilda’s he wouldn’t have changed.

[@MatHopkins_1967]

Everytime Brian appeared my late Dad would say "Here he is..Old Woodentop" or "Here he is, Amateur Hour" shocking actor was Mr Quinten!

[@booth2710]

oh that Gail is too much .. Brian is the only husband that hasn't tried to kill her and she speaks to him like he's sh t ..

[@lucywilliamsx1002]

What a nice man doctor lowther was

[@nicolataylor6011]

Terry was lovely stupid to change his character

[@londonlady227]

More storylines in being nasty.

[@queendeirdre7436]

I just love seeing Hilda surrounded by all the nice things she always wanted but never got. To the manor born.😊

[@alexanderjones9572]

Does the younger Jack ( with his cap and longer hair) remind anyone else of Harold Steptoe?

[@lindarowe8550]

You got a point there

[@annmc8392]

He does.

[@londonlady227]

Harold Steptoe had aspirations to be better and want more than he had. He wasn't lazy like Jack, who was content to just cruise through life milking off others.

[@MatHopkins_1967]

No, Harry H Corbett could act, Duckegg Tarmey did all his acting through his shoulders..just watch him, another Extra that got promoted to a speaking part..Like Fred Gee, a dreadful actor.

[@queendeirdre7436]

​@@MatHopkins_1967 Amen to that 🎉

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

Mike and the Lowthers were the ones with money and status yet they treated Hilda better than the rest. Bets 'Annie Walker' voice is grating on me greatly. Please tell me she drops it very very soon before I go right off her!? Good idea Ken, that jumper is bound to put off the opposition!

[@cise748]

Hilda deserved to be treated well, glad that at least 3 ppl did. I also don’t like how they take the pi$$ out of Mavis. Yes she’s different, but who cares, she wouldn’t hurt you for all the tea in China

[@alexanderjones9572]

I was trying to think who Stella Rigby reminded me of-the late Cilla Black!

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

She could easily be Cilla Blacks sister!

[@nicolemelnyk152]

Its not her?I thought I heard it was her?

[@bernicecox5208]

…and Martin in the cafe looks like a young Barry Manilow.

[@lisahubbard1259]

I think she looks a bit like Patricia Routledge

[@clairemelia4950]

She's gorra Maggie Thatcher hairdo

[@nicolemelnyk152]

That Phyllis is hilarious !

[@EveHenleySpread]

She definitely is for sure.. BUT she's another one the writers have completely changed the character of (someone mentioned in the comments about Terry Duckworth turning evil later on). When Phyllis first came into it she was a right prudish old battleaxe, now that her grandson has emigrated she's turned into an old sex-mad vamp chasing misery guts Percy! Slightly implausible!

[@youtubehatesus2651]

@@EveHenleySpreadshe's a sexual harasser. I would hate to be around her.

[@elterrifico9522]

I can see why the Clayton’s didn’t last...a very bland bunch.

[@phillipgreer4875]

If that's the rule then how come Ken Barlow has survived so long? He should have been killed of instead of Valerie!

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

The Clayton's were rubbish!

[@dementednun1175]

There back in it as of 2019 present mind you there playing different characters. But yea I agree they where boring Connie was a good actress just boring

[@KuchiKopi179]

The daughters were as bland as boiled cabbages.

[@annmc8392]

To be fair, it's down to the lines the writers give them.

[@alexanderjones9572]

30.10 “Hear that, Nicky? It’s not our house.” Now come on, Gail, you know that wasn’t what Ivy meant!

[@nicolataylor6011]

Gail is vile

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

@@nicolataylor6011 How can Brian stand that whiny voice?

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Gail is acting like a spoilt child!

[@juliewebb1335]

I could slap Gail round the face

[@soniaclarkstewart]

That’s what you say when you want to justify acting stupid.

[@mattburke3457]

Good seeing Brian and Kevin with greasy hands in the garage, now on the show the mechanics wear blue surgical gloves smh. My dad was a mechanic and ur hands get fn dirty, but u can't do that kind of work properly in gloves

[@lordwalker71]

Funny mechanics do it no problem these days

[@bsaunders5271]

Oh bless Hilda, staying in luxury. It wouldn't have suited Stan though. Too fancy for his tastes. But lovely for Hilda.

[@londonlady227]

Stan wouldn't have appreciate it, he would've beer and fagged it to death. But I think at heart, he wanted better for Hilda despite his shenanigans. As I said before, every teadrop was champagne to her.

[@soniaclarkstewart]

She definitely deserved it.

[@Nats99]

​@@londonlady227Hilda without Stan. I just can't get used to it.

[@alexanderjones9572]

A doctor, a solicitor, a teacher and a biochemist against Ken, Percy, Curly and Mavis..,

[@KuchiKopi179]

Tis how you know the show is fiction 😅

[@paulettejadowski4170]

Your job doesn't mean you are more intelligent than the person who does a job that pays the bills and puts food on the table, knowledge comes from everyday life.

[@queendeirdre7436]

Oh Dr. Lowther is lovely. What an absolute gentleman. Shows so much respect for Hilda 😊

[@cathyb7409]

Brian Tilsley is unbearable. What a family!

[@jakehaymes4438]

Candidate for crabs

[@ghostdemon7936]

@@jakehaymes4438 😭😭😭

[@ghostdemon7936]

Chris Quentin can't act.ovwr Xmas I was binge watching Doctors, yep I was bored! He was in an episode, and he played a character who also cheated on his wife just like Brian Tilsey. Type cast but at least he was in good company. None of the actors in it can act except for Christopher Timothy.

[@marieince1479]

Brian tilsley is a horrible actor wooden would be the word and Gail is a shrew .

[@pedanticradiator1491]

Best laugh is Chris Quentin thought he was going to have a big career in Hollywood when he left Corrie suffice to say it never happened

[@creationinmotion4124]

Electric cars being mentioned back in 1985!, it's nice to go back to childhood ❤

[@ddrose06]

In 1985, electric cars had been around for at least 85 years.

[@MissMarie1377]

Not having a HOME, Gail, was YOUR IDEA!!! You insisted he sell the house and keep (and invest more in) the garage!! Now you are mad he is doing just that?! 🙄🙄🙄

[@nandsall9492]

Gail was bats**t crazy......worst wife...ever!!!

[@londonlady227]

Let's be honest, living with Ivy would grate on you after a year. They moved in to save cash and to be with Ivy during Bert's hospitalization. It was time for them to move 9n.

[@criddyla696]

Accountability, surely not … feelings, yes that’s better

[@lordwalker71]

Think the writers forgot what they wrote sometimes

[@julielewis5051]

​@@nandsall9492 Why? Because she has her own mind, and won't let cave man R Brian fling her over his shoulder

[@MrLookitspam]

The Gail Brian plot is stupid. She encouraged the move to build the garage and suddenly she’s saying screw the garage? Silly beggars!

[@mattburke3457]

It is ridiculous, however I don't think she considered how long it would be for, and in all fairness she heard, " this isn't your house" or "this is my house" from ivy, like 4x in one week...that wd make anyone want to beat feet

[@nicolataylor6011]

Brian should have took nicky and divorced the vile little psychopath

[@howiseeit5129]

And throwing her marriage after 5 days. She would put the child in a bedsit rather then sort her marriage out!! Such a manipulator of Brian and cutting her nose off to spite her face..

[@lucywilliamsx1002]

In Gail's defence could you live with poison ivy cos I know I couldn't

[@soniaclarkstewart]

It wasn’t her house and Ivy was trying to feel comfortable there at that time. Gail was just a moody child.

[@cise748]

I can see both sides with Brian and Gail. She wanted to sell the house to prop up the business. But her argument is deeper than that. He dictates and disregards anything she says instead of working as a team and talking rationally together and compromising. He just yells, then she starts yelling and nobody wins nor even Nicky

[@jasonwhitehurst4508]

dr lowther and hilda Ogden.my favorite actors.

[@Yaarbiriah]

Don't worry, Sue. One day you WILL be someone. You'll be... Bernie! :D

[@connielincoln8681]

Omg that's right

[@booth2710]

That Black Magic Easter Egg box seems to get moved back and forth from the Kabin to Alf's shop and back lol

[@isabellajanelee]

Gail acting like a spoiled brat. 😂

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Gail Tilsley is acting like a spoilt child! I have found through experience when I haven't got things I wanted it was a blessing as what I wanted wasn't what was right for me!

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

Very sage that Joanne 😂 I know that feeling.

[@nicolataylor6011]

Betty Turpin always moaning about being lonely despite being surrounded by people all day in the pub 🙄 strange how none of the adults back then wanted to live on their own

[@londonlady227]

Well she was a widow so I don't think that was her choice and having lodgers wasn't everyone's cup of tea. You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely for a loved one.

[@ghostdemon7936]

You can be in a room full of people and feel lonely. It's about connecting to people. It's quality over quantity.

[@lorraineydays57]

@@ghostdemon7936 Well said and very true.

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Gail Tilsley is just spoilt nothings ever good enough for her! Moving is one of those decisions that needs to be agreed by both partners!

[@nicolataylor6011]

Gail is a rude vile spoilt brat..

[@77hwjeushs81]

Her mother in law did nt help things 🙄😅

[@BernadetteSwemmer-jz7yl]

Yeah ...living with your in laws is a complete no,no!!!

[@nicolemclean9028]

Brian wont leave his mummy

[@daniellefrancis1476]

@@nicolemclean9028yes he was rather pathetic! But then Gail is just as bad in a different way. She was the most naggy woman ever!

[@alexanderjones9572]

2.43.42 The 1980s answer to Ena, Martha and Minnie-Curly, Kevin and Terry!

[@professionalgun6674]

Just a tip for you when making a time stamp for example 2:43:42 this way viewers tap the stamp and go straight to the clip.

[@alexanderjones9572]

@@professionalgun6674 Thanks

[@stormhawk3319]

Brian could be petulant but Gail was downright selfish and self righteous.

[@tonypike763]

mummys boy

[@ddrose06]

Oh aye, did you notice, Nicky is not over his chickenpox for 5 minutes and Gail's found something else she can go to the garage and mither him with. She has to have a house, now. When she scarpered, Brian should've gone straight out and filed for divorce.

[@Mrspence1100]

Just like his mother

[@janemacqueen7543]

He is full of himself, selfish

[@daniellefrancis1476]

@@janemacqueen7543Gail wasn’t much better!

[@essmhtvny165es]

From 1:06:22 to 1:27:53, it was Coronation Street - Episode 2507 from April 10, 1985.

[@essmhtvny165es]

From 1:50:27 to 2:12:44, it was Coronation Street - Episode 2509 from April 17, 1985.

[@essmhtvny165es]

From 1:27:54 to 1:50:27, it was Coronation Street - Episode 2508 from April 15, 1985.

[@essmhtvny165es]

From 2:12:44 to 2:34:41, it was Coronation Street - Episode 2510 from April 22, 1985.

[@essmhtvny165es]

From 44:08 to 1:06:21, it was Coronation Street - Episode 2506 from April 8, 1985.

[@essmhtvny165es]

From 0:03 to 22:08, it was Coronation Street - Episode 2504 from April 1, 1985.

[@essmhtvny165es]

From 22:08 to 44:07, it was Coronation Street - Episode 2505 from April 3, 1985.

[@Emily-vs9ju]

I like Bets approach to management- started as she meant to go on!!!

[@1916jamesconnolly]

Brian's Hair is ridiculous in this, looks like a big Girls Blouse. Jean Alexander shines in all these episodes, what an Actress.

[@sephirothff7ps164]

why its ned glover

[@johnlarkin3821]

Kevin reacts to the phone ringing like he came down with the last shower of rain ...

[@alexanderjones9572]

The name of Bill Sykes’ dog-Bullseye!

[@mattburke3457]

Ooohh thank you I was going round in circles trying to remember that haha, cheers

[@juliewebb1335]

I would put up with living with Ivy than Gail anyday.

[@chrissywales6575]

As soon as it was mentioned I had an image of Oliver Reed yelling, "Bullseye!".

[@flumpaustin1994]

"Dog-bullseye"?

[@rozdoyle8872]

Once upon a time I used to have keys for the mansion of a very wealthy friend while she trotted off to her holiday home several times a year , when the snooping is all done and the place becomes familiar, it is a relief to go home , Hilda was playing a blinder but I guess she was glad to go home to her cobbled St 2 up 2 down and her beloved Stan.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Sorry Alf-according to Wikipedia, Constantine was born in Serbia-not York.

[@londonlady227]

He was declared as Emperor, after his father died, whilst in York. That was probably the misunderstanding.

[@essmhtvny165es]

From 2:34:41 to 2:57:26, it was Coronation Street - Episode 2511 from April 24, 1985.

[@AllanTudor]

When family sat together for bfast and dinner

[@booth2710]

It's not often you can say this but this time I do feel sorry for Ivy. Sh'es the voice of reason, stuck in the middle of those two brats and the only one trying to keep their marriage together.

[@Chillmax]

I 100% support Brian, Gail's a nightmare, what's a man supposed to do?!?!?

[@matthewirwin141]

Brian was an awful character

[@nicolataylor6011]

Gail was worse

[@EveHenleySpread]

Anything to do with the Tilsleys is dull as ditchwater.. you can tell Bill Podmore’s influence is wavering at this point as the humour has almost completely gone! A bit like in the present day Corrie!

[@matthewirwin141]

@@EveHenleySpread I would tend to agree with that however I still think it was good up until around the mid-nineties

[@KuchiKopi179]

I don't know, for me Brian started off awful, but he eventually became somewhat likeable. The only Tilsley I did not like was hypocrite Gaile.

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

I couldn't stand Gail either with that miserable face!

[@alexanderjones9572]

3.07.53 Remembering the scene where people heard about Dawn Yates ( Eddie and Marion’s daughter) being born and all went ‘Aaa..’ I was waiting for Betty to turn to Harry, Jack and Wilf and go ‘Did you hear-Brian and Gail are back together!’ and for them to go ‘Aaaa...’

[@Keepingitrespectfulmostly.]

Gail, could have got taxi, bus or train to her mothers to avoid putting Kevin in awkward situation. Could have asked her mother to babysit. Terry Duckworth could have broken into Hilda's place. He knew she was going away and probably where she kept her cash, from when he briefly lodged there. Response to video only.

[@leeorr9071]

These were the best days on coronation’s street

[@leeorr9071]

@@tiberseptim560 Eddie my dad

[@bazgent]

Eddie's a moron/ mongy/ scouser bit of human shit!

[@essmhtvny165es]

From 2:57:26 to 3:21:10, it was Coronation Street - Episode 2512 from April 29, 1985.

[@HelloImNik]

Nicky is so cute! Such a shame they did Warren over the way they did :/

[@HazelGoff]

Just love the warmth and humor of these episodes, some laugh out loud moments, really miss that in the current episodes

[@alexanderjones9572]

Hilda “ Now you just go off and ‘ave a good time, and don’t worry about anything here.” Joan Lowther “ “I will. Thanks to you, Mrs Ogden.” I assume she meant she’d have a good time...

[@ulsdon7]

I thought Stan Ogden was stuck in the Victorian times expecting his tea on the table when he comes in from work, but Brian's in the same league, by the way I'm a man.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

Brian was a misogynistic mummy's boy. He was never one of my favourite characters or actors

[@fluxington]

It comes from times when the man went to work and the woman's work was running the house. A situation abused by many, but not that unusual. Well done for declaring your gender by the way, you sound like an alphabet person.

[@GinaRussell-c2c]

Gone are them days!

[@BlueyKind]

Emily's response @2:42:03 to Jack's "mystery" is great!

[@londonlady227]

A bit ridiculous to stay in the bedsit after they decided to make peace and plans..they couldve moved back in the interim although staying in the bedsit would help them with renting a council house, which they ended up in. Forward planning.

[@Deborah4Antiques]

That story with Gail is twisted. She's the one that wanted to sell their house to save the business. Then she decides she wants a house again and Brian can start looking after Nicky cause she's gone out to work!

[@donmitchful]

So gemmas mum was in corrie before then as a diff person lol

[@GinaRussell-c2c]

I don’t understand why Brian won’t move out of his mother’s house?

[@jennydickson4424]

Can't they send Brian back to quatar. And he can take ivy , jack and Vera. Hate those characters

[@dominewimbury2039]

Terry used to be nice?!

[@soniaclarkstewart]

His parents were out cheating on each other, always arguing, Jack was hardly working, never bringing his money home and always working slick deals. Terry would have to cover Jack’s share of the bills. If he stayed with Hilda, he probably may have stayed nice, course he was an adult and made the choice to go rogue on his own.

[@youtubehatesus2651]

thx

[@distantrambler]

Phyllis...legend

[@chicagogyrl4846]

“If somebody asks me something suddenly I can’t seem to think!” Yes, that’s Mavis! Seems she can never think!

[@distantrambler]

Hilda could have been someone

[@nicolemclean9028]

Yeah but poor hilda was stuck with workshy lazy stan

[@olgagarcia5710]

You can’t blame Gail for wanting a home. The stay at MIL has gone long enough. Every woman wants her home. Besides it gets thrown at her “it’s not your house”.

[@ont.cobbles]

Both Brian and Ivy treated Gail like dirt. I never liked how women were written back then. Once married they are nothing but an apron-wearing, nagging mummy-wifey slave. How dare she have wants of her own.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

​my mother and her mother in law were at war with each other for over 50 years so i can relate a bit to Gail and lvys relationship

[@SueGarden]

Jack eyes booze brown bit 😅😅😅😅😅 1:07:30

[@SueGarden]

He does have one 😁

[@daniellefrancis1476]

Gail had a cheek asking Kevin to give her a life. He wasn’t a taxi driver! Lol

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Why is there a window in Gayle’s room that opens up to see a hallway??! 😂🤣

[@booth2710]

19.20 .. my gosh - the prophecy about electric cars ... chilling

[@chicagogyrl4846]

If Mavis had any sense she would have yelled out the correct answer!!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Aubrey said Brian doesn’t drink. Really??! 😂🤣

[@brendang8177]

They completely changed Gail's peesonality once she got married.she was a sweetheart beforehand.

[@professionalgun6674]

But since she married Brian she found out she hated being married and having Nicky so she forced herself into thinking she was trapped and believed highly in this which is the total opposite of having any critical thought, so she weaved herself into thinking everything she did was right when in reality it was not...she still wins in the end though. Brian "You are my wife!" Gail "Your wife!" She actually said that.

[@brendang8177]

@@professionalgun6674 I think you're spot on......cheers.

[@nicolataylor6011]

No she was always awful

[@cicerodiello1]

Elsie Tanner brought out the best in Gail.

[@soniaclarkstewart]

Suzy was the bad one then.

[@jstewart3517]

Brian offered to help Gail and Ivy makes him out the father of the year

[@SueGarden]

Meanwhile the goodies theme brain style😅😅😅😅 33:12

[@queendeirdre7436]

Holy shit Gail, make a decision and stick to it

[@alexanderjones9572]

Speaking with hindsight about how Terry turns out. Hilda’s been burgled-and Terry turns up with a lot of money...I wonder...and it had to be someone who knew she was away-otherwise they’d have tried the corner shop, the Claytons’, and probably other houses.

[@helenkelly4355]

what did she have worth pinching!!!!!!

[@helenkelly4355]

oh ! the doctors.

[@helenkelly4355]

no its hildas

[@londonlady227]

I don't think it was RTerry who burgled Hilda, I do think he respected her. He did know, as he spoke of it, how those burglars operated to make Hilda feel more at peace.

[@soniaclarkstewart]

They went straight for her money tins for her bills and didn’t touch anything else. I always wondered cause Jack accused him of robbing the neighbors when he was eluding the police years later.

[@estoforte388]

Brian's not half the man his father was

[@Nats99]

❤ Burt

[@bowler8]

"Rod Stewarts stone dead"...lol

[@SueGarden]

Look Norman teacher twins 40:32

[@nicolemclean9028]

Brian tilsley was just a spoilt mummys boy

[@TraceyMella]

Bullseye mavis.

[@olgagarcia5710]

Ken and Alf are 🥱

[@denisetrott5085]

Jack duckegg is vile

[@SueGarden]

Norman on countdown 😅

[@SueGarden]

Go Percy like a ding sounds