Coronation Street - August 1983

[@paulweston6049]

What a great loss Geoffrey Hughes was to coronation street...Doesn't even look like hes acting...Such a great role he played..R.I.P Geoffrey.

[@lindarowe8550]

I agree with you paul

[@roderickscott7429]

totally , and his laugh , so comical.

[@bobslobbers5311]

His send off was rubbish as well

[@londonlady227]

@@bobslobbers5311 The actor didn't want Eddie married off, he felt it was very out of character. He only returned when Hilda was in hospital after being attacked in the Lowther's house.

[@theculturedthug6609]

I was surprised Coronation Street never got him back even in later years he was still top draw.

[@uszatku9417]

Yes...Johnny has left this life but his legacy lives on; thanks to you we have all been watching him these past few weeks.

[@paullynton-green6570]

A corrie legend.

[@professionalgun6674]

Rest In Peace Johnny Briggs, the one and only Mike Baldwin❤️

[@saulgoodman5623]

Mike was great character and underneath a great guy. He'd never admit it but he cared for his workers more than he let on.

[@lindarowe8550]

Did you know that Johnny brings appeared on one episode of on the buses

[@roderickscott7429]

@@lindarowe8550 did he play a milkman ? trying to remember.

[@lindarowe8550]

Yes he did

[@ironknobsteelworks4063]

@@lindarowe8550 Yes he did. Pretty sure he was canoodling with olive and got chased out by arthur!

[@M123OCT]

😂 When I used to see this on TV, Bet Lynch always seemed kind of old, and Deirdre was dull and frumpy. Now, watching it in 2023, Bet looks a lot younger than I recall. And Deirdre? She is so pretty! And slim, and natural. 😂 The years really change your perspective. And the programme itself is such a clever mix of drama and charming comedy. It really makes today's soaps look so bloody miserable. It's an absolute pleasure to watch this again.

[@theculturedthug6609]

The soaps basically replicate the times we live in, so back then that's what life was like and soaps today replicates what life's like today.

[@user-vg6fs9qe8j]

they are all men ... wake up

[@williamf4544]

@@theculturedthug6609 Yes ans life today is not a pretty sight

[@katy4779]

Mike Baldwin with the factory girls, Elsie, Ivy, Vera, Ida... Corrie at its finest. RIP Johnny Briggs, very sad.

[@denismoynihan4996]

Little did Rita still think when she said I won't fancy been around when I am 88 that she would be still in Coranation Street.

[@bowler8]

I was thinking the same

[@junesymonds8340]

Thank you so much for downloading these solid gold episodes , they are great. R.I.P. Johnny, so sad to hear, he was a great actor, and never realised just how many early films he appeared in before Corrie. ♥️

[@user-dq6kr2gd1y]

He crossroads, too ... as was Sue Nicoles (Audrey).

[@mistofoles]

Deidre's glasses were like re-entry shields !

[@annawhiteley3128]

😂

[@user-qs8cn7gt7x]

😅 Dam right!

[@radbabs2000]

I had similar glasses back in the 80's. 😂

[@journeybymoonlight3216]

Deirdre's hair looks better here, much better than that perm.

[@RiaLake]

Lynne Perrie's acting was impressive. I actually felt sympathy for poison Ivy, she really loved Bert.

[@jstewart3517]

Ivy nagged Bert to death Ivy never cared for the over bering controlling nag

[@annmc8392]

Me too.

[@MultiKs22]

@@jstewart3517 she also nagged her second husband Don Brennon who she married in 1988. incidentally Her and Don were never suited Don wanted to the rough with the smooth with everybody on the street but Ivy only wanted squeaky clean citizens that fitted to her attire.

[@sharonmulligan7584]

still can't believe mike Baldwin is no longer here with the rest of corrie old cast rip august 1983

[@lawrencejhutchinson]

Bert was the 3rd great tragic figure of Coronation Street - dead at 48. Jerry Booth died of a heart attack at 34, and Alan Howard died when he was 53. I miss them all.

[@williamf4544]

Yes and when your older than these fine people were when they left us it makes you think and makes your grateful to be still alive and kicking

[@gordoncampbell100]

Wow you are a breath of fucking sunshine .

[@TheMeeja]

8:32 Just genius writing dropping in just the right amount of.comedy. Chalky and Phyllis arguing and Eddie in the background trying to get a word in to tell them that he's got to go. No break in the bickering long enough so Eddie gives up and just says "I'm going" and walks out. Remember it making me chuckle at the time of first broadcast, and raises the same laughs today

[@theresapierce3934]

What a very silly storyline, Hilda and Mrs. Ernshaw. It seems like the writers had something in mind, then decided to lose the story, but it really was a silly story and not worthy of Jean Alexander's talent.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Won’t be many people left with Albert’s memories now.

[@williamf4544]

Nobody - all gone now

[@irenemorley75]

Kevin Lloyd.... he used to live in next street to me in Derbyshire, I would often see him at local shops and chip shop, he and his good wife used to foster many children, R.I.P Kevin🙏💐

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

Deidre "I'm just frightened he'll get on his high horse" Alf "Neigh..." By 'eck he's quick that lad.

[@annmc8392]

I love Hildas satisfied smile. 😊

[@alexanderjones9572]

Bet when Jack and Vera view no 9, they have no idea that they’ll each die there...😢😢

[@fionasteele3642]

Talk of Fred, and Annie Walker ,I busted out laughing 😂 hilarious. Especially the look on Annie’s face.

[@pandacutlets83]

Loved the Aussie storyline in the last few episodes and the cork hat to chase away the flying raisins. My Mam was a 10 pound Pom in the 60s....cheers from South Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@bethshields4903]

We were 10 pound poms ( scottish) also. And live in South Australia.

[@shylinh5939]

I don't understand why Rita said Mavis didn't live around there, in the conversation about the Duckworth's buying the Fairclough's old house. But she lives in a flat above the Kabin, which I thought was just around the corner from Coronation Street and the Duckworth's.

[@carasmith549]

Lock up your daughters, here comes Terry Duckworth. And farewell to Chalkie Whiteley, a comical gloom merchant to rival Albert Tatlock in the "miserable old git" stakes. Strangely I rather liked him.

[@elterrifico9522]

I’ll miss Chalkie. He didn’t quite fit but he was a real character.

[@shylinh5939]

Maybe it's because he wasn't part of a couple/double act like some of the other characters. They rarely made him more than the grumpy old man who, when he'd stopped clashing with the Fairclough's, was forever fending off Phyllis. There was a storyline involving him moving in with a widow, only to find that another old bloke had beaten him to it. The writers should have been more adventurous with Chalkie.

[@elterrifico9522]

@@shylinh5939 I agree. There was potential there.

[@saulgoodman5623]

Should have had him doing some dodgy scheme that Eddie had to get him out of.

[@paullynton-green6570]

Teddy Turner.terrific actor.

[@bsaunders5271]

It has only been a few short months since Ken won back Dierdre from the more exciting Mike, and he's already plunged the poor woman back into his yawningly boring, ghastly life. Muttering, in his robotic way, about the most boring job on God's planet, casting suicidal gloom into the hearts of everybody he meets. She must have just resigned herself to a life 'most ordinary'. Either that, or she is a dedicated masochist. Poor girl.

[@aflutteroffeminineconfusio1986]

I couldn't have put it better myself...he is truly ghastly !!but your spin on it made me chuckle.... ' suicidal gloom' 🤣

[@katy4779]

Ken was just awful, a complete and utter bore, the type you'd avoid in the pub. I always lost the will to live listening to that nasally voice droning on. That he attracted so many girlfriends and was seen as a 'catch' was beyond belief. Looking back, it really was farcical that Deirdre gave up Mike to stay with him. Barlow had no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

[@bsaunders5271]

@@katy4779 absolutely

[@bsaunders5271]

@@aflutteroffeminineconfusio1986 he has all the charisma of a be-wigged speak your weight machine.

[@kelleybunny]

Ken drives me nuts.. not only a bore.. but, doing something has stupid as putting his job on the line. Dierdre.. standing there saying nothing.

[@4oclocktimefortea794]

Do you think Kellogg’s had a deal with Coronation Street as every household seems to have Corn Flakes for breakfast or on the table. Also, everyone seemed to be eating or buying Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts a few episodes before and it made me want some! Good product placement - I just wish they still came in those boxes!

[@alygodsquad]

haha that's so true about the Allsorts ! I was obsessed with them around this time even wrote to Bassets (but that's another story ) and my mother bought me a cuddly Bertie Bassett for Christmas lol !

[@th8257]

I noticed that about Sunblest bread too. The big Sunblest van pulling up in these episodes. In other episodes Alf had loaves displayed prominently in his shop, or Hilda and Elsie had a big loaf of it placed prominently on their tables at home.

[@staceygrove5976]

If you look back at episodes a few years before this, you never saw the brand names for any products, even in the corner shop, so it may have been illegal. Maybe the Thatcher government brought in legislation to allow it?

[@mattburke3457]

HP brown sauce was all over last yes episodes and this year's it's daddy's

[@AriAdu]

I'm sure they did, that blanton advertising was ridiculous.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Can’t wait to see the first meeting between Percy and Phyllis!

[@ysgol3]

Hey Deirdre, it's not too late to go back to Mike!!

[@th8257]

There was so much product placement for Sunblest Bread! They must have paid a lot of money for that. If it was a big Sunblest van pulling up, it was Alf selling it in his shop, or Elsie or Hilda sitting in their homes with a packet on their table with the logo turned towards the camera.

[@francesgillotti1378]

The days when people ate white bread 😢

[@deborahwatson2730]

More than just Sunblest bread…PG Tips has been putting in a fair few appearances too, not to mention the very prominently displayed Guinness, Carlsberg and Kellogg’s cereal in Alf’s shop.

[@mistofoles]

The bit where Ken is talking to the councellor, that's a real office, as opposed to being filmed in the studio, you can tell by the slightly grainier footage it's a portable film camera, also the acoustics echo more.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Imagine if Ena Sharples was still there, and Bet had told Percy SHE was Mrs Tanner!

[@annmc8392]

😮😃🤣

[@alexanderjones9572]

Rita listening to Mavis sympathising with Bet. She’ll soon be in that situation herself ( for a different reason).

[@memoir4you]

Yes that was a very good scene that .

[@lindarowe8550]

The hygiene in the corner shop is appalling

[@londonlady227]

I remember the shop near me when I was younger....similar....and no-one got sick.

[@MultiKs22]

most of it are fake props as long as the stuff in the corner shop like bread and cakes and ham and tins are fresh and in dated .it doesn't matter where they are positioned

[@chrissywales6575]

​@@MultiKs22It doesn't matter about the date on tins, they are still edible so long as the tins aren't swollen, dented or rusty.

[@bsaunders5271]

It really is... bare hands touching ham etc etc

[@williamf4544]

Comon people dont like old stuff they always want new - threw all their antiques in the bin then years later sat eyes glued to Antiques Road Show looking at what they trew away

[@saulgoodman5623]

No wonder Chalkie turned down Jack's offer. What an insult.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Wonder if a certain purple-haired, gravelly-voiced old lady saw Percy enter the shop. “Ooo, I were lookin’ for someone to chase up, now Tom Whitely’s gone...”

[@lewisgreen2957]

Stan drinking a pint out of a straight glass!!! Scandalous..

[@Wildzippy]

Rather a grand farewell to a fairly minor resident, but I will miss the miserable sod.

[@joshirley2308]

Oh welcome to the street Percy! I loved him and his ways.

[@user-qs8cn7gt7x]

Same here! Percy got nuts!!!😅

[@hollandwawasan1221]

I keep wondering how they did Bet's hair, and how often it needs priming, every morning? I love it, it suits her too. Just seems it could be high maintenance. But then, so is Bet herself, bless her

[@sph476]

Uncle Albert the only one ever that could take on Annie Walker and win.

[@soniaclarkstewart]

I remember the time when Annie Walker and someone she wanted to impress were going to a lavish dance. They dressed in their fineries and Uncle Albert asked them as to where was Cinderella. Oh, the look on their face when they realized what he meant.

[@sph476]

@@soniaclarkstewart its on youtube titled albert tatlock the original troll.

[@mistofoles]

Bernard Youens ( Stan ) was in quite bad health here, although he continued to appear in the show almost till his death the following year,

[@mathewdunne5771]

if you thought your glasses frames were too big, wold you really ask Dierdre?

[@katrinahopkins6208]

😂😂😂

[@jonathancheetham7683]

Terry was pretty fit at first wasn’t he? 😍

[@williamf4544]

Indeed he was - Out of a score of 10 he was a 10

[@alexanderjones9572]

Terry was more considerate back then...what belongs to Vera is Vera’s!

[@th8257]

He was also very easy on the eye.

[@stevenhighams4190]

I don't like what they did to Terry later, with all Jack's po-faced moralising and no-son-of-mine nonsense. Jack was a terrible father and Terry had a rotten life with those two, caught between their bickering and infidelities and Jack's idleness and cadging. All that seemed to get whitewashed later as they tried to make Jack and Vera seem as loveable as Stan and Hilda. They weren't.

[@alexanderjones9572]

@@stevenhighams4190 But from what I gather ( we never saw it) but Stan could be physically abusive and wasn’t a very nice character before the Ogdens arrived. He changed, and I think Jack did too.

[@stevenhighams4190]

@@alexanderjones9572 Stan certainly changed. He mellowed. Have you seen that 1966 episode where he thinks he's won the Pools because Hilda has incorrectly filled in the coupon? He throws a chair from the upstairs window and gives Hilda a black eye, although you don't see anything. But I think Stan was a more caring father than Jack Duckworth. It's all very well Jack and Vera mellowing, but Terry's memories must have been pretty awful. Speaking of Hilda, both my grandmothers were called that, though neither of them liked it!

[@soniaclarkstewart]

@@th8257 He definitely was.

[@irenemorley75]

The painter in Mike's club was Ted in the comedy series BARBARA with Gwen Taylor, I watch it all the time, got the box set🤣🤗👌👍

[@susi-emily]

I only know Sam Kelly as the little German officer in Allo Allo.

[@shaneobrien2257]

And he was Bunny Warren, Fletcher’s pal in Porridge. 👍

[@christinefougere]

Notice they are starting to go now, first Len, then Bert...

[@mistofoles]

The scenes where Ken is talking to the councellor were probably filmed at Manchester Town Hall just up the road from the studios.

[@hollandwawasan1221]

Back in the day, when everyone lit up whenever and wherever they chose 😅

[@leeorr9071]

Eddie Yates was the best on Corrie and his family

[@FITTMANN]

Terry was GRRR in 1983 😍

[@th8257]

Yup! Very nicely put together :-)

[@R31922]

Wish I had a pound for every time Ken Puts his glasses on then takes them off.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Knew Chalkie liked Phyllis really.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Looked ( and sounded) like Emily looking over the fence into no 9 and greeting Jack and Vera-but how could it be? She lives at no 3, they were at no 9 ( between Ivy and Elsie)!

[@annwilliams6575]

They moved into no.5

[@pamib29]

It was Emily! She was peering over the gate when walking past, not the yard wall. 🙂

[@bsaunders5271]

​@annwilliams6575 the Tilsleys lived at no.5

[@sMartTVGaming84]

9:14 😂 Love Phylis & Chalkie 25:29 “It’s me!”

[@alexanderjones9572]

Umm, Betty, I wouldn’t put your having been pestered by a hypochondriac in the same category as Ivy having Bert in a psychiatric hospital he may never leave. Just saying..

[@mistofoles]

Kenneth Barlow still appears in CS sporadically !

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

2:32:11 THIS is the kind of realistic sequence that made Corrie great.

[@alexanderjones9572]

2.16.44 Percy ( to Deirdre) “ You’ll be Mrs Roberts.” There is no Mrs Roberts at the time. The first two are dead, and the next one’s still Mrs Potter.

[@markstevens9660]

Mr.Tatlock was well past his sell by date ! ……bless him …..can’t understand a word he mumbles 🤷🏼‍♂️🤓

[@angelapay3718]

Thank god chalkie has gone it was criminal how he treated Phyllis. Easy to understand how Bert went off the air married to that

[@fionasteele3642]

Yes I agree she is a piece of work is Ivy . Bert spent most of his life ,trying to appease her , she was always moaning about something or someone .

[@carlsimmons7042]

Wonderful episodes all uploaded like a box set. I for one would be happy to contribute if there was a funding page or anything like that. On a side note. Is it me or is Brian's acting extremely wooden?

[@shylinh5939]

I'd definitely contribute, PG66 is wonderful for doing all this! I've watched countless episodes now, and as for Brian's acting, it improved significantly by 1981/2. I used to find him so irritating, then I started to feel sorry for him, being stuck between his dreadful domineering mother who'd still have him in a pushchair if she could, and Gail, who nagged and complained endlessly and, particularly in the earlier days, regularly ran upstairs in tears.

[@allanjoseph5601]

His acting has actually IMPROVED would you believe😂

[@RiaLake]

Brian's acting is now adequate, in keeping with his character's personality and quite naturalistic. I also felt sorry for him stuck between Gail and Ivy.

[@cicerodiello1]

I think it’s more the character than the actor. He doesn’t have much scope.

[@soniaclarkstewart]

Brian was a dancer and was very nice to look at so he wasn’t like Terry who studied at RADA.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Bet telling Percy she’s Fred Gee! 😂😂

[@LeftWinger9]

Chalkie was brilliant with Eddie

[@MissMarie1377]

Gail!!! This is all still repercussions of YOUR insistence on that house you HAD to have. This is all YOUR doing!! Stop whining!! Your choices have consequences, you can’t yell at others for something you DEMANDED

[@kelleybunny]

right?! its not unreasonable to say.. we have to cut back for awhile.

[@MissMarie1377]

Ivy drives me nuts

[@HelloImNik]

that cadging old bag that keeps calling on Hilda is the worst 😂

[@MattMcKimmie]

What happened to Bert whys he missing

[@bsaunders5271]

"OH! Hello Pam!" every two seconds. I've managed to skip every one of her scenes as soon as someone says it.

[@jubileebaby9787]

Loved Jack and Vera, they were like a real life couple.

[@helentucker6407]

Nice to see people with a gap between front teeth, botox, boob job and tattoo free!

[@imthedaddy3477]

1.51.28. Bet gets Rita’s drink which was already poured.

[@thertraumatic]

I really wish Bet would get to be lucky in love and happy in love for once, just for a while at least. How much misery do they have to put her through?

[@user-qs8cn7gt7x]

She deserves bad luck.

[@williamf4544]

Ive never warmed my plates - never

[@joshirley2308]

There’s loads of setting tables on Corrie.

[@williamf4544]

Yes thts a good point - Having said that i guess if i used a back room beside the kitchen or if i even had that kind of living space i might be more inclined to do something more like setting the table - as it is a just grab a knife and fork out the drawer and off i go@@joshirley2308

[@williamf4544]

Having said that i do sometimes end up with the chips being cold before ive finnished them especially if they are from the chippie

[@alexanderjones9572]

2.35.22 I bet Shakespeare never said “I love you, Ken Barlow’ Deirdre, He’d have got a funny reaction if he had...

[@walshjable]

Bunny warren from Porridge is the decorator at 3hr 02

[@racheleastwood5588]

Jack and Vera classic

[@user-hc8sn1vs2k]

Curly and dee bigger glasses in the 1980s and 00s😅😅😅😅😅 round moon

[@monisamontoya288]

What language is Vera speaking?

[@adamgregory5274]

Leeds

[@MissMarceline-wp6oq]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-hc8sn1vs2k]

Norman does steal a carpet 😮😅😅😅😅 his series

[@katrinahopkins6208]

Jack,first meets his beloved pigeons 😂😂

[@kuchikopi4631]

How many Traceys has the show gone through.

[@alexanderjones9572]

4 I think? There was the baby, the one on here, the 90s schoolgirl, and Kate Ford.

[@acesigma06]

4 Christabel Finch Holly Chamarette Dawn Acton Kate Ford

[@bsaunders5271]

@@alexanderjones9572 the one on here is still the one who played her as a baby, they haven't swapped Christabel Finch out yet.

[@margolenney6032]

Horrible horrible character Ivy Tilsley. Not worried about her husband, just worried about what people will think. ‘Drunk with his nerves’ no gone insane with living with her.

[@evelynwilson1566]

He's in an asylum, people didn't talk about it back then, there was a stigma, sadly.

[@bibakroll8999]

As much as I enjoy these episodes - and I do enjoy them - I sometimes feel like I'm watching something set in 1883 and not 1983. Corrie's attitudes certainly didn't reflect the times.

[@irenemorley75]

Old Albert......rude and ungrateful .🙄

[@chrismacdonald7955]

Yes and Albert mumbles when he talks. Always found I really had to listen hard to catch what he was saying most of the time. I never had any problem understanding anyone in Corrie as I'm British but it must be difficult for non Brits to follow his conversations. 🤔

[@sherylbarker9465]

I always thought what a terrible man Terry Duckworth was and always wondered why Vera always blamed Jack. Watching these earlier episodes I now understand. Vern was good to Terry, but what a nightmare Vera and Jack were in those years. No wonder Terry turned out rotten

[@patrickminogue9594]

Beth was a ride

[@carasmith549]

1:48:33 - Can anybody name that tune on the Barlows' wireless?

[@carasmith549]

Actually, I think it might be called "Going Home"?

[@queendeirdre7436]

Typical Ken. Jumps first and then expects everyone else to clean up his mess. Sheeeeesh😮

[@Keepingitrespectfulmostly.]

Hilda wears matching colours to the exterior of her house, nice. 1:48:23 What ya doing with that swab Bet? If the rat can cheat on his wife, he can cheat on you.

[@jstewart3517]

Why dont they just say sandwich instead of bum cake ??

[@adamgregory5274]

Barm Cake. A kind of large bread roll made with yeast. Barm is another word for yeast. As the yeast ferments, it creates alcohol and makes people Barmy!

[@soniaclarkstewart]

I had to look it up myself since I’m American and was totally clueless. I kept hearing them say barm and was determined to figure out what was so unique.

[@joemalone9380]

before electric mixers were invented

[@rebeccahayes1007]

Ugh Percy Sugden. They jumped the shark with him.

[@user-hc8sn1vs2k]

That's Josie Don wife 3:21:32

[@user-hc8sn1vs2k]

Jack and vee move in Terry first appearance since curly was the first then Terry and Kevin goodies yummy yum😅😅😅😅

[@jonathancheetham7683]

Ken is so boring. No idea why he wasn’t axed decades ago. Drab, boring, smug, dull.

[@roderickscott7429]

mrs lawson / mrs doyle, twins

[@cherylreznor181]

I though hilda had 4 kids?

[@soniaclarkstewart]

The two youngest were mentally challenged and they were taken away because Stan used to beat everyone in the household. The two eldest left the home as soon as they could. I don’t think both had excuses to not come to his futures.

[@user-hc8sn1vs2k]

Eddie jiggle like a baby 😅😅😅😅😅

[@dr.phibes7359]

2:44:50... Yikes!... There's a Klingon in Barlow's living room!...

[@queendeirdre7436]

OMG! You are so right!