Farewell to Corrie 1984 - the year of: the Websters, the final swansong of a Walker (albeit roguish Billy) in the Rovers, Elsie Tanner's far too rushed exit, and the sad loss of Stan Ogden. For me, New Year 1985 marked the beginning of the last decade of the "Golden Era", with Bet as Queen of the Rovers. After that, it was downhill all the way.
@MultiKs22 Жыл бұрын
cara smith gordon lewis should have being landlord not bet with her false wig . gordon was all man
@annmc8392 Жыл бұрын
Agreed
@lanceshire20223 ай бұрын
Agreed watched right from beginning not same with all legends gone 😢
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
@@MultiKs22 But he doesn’t bring in or keep the fans! 😂🤣
@anjkovo21382 жыл бұрын
Ah when Hilda starting singing silent Night and everyone joined in. Brought tears to my eyes that did😢😢❤❤
@alexandramassey925811 ай бұрын
Me too, it was lovely
@lucywilliamsx100211 ай бұрын
And me
@user-sh8gm4dl4v3 ай бұрын
Bill Webster was my kinda guy, he had such a kind face, lovely deep voice and he was from North Yorkshire, just like me !!
@marieince14792 ай бұрын
Didn't like the webster's or Elaine and even worse the Clayton's
@Self-Deport22 күн бұрын
I thought he was so handsome.
@nandsall9492Ай бұрын
Eddie and Stan were two lovable rogues whose replacement Jack Duckworth was as cuddly as a skunk
@Deborah4Antiques3 ай бұрын
I saw Jean Alexander in an interview not long after she left Corrie. Oh my what a lovely woman. Funny, charming, smart and full of grace. She has been a jewel to anyone that has watched Corrie. 💖
@philstrachanАй бұрын
She was a true actor where the others were only mediocre.
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
@@philstrachan Pat Phoenix was hardly “mediocre “!! 😂🤣
@louiseowusu2462 жыл бұрын
Kevin's point about not sitting next to Jimmy Saville was a prophetic warning, though he probably didn't understand....
@annstewart96932 жыл бұрын
it was an open secret in show biz
@philstrachanАй бұрын
@@annstewart9693it was. Have a friend who worked in makeup at BBC and she said they didn't know the extent of his evilness at the time but it was common knowledge that you never left him or Harris alone with women or children.
@walt-sh7ju Жыл бұрын
I remember watching 90s episodes at my grandparents. I've done 1990 to 99 so thought I'd go back to when I was born and watch up to 1990.
@rocawill233 жыл бұрын
Thanks alot!!!!!! Reliving this show is helping me and others get through these crazy times. It's a joy to watch, again Thank You!!!!
@philstrachanАй бұрын
I've been binge watching all these old episodes of when life was far less complex than of today. I remember these from when I was a kid. We weren't that far behind in Australia but then they stopped showing it here but then brought it back a couple of years later but by then it had lost its drive and was canned for good.
@awgroom5 ай бұрын
For me this is nearing the end of the classic era,Len, Annie, Ena, Albert, Stan, Elsie all gone. Soon it will be the arrival of Alan Bradley and the first shock and awe/Sensationalism era storyline :(
@charmarichshow17143 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I was 8 when these came out so it’s nice to see the older cast being young.
@bobslobbers5311 Жыл бұрын
Same
@roderickscott74292 жыл бұрын
2 hours 35 , one of the best Street moments ever , no words needed.
@cicerodiello1 Жыл бұрын
I will always giggle at the memory of Stan and Eddie and the tandem bike they were supposed to sell for £100. I think it was 1977.
@TraceyMellaАй бұрын
And the house they were hiding it in was demolished 😂
@paulinecorreia55382 жыл бұрын
I miss Stan 2. It’s just not the same without him.
@nicolemclean90283 ай бұрын
Didnt like stan, work shy,.lazy .lager lout, always stole from hilda who worked 3 jobs while stan sat on his butt
@R31922 Жыл бұрын
Kevin Webster..the shouting school of acting.
@manuelhung75718 ай бұрын
Kevin could convey every single emotion with that moustache (Sally Seddon's minge tickler) alone, the rest of his face was wooden. He invented Botox face before Botox was ever discovered 😂.
@user-ns4wt9zf6x5 ай бұрын
Billy walker later on went to emmerdale as Tom king in the 2000s. I love ❤️ coronation street especially the older ones!
@zeddeka11 ай бұрын
Interesting how they'd lined up Vera and Jack to replace Hilda and Stan as the Steet's comedy couple. They'd even given Jack Stan's window cleaning round.
@philstrachanАй бұрын
It was so obvious, wasn't it? Although Hilda was a gem and the other three weren't. Only saw Stan show love towards Hilda once when her brother died, otherwise he'd constantly stral from her, who worked hard. The Duckworths are vile people.
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
@@philstrachan If you have only seen love once, you obviously don’t pay attention to the show! 😂🤣
@jayrox403 жыл бұрын
Love this era. Billy is the last Walker to leave the Rovers. Bet waiting in the wings to take over.
@adrianmole7431 Жыл бұрын
Changed his name and moved to Emmerdale 😊
@nicolemclean90283 ай бұрын
Billy got his karma for way he treated fred
@theresapierce39343 жыл бұрын
Hilda's lost without her Stan and Coronation street lost a legend.
@lindarowe85502 жыл бұрын
Absolutely spot on
@francesgillotti13782 жыл бұрын
@@lindarowe8550 I could never like Stan as he used Hilda like a slave !
@williamhicken12062 жыл бұрын
@@francesgillotti1378 He was a useless tool.
@josephbland3904 Жыл бұрын
Nooo Wayyy… Stans character was a no good lazy walking pie can… He did nothing but use Hilda as a skivvy…
@theresapierce3934 Жыл бұрын
@Joseph Bland you have missed the point.
@williamf4544 Жыл бұрын
Who can blame Bill Websters bird for not being keen to go back on the cruise ships - imagine being unlucky enough to be stuck on one of them ships with that Jane McDonald character murdering Hey Big Spender or any other song for that matter - that would be my worst nightmare come true
@alygodsquad2 жыл бұрын
Sad that the actress who played Elaine died in 1987 aged 41 x
@luvmifro2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love the theme song 🥰💚💚💚
@luvmifro2 жыл бұрын
My boyfriend passed a few months ago and coronation street is like a dear friend helping me get adjusted 😘
@deirdrekiernan50703 ай бұрын
elsie tanner one of the best actors corrie every had
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
Think Vera had a cheek in the Boxing Day episode. Ivy invites her over, says Hilda’s going to be there, and she complains about Hilda-but still goes herself! Up to Ivy who’s there-it’s her house.
@excelents Жыл бұрын
02:17:47 I like how the tinsel on the door behind Bet changes colour when she steps outside and closes the door and it suddenly acquires an extra piece around the window trim.
@philstrachanАй бұрын
Lol, yes, there's also lots of contunuity issues with the length of cigarettes when they make an outtake.
@PeterwrayadventuresАй бұрын
2:34:56 Brilliant scene. What makes Coronation Street great even after lot of characters left or died.
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
First time I heard Bet say she thought Percy had nicked the tree from Albert Square, I thought of EastEnders-which wasn’t even on yet at this time!
@theresapierce39342 жыл бұрын
The scene of Jack's death was so well done, Vera coming to take him with her, had me sobbing like a baby.
@pedanticradiator149114 күн бұрын
She would have meant Albert Square in the centre of Manchester where the Town Hall is and has a large annual Christmas tree
@cicerodiello1 Жыл бұрын
It’s interesting to see what an absolute ratbag Jack was and yet, he was absolutely beloved by the time he died. Working at The Rovers was the making of him. He evolved into a darling.
@lucywilliamsx1002 Жыл бұрын
Why are Gail and Brian in the pub on Xmas eve instead of home with nicky shocking parenting
@EveHenleySpread Жыл бұрын
1:27:16 this conversation between Mike and Bet for me is a seminal moment in Corrie’s next decade!
@Staggercfc2 жыл бұрын
52:24 Although she appears to be relaxing, Hilda is permanently switched on for new gossip. Look at her eyes bulge as Vera lays into Jack.
@shirleywikaira60792 ай бұрын
Oh gosh I had teary eyes love them all Coronation street 😇🥰💛
@normasouthwood3182 Жыл бұрын
I have watched Corrie since 1st episode. I like Bill Webster and his daughter, but his prospective bride Elaine is like a female Barry Manilow!
@alexandramassey925811 ай бұрын
She was
@ihimaerawest88068 ай бұрын
Yes she has a very big nose especially when her and Bill kiss
@ddrose062 жыл бұрын
That Debbie dresses as though she wants to be ready to go, the second the circus calls.
@theresapierce3934 Жыл бұрын
The wardrobe department must have really had it in for her.
@phutton Жыл бұрын
Debbie reminds me of a younger Phyllis with her new hairdo
@kuchikopi4631 Жыл бұрын
Bwahahaha
@bsaunders52712 жыл бұрын
Instead of going off to work at Dr. Lowther's new house in 1987, I think it would have been wonderful if Eddie and Marion had come back for Hilda, and moved her to Bury with them, where, without Stan, she really belongs.
@robclark4507 Жыл бұрын
Would been great that with eddie dint leave
@philstrachanАй бұрын
It was very weird that Eddie didn't return for the funeral. Must have been some sort of falling out with producers behind the scenes.
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
@@philstrachan He quit because he didn’t like the pair up with Marion! He got sick and tired of it, and quit! And he’s no catch, but Marion is one of the most unattractive women on that show, so I don’t blame him! He went on to act in “Keeping Up Appearances”, of course! And he also wanted his character to stay single, not married.
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
How are they to do that with no Eddie??! And that would mean needing to have a new set for them and their town! And why would Marion want Hilda??! And why would Hilda sell her house and leave her jobs to go to another town with two people that are not her family??! 😂🤣
@bsaunders5271Ай бұрын
@@chicagogyrl4846 I meant off screen.
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
Jack “Everything comes to her who waits at the bus stop of life my love.” Well, when he died, Vera’s ghost told him there was a bus coming...
@debbierowley88334 ай бұрын
Eh?
@philstrachanАй бұрын
?
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
So Jack wants to be manager of the Rovers... Ironic, since he ends up there as Bet and Alec’s pitman- and then later, when Bet goes, becomes landlord.
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
Kevin’s reaction to Elaine is exactly the same as Nicky’s reaction to. Martin ( who Gail married after Brian’s death. ) Same situation-but how much older than Nicky is Kevin?? But he still wants his surviving parent to stay single. Mind you, it’s also how Brian initially reacted to any men Ivy showed an interest in after Bert died.
@user-dq6kr2gd1y9 ай бұрын
Any man interested in Ivy needed certifying...
@jstewart3517 Жыл бұрын
Kevin is such a spoiled whiner and never changes thru the years ,Special thank you for this walk down menory lane
@philstrachanАй бұрын
Kevin was there for his muscles, not his acting skills 😂
@4oclocktimefortea794 Жыл бұрын
Why does Betty start every sentence with an awwww oooh woe is the world voice!
@philstrachanАй бұрын
She just did it exactly same time I read your comment! 😂
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
First appearance of Dulcie Froggatt ( who Jack met on what had been Stan’s window round)- played by Marji Campi ( who went on to play Jessie Shadwick in Brookside. Wonder if she was “‘er off flamin’ rotten Inkerman Street.”? After all, that was part of Stan’s round-and if Jack was doing the same round Stan had done...
@kuchikopi4631 Жыл бұрын
No she wasn't, Hilda went to the dreaded Inkerman street house once when Stan ran away from home lol. Definitely not the same house.
@pedanticradiator149114 күн бұрын
No Dulcie lived in a better area than Inkerman Street which was always spoken of as being similar or slightly lower class than Coronation Street
@distantrambler9 ай бұрын
Terry very good looking in those days
@connielincoln86818 ай бұрын
Yes he gained a lot of weight later in life
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
So if Dawn Yates was born in 1984-she’d be 36 now!
@Uksoapfan3 жыл бұрын
Bye Billy Walker, shame he never came back again after this, as he had been a recurring character since 1961. Billy returned to Jersey for good, and what has become of his since is unknown. I think Ken tried to contact him in 2002 but he was untraceable.
@corriearcade603 жыл бұрын
What did Ken do?
@Guitargirrrl2 жыл бұрын
I think it was for Betty's retirement party.
@MarcoNegrisEye2 жыл бұрын
He should have tried Bebo...
@Uksoapfan Жыл бұрын
@@corriearcade60 He tried to trace Billy down in June 2002 for Betty's retirement party but was unsuccessful. Betty then changed her mind about retiring.
@mirandawinstead6540 Жыл бұрын
He went to the Yorkshire dales 😂
@user-dq6kr2gd1y9 ай бұрын
Why does Bill, starting a new married life in Southampton, keep mithering about keeping the family together? His children are two young adults with jobs, not school kids ...
@eph2817 Жыл бұрын
I can't get used to the Websters in Elsie's house or Len's yard, they aren't anywhere near good enough.
@ellyelisabeth27839 ай бұрын
I was 6 in 84....Not watched Corrie since I was a teen maybe but I do recall Kevin was always a moaning git and I always wanted to be Bet 😂
@williamf4544 Жыл бұрын
So a big loaf cost 50p and i just bought a big loaf out Farmfoods for 75p nearly 30 years later - thats not bad really - On the wages back then 50p must have been quite pricey
@philstrachanАй бұрын
I've been looking at prices signage on shelves of Alf's shop - tinned "ham" =17p!!!
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
Actually, I’d’ve thought Rita’d be working on Christmas Eve-which’s be a manic shopping day. Don’t tell me she’s left Mavis on her own to cope!
@mistofoles9 ай бұрын
The scene between Billy and the brewery boss was filmed in a real office - you can tell immediately the difference in film quality between studio cameras and a portable one - slightly grainier footage, different acoustics, long static shots. Looks like it might have been filmed at Manchester town hall.
@philstrachanАй бұрын
Yes, they used film cameras for all external shots for decades before portable video cameras technology got better. The colour grading and contrast was quite obvious.
@Deborah4Antiques3 ай бұрын
Debbie's clothes are so baggy and not what we wore in the 80's.
@Arthur_Noid Жыл бұрын
2:40 Bad hair day alert.
@robertdexter53428 ай бұрын
Get it? Got it? Good!
@hlnr4817 Жыл бұрын
The Duckworths could have had their own show😂
@ThatMattOne11 ай бұрын
I wish they had.
@MichaelJirochVisualArtist10 ай бұрын
Yeah in a sitcom. Where they really belong.
@jonathancheetham76837 ай бұрын
I love Phyllis so much haha
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
So Jack and Annie took over the Rovers in 1954.
@corriearcade603 жыл бұрын
1937
@Deborah4Antiques3 ай бұрын
There's a lot of static type background noise, I watch regardless.
@philstrachanАй бұрын
Analogue tv ~ we never noticed it back then because we hadn't heard better. It's like the original electronic titling in adverts used to hum when onscreen.
@olgagarcia57108 ай бұрын
Wonder why Mike Baldwin didn’t buy the Rovers?
@philstrachanАй бұрын
Good point 👍
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
Because he already had two businesses to run!!
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
What happened to the nice, big Christmas tree that the old man was carrying??! Now it looks like a bush!! 😂🤣
@user-kl4bh4lq6r8 ай бұрын
Mr Walker was in Family Affair's in the 90s and Mr King in Emmerdale in the 2000s
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
Surprised Emily wasn’t in the Rovers’ with everyone else in the Christmas Eve episode. And it’d have been good if Gordon had joined in with ‘Silent Night.’
@MultiKs222 жыл бұрын
alexander jones Gordon Lewis one of the sexiest man I ever seen in the street in 1984 after mike Baldwin Gordon doesn't need to sing silent night he should have being the new landlord in my book for 1985
@MultiKs22 Жыл бұрын
@@tiberseptim560 I "use bicycle handlebar tape to get a grip.
@michaelgregory83229 ай бұрын
Grow up Kevin webster, your dad's getting married. WTF
@allangilchrist593824 күн бұрын
Coronation Street is now grim. Poor scripts and mostly shallow tedious characters.
@excelents Жыл бұрын
46:25 Quite right Kevin, quite right my boy !
@olgagarcia57108 ай бұрын
Bet would make a good owner. I like her
@chrisshearer8454 ай бұрын
The book of 1984 happening before our eyes today
@DIETRICHCICCONE8 ай бұрын
1:14:50 That fateful meeting: Dulcie Frogatt and Vince St.Clair 😂
@jonathancheetham76837 ай бұрын
To say Bill is quite ruggedly handsome, his taste in women is rather… odd.
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
So is Brian’s!! 😂🤣
@mistofoles9 ай бұрын
Bernard Youens ( Stan ) had recently died in real, they incorporated that into the storyline.
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
Really??! I didn’t know!! 😂🤣
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
Why would Bette think that Betty would want that pub at her age??! She is certainly not hurting for money, so she doesn’t need to take on all the extra work and problems ! And Betty that she only works a few hours, but she is there morning and night, so that’s more than a few! And she couldn’t do it anyway because she doesn’t have the money!
@mrsWELCOME0083 жыл бұрын
Big mistake on Corrie's part in letting Gordon Lewis go - he would of actually made an Ideal Husband to Bet. The reason for this, is cos they are opposites, and actually look good together IMHO.
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
Gordon Lewis and Bet? Seriously?
@stormhawk33192 жыл бұрын
glad Debbie got written out, annoying character.
@alisonroberts5228 Жыл бұрын
She's in it now as a baddie apparently, surprise surprise 😵💫
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
“‘Ere we go again. ‘E goes-who comes?” You won’t like the answer, Bet...
@user-kl4bh4lq6r8 ай бұрын
Kevin's looks very hand to mouth necking that soup🥣🍞
@PennyBloater4 ай бұрын
Kevin Webster - Midge Ure Patriarch
@user-dq6kr2gd1y9 ай бұрын
Kevin's sister is a right gargoyle...
@user-dq6kr2gd1y9 ай бұрын
Why is the Duckworth's cooker in the living room and not the back kitchen, like the Ogden's etc.?
@gilliangrant87647 ай бұрын
I have always wondered that, never found out though
@pedanticradiator149114 күн бұрын
At some point the kitchen and living room were turned into one room. When originally built houses like those in Coronation Street often had the back living rooms with big ranges for cooking later on the little sculleries at the back were made into kitchens. The front living rooms or parlours were only used for special occasions or sometimes as a bedroom
@kellyscourfield7414 ай бұрын
Who’s the Actor who plays Rita’s bit of fluff? Looks familiar
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
Have you got months like this from the 90s? I know your favourite character ( from the thumbnail) was no more then, but...
@josephbland3904 Жыл бұрын
Gordon Lewis was mustard… He should’ve been kept in the show as Landlord of the Rovers… Very underrated character…
@MultiKs22 Жыл бұрын
yes I agree joseph bland .Gordon Lewis should have being landlord of the rovers not bet lynch he was brilliant actor he knew how to have servility
@user-dq6kr2gd1y9 ай бұрын
Billy was quite a pin-up in his army uniform in earlier times, but ended up like Stigg of the Dump in the end ...
@alicecobb7763 Жыл бұрын
Honestly, Vera's husband is the most laziest man in this show...
@kuchikopi4631 Жыл бұрын
Should have seen Stan.
@soniaclarkstewart Жыл бұрын
@@kuchikopi4631 Stan was pretty honest about his lack of work ethic, but Jack was plain sleazy.
@josephbland3904 Жыл бұрын
Jack Duckworth was a Lazy so & so.. Always moaning.. His fault he lost his license… Vera & Terry set him up with Oggys old window round & he still complains. Jack was only happy when he was at the end of a pint propping up the bar in The Rovers… Just like Stan the walking pie can was…
@kuchikopi4631 Жыл бұрын
Dracula's granny 😂😂😂
@bsaunders52712 жыл бұрын
Debbie is so irritating
@olgagarcia57108 ай бұрын
She still is.
@user-dq6kr2gd1y9 ай бұрын
Bill should be glad to get away from angry, shouty Kevin ...
@philstrachanАй бұрын
Funny how Jack expects to grift off his missus, much like Stan & Hilda
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
Because stupid Ivy allows it! She always had to yell at him to drive his taxi! And Ivy should not be with him to begin with! Another unbelievable storyline that would not be happening in reality! 😂🤣
@TraceyMellaАй бұрын
Vera
@pedanticradiator149114 күн бұрын
@chicagogyrl4846 Vera not Ivy
@thesniperabel82783 жыл бұрын
Got any 1960s please
@MrIrrepressible4 ай бұрын
so no more Fred from this point on?
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
Rita looks strange in a purple dress on Christmas! Nothing festive!
@johnlarkin38212 ай бұрын
Bill Webster and that Elaine ... what a horrible couple - our Kevin and Debbie, too.
@johnlarkin38212 ай бұрын
All this daft "happy families" stuff with the Websters ... Bill worked abroad for years, and Kevin and his minging, feral sister fended for themselves
@user-dq6kr2gd1y9 ай бұрын
Bill and Elaine - what an unprepossessing couple.
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
If Billy wanted to drink in the middle of the night, he should have taken all his drunk friends into the back dining room, not in the pub! Stupid!!
@rbr20237 ай бұрын
Terry…20?!😂
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
Was Dulcie (Marji Campi)‘s husband ever in Brookside?
@dirkdeboer7061 Жыл бұрын
God forbid!
@chicagogyrl4846Ай бұрын
I wouldn’t have gone out with that man if I were Rita. I wouldn’t go out with him since he went out with Bette, and especially after he dumped her! He also had who knows how many women! That’s probably why his wife left him! Rita didn’t care about Bette! Are the pickings that few over there that she must go out with a man that Bette has??! And Rita or Bette never asked him why he’s separated, but he would just lie about it, anyway!