Coronation Street - February 1995

[@christinefougere]

Thank you so much, These are the best of Corrie.

[@hugoboss5895]

Nice one! I can’t sleep and finding stuff like this is tv rewind heaven.

[@joycebursey2183]

Thank you again for those episodes.

[@fionamontgomery8105]

Thanks again for your work so many happy memories. I haven't watched normal t.v since I found them. Thank you so much x

[@bonbon0416]

22:17 Bet never ceases to make me laugh. I love her confidence and friendships.

[@davehenson7104]

I have to say that I have always found Audrey to be an incredibly unlikeable character. Not necessarily before her marriage to Alf but very much so after. Completely wasting Alf's money, acting like a spoilt petulant kid when she didn't get her own way and totally selfish at the expense of her own family at times. I remember in 2010 she had a slanging match with Rita. Rita says "I had more respect for the marriage than you have. I knew Alfie adored you. I knew you loved him back but you loved his money more". Sums her up very well. She's a total contrast to Sue Nicholls who comes across as a very nice woman. I do think she plays the part very well but as I said, Audrey is not somebody I have really liked.

[@paullynton-green6570]

Gold digger.

[@shylinh5939]

She was unbearable, I have no idea what Alf got out of being married to her. She was useless when he had the shop, but very efficient at spending the money it made. In this period there was so little in Audrey to mitigate her laziness and greed. She was rarely genuinely nice to Alf unless she wanted something, and ridiculed him with no regard to how it may have left him feeling. She was an ageing good time girl who spent her life in brief relationships with married men, relying on their supposed generosity until their wives found out or they went back to their wives and there was no one around to pay her rent. In earlier episodes, she'd go to stay with Gail or Elsie then. A total user with very few redeeming features. But her character changed a lot after she became a widow, then Alf got some appreciation he couldn't enjoy.

[@davehenson7104]

I can think of three of her worst moments. The first came in 1991 when Alf took Ivy on at the shop. She belittled Ivy when she did nothing wrong. Audrey blew money in a posh hotel out of spite and more than likely caused Alf's collapse. Her immaturity reached new heights and even Gail snapped at her calling her a "child". The next came in 1995 when she absolutely belittled Don Brennan during the trip to London for Alf's OBE. Quite frankly it was nice to see Audrey get karma by being left stranded by Don and then missing Alf's ceremony and Betty taking her place. Especially after all the grief Audrey gave them both during this princess storyline. The third for me came in 1999 after Alf died. Audrey seemed more concerned about the life insurance and then when his will was read. Her reaction to the bequeathments was frankly disgusting. She wanted more but as Martin rightly said "You what's drained his bank balance? 13 years of funding her retail therapy". So there we go. That's my 3 worst Audrey moments.

[@shylinh5939]

@@davehenson7104 I've seen the first two, where she teated Ivy appallingly. Ivy could be quite a horror herself, of course, but I felt sorry for her in this instance. I've seen the episode where she spent a load of Alf's money in a hotel, I think the card she was using was cancelled when she went to pay her bill. I haven't got the scene where she misses out on Alf getting his OBE, but Audrey being stranded sounds good. And I didn't know about the scenes involving the reading of Alf's will. I'm more familiar with Audrey over the last 15 years, where she's a much more considerate and sympathetic character than she was here, and does have good things to say about her long-suffering late husband. And it seems he would have preferred to be with Rita and not Audrey, anyway. Based on what a mercenary opportunist he ended up with, he might well have wished he'd proposed to Mavis after Rita turned him down, or stayed single.

[@H3len50]

Totally agree, horror of a woman.

[@michaelgregory8322]

That scene when Alf praised Rita & saying her beautiful face was absolutely brilliant

[@AriAdu]

Love the banter between Rita and Mavis

[@briangatt2956]

Derek blaming Norris for Mavis's treadmill accident would be like me blaming Harley Davidson when i fell off the back of my mate's bike and broke my ankle in 2015.

[@marilyngreen6811]

Poor Alf, his wife is so selfish, honestly think she just married him for what she could get out of it, she is more than likely using Fred too.

[@bibakroll8999]

Ya think?

[@londonlady227]

Well Alf got his own back in his will, left her nothing so far as I can remember, he bought the salon for her before he died and that's it.

[@deewhobewatty9003]

Awdraa is awful, that terrible way of speaking. Poor Alfey

[@AriAdu]

Making Vicki too thick for uni is hilarious 😂

[@bsaunders5271]

Audrey is absolutely monstrous by this period of the show. I never liked the character because she's selfish and dizzy, but the manipulative way she is now treating Alf shows how little conscience she actually has. I loved Alf and Renee's relationship, it was far more realistic and she would never have tricked or mistreated him. He should kick Audrey out. It irritates me that Gail and Alma laugh about Audrey's antics, it just encourages her bad behaviour, I don't find her funny or endearing, because rather than being a 'tart with a heart', she's just a nasty, talentless hanger on, whose only standing in the community is through her husband's achievements. Nothing to be proud of in her own life.

[@EveHenleySpread]

It’s funny you should say that as I also liked the Alf & Renee relationship but apparently the producers felt it wasn’t working and sacked Madge Hindle, harsh in my opinion. I thought she did a great job, loved her character’s sense of humour, her friendship with Bet was great.

[@bsaunders5271]

@@EveHenleySpread absolutely. She was great, and very 3 dimensional compared to Audrey. Her and Bet together were great fun, and when she went fishing with Mavis, Alf and Fred, a couple of those scenes were among my all time favourites.

[@davehenson7104]

I really like Madge Hindle. She's a very good actress. Loved her in Corrie but also loved her playing Doreen in the ITV comedy Barbara. Renee always came across as a very open and likeable character. Yes her and Alf did have their ups and downs but Renee certainly would never go for malicious revenge or spite like Audrey did. After Blanche left the corner shop they needed a strong character to run the shop and Renee fit the bill perfectly. She proved formidable from the get go after going against Annie Walker over the off license plan. Definitely a fun and memorable character.

[@jaclynholland-strauss7054]

LOVED Alf and Renee, although I never could figure out why her name was pronounced the way it was. But yes to the couple. She kinda looked like Audrey, but had much, much more character.

[@EveHenleySpread]

I always presumed Renee was short for Irene but I could be wrong - these things aren’t explained in Soapland.

[@bsaunders5271]

Ashley. Here we go. "Ooncle FWEG"

[@Chillmax]

"The computer says no!" I wonder if the Little Britain boys saw that here first?!

[@mamamagpie]

I wondered the same thing.. we both can’t be wrong 😉

[@londonlady227]

You forgot the cough at the end...😫

[@morrisseycrumlin]

Thought that too

[@WillVenusASMR]

Love this era of Corrie.

[@traceyraybould7148]

Reg Holdsworths lines are really really genius!

[@shylinh5939]

Yes, very funny. I loved the scene when Curly tells Reg he's told the staff that's he's his boyfriend.

[@EveHenleySpread]

God I really can’t stand Tricia - who’d have thought she’d end up a politician and Mayor of West Yorkshire.. funny old world!

[@katy4779]

It is indeed.

[@carasmith549]

Agree, Tricia was awful. But, for me, 1995 was a poor year for Corrie. Tricia moving into No. 1, the continuing Samir saga, Bet leaving and then the Malletts arriving (couldn't stand them either). And to top it all Vicky's seduction of bad boy Steve MacDonald - I think she only wanted him to score points over Fiona; and, naturally, it turned out an absolute disaster, ending with 'good girl' Vicky gaining a criminal record!

[@EveHenleySpread]

I agree but I’m really struggling to get through ‘96 currently - just nothing of interest seems to be happening! This whole Square Dealers nonsense irritates the hell out of me, I’m tempted to give up here (I was going to at least watch my own uploads lol).

[@mamamagpie]

@@EveHenleySpread thank you for not giving up! These are bringing such needed entertainment and distraction from the craZy of the 2020’s ✌🏼

[@bsaunders5271]

I can't stand her either, or her little brat

[@carasmith549]

Mavis and Derek involved in yet another tedious calamity with a mechanical contraption - first The Battle of the Boat, then the Drama of the Dormobile, now The Misery of the Mile Muncher. Audrey is at her peak of selfishness, dallying with Fred Elliott in order to social climb, and behaving horribly towards Alf and Betty. Don Brennan embarks on a new romance with dreary Josie. "Queen Victoria" (Vicky) is back long-term (watch out Fiona!) and also at the Rovers, Bet and Raquel's best storylines are now long over. Worst of all, to prepare us for the even worse Battersbys (still two years away), we now have moved into No. 1: Trashy Tricia.

[@sheilaoneil18]

All so contrived....silly unbelievable story lines badly acted!!! Beginning of deteriorating Corrie.

[@andrewroywake5891]

Bet Gilroy's hair always looked pristine xxxx

[@byronjones8136]

Making Vicky too thick for University is a great advert for private schooling,

[@lynnem3300]

Pretty sure Prince Harry did that. 😅

[@staceygrove5976]

If she'd been born ten years later, it wouldn't have been a problem!

[@angelapay3718]

Notice how Ashley doesn’t sound like he’s on helium in the early episodes?

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

It was a shock to see him this early...and more of a shock to hear him!

[@pandacutlets83]

Unfortunately Corrie started going downhill from here..😓 but I'll persevere

[@TheGlassman63]

Once the dreadful Battersby family came into it in 1997 is the moment i drifted away. But the show around this time had certainly started to lose its appeal.

[@bsaunders5271]

Fiona is a really beautiful girl, but my god has she got the sulkiest face ever!

[@lynnem3300]

I don't think she's particularly attractive. More importantly, she's so argumentative - about everything. And when she's invariably told to butt out, she adds the unappealing trait of snark to her repertoire.

[@luvmifro]

Alf and Rita 💚

[@briangatt2956]

1;42;25 Seems a bit odd that the writer would get Vera to ask Rita ' Have you been beaten by a bloke?' when Alan bradley tried to strangle and suffocate her.

[@theresapierce3934]

Why didn't Fiona say she had found a flat for "us" then we wouldn't have had to listen to her screeching at Steve again.

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

Whilst pouting like Mick Jaggers interracial spouse

[@garnetj69]

Oh I really didn't like that Fiona character, she was so annoying.

[@lynnem3300]

​@@garnetj69Agreed. Her default attitude is snark.

[@02bher1]

Necklace from one pig's head to another Lol.😅🤣😂

[@mattburke3457]

Derrick is another one I cannot stand, just when I think I can't dislike him anymore, he proves that theory wrong.

[@bsaunders5271]

He's ghastly

[@NayanapNap]

I can not stand the squeak females voice hurts my ears !

[@soniaclarkstewart]

As an American I was really impressed when I saw the Mayoral Chain of Office. The first time I saw Richard Hillman wearing one on Midsommer Murders, I thought about Henry VIII.

[@septembervirgo3723]

Omg lol, Bets outfit! She looked like the gay bloke in The Dick Emery Show! I was expecting her to walk through the bar and shout ‘hello honky tonks’!

[@standamoza]

A great month yet again. More focussed on what an idiot Steve can be. Sean skinner there are many of him around and still these days. Liz handled herself very well. Good to see some Vicki and bet bonding again. I love it when Bet and Rita get together. It is real honesty. Thanks Eve. Hope you are well

[@ginagina9720]

Fred as a soft spot for Audrey! And I wonder if Norman marries Raquel? But I want to say thank you 🙏 for your video x

[@Yaarbiriah]

love that scene 'be careful! You've been warned!' :D :D

[@forrestcollective9184]

Audrey is so pathetic. Sneaking to the leasure centre with Fred so Alf couldn't do it. Such childish behaviour.

[@Deborah4Antiques]

Audrey is such a Liar!!! That crap about the Queen!!!

[@sheilaoneil18]

Thelma Barlow deserves better storylines than the rubbish she gets with awful unbelievable Derek. I don't know how someone of her calibre stood it! Her scenes with Rita are wonderful but then Rita's WONDERFUL and I love her.

[@nandsall9492]

Derek was a frightful character. Almost entirely dependent upon women and yet treated them with contempt. Believed he was an intellectual heavy weight [no pun intended] yet could barely tie his own shoe laces. Worst of all was his moral superiority which masked his devious and manipulative character.

[@lynnem3300]

And his perfect match is Mavis - self-important, judgemental, jealous, malicious, and cowardly.

[@staceygrove5976]

Hey, careful what you say, he's a high-powered executive don't you know?

[@CherylCoolCat]

@@lynnem3300 💯 spot on

[@rol1517]

The leisure centre opening was hilarious.

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

2:39:27 Obviously Gail, why would Martin want another woman when he has you?...🙄

[@NadeenaMorgan]

😅😂🎉

[@JayThomson-zt6vz]

Does Vicky have any redeeming features?

[@londonlady227]

Sometimes those pints pulled are a disgrace, half of the glass is foam and never to the top. In the real world obviously with real beer, that wouldn't fly with customers at all.

[@NadeenaMorgan]

I noticed that too! And I'm a tea tortellini 😅 Agreed! Very bad pint pulling, a disgrace in fact! 😮

[@ddrose06]

Audrey thinks she has a lot in common with a royal. If that royal has ever dossed down on Gail's settee, that would put the tin-hat on it.

[@londonlady227]

I think the Royal in question was Princess Michael of Kent.

[@lynnem3300]

​@@londonlady227I think so too. So Audrey feels she has tons in common with the Royal Family's chief racist! 😅

[@londonlady227]

@@lynnem3300 Yes, in fact I think she might've been one of the ones who were concerned about the colour of Harry and Megan's baby.

[@londonlady227]

@@lynnem3300 turns out it was Charles and Kate who made those remarks.

[@lynnem3300]

@@londonlady227 Sure, according to Scobie who's a proven liar. I don't believe his crap for a minute.

[@londonlady227]

Th'okey Cokey in th'ambulance to th'olsalers.

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

Ah February 1995. The absolutely mysterious disappearance of Richey Edwards of the Manics. I can't say rest in peace but wherever you may be, may your problems be far behind you 🤞🏻🌹 Edit: 3:27:46 that is weird! I wonder if they wrote that in because of this story which was huge at the time

[@howiseeit5129]

Fiona is tedious. No personality or chat. Can't see the attraction.

[@lynnem3300]

🎯

[@HelloImNik]

I don't remember audrey being this awful when I watched this the first time around, maybe I wasn't old enough to realise but jesus, poor Alf.

[@NadeenaMorgan]

To be honest, A Levels are much harder for non academic peeps than the other exams

[@tammyshirks6948]

Mike and Steve's character's are so much a like greed of a dollar and also crook it to get a dollar and to lie to get it.. Don't care who they hurt in the mean while of it all..

[@danielfitzpatrick9024]

Why did Des suddenly stop speaking with a Geordie accent?

[@sassy-cat]

The awful Trasha Armstrong and her wayward brat just set my last nerve on edge I skip through every scene they're in 🙈 why someone didn't give her a much needed smack in the gob is a mystery but it's lovely to see Fred and Ashley 🥳

[@staceygrove5976]

3:33:03 A Rag and Bone Man in the mid-1990s?

[@jujuoliver6959]

Derek is an awful man. He is horrible and dismissive to Mavis until he thinks he can wean some money out of the situation. Such a twit. I loved Corrie years back but now i watch it thinking what awful manipulative people. It's like a lesson in how not to behave.

[@briangatt2956]

Colin Proctor who played Rodney and other characters in Corrie had the privilege of being in the first episode of the Sweeney.

[@eivissalyn655]

How come Tricia needed a babysitter for Jamie but leaves him alone now when she goes to bingo

[@barbarapalmer8224]

The most.beautiful and.charming member of corrie.street is mavis's budgie.❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@NadeenaMorgan]

O for God's sake, please please please for our sanity, get rid of TRICIA!!! PLEASE

[@sheilaoneil18]

i agree!!!!! I have to fast forward her and also her GHASTLY kid!!!!

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

3:08:36 have I missed something? Or are we just supposed to pretend that she's never been anything other than a pest with a broom and the ability to switch on a kettle!??

[@915madness]

Why was uncle albert from only fools and horses moonlighting in a betting shop with steve mcdonald 😂

[@barbaracockerill6367]

What on earth is the matter with that baby

[@02bher1]

Hello; Vickie is not the sharpest pencil in the box Lol! Albeit a very expensive one.😅🤣😂

[@NadeenaMorgan]

😅 touché!

[@denisesiddon7241]

90s - best era of corrie

[@bsaunders5271]

My favourite is the 70s!

[@CherylCoolCat]

@@bsaunders5271 1970’s and early 1980’s for me 😀😀

[@David-h4z2s]

For me 1986-1997-99-2009 The Blanche And Deirdre years Were great Blanche was so funny with her bluntness 😅

[@jstewart3517]

Al n Audrey really deserved each other ,

[@Deborah4Antiques]

Liz's "bum freezers" created issues.

[@sheilaoneil18]

If this is around the time when Bet leaves well it doesn't surprise me one bit!!New characters not up to much and contrived story lines....is the rot beginning?? It is for me.

[@EveHenleySpread]

Yep Bet leaves in October, she'd been trying to leave for years. She actually wanted to leave with Roy Barraclough in '92 but the producers felt it would be too much losing two big stars in one go so they persuaded her (no doubt with a big rise) to stay until her 25th anniversary in '95. I agree, throughout the 90s the quality just continues to drop to the dross it is today.

[@kylie-mareebaldwin4672]

Not enjoying all the hairdressing scenes. Cannot act.

[@EveHenleySpread]

And everybody comes out looking exactly the same as when they went in 😂

[@chadyepipia8383]

​@@EveHenleySpreadBy the way you know Fred Elliott was quite different when he first came back in August 1994 as quite dodgy and a bit of a player and he was a wide boy. But when did Fred Elliott changed gradually into a loveable buffoon comedy character exactly and what year he transitioned.

[@staceygrove5976]

3:56:40 Oh Bet, that outfit!!!!

[@EveHenleySpread]

She looked more like a drag queen.. than err, an actual drag queen lol!

[@kylie-mareebaldwin4672]

Derrick is annoying and extremely controlling in this episode. Mavis and Rita are entertaining. I normally enjoy Derrick's antics.

[@NadeenaMorgan]

I like Maude, Reg and Maureen. I absolutely hate tricia!

[@alexlazebat839]

tbh parents and teachers talk on 2 different levels i remember my school reports A's and B's and GCSE end up with 1 C

[@KuchiKopi179]

I did really well in my gcses all a and a*, then college hit me like a tonne of bricks and I barely managed to pass and get a place in uni😅

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

I was riddled with addiction and mental health disorders and still got pass marks eventually...I say eventually cos I misunderstood the numbers equated to A, B, C's etc

[@DementedNun121]

The most annoying words ever .... Mile Muncher

[@homeless_greg_games]

I’ve had more excitement at a jumble sale 😂😂😂

[@R31922]

Pity Trisha and her kid came back...not a great addition to the street.

[@danaciszewski7536]

Waiting for them to kill off Derek. Sooooooo annoying in Feb 95

[@sheilaoneil18]

He's AWFUL!!!!!

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

3:22:38 I get that Vera was Ivy's oldest friend...but that was just creepy af 😂

[@barbarapalmer8224]

Liz made the big mistake of telling her boss about her affair with Des's brother.so of course he thought.he would be in with a chance.

[@leejones8582]

Don did lose a leg

[@forrestcollective9184]

Yes

[@homeless_greg_games]

Purveyor of fine meats sounds so Kath and Kim !!

[@barbarapalmer8224]

I like vicky very much,

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

3:56:38 fksake she looks like Andy Bell 😂

[@sheilaoneil18]

Vicky 18??? Not!!!!

[@sheilaoneil18]

Liz is DAFT!!! And oh Derek SHUT UP!!!

[@barbarapalmer8224]

Mavis isn't as nice l thought she.was

[@markstevens9660]

Whoever plays Jim is a terrible actor …. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@barbarapalmer8224]

Derek and mavis are so boring.

[@eatmywords]

3:56:50 dear god bet, you've damaged my eyesight with that outfit

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

She looks like Andy fkn Bell 😂