Coronation Street - January 1985

[@MissMaevisDavis]

Jean Alexander was an amazing actor - never appreciated in her lifetime, yes - the writers were brilliant but her delivery was exceptional. Hilda (Jean) was a one off, bless her.

[@paulsmith8572]

Hilda was pure gold

[@MultiKs22]

frank was pure gold especially with that thick moustache he is quite distinctive .as for Hilda she is gold platinum

[@christinefougere]

This show is nothing without Hilda.,

[@tracyhoward8228]

what a fabulous actress

[@lindarowe8550]

Hilda is certainly one in a million

[@glorysengo6289]

HILDA IS CERTAINLY ONE ☝️ IN A MILLION GLORY SENGO.

[@ChristineNicholson-bk9jq]

She’s absolutely adorable ❤️

[@andrewclaflin2061]

I am so glad to see these great episodes, I have tried to watch 2022 episodes and I can't, it is so depressing, crying every 10 minutes, I was the biggest fan. I couldn't wait for Sunday's tea and toast with the wife watching corrie. Now it has sadly gone to Shite!!

[@isabellajanelee]

It’s gone woke and PC .

[@PeowPeowPeowLasers]

57:10 that's Liverpool St in Salford, the "registry office" has been demolished but the pub on the opposite side is still there.

[@andrewganley9016]

Back in the days when 'corrie street; was streets ahead of every other soap chock full of top class 'proper' actors unlike todays if they can string two words together saddos

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

That was lovely for Bet getting the managers job!

[@MultiKs22]

that job should have being Gordon's no question about it.?

[@flumpaustin1994]

​@@MultiKs22No?

[@H3len50]

Bets face when they told her she had the job was smashing.

[@standamoza]

I was also waiting for that. Very exciting for her and to see her reaction..

[@lanceshire2022]

Hilda best actress by far shes was absolutely amazing

[@alexanderjones9572]

Love how Percy immediately changed tack from telling Ken, Alf and Brian about the dance the second he saw Phyllis walk in! 😂😂

[@roybarnes-thewildlifeman1855]

The Rovers Return: the only pub where people drink lots but never go to the bathroom!

[@cicerodiello1]

And the only character who developed a serious drinking problem was Peter Barlow. All those years and just one lost weekend alcoholic. I suppose they are all alcoholics.

[@nicholasgargano7396]

Bill and Elaine got married after a 10 minute conversation

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Bill has known Elaine for literally a couple of weeks when they suddenly decide to get married, and then they actually get married a couple of weeks after that. He then leaves the business and home he's only recently set up to go and live somewhere else entirely! The whole storyline seems so rushed, and the fact that barely anyone seems surprised at what's happening is baffling. I can't stand whiney Kevin (Old Shouty, as I like to call him), but I can see his point in some ways! Really enjoying these old episodes - love Hilda and Bet, and Betty too...and Mike...

[@SueGarden]

Norman help Hilda good stuff bet remind the head of girl doll you know hairstyles😅😅😅😅

[@Redsleather]

Peter Armitage (Bill) was taken on by Granada on the assumption the character would be years in the series, but the actor quit after a year, hence the quick exit

[@alexanderjones9572]

37.33 I remember Jack telling Raquel about a very traumatic experience he had at a wedding. Raquel “Oh? What happened?” Jack “Our Vera said ‘yes’.”

[@_Meng_Lan]

😂

[@iamnoone3352]

For those who are interested - the missing January episode (Jan 30th) can be found here... kzbin.info/www/bejne/roSmq2BjrNGaiKc

[@gilliangrant8764]

Thank you x

[@mattburke3457]

Thanks

[@standamoza]

Thanks you. I will definitely watch that..one. 😄 Unfortunately the episode has been removed

[@johnlarkin-i3z]

Kevin is not 12 years old, but a grown-up mechanic; why should the expectation be that he lives at home with his dad and stepmother? Daft story line ...

[@ghostdemon7936]

That what I thought. He has a job and his mates so why should he uproot his whole life to keep everyone else happy?

[@fluxington]

Yes... but he keeps crying that his Dad is splitting up the family. He's acting like a 12 year old.

[@johnlarkin3821]

Kevin is awful... they should be glad to move away from the thick, shouty yob...

[@Redsleather]

Even more baffling is why Granada bosses thought Kevin had a future as a character!

[@susi-emily]

@@Redsleather Perhaps they were influenced by their 14yr old daughters. I was 14 in 1985 and I thought Kevin was wonderful. Now I wonder what the hell I was thinking. He's awful, and he sounds like Johnny Vegas, getting more and more shrill the more wound up he becomes.

[@TheGlassman63]

Its really sad that the actress who played Elaine (Judy Gridley) would die just two years later.

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Point is nothing is guaranteed to anyone in life! Its about making the most of every day you have!

[@dominewimbury2039]

Really?! Aww that is terrible

[@williamf4544]

Very sad - the older you get the more aware you become of those who have died at a younger age than you - talented people with so much going for them - makes you think - makes you appreciate today

[@christinefougere]

Oh that's very sad....

[@lucyjane103]

Kevin don’t be SCHOOPID. ITS PRONOUNCED S-T-U-P-I-D. NOT SCHOOPID ..

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Many years ago when I was in my 20s I used to work as a catering assistant at UWIC and at first when I worked there I lived in lodgings in Penylan where they had a very spoilt Alsatian that lived there and then I moved into a bedsitting room in Roath where I lived for 15 years and left there back in 2015 so my circumstances back then were similar to Gloria's. The Edwardian parks in Penylan by the Roath Brook have saved my sanity during these hard times!

[@carolclague5371]

Pl

[@alexanderjones9572]

Bet paraphrasing Gordon from what he said when he returned. ‘Make no mistake-I am in charge. Get it? Got it? Good.’

[@MultiKs22]

alexander jones Gordon should have got the job he is all man get it.? got it? Good but 2 years later Alec Gilroy became landlord of the rovers bet didn't do much when she had Alec to bail her out.

[@rbr2023]

Never known a property sale go through that fast….one episode Kevin’s in the cabin saying someone’s interested, next episode they’re moving in! 😂

[@Jackles22]

Love Deirdre and Gail at the wedding together as mates. Didn’t see these moment often in the years ahead.

[@DaveyC95]

That's because they made Gail and the equally awful Sally friends Watching these old episodes for the first time, I never realised just how many scenes Gail and Dierdre shared in the 1970s and early 1980s I'm glad that Bet got the job at the Rovers Return. That Gordon is a puffed up snob

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Years ago I worked in a call centre and a lad who worked there got sacked and he had pretended to his parents he was still working there by going out of the house but going into town and coming back at times when he usually came back from work all because he was too ashamed to admit the truth that the call centre had let him go.

[@alexanderjones9572]

18.22 Tbh, Kevin would’ve tried the patience of a saint when he first arrived.

[@luvhart]

He were still a dish in his day though….even with tache

[@ptf2941]

Ope ths is readabl,Wen he frst Arived thnk was late 83,seems settled bt miserabl/dificult to get on wiv ere,n percy seemed mor chirpy n cheerful in his early months on corrie

[@bibakroll8999]

Horrible, horrible character. Always was.

[@Alan-ss3xp]

A Chuckle Brothers body double!

[@alexanderjones9572]

Betty ‘Ey, you’ve just missed your Vera. If you’d been here five minutes sooner, you’d’ W seen her.” Jack “Yes. That’s why I’m five minutes later.” 🤣🤣🤣

[@alexandramassey9258]

Oh Hilda has a heart of gold

[@zeddeka]

Jean Alexander's performance as Hilda here is beautiful. She's subtly changed as a character. No longer quite the nagging and gossiping shrew that she was. She's had the stuffing knocked out of her by Stan's death and seems to have somehow aged slightly and become more reflective. Her old life is gone and now she knows she needs to find another. There are still some flashes of the old Hilda though.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Deirdre ( about Henry Wakefield) ‘This fella’s not a male version of Bet Lynch, is he?’ 😂😂😂😂😂

[@R31922]

I wish Kevin went to Southampton too.

[@johnlarkin3821]

I wish Kevin had gone to Southampton ... and kept walking right off the dock.

[@themistermillson]

Blimey, after so many years of classic characters, 1985 did bring in so many forgettable, dull characters.

[@ZowieBBowie]

True enough, 1985 was a horrible year in general .

[@Alan-ss3xp]

The ginger cat in the introduction is my favourite.

[@tracyhoward8228]

its called a moggy. in English

[@robertdexter5342]

Hilda’s carpet is beautiful!

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Southampton reminds me of Plymouth in its layout! I enjoyed going to the Sea city museum there back in 2015!

[@DaveyC95]

I wish they'd written Michael Le Vell out at the same time Dreadful character and dreadful person in real life too

[@Redsleather]

Agreed. Average actor, dull character, allowed to stay decades too long

[@cicerodiello1]

Yay! Bet! 🎉❤ 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@stormhawk3319]

Bit of a stale year 1985 was for Corrie after the collapse of the classic era in 1983-84.

[@Redsleather]

The BBC mustn’t have believed their luck as they launched EastEnders as Coronation Street slumped. The press even nicknamed Coronation Street ‘DeadEnders’ at the time

[@ZowieBBowie]

They were ALL stale years after the 70s ended and Ray Langton left.

[@johnlarkin-i3z]

All the residents of Coronation Street refer to their houses as "a little palace", at one time or another; or "uzz little palace", in the case of Ivy ...

[@krish2427]

I hated Gordon Lewis I was so glad that Bet got the pub

[@KuwaharaBMXRider]

I weep when I see Corrie now. Dreadful

[@acesigma06]

2:44:17 it’s Connie Carlsberg and the dullest family on Coronation Street to date, thankfully they don’t last

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

I didn't like the Clayton's either!

[@robertprees603]

They were awful.

[@williamf4544]

Yes they were rubbish - the dad might have been alright in another role - with a decent haircut and clothes

[@grandmaoldschool7011]

Brian reminds me of Andy Gibb.

[@MissMaevisDavis]

OMG ! Me too, the image!!!

[@alexanderjones9572]

Frank really looks like a naughty little boy when Betty’s telling him off. Could be the moustache 😅😅

[@louiseowusu246]

He was on one of my favourite films- The Long Good Friday

[@kellyscourfield77]

I like the way it’s now known as doing a Mavis 😂

[@simplywonderful1]

Martin Platt. Did he ever remove that gormless look on his face?

[@GinaRussell-c2c]

I’m so glad Kevin went to his dads wedding and he stopped behaving like he as been doing,At the end of the day is father as got a new life so Kevin should be happy 😃 for him

[@SueGarden]

Curly doing kind to stan yep peacemaker never crossed the bridge Emily worried did Gail see it nice one SU garden

[@rbr2023]

And just when you thought we could get through a month without Ken turning up🙄

[@helenagreenwood2305]

The only characters who left in the previous 12 - 18 months and were truly missed are Stan and Eddie

[@alexanderjones9572]

What about Bert Tilsley? Albert Tatlock? Elsie Tanner?

[@murphy9039]

Definitely Elsie Tanner also

[@bsaunders5271]

I miss Elsie

[@lindarowe8550]

And of course Annie Walker

[@williamf4544]

What a stupid thing to say when you think of all the great characters that left or were lost

[@johnlarkin3821]

What new bride, in a new home, would want shouty Kevin to live with them?

[@paulinecorreia5538]

I don’t understand 😮why Bett, didn’t slap 😊that creepy Frank. He gives me the creeps!😂😂😂

[@MultiKs22]

Pauline corrriea i like frank he had good sense of humour and he knew to how to charm to he ladies. it must be that fine moustaches is the attraction in my book up frank..

[@standamoza]

Hilda is great at detective work.. Not all is what it seems at number 13. She certainly tried her best to accommodate Henry. She is such a caring soul .

[@cise748]

I’ve been watching from year 77 and I’m still wondering if there’s any glass in the windows of the office that looks over the sewing machines. There’s no difference if the door is open or closed It’s the little things Lol

[@bernadetteaspinall6710]

😂

[@alexanderjones9572]

Curly ( to Hilda about Stan) “I s’pose you still miss him.” What a stupid thing to say!

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Is the rovers still open nowadays? It reminds me of a pub in Cardiff in Pearl Street called the Canadian that shut down back in 2015!

[@MissMarie1377]

Betty is so naive!!! People you know do selfish things Betty, grow up and wrap your mind around it.

[@jennydickson4424]

Has anyone seen Tracy in the past year or so. Perhaps she was shut away wherever they stuck Rosie and Sophie in later years. Hope they remembered to feed them

[@jonathancheetham7683]

The child actress family left Manchester (where it was shot) without giving the show any notice in 1984. As the show was already very turbulent at the time, they decided to leave Tracy unseen for some time to allow the audience to better accept a new Tracy.

[@_Meng_Lan]

She had a kidney removed and went upstairs. Came down a goid few years later 😂

[@alexanderjones9572]

Jack “I went round looking cheerful. Until that fateful day when that man said them words ‘I now pronounce you man and wife.’”

[@zeddeka]

Do the Websters ever eat anything but fish & chips?

[@fluxington]

Sometimes it's sausage and chips.

[@nicolemclean9028]

Kevin acting like a spoilt kid

[@kathystahl4690]

Gail handles change then manhandled the bread

[@Emily-vs9ju]

1:22:36 even the sewing machines sound fed up like Vera

[@shaunjesko2387]

This would be classified as sexual harassment in the days x

[@fluxington]

Your comment?

[@flumpaustin1994]

A rent book?

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Thing is with job interviews more are disappointed than not!

[@bsaunders5271]

Gloria Todd in the thumbnail.... I am preparing to do a lot of scene skipping!

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

I'd rather Gloria Todd than boring Susan Barlow!

[@bibakroll8999]

@@joannesaltfleet2071 But then pretty much anyone is preferable to Susan Barlow.

[@paulaclayton309]

Love how everything is cash and no card payments ❤

[@ddrose06]

There's Kevin showing up at Emily's place, homeless, butter wouldn't melt. In quick sticks he starts behaving like he was there before Curly.

[@bobslobbers5311]

Anyone direct me to the missing episode

[@ROBDV-7-9-6-5]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/roSmq2BjrNGaiKc

[@alexanderjones9572]

And that’s ( I think) the last we see of Debbie until 2020!

[@Jackles22]

She was so sweet when she was younger although still like her now for different reasons

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

The lady that plays Debbie was in Dinnerladies as well as the office staff that always had toast!

[@RiaLake]

That's a relief!

[@Keepingitrespectfulmostly.]

3:33 You can relax and trust Elaine, Billy. She nose best.52:50 Percy: "typical, heroes to yobbo's in two generations" 👀👀👍👍

[@alexanderjones9572]

1.25.24 That was a saucy suggestion Ivy ( of all people) made!

[@marieince1479]

that debbie really gets on my nervers glad she went out of it .

[@alexanderjones9572]

So Shirley WASNT the first person Alf told he’d decided not to let the flat out anymore-Kevin was! It’s widely said he was being racist with Shirley-but not if he said the same thing to Kevin first!

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Its probably because Kevin's face didn't fit!

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Professional young lady is illegal in an ad unless there's an exemption under the sex discrimination act!

[@R31922]

All kevin does is shout acting.

[@eat_a_dick_trudeau]

Same with R. Bri-YANNNN.

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

18:57 Hilda's Felicitations 😂😂

[@SueGarden]

Bet does Joan Collins 😮

[@RudeBoy1000]

Kevin wore a tache to hide his buck teeth. Now he has trained his top lip to cover em😂😂

[@johnlarkin3821]

Boy wonder Brian has lumbered himself with a second Ivy in dictatorial Gail ...

[@dementednun1175]

Elsie's house is doomed her daughter didn't work and was writen out, Bill Webster writen out and than the claytons, I think Elsie's spirit allowed Liz too live there cause she was a big a t^^t as her haha

[@chicagogyrl4846]

A grey outfit for the bride??! 😂🤣

[@kellyscourfield77]

Well they weren’t in it long were they no wonder I didn’t remember them.

[@dirkdeboer7061]

Millions of unemployed people and you can't get a barmaid!?

[@lucywilliamsx1002]

God Gail could be so self righteous at times insisting that brian breaks Kevin's confidence Kevin is 20 a grown man not a child

[@kellyscourfield77]

It’s Ned Glover From Emmerdale

[@HelloImNik]

That railway lodger of hilda's had real John Christie vibes, I would have shown him the door before he came in wagh

[@Deborah4Antiques]

They blew it with Martin when they involved him with a 16 year old. Even at this age he seems a bit mature.

[@alexanderjones9572]

No Kevin-if you’ve suddenly decided you should be at your dad’s wedding, you don’t push past people on the stairs! What if you’d sent Percy flying? That would’ve ruined the wedding-Elaine’s uncle ending up in hospital!

[@mattburke3457]

Thought the same, and all the women in heals on the stairs too. So disrespectful

[@susi-emily]

2:43:50 That's not a Jag, Jack, it's a Daimler. The scalloping on the grille gives it away, along with big "D" in the middle of the steering wheel.

[@ilsaunsworth5045]

How would Kevin be able to afford to run the house on his wages lol

[@nadiholland4190]

No end to more Kevin's strife. Stupid father and step mother

[@williamf4544]

Oh for goodness sake - fish and chips fish and chips fish and chips

[@susi-emily]

It was a nice cheap and filling meal in the 80s. I wish it wasn't so expensive now. I miss fish and chips, but at nearly £15 a time, it's just not doable.

[@robertdexter5342]

Get it ? Got it? Good!

[@daniellefrancis1476]

Why were they forcing Kevin to move? He was a grown man who could look after himself! 🙄

[@ChristineNicholson-bk9jq]

That lodger of Hilda’s went to London every day for work!!?? On his bike? Or is there a Piccadilly in Manchester??

[@GinaRussell-c2c]

Yes there is Piccadilly in Manchester

[@louiseowusu246]

I love Betty! She's too funny 😁

[@williamf4544]

Bessie Turnip had a heart of gold

[@イザベラバード]

Mr. Baldwin is anything but "enigmatic"

[@BrendanWeir-i7y]

We're houses in England that shit

[@ZowieBBowie]

I hated the Terry character , Ray Langton was classy in comparison .

[@joemalone9380]

sue jenkins/jackie corkhill in the kitchen of the rovers return b4 jimmyyyyyyyyyyyy days

[@SueGarden]

Hilda doing comedy 😅😅😅😅on Norman

[@SueGarden]

Double curly 😮

[@alexanderjones9572]

28.:37 All dead now.