Coronation Street - July 1984

[@leeorr9071]

Hilda was the best actress on coronation street pure class of a actress’s xx

[@user-hc8sn1vs2k]

Norman and the boys doing goodies talk 27:06

[@BernadetteSwemmer-jz7yl]

Hilda best absolutely!!!

[@philstrachan]

She was outstanding as Jean was nothing like her in real life.

[@johnlarkin3821]

Dame Jean Alexander - for exemplary services to drama

[@Nats99]

How touching when Hilda won the flowers for the egg and spoon race. She looked so dignified walking along the street with them. Loved Hilda.

[@philstrachan]

She was the best character ever. Hated the way Stan treated her.

[@Deborah4Antiques]

Hard to believe this is 40 years ago!

[@MissMarie1377]

I hate that they are mean to Hilda about gossip. They ALL do it. They only complain about Hilda though

[@chrismacdonald7955]

Ken acting like he's a big shot editor of a major newspaper when it's only a give away rag is getting on my nerves. 🤨

[@greggildersleeve3484]

Ken is quite aware that the purpose of the Recorder is to sell advertising. He also knows he has no journalism training. It's Sally who wants to be the big shot reporter.

[@philstrachan]

100% he is the most annoying character ever on the street

[@beulah3484]

@@philstrachan He was untill Percy Sugden arrived

[@philstrachan]

@beulah3484 yes true!!! Percy is.... 😜🥃

[@christinefougere]

This show was nothing without Jean Alexander. She was so funny and her singing was always a hoot but she had great pitch. I know people will disagree but it's just my opinion.

[@lordwalker71]

lol she had far from great pitch, maybe need hearing checked.

[@greggildersleeve3484]

Don't disagree. Well, maybe a little. There were so many talented people on the show, but Jean Alexander was unique.

[@davephillips1874]

She had class.lovely lady.😊

[@bsaunders5271]

Ivy's ever-changing hair colours have one thing in common. None of them make her look less miserable.

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

Must admit, I thought they were more like ever-changing wigs. If not then her stylist must have been a cross between Stevie Wonder and Edward Scissorhands!

[@cathy3613]

I read they were wigs, it changing colors in mid show

[@lyn4108]

Didn't she get fired after she had Botox lip fillers? 😂

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

Ivy…a women in search of an outrage. Constantly looking for anything to get pissed off over.

[@dementednun1175]

Agreed her wigs are not consistent mind you where watching all at once

[@Assistant36]

Ivy - "She's only got two expressions Emily hasn't she? Mythered to death and worried sick!" Totally accurate 😂

[@glamdolly30]

Wonderful writing! Today's show is garbage and shouldn't go out under the same name!

[@stevenhighams4190]

It's still one more expression than Ivy's got. They ruined her character when they brought her in full-time.

[@greggildersleeve3484]

I like Emily. She brings a lot of class to the show. But, yes, she's a classic worrier.

[@th8257]

Coronation Street always such good social history - listening to Billy and Bette Lynch talk about their worries about crime at the start. It was a real concern in the 1980s in Britain. It went through the roof and the UK had the highest violent crime levels in Europe.

[@neighbourhoodwitch18]

…interestingly, if anyone doesn’t know, both Lynn Perrie (Ivy) and Liz Dawn (Vera) were established club cabaret performers. Both, despite their talent, suffered from crippling stage fright (this is from one of Paul O’Grady’s autobiographies, he worked with both ladies) 😟

[@londonlady227]

Most performers do.....

[@itallia666]

Yes, i knew that about the two talented actresses Also Lynne Perrie has a well known brother ( or twin i think) Who was on tv alot. Hes called Dougie Brown & seeing them together they do look alike Dougie used to be on shows like The Comedians, game shows, the occasional acting gig He was pretty good too They all met on the comedy curcuit & Liz Dawns screen hubby Bill Tarmey also sang, told jokes & was reported to be a fine pianist! Back then, entertainers had to have many strings to their bow But so many started in the clubs I heard that Dougie Brown knew that brilliant comedian Peter Kay & has done comedy writing with him. I really enjoyed watching the talent show at the community centre on Corrie a few years back & Ivy & Vera did their act They were everso good & good singers. Regards 🇬🇧👧

[@th8257]

They'd also worked together on the BBC play "Leeds United". Lynne Perrie's life was a bit of a tragedy. She was bi polar. There's a very sad documentary about her here on KZbin where she's interviewed about her life. A lot of sadness.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Liz was never in cabernet, she was a nightclub singer, and obviously never had stage fright! 😂🤣

[@neighbourhoodwitch18]

@@chicagogyrl4846 can’t exactly ask the late Paul O’Grady for verification, but that’s exactly what he wrote in his autobiography; I’m only quoting him. I think unless either of us were there (like he was) we’ll never know 🤔

[@bsaunders5271]

That whole situation with George, Audrey and Gail was most odd. How desperate must Audrey have been to stay with him after he made a pass at her daughter. And how strange that Gail gave her mum her blessing.

[@paullynton-green6570]

Audrey as her mother is disgusting. Anything as long as it's a man.been there and witnessed it.scum.

[@josephbland3904]

Tawdry Audrey was anybody’s… especially for a few quid…

[@elainedoe1981]

Yes, but Gail was sharp enough with poor Brian, yet sweetness, light and goo-goo eyes with every other man, it seems Audrey was searching for the love of her life, whilst Gail had found hers, but was too stupid and dissatisfied to realize it. Just saying......

[@soniaclarkstewart]

@@elainedoe1981Audrey was searching for somebody willing to show her a good time and a place to stay.

[@memoir4you]

I loved Vera & Ivy's double act the swells :) fabulous 👌

[@madwatermelon1316]

Terry was so likable in the beginning. I think they deliberately made him a villain later on to compete with nasty Nick Cotton from Eastenders.

[@lisahubbard1259]

I only watch the Brian and Gail scenes because little Nicky is so cute!! Love hearing what he has to say 😂

[@jstewart3517]

😂

[@glamdolly30]

Fred Gee was missing for most of April, May and June, as the actor who played him Fred Feast complained of exhaustion from his heavy workload. He filmed his final scenes in November this year, and didn't get an exit story line, because he let the producers down by departing the show abruptly, without giving them sufficient notice to write one. Producer Bill Podmore was by this time quite exasperated with Feast, and his surly attitude. So Fred Gee left Coronation Street without a bang, but with a whimper - a shame when he was such a popular character for so long. Soon after he left, Bill Podmore realised why he was in such a hurry - he had done a deal with a tabloid to sell his exclusive story for big bucks - and he didn't hold back, criticising his fellow cast members, and spilling many Street secrets. He said many hurtful things. One that caused great offence was his complaint that he was being worked to death, and if he had stayed on the show he feared he'd become 'another Coronation Street cabbage' - a clear reference to recently deceased actors Jack Howarth (Uncle Albert), Bernard Youens (Stan Ogden) and Peter Dudley (Bert Tilsley), all of whom remained in their roles in poor heath/after strokes, and slurred their words. Fred Feast was not, by all accounts, a gentleman - as reflected by his habit of breaking wind violently in front of ladies like Doris Speed (Annie Walker), just before filming a scene! A few years after his abrupt departure, producer Bill Podmore was dismayed to bump into Fred Feast on the street, during a holiday in Jersey. They made polite small talk, then Fred said: "So when am I coming back?" Bill, puzzled replied: "What do you mean?" "Back to Coronation Street," said Fred, bold as brass. "Never", was Bill's terse response. "Fair enough", said Fred, and the two men parted company, never to meet again!

[@paulclark1531]

Interesting stuff

[@Kay_Watermelon]

Hate to say it but I was glad to see the back of him. He was a terrible character. Fascinating to see that the character and actor were very much alike!

[@charrid56maclean]

Sounds like Fred Face was really Feast all along. I never believed that he was that good of an actor, he was just being himself.

[@glamdolly30]

@@charrid56maclean Exactly! I think we see this happen in long-running soaps in particular, because over time the writers get to know the actor well, and then (probably unconsciously), start writing for their true personality, not the fictitious character as originally conceived.

[@greggildersleeve3484]

@@charrid56maclean Fred Gee was one of those characters viewers love to hate. He reminds me of Frank Burns on MASH.

[@4oclocktimefortea794]

Percy defending The Rovers at the end with “Come on then, Daddy’s got a biscuit” ahh bless him. I miss Fred Gee and Annie Walker.

[@eph2817]

I miss Annie Walker.

[@elainedoe1981]

I miss Annie, Elsie, Albert and Stan

[@annmc8392]

😄

[@shivkptheorganist3809]

1:10:07 has to be one of the funniest scenes ever. God bless Percy and his wonderful farmyard noises! And 1:19:21 too when Vera and Ivy do their Fred Astaire and Judy Garland impression. I'm doing the song with my drama and musical group at the moment and I'll use these two as a form of inspiration 😂

[@francesgillotti1378]

Poor Billy he always had a lot of wrinkles under his eyes .

[@juliewebb1335]

I always thought that. Old eyes

[@londonlady227]

Great hair though.

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

At the 2hour 15 minute point…Ivy goes from Brunette to Silver in a matter of a few minutes with no explanation written into the script.

[@BernadetteSwemmer-jz7yl]

Factory girls getting on my nerves now... that wooden repetitive Shirley !😮

[@londonlady227]

"Fred, you're on a promise!!"...oh Bet....you were a hoot.

[@BEB1996]

52:23 The last of Hilda’s Elsie Jibes 😔 They had some iconic clashes.

[@tinaquinn9042]

Great to see them having a big day in the street you never see that now

[@kellyscourfield741]

Very enjoyable episode love that Hilda won 🥇 the flowers 🌹

[@pamib29]

Loving these episodes! Thank you!♥️ Just realised Elaine (Janette Beverley)Curlies girlfriend ended up marrying Kevin (Michael Le Vell) in 1986. Also Terrys girlfriend Gill (Rachel Ambler) played Zoe Tates girlfriend/fiancée in Emmerdale! 🙂

[@carolmarsden5391]

Just love hilda ❤😂

[@lorraineydays57]

George ( Richard Moore ) played Jarvis Skelton in Emmerdale, I remember him always winding up Edna Birch.

[@kellyscourfield741]

Yep he’s in classic emmerdale on itv3

[@itallia666]

Ive just had a good laugh! My subtitles got accidentally turned on & just as i was about to click it off, i saw the computer generated words of what the actors on Corrie were saying & it was this " its all the same to beard a duck with" Which really was, Its all the same to Vera Duckworth. It just set me off giggling thinking of little fat ducks waddling about with long curling beards down each side of their bills.. Cheers 🇬🇧👧

[@mariebyrne8377]

Jesus Vera was so vile and loud.😳😳

[@phillipgreer4875]

George was the weirdo with the pink marigolds in band of gold! "Hold on, I haven't got my gloves on yet!"

[@ghostdemon7936]

I knew I'd seen in something before. Seems to be thore can't as a pervo. He plays the role well...too well.

[@TheSpinDoctor]

Soon as I hear the name of the show I have a reflex that makes me want to shout “I’m not working Lane no more!”. Ever since I first saw it 25+ years ago, I’ve fancied the idea of getting revenge on someone with a kettle of water she did with him!

[@alexanderjones9572]

How many times did Ivy’s hair colour change over the years?

[@bsaunders5271]

I'm thinking they could be wigs. If she dyed it as often as the colour changed, it would likely have all fallen out.

[@4evernate28]

But why so many? What about continuity?

[@bsaunders5271]

@@4evernate28 Lynne Perrie was a law unto herself.

[@neighbourhoodwitch18]

@@bsaunders5271 cobblers! I’ve dyed my hair _continually_ for nearly 40 years and I’ve never had a strand of hair loss. It’s waist length now and back to my natural red (blaming lockdowns) 😆

[@francesgillotti1378]

@@bsaunders5271 looks like they all wear wigs !

[@jamesbergin8021]

Where was Rita durning the concert was she not a night club singer and Mavis working with her. Deidre was on the street watching the olympics was she not surposed to run the shop on her own.

[@bsaunders5271]

Love that whole Betty and Percy against the intruder bit at the end

[@alexanderjones9572]

1.42.20 Why doesn’t Gail just tell Audrey and Brian what George did?

[@professionalgun6674]

Good point and that happens alot on the cobbles where you watch frustrated because the person keeps their mouth shut for some dumb reason.

[@shylinh5939]

How isn't it obvious to them from her manner and how much she's changed towards him that something serious happened? She's not going to go off him to that extent otherwise. When Audrey knows she still cares more about herself than her daughter and doesn't dump a man who is clearly a creep, perving on his future daughter in law. Audrey got better over the years, but poor Alf seems to have missed most of them. She was such a manipulative user, and he so easily dominated.

[@theresapierce3934]

Because the writers have to string the storyline out.

[@bsaunders5271]

@@shylinh5939 I think Alf probably wanted a domineering wife, and if he didn't, he put up with that side of her for the excitement she brought to his life.

[@josephbland3904]

Yep Tawdry Audrey was completely devoid of any morales.. She was a cadging gold digger. A bossy slapper way passed her best days…

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Billy changed his tune fast after he found out that Emily is rich! 😂🤣

[@annmc8392]

Hilda was so pleased to win the flowers🤗 Mike 1 Billy 0 😁 Ivy, Vera and Ida🤔 The three stooges😃🤣😂

[@neighbourhoodwitch18]

09:03 oh god, the awful Kevin says ‘hospickal’ as the equally repugnant Les Battersby does in years to come. That and ‘bockle’ (bottle). I don’t know why but it just gets on my thruppeny bits 😒

[@francesgillotti1378]

That’s how children speak 🤣

[@bsaunders5271]

Same here. It's a Mancunian thing.

[@neighbourhoodwitch18]

@@bsaunders5271 I’ll give them a lickle pass then, if that’s the case 🤣

[@Staggercfc]

And Ashley Peacock as well!!!

[@bibakroll8999]

I completely agree! It doesn't help that I can't stand him anyway but the way he speaks just makes it worse. My thrupenny bits are in sympathy with yours!

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

Alf's big moment, it's not often you hear "gollywog" during a stand up routine 😂 Billy with that jumper-over-shoulders look, what a fanny!

[@greggildersleeve3484]

The Tug of War scene was a lot of fun.

[@Nats99]

Lynn Perry actually had a lovely singing voice. It's a shame she didn't sing a song here that showed it off.

[@paigeleigh2554]

Thank you!

[@iamnoone3352]

You've missed out June 1984. We jump from May to July.

[@02bher1]

🤔Having worked many years in the rag industry; they never leave machinists side by side to work; they can't "chat" if their machines are far apart. Their cadence is slow at best; the machine has to sew continuously without stop. When I see them waltz to the machine with only three or four pieces it makes me laugh. Realistically they arrive with a cart full.

[@alexanderjones9572]

When Audrey first mentioned ‘George’, I thought it was going to be George Wardle, who ends up seeing Ivy. How wrong you can be!

[@denismoynihan4996]

Same

[@operatorjeffdeathstar7759]

Specky, spotty can really sing 1:18:15

[@memoir4you]

" we all know you can't pull a bird to save your life but you can pull a rope ." Clasoc put down from Bet 😅

[@vanessasimmons1175]

Oh my…I’m trying to work out where I’ve seen George before. He’s in Classic Emmerdale!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I knew George wasn’t right when he said how did you ever get a daughter like that?

[@vinniex3098]

Audrey’s fella is a younger Jarvis Skelton from Emmerdale!

[@elterrifico9522]

Percy: I not only do farm yard noises, I also do jungle at night noises. 🤣

[@johnlumb2246]

How those long winter evenings must fly past

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Emily is going to give Billy 6k??! She is really crazy!!

[@Bessie66]

When did the modern corner shop on Corrie get so by?

[@robclark4507]

Carnt watch these no stan albert eddie len else not the same

[@kellyscourfield741]

They are Really missed especially Eddie and stan loved those 2 and Hilda together

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Audrey says he’s the right fella. Yeah, a rich one! How in the world she could meet and land one of those is beyond me!! 😂🤣

[@greggildersleeve3484]

Billy is a sleaze. I liked him in the 1971 episodes, when he, Irma, Alan, and Elsie took to mayor's limo out for a joyride. He was still a Jack the Lad but looked out for his friends. This Billy . . . bleagh!

[@kuchikopi4631]

Bwahaha, I love how Mike is a gamer XD

[@carasmith549]

16.45 - Audrey's new fiance looks suspiciously like Renee Bradshaw's former fiance from the mid-1970s. Does being engaged to him mean you're sure to end up with Alf Roberts as your husband?

[@greggildersleeve3484]

2:03:42 So far, I haven't had any reason to like Mike Baldwin, but, in this scene, where he lays down to law to Billy, Mike shines.

[@MeowMeow-os4qw]

Where is Freddie Mercury??

[@paulettejadowski4170]

My Aunt is married to a mancunian,he speaks just like Kevin, toddler language.

[@lorraineydays57]

Hilda could be a right little sleveen when the mood took her.😂

[@elizabethferrier6429]

Never heard or seen the word 'sleveen' used other than by my mum many years ago. Made me smile 😊

[@chicagogyrl4846]

OMG Audrey’s high, screechy voice literally gives me a headache!!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

How old is that little girl who’s living in Elsie’s flat supposed to be?? She looks like she’s 12!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Billy is just like Jack! 😂🤣

[@alexanderjones9572]

So that’s how Audrey ended up married to Alf. Obviously she doesn’t marry George!

[@professionalgun6674]

Don't forget the same actor who played George was also Renee's boyfriend who worked at see.

[@londonlady227]

@@professionalgun6674 That's where I saw him before.

[@paullynton-green6570]

George worked where?

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Why doesn’t Billy borrow it from the bank??!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I wouldn’t have went alone! Why didn’t Gayle get a babysitter??! So they each see half the show??! I hope Brian is the one to watch Ivy!!

[@neighbourhoodwitch18]

The one thing I can’t make out from watching Corrie for years (and being a Scottish person) are they saying _kidology_ or _codology_ ? I know what the phrase means (we’d use the latter, but rarely) 😊

[@ddrose06]

They're saying both.

[@MultiKs22]

Harrison appeared again four years later in the street as the victor who married ivy tysley and Don Brennan in June 1988;

[@user-hc8sn1vs2k]

I just the background gags when something walking or do something classic 👍

[@Deborah4Antiques]

Curly's girlfriend is crabby, Curly is pretty crabby too, and gets worse.

[@vaughanjohnston3165]

What is it that they are drinking is it real beer 🍺🍺 looks like it or is it coloured water can anyone enlighten me

[@bsaunders5271]

Gravy browning. Sometimes apple juice.

[@Staggercfc]

It is real beer. The spirits are coloured waters. Not sure what the wines are, probably cordials or something.

[@sherylbarker9465]

I always thought there wine looked like water

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Couldn’t Hilda take her curlers out and not wear her work clothes for the race??!

[@kellyscourfield741]

Ivy said to Mavis don’t get your drawers in a termoil 😂

[@antoinettehowes6964]

Cultural Appropriation on here was acceptable to broadcast back then 😮

[@lanceshire2022]

Talking about microchips computers and lazers and hear we are in 2024 and yet people seemed so much happier b4 the big tech hit us

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Did anyone else see the blonde man with the awful hair smile and duck down in the mirror behind Ivy after Brian kissed Audrey and said congratulations??! What was he doing there??! 😂🤣

[@bowler8]

Percy the pest

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Gail said she’s putting on weight. 😂🤣

[@Deborah4Antiques]

I hate when people like Dennis ask for money from kind people, I cringe!

[@alexanderjones9572]

Don’t know if anyone watched Downton Abbey, but what George did to Gail was exactly the same as what Green did to Anna Bates. I suspected he was a wrong’un!

[@kuchikopi4631]

Yes, I thought that as well, I think Julian Fellowes has taken many inspirations from vintage coronation street. There are other similar plots, and I think its very good that Downton Abbey has used so many cast from the street!

[@7ofthem]

Green raped Anna , he didn’t just make a pass….

[@bibakroll8999]

But Gail wasn't raped, was she? Sorry, but I don't see the connection with Downton Abbey.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Ha That’s why George why plying Gayle with drinks! What a creep!

[@queendeirdre7436]

Oh boring Barlow is back 😢. Didn't miss him 😂

[@philstrachan]

1:11:06 everyones faces! 😂

[@user-hc8sn1vs2k]

Its Dee Vs curly glasses of war 2:45:48

[@kellyscourfield741]

Deidre’s winning that one every time

[@user-hc8sn1vs2k]

@@kellyscourfield741 it does

[@beulah3484]

I had forgotten how very annoying Percy Sugden was!!

[@josephbland3904]

Percy Sugden… The fastest spatula in the west… God he was borish… Endlessly going on about the War & the rulebook in everything he ever did… He was a complete jobsworth…

[@Cackle77]

But I still loved him, a great actor.

[@annmc8392]

@@Cackle77 agreed, but you wouldn't want to live next door to Percy 😊

[@londonlady227]

He was brought in to replace Uncle Albert I think....

[@joshirley2308]

I always had a soft spot for Percy, great character

[@greggildersleeve3484]

Percy's looking to be relevant, sadly unaware or unaccepting of the fact that what used to be relevant to him is no longer relevant to a lot of people. Change becomes harder as you get older and set in your ways.

[@josephbland3904]

On the tug of War match.. They put Fred & Alfs weight to good use… Old Fred Face thought he were on a promise from Bett… instead he got a Pint of Ale… 😂😂.

[@josephbland3904]

Old George must’ve been a gluten for punishment… First he lands a Gold Digger in Tawdry Audrey & then he even wants Old Ferret face Gail… Gees he had no taste…

[@nicholasgargano7396]

Gail had ass