Coronation Street - June 1980

[@helenwilliams3345]

These vintage episodes of Corrie, have been a real tonic to me during these lockdowns🙂

[@Bingo-x8z]

Hilda is the best actress in that show

[@1916jamesconnolly]

👍She was one of the most underrated Actresses in England. She would put all those Hollywood Megastars to shame.

[@junesymonds8340]

So addictive, love these solid gold episodes. Thank you for all your hard work.👏👏👏👏

[@rabbit64sj91]

Talking about Queen Elizabeth II being on the throne 27 years, little did we know she would reign for 70 years! Also, D-Day being 36 years ago, this summer it'll be 80 years! 😲 I was sixteen in 1980, & I turn sixty next month, how time really does fly! Great watching these old episodes of The Street, I never tire of them . 🥰🤩

[@Leonie-h2e]

Yes I'm a year behind you. Fifty year's extra of Liz on the throne. Queen Diana would have been our Queen. We can romance

[@beneire6955]

I was 13 in 1980 ,57 now ,you’re right time does fly,it brings back other memories of these days when I watch

[@davidstewart9665]

Archive Television is the best way to enjoy programmes from decades past, Coronation Street is a perfect example, thanks ProfessionalGun 66.

[@MrDavey2010]

What gems of programmes these are! Thanks for uploading!

[@joshirley2308]

The way Deidre is badgering Emily into going with the creep Arnold is sickening.

[@HelloImNik]

she just wants her to be going out away from her so she can entertain her men 😂

[@marieince1479]

Arnold gives me the creeps

[@nandsall9492]

yep...Deirdre became the kind of friend you just dont want...match making, pressurising, back biting, revealing confidential stuff to all and sundry

[@bsaunders5271]

Not everyone is as man mad as you, Deidre

[@jstewart3517]

Deidre is creepy

[@Susan.1958]

Elsie was a beautiful lady a brilliant actress so sad she was taken home far too soon most of the original actrors gone but left us some fantastic memories R.I.P💔💔💔💔💔

[@Leonie-h2e]

@@Susan.1958 .r Briggs Baldwin's characteridolized Elsie tanner pat phoenix

[@fionamontgomery8105]

When I was a kid Emily seemed about 70 , now I'm 55 she so elegant, ladylike and a beautiful woman .

[@kitten7336]

I'm the same when I was younger Emily and Mrs walker seemed so boring to me! But now I'm 59 I see their worth🇬🇧 I don't bother watching it anymore with all the fake fillers on the women and social media stories.

[@RebeccaJayne5x5]

I have never followed soaps they never interested me but I grew up with them as a sort of white noise, my Mum watched all the soaps (still does but I only catch them at Christmas) these episodes where aired before I was born but they are so much better than todays I found these by accident and have loved watching. There is something fascinating about them maybe it’s watching a snap shot of life that was before my time, fantastic!

[@susandoig4192]

It was like this when I was a bairn

[@lawrencejhutchinson]

I missed a lot of this when I was at University. The cast were fantastic then, especially Eileen Derbyshire as Emily.

[@williamf4544]

Yes Emily was great - somewhat under rated beside some of the larger that life characters

[@jameskeeth4037]

Fantastic actress underrated.

[@mikehudson8884]

This takes me back to being 15 and happy. Great upload, it'll just get taken down again and I don't know why when so many people love seeing it.

[@williamf4544]

Aw areyou not happy now ? - i guess you must have got married

[@kitten7336]

Me too! It's fabulous, I don't watch anymore, I believe the rovers return has gone 😡

[@mikehudson8884]

@@williamf4544 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@algie-t2w]

The performers in these episodes are so very good you completely forget they're acting.

[@shylinh5939]

Thanks so much for all these episodes :)

[@annmc8392]

Did I hear Ken talking about taking responsibility for children, who brought up his🤔

[@mickus65]

I used to cringe to corrie when I was a kid as my Mum was a big fan. I've started watching now I'm 58 and now I'm so enjoying it. I've had some time with the modern Corrie but it's nothing like these vintage episodes. Looks like I've got a lot to catch up on but I'm enjoying myself. Very entertaining.

[@rabbit64sj91]

I'm also 58, & love these old Corrie episodes too. I have to confess though, I enjoyed them in 'real time' as well! 😀😂

[@emobloom]

Same 👍

[@strumbolli]

Mrs Walker was class, acerbic put downs. As a kid I thought she must've been one of the Queen's relatives..

[@pauljefferson2107]

@strumbolli As Bet Lynch once said so memorably, 'Sometimes when I see you in action, Mrs Walker, I wonder how it was that we lost the British Empire.' 😉👍

[@jakehaymes4438]

Alf seemed fucking ancient when I first watched this. I'm 50 now and he seems to have got younger looking!!!!!

[@michaelmuldowney8]

Not a tap of anything constructive done the last few days - totally fascinated watching these vintage episodes.

[@TheGlassman63]

Brian's got no money, absolutely potless, hasn't got two pennies to rub together, yet there he is in the Rovers buying half a dozen people drinks, egged on to do so by Bert.

[@glamdolly30]

I know, it makes me laugh how these ordinary working class folk were forever buying each other drinks, like they'd just won the pools!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Then why is whiney Gayle wanting to buy a brand new house??! 😂🤣

[@clarkpatient7950]

Emily's permanently concerned and slightly judgemental face really gets annoying after a while!!

[@slydoll7877]

Bloody Gail, always pouting and whinging. She and Brian should just stay put with Ivy and save up!

[@cherylreznor181]

Would you want to live with ivy?

[@annmc8392]

@@cherylreznor181 to be fair why would you live Gail.

[@pauljefferson2107]

@slydoll7877 You must be joking! Living with Ivy ISN'T living, it's a GAOL SENTENCE!

[@pauljefferson2107]

​@@annmc8392Gail before Ivy any day! A lovely young girl versus an embittered smother-mother ... NO CONTEST! Haven't you heard that they called her Poison Ivy?

[@chicagogyrl4846]

All she does is whine! And she says she’s not daft, but wanting and whining and pouting about a house that they can’t afford is! Stupid, immature, and acts like a two year old, all with no chin!

[@Sarah-z1f6c]

And we went from ‘our Brian’ to ‘our Nicky’ 😂

[@kitten7336]

poor Bert I mean the actor who played him died at the age of 48, he had been arrested twice for exposing himself to men in a public toilet, first time was 1981 he was fined £200 but kept his job in Corrie then he had a stroke that really changed him due to stress, then he was arrested again for the same thing but he wouldn't plead guilty, it was going to crown court, he was fired he had another stroke and a massive heart attack and died at 48, he was openly gay, he seemed a lovely man what a tragic end to his life 😔

[@laurallama73]

Oh! I loved Bert. What a good man. ❤️🤧

[@paullynton-green6570]

Bert was a real diamond.

[@MultiKs22]

so was Len a fine man through and through. a space was a space with him in comparison to Bert.

[@tonypike763]

you know what i mean

[@soniaclarkstewart]

He had the patience of Job.

[@RichardGodber-p1s]

Shame the actor had a difficult life like all of us gay folk in them days

[@mikehudson8884]

Strangely I find myself fast forwarding to the scenes with Elsie in them.

[@bsaunders5271]

Understandable....she was a gorgeous woman

[@glamdolly30]

Me too, I just love Elsie, she was such a fun, likeable character. The show was a lot poorer without her.

[@shivkptheorganist3809]

She was the absolute best so it's not surprising ! And yes, the show certainly did rocket downhill after she left. Cannot believe Pat would have just turned 99 last month ! God bless her !

[@cicerodiello1]

You’re not the only one. I can’t believe I watched 1989 through to the current day before popping on 1976 and becoming transfixed by Elsie. The screen just adored her. Elsie seems like one of those wonderful stars who adored her fans. Jeremy Brett was another beautiful actor on the inside and out who adored his fans and was taken at 61…a true darling of British acting.

[@pauljefferson2107]

@mikehudson8884 No mystery there, mate. You're just a red-blooded male. Elsie was a smasher, a woman of real quality!

[@HelloImNik]

Brian seems like quite a reasonable guy in these episodes, I don't like how gail and him got before he died, it seemed like quite a shift

[@hifispock]

Almost every time I see Annie Walker now, I hear in my head one of Bet's recent acerbic descriptions of her... "She's a cross between the Queen mother, Barbara Cartland and Dame Anna Neagle" 😂

[@chicagogyrl4846]

The actress that played her said that she was a vain and silly person.

[@dominewimbury2039]

Bert was lovely

[@bibakroll8999]

I'm glad you think so but I couldn't stand him.

[@kitten7336]

awe poor Bert I mean the actor who played him died at the age of 48, he had been arrested twice for exposing himself to men in a public toilet, he was fined £500 but kept his job,then he had a stroke that really changed him due to stress, then he was arrested again for the same thing but he wouldn't plead guilty,he was fired then he had another stroke and a massive heart attack and died at 48, he was openly gay, he seemed a lovely man what a tragic end to his life 😔

[@johnlarkin-i3z]

Bingo! Dedreie mentions Tracy again ... are there any scenes where she doesn't?

[@davidstewart9665]

Betty's description of Bet's comment of a man in bondage, how kinky can you get - Betty replies, "YOU HAVE GOT A MIND LIKE A NAVVIES HANKIE", very funny. The las great era of comedy in a soap opera.

[@katy4779]

Thought the Cheveski/girlfriend story line was a total bore.

[@lucyjane103]

Has anyone noticed how lampshades in most of the Corrie episodes are always dented and most of the time they are not sitting straight. I have often wondered if they have a secret meeting……

[@hollandwawasan1221]

😂😂😂

[@johnlarkin-i3z]

Deirdre is depicted as such a gormless chump in relation to Emily's creepy "romance" ...

[@hollandwawasan1221]

Emily knew, she had à good instinct

[@paullynton-green6570]

I can't stand arnold swain.everything about the man is horrible.

[@jakehaymes4438]

Dierdre spills the beans to Betty then says 'I'm keeping out of it' Jesus- thick as mince.

[@R31922]

Hilda & Stan❤

[@seansmith445]

That swinging chair storyline was hilarious 😆

[@janethammond5925]

Deirdre's response to Emily's concerns about Arnold being after her for her money...." Well if he takes you for a couple of thousand so what? You'll have had your money's worth". Easy to be so offhand with someone else's money...and easy to pressure a friend into a relationship with a lying, dangerous bigamous creep. If your name is Deirdre. 😮

[@Sarah-z1f6c]

26:52 shut up Deidre!

[@zeddeka]

The Len character was a real thug and a bully. Nasty piece of work. Very typical of the way so many men of that background of his generation were brought up.

[@williamf4544]

Thats true my mums brothers were a bit like that - Me and my cousins were terrified of them - And it was just accepted as normal back then that that how some men were

[@BlueyKind]

Len is so bad-tempered, rude, mean, ungracious, ungenerous - what was his appeal to Elsie and Rita? Even his posture is terrible! Ha.

[@chriswaring5565]

GIVING SWIMMING LESSONS TO LITTLE GIRLS

[@BlueyKind]

@@chriswaring5565 that, too!!

[@adrianlast195]

I was 14 when this aired. I hated Albert,Stan and Annie but i love 'em now. Still can't stand Ivy though.

[@shylinh5939]

Me too. Ivy was unlikeable from the start and stayed that way throughout. Playing her must have been hard work, so much bile to generate.

[@angiehazelaar]

@@shylinh5939 but i love her now

[@stevenhighams4190]

@@shylinh5939 She was okay before they made her a regular, built a family around her and made her into a misery guts.

[@shylinh5939]

@@stevenhighams4190 I think you're probably right. She did get worse over the years, but apart from bullying Bert, who she obviously lived, most of her nastiness was directed at Gail. But as Gail was such a pain in the arse, could anyone blame her?

[@stevenhighams4190]

@@shylinh5939 Yeah, Gail was definitely a whiner, which I never really noticed at the time.

[@itallia666]

It is A M A Z I N G to realise that as of June this year 2023, These episodes are 43 years old! It hardly seems credible! Ivy & burt .. gone The factory girls ..gone Elsie, Bett, Annie, Alf, Emily, Stan, Hilda, Len, Rita, Renee Vera, Jack, Ida, Mike, Albert, Ena, Deirdre, Ray, Betty Turpin Eddie, Billy Walker. I think Ken, Gail & ... someone else from the origional cast but ive forgotten are the only ones still alive & in the show. Im not sure about Susie Birchall Steve Fisher, even the origional Tracey Langton is in her 40s !! I know Brian Tilsley ( Chris Quentin) moved over to the states! Dont know if hes still around! I dont know about Mavis ? Still 43yrs is incredible! It sounds such a long long time ago yet watching this now doesnt seem so long! So many brilliant actors all gone. Sad & poignant! Thank You 🇬🇧👧

[@susandoig4192]

I used to watch this at granny’s went crap when len and Elsie left and Stan Hilda and Eddie

[@soniaclarkstewart]

Chris Quentin manages a strip club in London’s West End and he was engaged to one of the young dancers. Ken, Rita and Audrey are still on the show but their appearances were subdued during the Covid concern. Mavis isn’t on the show, but sometimes Rita goes to visit her at a B and B that she owns. Emily hasn’t been on screen but she appeared by IPad to wish Ken a Happy Birthday a few years ago.

[@stevec8964]

Thank you for posting this information, I wondered where they all were after all this time. I was living in England at this time (my mum was British and my dad American) I would go see my Nan and she always watched this show. I wasn’t really interested as a young teenager, but I’m surprised now in my 50s that I remember many of the characters. Nostalgia at its best for me, Hilda was obviously unforgettable for me and actually how I found this on KZbin. It’s funny, I’ll make some tea and watch a few episodes and it takes me back to another time. 😇

[@malimbep4298]

The actors who played Billy Walker Ken Barlow Brian Tisley and the actresses who played Emily Audrey Mavis Susie Birchall Rita and Renee are still alive in 2024.

[@michellefalleur960]

Rita Is still in it

[@markallanson7921]

I'll go to the doctors this dinner time! Lol

[@theresapierce3934]

Doctors surgeries used to close after morning surgery, then home visits that had been requested happened. Evening surgeries used to run on the basis of, first come first seen or you could actually make an appointment. Those were the days, way before mass immigration and no thought given to the lack of, doctors, dentists, schools, homes etc.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Deidre says, “So he takes you for a couple thousand, you’d have got your money’s worth!” 😂🤣

[@youtubehatesus2651]

the scene opens with Gail in bitchface again +_+

[@memoir4you]

That hanging chair was obviously going to collapse ! So funny...I often wondered watching the 1980 episodes how friendly Eddie & Mavis were & what would have happened if they'd become an item...

[@tinaquinn9042]

Same here I think it would have been great if they had become an item

[@williamf4544]

Mavis would have turned into another Hilda - through time

[@BlueyKind]

@@williamf4544 No, she'd become a worse hypochondriac because there would be someone to look after her.

[@adamgregory5274]

Len, for the love of God, button your shirt up!!!

[@davidcartmell2141]

and keep out of public swimming pools

[@natty258]

@@davidcartmell2141you made me choke on my tea then… cough splutter splutter.,

[@bernadetteaspinall6710]

😂

[@sheenamcguire123]

Yes a real creepy man

[@cherylreznor181]

What did Mike mean when he said to elsie keep taking the slimming pills? In the shop before he walked out

[@johnlarkin3821]

Dreary talking in that lewd manner, to a fastidious woman like Emily in her own house, is really quite horrible ...

[@dominewimbury2039]

Thank gawd for fast forwarding! Can't stand that Arnold bloke, and this is before he turned

[@garybrockwell2031]

Hopefully he'll be in the August one?🎬💪 I give up a bit now in the 80s😢 but Emily 🎭💔🤯 It's great to see her👍🇬🇧🧐💯

[@soniaclarkstewart]

Cheese and pineapple go quite well on a pizza but I can’t imagine having just cheese and pineapple salad with a little salad cream for dinner.

[@williamf4544]

A baked potato with cheese and apple is surprisingly nice

[@alexanderjones9572]

1:00.33 Alf talking about Councillor Sugden-“little chap with a ‘tache.” Sounds like Percy?

[@dominewimbury2039]

It must be

[@angelapay3718]

Sarah louise didn’t stand a chance with these two for parents did she? Surely R Brian could find a tighter pair of daks 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@Sarah-z1f6c]

1:13:12 you tell em Renee 😂

[@R31922]

Bossy creepy Arnold.

[@paullynton-green6570]

Horrible man

[@williamf4544]

My mum took a craving for tomatoes when she was pregnant with me and when i was born i was covered in tomato seeds

[@theresapierce3934]

Bert, "you know what I mean" catchphrase.

[@bsaunders5271]

It absolutely drives me up the wall. I wonder if his fellow cast members picked up on his habit, and had a good chuckle about it....?

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

I think it's likely a Mancunian tic, I mean Oasis did release a song called "D'you Know What I Mean?" and there's nowhere on the cd that says in tribute to Bert Tilsley so...🤷🏻‍♂️😂

[@NICKROBERTS23]

Bert's broken arm and mini stroke can't come quick enough. After December 1982, he doesn't say it again, thankfully!!

[@TheMeeja]

I liked Bert as a character... He kept Ivy in check. It would have been interesting to see how the Tilsley family would have developed had Peter Dudley not had his personal life exploited by the press, which contributed to his poor health.

[@joegee6434]

@@TheMeeja what was the press saying about his personal life ？

[@glamdolly30]

4:33 Little Tracey ad-libbing that her new pet hamster bit her finger, LMAO! These child actors do build up their part!

[@gilliangrant8764]

Christabel Finch was such an adorable little girl!

[@bsaunders5271]

I'm not convinced he DIDN'T bite her finger when they weren't filming, hamsters ARE notorious....

[@elterrifico9522]

She was a brilliant little actress.

[@glamdolly30]

@@elterrifico9522 True, the first 'Tracy', Christabel Finch, was a real sweetheart, and so natural on camera. Of course playing it from birth, she was so young she didn't realise she was on camera - and that was her charm! It was very sweet to see her rapport with Eileen Derbyshire as her Auntie Emily, and even grumpy Albert Tatlock struck up a friendship with her. Though it sometimes worried me she was being called a different name - and being told to call a different woman 'mummy', aged three upwards. Very confusing for the poor little mite! Someone on these pages once commented that Christabel Finch's parents moved many miles away from Manchester and abruptly pulled her from the show in 1983 without warning the producers - which if true, seems a shame for all concerned. The role of Tracy wasn't re-cast for another two years - Deirdre would just mention she was at a friend's house for tea or upstairs! The worst version of 'Tracy' for my money was robotic Holly Chamarette, unaccountably picked from 60 child actors who auditioned for the coveted role in 1985. It was a casting mistake, and she was 'let go' in 1988. With her dreadful, monotonous Dalek voice and delivery, no wonder her mother Deirdre was forever sending her out of the room to 'wash her hands', 'run a bath' or 'listen to some tapes'. The next incarnation of Tracy the almost equally wooden Dawn Acton, in late '88 aged 11, and stayed off and on to 1999. I think Kate Ford who got the plumb job of playing adult Tracy in 2002, has done a pretty good job with some challenging storylines, the toughest of which was making her a murderer! I no longer watch modern Corrie - is she still in it?

[@elterrifico9522]

I think Christabel moved to Australia and started a family. As for Kate Ford, she makes occasional appearances but the Tracy character is more of a cartoonish caricature these days. Today’s storylines are absurd

[@clarkpatient7950]

Ivy realising shes been drinking out of Mike Baldwin's mug😂😂😂😂

[@lorrainemackin3749]

Emily should have told interferring Deirdre. Look if you think Arnold is so wonderful why don't you have Him. Because that's what I'd say if she was my Mate

[@MsArrowroot]

Don't forget though, Emily busied herself in getting Deidre together with Ken... Perhaps it was revenge.😮

[@lorrainemackin3749]

@@MsArrowroot Good Point i forgot about that Lol 👌

[@zydol1]

45:36 Only in a soap would the tv be behind an armchair!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

“Our Brian will be waiting on his supper.” 😂🤣

[@mariemurray3638]

When do we get to see R Jack, or did I miss him?

[@Sarah-z1f6c]

37:14 oh Vera 😂

[@alexanderjones9572]

“So ‘e takes yer for a couple of thousand. Y’ve ‘ad yer money’s worth!” Is that meant to encourage Emily, Deirdre? ( and look how Arnold turned out!)

[@glamdolly30]

The way Deirdre championed that relationship between creepy Arnold and Emily was a bit disturbing to me! All her 'nudge, nudge, wink, wink' jokes about him to Emily got a bit sickening - it was almost voyeuristic! Deirdre didn't know the bloke from Adam, yet she was keen to see them married off at warp speed - and of course he turned out to be a bigamist and total maniac! With friends like Deirdre, etc. It didn't even make sense her pushing them together, because it got her evicted. As soon as they were engaged Arnold got his feet under Emily's table and ordered Deirdre and little Tracy out. He practically threw them onto the streets. Served Deirdre right really!

[@cherylreznor181]

What happened with arnold i havent watched that far ahead yet. It seems like karma caught up with dierdre later on when she got scammed and went to prison by the man she married serves her right for egging emily on when she obviously was going to walk away xx

[@jameskeeth4037]

Arnold is odd !

[@jonathancheetham7683]

Mr Swain is so irritating

[@valuetraveler2026]

Mavis is lovely

[@BrendanWeir-i7y]

Miss popoff from rentaghost😂

[@damianmcdonagh7908]

1:30:00 Classic Coronation Street

[@bernadetteaspinall6710]

Hilda and her getting ready for the mystery man draw….. “when I bring him home under me arm”. Comedy gold.. is just me but Deidre licking those bloody envelopes made me 🤢😃

[@susandoig4192]

Arnold wasn’t the full shilling

[@paulinecorreia5538]

Mavis gets upset 😠 4 every little thing.😂😂😂 45:31

[@HelloImNik]

"oooh I don't really knoowww" - Mavis

[@Bessie66]

What is the black space between the houses on coronation street?

[@bsaunders5271]

So funny when an actor has a holiday, so their character is supposed to be off visitng family in this country. They reappear with a full body tan. This time its Deidre.

[@teenabrunk83]

Emily should not have listened Deidre has lost in love so many times her judgement is not good!

[@johnlarkin3821]

Brian is thick ... but talking about an abortion to Ivy! This takes the biscuit ...

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Mike told her an extra 8 a week, she told Bert 10! 😂🤣

[@davidcartmell2141]

grange-over- sands i love that place.

[@andywright3450]

Hey u doing any more videos please thanku 💯💯😊

[@alexanderjones9572]

Well, I know how Arnold turns out-run for the hills, Emily!!

[@meganchaplinhughes8220]

Can you upload the whole of 89,90 and 91 please

[@dominewimbury2039]

He's only got up to December 1988

[@algie-t2w]

Poor lonely Mavis, but can you imagine a man marrying her? "Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?" Mavis: "Ooo! I don't know".

[@Ruth695]

Len Fairclough always looks to me like he's just passing through,not a regular character

[@sephirothff7ps164]

poor mavis does not need a tonic from the doctors, what she really needs is a good rodgering.😂😂

[@anansi4679]

😂😂

[@moulinrouge5716]

😂😂 I think we all need some of that, from time to time, to keep our pecker up and all that 😅

[@SavāgeBückeṭ]

😂😂

[@sherylbarker9465]

😂😂😂

[@pauljefferson2107]

@sephirothf7ps164 Sounds like you're a willing volunteer ... 😜

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I love how they use the American melody for their Queen’s song!! 😂🤣

[@HelloImNik]

Ivy getting on with Gail seems odd knowing what we know - she was a changeable woman eh

[@clarissaflowers6200]

What in the heck did Brian say when his mama slapped him? I couldn't understand what he was saying.

[@robtaylor7469]

Hi..At 1.19.16.,R Brian said.." Folk With Brass Are Doing It All The Time" ..,Relating To Wealthy People Not Always Going Through With Having A Baby..( I Could Only Make Out What He Said By Using Earphones).

[@clarissaflowers6200]

@@robtaylor7469 Thanks for the explanation! :)

[@dariusanderton3760]

46:48 Onslow !!!

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

More like you're a BITSLOW!

[@glamdolly30]

@@MarcoNegrisEye To many of us actor Geoffrey Hughes will always be Eddie Yeates first and foremost! Eddie was a legend I wish he had stayed in the Street. I just watched the November 1987 episodes when Eddie made a surprise, one-off return to visit his friend and former landlady Hilda in hospital, after she had her nasty run in with burglars at Dr and Mrs Lowther's house. Geoffrey Hughes wanted to have one final chance to play Eddie opposite Hilda, before she said goodbye to the Street for good in December that year. It was a lovely surprise - for Hilda and viewers at home - when the familiar figure of Eddie lumbered into the hospital ward to visit his old pal 'Mrs O', bless him! He'd hardly aged a day in the near 4 years since he left! That wasn't the last time Geoffrey Hughes and Jean Alexander acted together though - she made a number of guest appearances as Lily Barton in ITV's 'Heartbeat' with him in 2001 and 2003. He played conman and lovable rogue Vernon Scripps from 2001-2005.

[@dominewimbury2039]

Bet that slap hurt! Really hurt and this was meant to be acting!

[@joannbyrne182]

Can't stand Brian

[@johnlarkin-i3z]

Brian has the mental age of a four-year-old, and the body of a Chad Valley chimp ...

[@chicagogyrl4846]

So what did Deidre say to this broker?? Emily is afraid that he’s after her money??! 😂🤣

[@marieince3239]

Cant stand gail or brian its nice to fast forward

[@valuetraveler2026]

Martin is top

[@ironknobsteelworks4063]

Bertus maximus know what I meanus

[@davidcartmell2141]

he got written out of corrie due to solicitation in a public convenience, you know what i mean.

[@0flan]

Gail having a baby. It's a bit careless. As they just got a mortgage?was she pregnant before they got married. As the baby due in 6 month's?

[@davidcartmell2141]

her daughter gave birth aged 13

[@johnlarkin3821]

Thick Brian is as sensative as a brick ...gr⁶abbing Gail's breakfast when she has morning sickness ..l.