Coronation Street - June 1998

[@andrewroywake5891]

Les and janice did some fantastic scenes. Great work from pair of them xxx

[@noeljr.7724]

Gary Mallet is such a good man. Really kind hearted. When I was younger I though Judy was one of the hottest women on TV, and of course she is beautiful, but I think Gary deserved better with all the problems she brought him.

[@normasouthwood3182]

I don't blame Sally for her feelings about her inheritance.

[@simonshreeve5580]

Thank you for uploading these episodes of Coronation Street dated June 1998 EveHenleySpread

[@normasouthwood3182]

Loved Spider calling Audraaaaaaa out!

[@cicerodiello1]

Patiently awaiting the finish of Samantha. It draaaags.

[@DementedNun121]

She won an awards for best new actress

[@CherylCoolCat]

Samantha was a pointless character - she brought nothing to the Street.

[@CherylCoolCat]

@@DementedNun121 won on looks defo not acting ability.

[@JanePilkington]

She's just horrid.

[@lucretia3606]

She’s psychotic

[@briangatt2956]

The writers seem to think that anyone in the history of mankind would care about a murderer serving longer than he has to.

[@Dukes-nt1er]

EVE..........the gift that keeps on giving................Brilliant.................... Respect, DUKES 1989

[@David-h4z2s]

Don't think Jim wants Emily's jigsaw 😂so he doesn't

[@deeaygo7711]

EVE - Total Legend!👑 You saved my SUMMER! 🌞 Thank you.

[@ginagina9720]

Les makes me laugh 😂 he a right con man! Thanks 🙏 for another great 👍 video

[@carasmith549]

17:51 - Why don't they simply move the phone into the living room? Saving Jim the frustration of trying to get through a narrow door every time it rings? When Elsie Tanner lived at no. 11 the telephone stood on the sideboard, in the living room, and it was still there when Alf Roberts had his heart attack on the living room floor only a year or two before the MacDonalds moved in.

[@noeljr.7724]

My thoughts exactly!

[@cicerodiello1]

They need to fill up screen time I suppose. The writers are too busy rooting through the rubbish for ideas.

[@lynnem3300]

1. That's too easy. 2. They think we're all stupid.

[@marilyngreen6811]

Mavis and Derricks house use to look so nice clean, well cared for. Now it looks like opposite, very uncared for

[@LeviJamesRE]

Wow Janice and Sally really did have personality transplants in the 2000s. It's so weird to see them linking arms and been so nice to each other when later on they hate each other and Janice always shouting at her and calling her stuck up. Which I agree with Sally did become stuck up and snobby and looked down her nose at everyone. Weird writers. I liked the Janice and Sally friendship here.

[@simonshreeve5580]

@LeviJamesRE You reckon Sally was stuck up and snobby. That is nothing to what Zoe Tate was like during her last three years in Emmerdale.

[@georgemeller7173]

an underrated writer/producer fail their feud is as stupid as the eileen and gail one

[@AriAdu]

Les singing I'm Not in Love to Janice is probably the worst song to sing to the woman you're trying to win back.

[@josephpeters2083]

Much as I love coronation street I find it SO difficult to watch these episodes full of evil and twisted characters😢 when will we see the end of that wierdo samantha????

[@AntoniusReginaldus]

She got on her bike (literally) this month and she's history now. Now we need to see that teenage rubbish Ashley has been championing carted off. I cannot stand the sight of her, whether she has her arms crossed or not.

[@shylinh5939]

I think Janice was flattering Les when she referred to him as a 'muckheap'.

[@SuzyQ334]

Ha ha! Actually, I felt offended on behalf of muckheaps everywhere. 😀

[@JaneJJoyce]

Bravo 👏🏻 😂

[@hanskiel1062]

Thank you for doing this. Can you do Classic Eastenders too please?

[@mattburke3457]

Kevin won't even allow his mother in law's body to get cold before he's trying to sell her house and spend Sally's inheritance. It's appalling

[@mattburke3457]

Lol looks like they brought Sally to that thought too around 2:30

[@SuzyQ334]

Kevin is just one of many Corrie characters whose personality was changed by the "new breed" of producers. He and Sally were a loving, funny couple at the start. Now all Kevin does is lie and shout!

[@noeljr.7724]

Right! Shouting into her face and the mother in law not even dead 5 minutes. They turned him into such a horrible character.

[@simonshreeve5580]

@@noeljr.7724 You think Kevin is horrible. Wait until you see Tommy Harris the one with the ginger hair.

[@Deborah4Antiques]

Kevin's a worm.

[@NadeenaMorgan]

Jim isn't a good patient, he's an "impatient" 😅 Steve's word

[@AntoniusReginaldus]

That Greg really is a looker. I liked how the camera panned up and down his backside , as though we were Sally s eyes, as he was walking away.

[@dementednun1175]

They tried to turn Samantha into Tanya Pooley Samantha was a sweetheart and now she's crazy psycho.

[@gilliangrant8764]

I agree, This is the era where all the personality transplants began! Mind you, they were quite consistent with Kevin Webster, he was a pillock from the start!

[@eatmywords]

they generally do this to characters they want to get rid of, or have decided to leave. i think she went to heartbeat after this. but this, this was utterly, utterly, ridiculous. the spiral of stupidity of everyone believing every word she said, is beyond belief. they must have been desperate to off-load her because this all felt rushed and slapdash, but then an awful lot of storylines feel like that lately.

[@SuzyQ334]

@@gilliangrant8764 The thing is, Kevin wasn't a pillock from the start. At the start he was a sweet, likeable, unsophisticated bloke who adored his wife and kids. Then the producers turned him into a pillock when they decided he was too thick to resist Natalie while Sally was away caring for her mum. Then they gave him a talent for lying that the original Kevin just didn't have.

[@gilliangrant8764]

@@SuzyQ334 nah he was always a mouthy hot headed little runt. He was always shouting at his dad and his sister and both times Sally fell pregnant she was scared to tell him because he was always shouting about how he couldn't afford this that and the other. And his thick ways with women started with Stephanie Barnes not Natalie. He just got worse over the years as soon as Sally looked like she could get on without him. He's a horrible cretin.

[@bibakroll8999]

@@SuzyQ334 I must disagree. I thought Kevin was always a pillock. He treated his sister abominably when he lived with her and his father. He was always shouty.

[@roybarnes-thewildlifeman1855]

The whole issue of Des’s baby is pathetic. Coronation Street is becoming fit for only background noise, not worthy of serious watching…

[@normasouthwood3182]

Too much sexual free for all too! I had forgotten how "soft porn" that Corrie became! I don't like it at all.

[@racerja3173]

Yeah Betty you tell Les to get lost

[@simonshreeve5580]

Between 1:31:43 and 1:31:46 Kevin is a prime example of what a good parent should be. When Sophie and Rosie were quarrelling he did not take sides. In my book that goes a long way.

[@NadeenaMorgan]

THANK YOU VERA FOR THAT EYE CANDY! Well worth the wait! 😊❤

[@simonshreeve5580]

Between 4:01 and 4:03 I understand how Maxine feels. It is irritating when someone messes a person about.

[@NadeenaMorgan]

Betty is the perfect barmaid! She also cooks meals! Much better than Jack and Vera.

[@TheGlassman63]

Surely the first thing Natalie would have done is to ring her son Tony's mobile phone, rather than just take Sam's word for it that he's been in a crash. All a bit daft really.

[@lynnem3300]

My thoughts exactly. The whole thing is daft.

[@HelloImNik]

Anyone else notice that scooter they've got going by every time they're outside or a door is opened, I can't unhear it now 😂

[@helenbooker2094]

Thought it was just me, along with that Kylie Minogue song every time there's a scene with Sam

[@tinaquinn9042]

That was a good one Vera did getting the bar man the face on Alec and jack 🤣🤣

[@NadeenaMorgan]

I'm fast forwarding all except Roy and to get to that barman 😅

[@David-h4z2s]

Always fast forward sour doom face horrible Zoey and hippie dippy Spider

[@no-oneinparticular7264]

You can tell, in hindsight, the effect of the Liberal left start to show in the 90s scripts. Around the same time Woke was just a concept blossoming slowly.

[@multimill]

Parts of this Des, Natalie, Kevin, Sally Samantha and then Alec scenario reminded me of a Whitehall Farce. Different groups running between houses saying he said she said, doors knocking mid conversation then everyone runs off in a different direction to confront someone else then throw the cat in for good measure 🤣

[@AntoniusReginaldus]

Yes, I recognize classic literary methods once in a while. Comedy of errors, racing to prevent something, and whatnot. They're doing their damnednest to make it more like The Young and the Restless nowadays though.

[@simonshreeve5580]

With regard to Alec said from 5:47:27 to 5:47:30 Before about 1930 nobody ever had a telly for hundreds of years. Nowadays nobody would be without one. Today if a telly breaks down folk think it is the end of the world. Before 1968 the BBC never repeated soap because they thought it would encourage people to watch too much telly. It went on into the early 1970 people with that attitude. Before 1970 the people who had no television had not reach 40 yet. Therefor In the 1960's a lot of people were saying the young are lucky. We had no television.

[@dementednun1175]

That actually really cool the girls in the factory dancing to Emmerdale's hit song Emmerdale released a song in the 90s and had a hit alubm the woopackers

[@olgagarcia5710]

Sally has gone nuts!

[@simonshreeve5580]

Between 1:30:26 and 1:30:32 Kevin is exaggerating. Sally does not snap at everything he says. I reckon Kevin is being touchy like he nearly always is.

[@littlevicky9861]

only nice performance from jim mac donald is when he was quiet in a coma lol whinny Jim

[@wimblewomble21]

Catch yer self on and leave jim alone. He's an injured man so he is

[@AntoniusReginaldus]

Gary Mallett: "How can you blank it out when you've got a bloke goin' at ya?" Voice of reason over and over.

[@masterknife8423]

Like seeing Sandy put loudmouthed Les in his place via arm wrestling. Les is the kind of person you'd see in Wetherspoons these days

[@lynnem3300]

Most direct and extended family members of murder victims are united in thinking the murderer deserves a life sentence (or worse). But not Leanne. She actually says to Nick of his father's killer: "But that were ages ago. He's paid his debt." A wife essentially telling her own husband to 'get over it.'

[@carasmith549]

5:24:50 - This woman, who is applying for the barmaid vacancy, looks and sounds suspiciously like Mrs. Burns, Alan Bradley's 'bit on the side' about ten years earlier.

[@davehenson7104]

Yep that is definitely Irene Skillington. Spoiler Below!!! She actually comes back again in 2000 as Connie Clayton. Replacing Susan Brown in the role.

[@christinefougere]

Les reminds me of my son's friend. He'd sit down and eat that breakfast, lol

[@StellaBastienne]

Les is a 🔔 🔚 , Glad Maxine told Janice what was up to

[@youtubehatesus2651]

Judy's baby-mania sure causes a lot of problems

[@paullynton-green6570]

Gary is a lovely guy.so kind and patient.

[@SuzyQ334]

@@paullynton-green6570 Yep. Shame the new breed of scriptwriters/producers killed off Jude. Sadly, the folk at ITV were way too arrogant to survey loyal viewers before they totally fu***d up or killed off loved characters. Saying that, previous series were awesome and being able to catch up on Corrie from the 70s on KZbin got this single ex-pat Brit through Australia's brutal 2 years of lockdown. xx

[@lynnem3300]

Judy's profound stupidity does that. Of all the dumb decisions characters make - including Nick's absurd baiting of the murderer Whately - I find Judy's the most irritating. I can't wait for her exit.

[@simonshreeve5580]

At 2:11:23 Sally is right. Programme times of Coronation Street and Emmerdale go up the creek because of football. Also things stop because of Rugby and horse racing. Every time there is a silver cup to be lifted and won it is treated as if it is between life and death. Some people think there is not anything more to life than winning a silver cup.

[@michaelrose3101]

Gold 🏆 cup.

[@normasouthwood3182]

Demented nun is correct. Slimy Samantha is now Tanya Pooley MK2, and by the way is a terrible actress. In real life Des would have been off like an electric hare!! I have always liked Des.

[@pandacutlets83]

Love how they're thrashing Kylie Minogue and Natalie Imbruglia in the background..bloomin' Australians 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺😂😂

[@mirandawinstead6540]

The verve too ❤

[@multimill]

Randy Crawford got a lot of airtime here too via the jukebox!!

[@SuzyQ334]

Oh my god, Fred Elliot and Les Battersby must be the 2 most unattractive and creepy Corrie men ever. Actually, when the most fanciable/likeable bloke in Corrie at this point is Des Barnes you know Corrie's menfolk are in trouble. 😀

[@mcrdingers]

What about Gary Mallett?

[@SuzyQ334]

@@mcrdingers Yeah, Gary's a sweetie.

[@mcrdingers]

@@SuzyQ334 he’s gorgeous.

[@johnwalters4792]

What about Roy

[@michaelrose3101]

Les makes it not so boring.

[@simonshreeve5580]

So much for Fred talking about honesty and integrity Fred has just proved what a fibber he is between 4:09:51 and 4:09:59. I take a dim view of Fred Elliott. I liked Harold Bishop in Neighbours better than Fred. Harold Bishop had a more understanding attitude.

[@simonshreeve5580]

Kevin is not much of a gentleman shouting at Sally like that.

[@lynnem3300]

There ARE no gentlemen, although there IS Ken who thinks he's one.

[@AntoniusReginaldus]

He's permanently annoying.

[@simonshreeve5580]

At 5:09:00 The man behind the counter facing Audrey and Alec Gilroy is the man who played Molly's father Diggory Compton about 7 or 8 years later. Molly Compton would be Tyrone;'s girl-friend in the future.

[@chrisdawson6156]

What year was it when Des's boat crashes into Derek's and Mavis's garden

[@EveHenleySpread]

It’s early 1991

[@angelapryde1902]

Ages ago

[@chrisdawson6156]

@@jakehaymes4438 Right Jake stop writing comments because you really are starting to annoy me I went to school end of

[@chrisdawson6156]

@@jakehaymes4438 yes I've learnt to write

[@chrisdawson6156]

@@jakehaymes4438 why do I owe you an apology you started picking on me

[@simonshreeve5580]

We are never told why Emily's nephew Geoffrey Nugent is called Spider. Is it because his mother's maiden name was Webb.

[@heathercreighton9613]

We're also not told where he gets that way of speaking.

[@AntoniusReginaldus]

I just remember something about his college friends calling him that.

[@newdawn3320]

😂😅 Webb

[@simonshreeve5580]

With regard to Audrey said from 5:45:26 to 5:45:28 If a person chooses not to go abroad it is their business and up to the individual.

[@simonshreeve5580]

Between 4:44:18 and 4:44:40 Leanne does have a point. Darren Whaitley could be gunning for Leanne and Nick when he gets out. Darren won't be in Prison forever.

[@R31922]

Shut up Jim , you get on my wick.

[@frqnkkirk8552]

Greg Kelly is taking over where Chris left off , asking Sally Webster out for a drink , he might be the next Casanova in Cornation street , will Mike Baldwin give Zoey a Job at the Factory , looking forward to the Continuation of the Judy and Gary Mallet Storyline , will Gary go back to Judy , remains to be seen

[@mirandawinstead6540]

Is sex a dirty word? As everyone in soap always says slept with (even when they didn't actually) 😂

[@AntoniusReginaldus]

Well, I guess it's just too crass to say "have sex with."

[@simonshreeve5580]

At 4:27:51 I know why Gail will not do it. It is because she feels she would be betraying her son and Brian's memory. The fact that Gail was not a very good wife to Brian would be immaterial. In the first place Leanne was being dim. She should have known that Gail would back up her son. Still could have been worse. Gail might have said Wheatley should have been hung.

[@David-h4z2s]

Sam Was Like Boon Hi Ho Silver!!!! Riding Off Into The The Distance 🏍️

[@briangatt2956]

Glad i don't live in Corrie where if someone doesn't like my 883 they can just phone a scrappy to get it removed just cause they want to.🏍

[@simonshreeve5580]

At the point 3:05:18 the vehicle has an out-of-date tax disc on dated September 1997 in June 1998. If the vehicle had wheels Les would be had up.

[@joestewart-paul3260]

Les was hilarious that month 😂

[@simonshreeve5580]

That receptionist Desmond Barnes is talking to between 31:37 and 32:12 looks like the actress Wendy Jane Walker who used to play Ken's daughter Susan.

[@robyneastlake5740]

so they put jims bed in the dining room, why didn't they put it in the front room, also how does he go to the loo lol as he cant get up the stairs to the bathroom

[@montrayjones1947]

He said he has a pan his wife will take him to the bathroom so he does

[@eatmywords]

there's a perfectly good sink in the kitchen.

[@lynnem3300]

​@@eatmywords🫣

[@AntoniusReginaldus]

I was wondering that too and I just assumed that they minimized the burden as much as possible and that the "potty" would be in use.

[@newdawn3320]

He'd use a tube and packet in real life

[@simonshreeve5580]

From 5:55:27 TO 5:55:36 That was very cowardly of Sandy in the black Fred perry to push Jim out of the pub by the wheelchair handles. What a Pratt. People who are wheelchair bound cannot defend themselves properly. Perhaps Jim did behave ungentlemanly to Vera, but Sandy in the black tee-shirt could have given Jim an ultimatum and by telling Jim to apologise to Vera or leave.

[@peter0010]

The council man is Diggory Compton

[@AntoniusReginaldus]

If Judy is so grossed out by Paul, she needs to find a different job.

[@simonshreeve5580]

Coronation Street June 1st 1998 0:00 to 23:33

[@simonshreeve5580]

Between 4:45:39 and 4:45:42 What Jack Duckworth says is true.

[@newdawn3320]

Kevin going to Florida on Sally's money and wondering why she's peeved about him making all the plans without consulting with her. Sheesh, go figure! 😅

[@simonshreeve5580]

Alec Gilroy may be strict but he is fair.

[@PippaHead]

Sally and Kevin are horrible to those kids. Always cross, yelling at them or telling them off. And the youngest is tiny.. why can’t they just talk normally to them? Not realistic and really annoying!

[@simonshreeve5580]

What Gail said between 4:56:11 and 4:56:19 proves that Gail is in favour for hanging being bought back for people who murder. That justifies my reasons for not liking her. Some said that Caroline in Sons and Daughters was a bitch. Compared with Gail in Coronation Street, Caroline in Sons and Daughters was a saint. For a start she was good to Susan when Wayne was a right bastard to her. Caroline in Sons and Daughters was a tough lady, but she was fair.

[@simonshreeve5580]

I would guess that if Samantha Falsworth remained in Coronation Street for another eight years Samantha and Shelley would get on as well as Zammo McGuire did with Jonah Jones in Grange Hill.

[@roberte5057]

Something fishy about Greg.

[@newdawn3320]

Snap!

[@David-h4z2s]

Why does he sound like a cockney when he's brought up in the North? And Mike just happens To know his stepdad

[@philstrachan]

21:09 widen the door frame ir get s phone extension cord to his room - simple 🙄

[@GinaRussell-c2c]

Jim is frustrated with himself due to his accident, So much that he threw his wheelchair trying to reach the telephone, Why don’t his family make sure everything is on hand for him?

[@newdawn3320]

My thoughts exactly! Plus he could get out and about in that wheelchair! 😅

[@David-h4z2s]

Steve got a receding hairline to deal with

[@simonshreeve5580]

You would think Les Battersby would give something seeing as his daughter is involved. But no Les is tight-fistwed.

[@EveHenleySpread]

And completely thick..

[@simonshreeve5580]

Coronation Street June 8th 1998 1:31:36 to 1:54:52

[@philstrachan]

25:45 the way Kev deals with life = yelling 🙄

[@olgagarcia5710]

Sally 🥱🥱🥱🥱

[@simonshreeve5580]

Coronation Street June 5th 1998 45:55 to 1:09:08

[@PamelaTurnbull-s2k]

Bloody hell, Kevin shouty shouty again, with him and the Battersby's, it's enough to drive you mental !!!

[@simonshreeve5580]

Coronation Street June 3rd 1998 23:34 to 45:54

[@simonshreeve5580]

Coronation Street June 20th 1998 4:11:20 to 4:34:32

[@simonshreeve5580]

Why are we made to watch adverts whether we like it or not?

[@EveHenleySpread]

Nothing to do with me Simon, ITV have chosen to monetise my videos (as is their right!) rather than have them removed.

[@simonshreeve5580]

@@EveHenleySpread Ah well if you put it like that, putting up with the adverts is better than having the episodes removed.

[@simonshreeve5580]

Emily is a bit like Celia in Home and Away played by Fiona Spence. Emily always calls her nephew Jeffrey and Curly Watts Norman and never Curly. Fiona Spence also played Vera Bennett in Prisoner: Cell Block H. Celia Stewart was a stickler for correct names. She always called Alf Stewart Alfred in Home and Away and Steve Matheson played by Adam Willits Stephen. Apparently Norris was annoying enough to bring out the Vera Bennett (vinegar tits) in Emily Bishop.

[@johnwalters4792]

Prisoner cell block h rules

[@flumpaustin1994]

​@@johnwalters4792Rules were often broken.

[@olgagarcia5710]

Do you think Judy’s baby’s father is her boss?!?!

[@newdawn3320]

Probably, knowing these storylines 😅

[@David-h4z2s]

He played Viv's ex husband In Emmerdale in 1994 Who robbed the post office and had hostage Stand off at home farm 🏞️

[@simonshreeve5580]

Between 4:01:41 and 4:01:45 there is one man who does not think that just because a female has a pretty face she is nice. For a criminal Darren Wheately has his head screwed on the right way. When Tina McKintyre joined Coronation Street Rita and nearly everybody judged her as a nice person just because she had a pretty face which I thought was ridiculous. I managed to see past her pretty face and arrived at the conclusion that she was the most bossy person I have ever seen in a soap. Mind you Hilary in Neighbours ran her at a close second.

[@jerryhead5379]

Lonely women

[@jacinta992]

🥰🥳😀

[@newdawn3320]

What armed forces was Jim in, The Sob Story Rangers?! 😅 Maud, show him the ropes fgs!

[@simonshreeve5580]

To answer Roy's question Between 14:42 and 14:44 Not a very good one if I know that miserable cow Gail.

[@philstrachan]

1:02:35 does anyone ever liked Des?

[@uszatku9417]

The same Kylie song is on repeat in most scenes! I guess they only bought the rights to that one song.

[@EveHenleySpread]

Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi? 😉

[@uszatku9417]

@@EveHenleySpread 😄 - I would have preferred that one!

[@SuzyQ334]

Two if you count the Spice Girls track that was always playing at the Battersbys

[@simonshreeve5580]

Sixteen years or so later Leanne nearly lost out with Kaled because of Les's unsavoury ways.

[@Nevermind1972]

Karl?

[@simonshreeve5580]

I once said Alec Gilroy was like Gail. Now I think about it I was doing Alec Gilroy and injustice. I know Alec Gilroy is strict, but he is fair. I believe Alec Gilroy is nicer Than Gail.