Coronation Street - March 1980

[@morgansifer]

The beauty of Coronation Street in the old days is just how ordinary it was - which made it so watchable! Working class people rubbing along and making the best of what life threw at them, with a few tears but also plenty of laughs! Sadly it lost its magic quite some time ago and today is barely watchable. Even the few stalwarts from the old days can't carry it

[@cn4936]

I completely concur. These soaps nowadays have gone all US like. Too much ridiculousness. The good old days of Corrie were the realist storylines ever.

[@Scottfree166]

Can’t believe that Bet & Elsie are both fighting over ‘Desperate Dan’ 🤦‍♂️ 😂😂

[@josephbland3904]

Yeah he was a complete jumped up big headed part who thought waayyy too much of himself. Was glad when his character was written out…

[@paullynton-green6570]

Elsie is worth a 1000 of Dan the duck.ugly git.

[@soniaclarkstewart]

It’s like that in real life. Ha ha.

[@krish2427]

Just very sad Julie Goodyear has been diagnosed with dementia almost completely ruling out her ever making a 1 off appearance bloody Phil colinson ignoring not writing a brief return for Betty’s funeral

[@jstewart3517]

Never understood fighting the other woman or vise versa 😮

[@katy4779]

Whoever dreamt up the concept of having a boss like Mike Baldwin, a factory and a load of bolshy women in the street... what a genius! The setting for so many brilliant story lines, so natural with so many wonderful actors... Corrie truly at its best.

[@antoinettehowes6964]

Watching 1978-1980 is so gripping despite its everyday normality compared to the current Corrie. Great acting, writing, producing and directing. It didn't depend on glam either to carry itself ❤

[@anothercomment]

Thanks for the upload, great Corrie episodes and '80s music playing in the Cafe.

[@Barnabybright]

Crying with laughter at 2:05:36 when Albert Tatlock asks Annie Walker and her friend what they've done with Cinderella. Comedy gold.

[@nandsall9492]

A cast of star characters.. every scene worth watching. It cant have been easy managing all those egos. I remember the only thing I didn't like was the long wait between wednesday and monday!!!

[@frazzleface753]

"Awight, Tweacle!!" Pete Beale in Coronation Street makes me feel like there's been a dimensional merge.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Hilda “But you’ve only yerself to blame if I do a Rita Littlewood and walk out on yer.” Stan “Do that and you can ‘ave the flippin’ lot.” 😂😂😂

[@mikehudson8884]

1980....Ahh this was when Coronation Street was peaking, at it's very best. Great characters, great scripts. Wonderful humour. I can't help but cringe at the attempts at humour in todays show. Everything about todays show is awful compared to the quality of the 70s and early 80s. Excellent 3 hr post, thanks for that but it'll get taken down again, I don't undnerstand why. This is far better to watch.

[@paulfrost8895]

I stopped watching this in around 84 or 85 ' tho I have intermittantly watched the occasional storyline over the past 30 years ' I can 't relate to the show now ' its so different ' no humor ' very dark and depressing.

[@paulfrost8895]

The years from about 77 to around 82/83 were the best period from my memory ' I think when most of the original characters left was when it started to lose its appeal ' through checking old episodes on you tube ' it still seemed watchable right through the Eighties ' then come the Nineties I think it took a nose dive.

[@masterknife8423]

To each his own bro. This show's never had a peak in my opinion it is a soap after all. Some great characters here and there admittedly but never a consistently compelling show to watch

[@zeddeka]

I think so much of it is because the society it depicted is long gone. It doesn't really work any more as an idea. The world it started with was when people rarely left the area they lived in, had no money at all, and not much to do other than gossip about their neighbours. The world is so very different now and the kind of characters we saw in episodes in the 60s, 70s and 80s don't really exist anymore. They were familiar types that every working class community had, but are long gone.

[@Lytton333]

@@zeddeka Hence why the current soaps are driven by the depiction of casual psychopathy, dysfunction and militant misery,. In true chicken and egg style, that is the world the makers of such poison both reflect , and want to create. Ironically, modern Salford is a helllish mixture of these things. There are still many who don't leave their area, who don't have that much money, and their gossip is in the form of the modern soap opera tabloidism, which refracts their big-screen TV addicted, crime infested dysfunctional community back to them In that sense it is, unfortunately, realistic'. Today's Ena Sharples would be afraid to leave the house after dark in modern Salford - or even before it.

[@paulbolton19801]

The rovers scenes with bet , Hilda , Fred and Annie are so funny. The lines between lynch comes out with are hilarious. You aren’t wearing any nickers - who does on a Monday they are all int wash 😂

[@ameenyousaf2839]

Tv gold at it's best..thanks for keeping us entertained in yet another useless lockdown👍

[@theculturedthug6609]

Indeed.

[@memoir4you]

The well spoken Mrs Taylor Brown sounds like Margaret Thatcher. Nice touch when she egged Annie on to reward Hilda for bringing her bag.

[@noelodowd7867]

Brilliant show. Brilliant actors.

[@frazzleface753]

Good Lord, that lorry driver Dan - all I can say is that it's a case of miscasting or the standards of attractiveness have changed an awful lot over the years! And that coat!

[@user-ns4wt9zf6x]

Mrs Taylor brown who was staying with Annie walker, was in emmerdale as betty, thank you 🙏 for the old ones of coronation street I ❤them!

[@queendeirdre7436]

Thank you!! Could I figure out where I had seen her before 😊

[@lordwalker71]

Bet and Elsie fighting over a gross man, were directing their anger at the wrong person.

[@bsaunders5271]

Gail plays down Pete Beale etc grabbing her and being suggestive in the cafe, but if she walked into Brian's workplace and caught a woman doing the same to Brian, she would flip her lid. Can't have it both ways Gail!

[@Guitargirrrl]

Omg Pete Beale! I *knew* I recognized that face! But I thought he was on Eastenders?! Was it a crossover appearance?

[@bsaunders5271]

@@Guitargirrrl Eastenders didn't start until 1985, so this appearance in Coronation Street was five years before he was cast in EE as Pete Beale.

[@paulfrost8895]

@@Guitargirrrl This was before Eastenders.

[@ddrose06]

Snap! If Gail saw another bird even smiling at Brian, she'd lose BOTH her marbles.

[@beneire6955]

He’s up in court next week for sexual harassment Gail joined metoo movement

[@WillVenusASMR]

Mrs Taylor-Brown. The future Betty Eggleton in Emmerdale. It’s odd hearing her speak with a refined accent 😁

[@londonlady227]

Rita came back as she didn't have much of a future, that panic, dependent of another for any type of security. Not a great foundation.

[@paigeleigh2554]

Wonderful. Thank you very much! X

[@allangilchrist5938]

Thank you for this. It's a treat.

[@Anthony-eb5gl]

This programme has a pub in it......I remember pubs they were brilliant....I wonder what happened to them...

[@cn4936]

Cheaper to drink at home :( Plus people became isolators. They stopped socialising with their neighbours, started going home straight after work and plonking themselves in front of the TV and later on, their phones.

[@elinebrock5660]

At 2:50:00 when Mavis is arguing with the porn dealer and he tells her all he has to do is keep her "rack well stacked..." I nearly spit out my coffee😂

[@soniaclarkstewart]

I almost wet myself when Mavis said that Bert Tinsley probably bought the porn magazine by mistake thinking it was a “Do It Yourself “ book.

[@leehambleton9919]

😂😂😂

[@sueferris3685]

Mavis makes me mental! She should join a convent.

[@jstewart3517]

Thank you so much for the memories of what great acting n entertainment really is 😊❤

[@kathleengordon5623]

Coronation street at its best

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

Having watched this - and various other Corrie episodes from the late 70s and early 80s - I've come to the realisation that: A. Modern Corrie is shite, and B. Hilda was the greatest ever character...by a mile 😂

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

...also, Eddie 'Onslow' Yeats was hilarious. Corrie needs more Scousers...remember Jackie Dobbs? 😅

[@ghostdemon7936]

I liked Hilda, Stan and Eddie. Their antics made me laugh. Light hearted and lovable characters. Ken Barlow's storylines are depressing. Depressing bores me and The Tilsleys do my head head. Except Bert. He's quite a funny guy and puts The overbearing trouble maker that is Ivy in her place occasionally when needed. Do you know what I mean? Haha!

[@mariemurray3638]

Bert must have thought the magazine was a ‘ do it yourself’ book 😂😂😂

[@Kiinell]

Bert saying "Dya know whadda mean?" in every flipping scene. Arrgghh!

[@mattburke3457]

My mom says that after every sentence, I've pointed it out to her a few times but, everytime she calls she still is doing it.

[@allangilchrist5938]

Oh, I just love Annie Walker when she's at her most "snooty".

[@alexanderjones9572]

Eddie ( when Ken asks “How’s life?” “Aaa, mustn’t grumble-no. Why mustn’t I? It’s lousy!”

[@itallia666]

I think its funny when one of the characters is absent from the show, either on " holiday" or off somewhere for many reasons they always return looking like they've been to a spa & have lost Quite abit of weight! Elsie, before she left to go to Torquay was quite hefty, same with Deirdre she'd packed the weight on & was puffy faced She came back from Blanches rather svelte! You watch when anyone is about to be absent for a month or two Especially if they've become a little " beefy" & see the weight loss on their return! Cheers 🇬🇧👧

[@soniaclarkstewart]

When Ivy returned with her puffy lips, things didn’t work out too well for her.

[@youtubehatesus2651]

thx for these

[@shylinh5939]

Poor Bet, every man she had something going with was repulsive in every way. Couldn't they have given her a decent guy who was also attractive, just once?

[@bsaunders5271]

She wouldn't have been able to find happiness with a decent guy. It wasn't in her character's make up.

[@shylinh5939]

@@bsaunders5271 Yes, I think you're right, I don't think she would be contented with a decent guy, I doubt she'd be attracted in the first place. She would question the motives of someone who was caring and treated her well. It wouldn't be about him loving her, but manipulating her for his benefit and enjoyment. And that was her experience, from Mike Baldwin onwards.

[@paullynton-green6570]

Bet was a diamond with a heart of gold.every guy she got involved with was a user.if someone had truly loved her that would have had a wonderful life partner.

[@ironknobsteelworks4063]

Bet wasn`t attractive though. They give her blokes that were on her level.

[@fishandchips9033]

@@ironknobsteelworks4063 lol

[@glamdolly30]

2:39:56 This actress was a very sudden addition to the cast - and if memory serves, she left the show just as suddenly! I think the casting director must have had a funny turn, choosing an actress who was such a dead ringer for Deirdre and Renee! There's a spooky scene when Deirdre visits the factory to talk to Mike, and she and this woman are standing face to face talking - it looks exactly like Deirdre is looking at herself in a full length mirror, they're even wearing near identical outfits!

[@scottranger8909]

Like watching the patty duke show. Lol

[@Scottfree166]

She looks like Dierdre’s stunt double 😂😮

[@glamdolly30]

@@Scottfree166 Lol! Exactly! You've got to see the spooky scene I mentioned in the factory, the two women in long shot, stood opposite each other wearing almost the same clothes - I do wonder if it was a private joke by the director, it looks just like Dierdre's looking in a mirror!

[@Scottfree166]

@@glamdolly30 wow, I haven’t found that scene yet, but will keep a look out for it. The resemblance between the two is uncanny, I noticed that straightaway. They even sound alike.

[@glamdolly30]

@@Scottfree166 Lol! I hadn't thought of that, you're absolutely right they do - if the writers had ever invented a sister for Deirdre, she'd have been perfect casting!

[@user-ff8el4hq4u]

Len and Rita anachronistically have up-market Ercol dining room furniture; I've seen it in other Coronation Street houses, too.

[@marinashan4]

Did Mike Baldwin let one off at 2:48:56 he even lifted his left hip.😂

[@MsArrowroot]

Yes, he did. 😂

[@williamf4544]

That womans right about getting ripped of in shops - most of the time when they ask if i want a reciept i say no but a few times for one reason or another i have taken a reciept and almost everytime when i checked it i have been over charged or stuff from the reduced section has been charged at full price - this is in the big shops like Tesco and Sainsburys etc

[@paullynton-green6570]

Nice one Albert.real class.

[@shivkptheorganist3809]

2:46:41 - A wonderful scene with the factory girls singing a bit of Cole Porter !

[@davidgrosvenor1]

So, so much better then than now, its rubbish compared to this!

[@elizabethbower2168]

Great show unfortunately these things get taken down because of copyright maybe if you renamed it would be a chance of it staying up longer

[@thesniperabel8278]

Mrs walkers friend reminds me of a young Margaret thatcher

[@LeopardprintBet]

The days when you could safely let a ropey stranger in a cheap sheepskin jacket in to stay the night and eat your beans

[@ghostdemon7936]

Hardly. They were the days of the Yorkshire Ripper. Wronguns in every generation. Sometimes people's brains go awol when they hear a few nice words. Humans are fickle like that.

[@LeopardprintBet]

@ghostdemon7936 😂😂 so true

[@lindabiggs3905]

Annie's friend, Betty from Emmerdale,,

[@ladygrinningsoul992]

Len was a total cxxt

[@adrianconnew5309]

And a prick

[@theresapierce3934]

In the real world Annie would never have got away with treating her staff like servants.

[@kuchikopi4631]

Back then she could have found other staff like Bet, Betty and Fred in a snap. No social justice warriors back then.

[@paulfrost8895]

The days before human rights ' pc ness eg.

[@williamf4544]

Open your eyes its still happening to this very day all over hosptality - the days of upstairs downstairs are still alive and well just dressed up different so no one is supposed to notice though at least in the old days some of the staff had living quarters and sometimes some respect - now its easy come easy go pleanty more where you came from

[@simonlambert6891]

@@paulfrost8895 so, humans shouldn't have rights?

[@paulfrost8895]

@@simonlambert6891 Sure ' we all need our rights ' what I meant is 40 yrs back ' there was no human rights act to oversee abuse of them ' eg.

[@shaneobrien2257]

Watching these old Corries I always do a mental “by ‘eck/by the ‘eck” count. 😀 I’ve lived in Manchester 50 odd years and I’ve NEVER said it. Or heard it said. 😀

[@janinemills6732]

Thanks for sharing, love it!

[@ickleshouse]

Mike Baldwin lol, Mr Sleaze ....love this show.

[@R31922]

When Corrie was great , and no kids in it trying to act.plus what does Elsie & Bet see in that creepy fella.

[@TheGlassman63]

LOL, i can't believe Bert bought a `jazz mag` !!

[@ddrose06]

Snap! Why would he want one of those, when he has Ivy?

[@cherylreznor181]

@@ddrose06 you just answered your own question

[@ddrose06]

@@cherylreznor181 Are you saying that Ivy isn't Babe-alicious?!

[@ironknobsteelworks4063]

@@ddrose06 Next level irony

[@kylie-mareebaldwin4672]

Mavis having a meltdown over the porno mags cracked me up.

[@kylie-mareebaldwin4672]

Rita and Hilda, both social climbers. Ironically Hilda ends up with the big house with a garden. Who'd have thought.

[@kuchikopi4631]

I mean there's a bit of rough, but that guy seems about as rough as a bucket of rusty nails, yikes. They really did Elsie and Bet dirty 😅🤣🤣

[@laurallama73]

😂😂😂

[@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351]

That Dan bloke is as rough as a bear’s arse lol 😂

[@bsaunders5271]

I bet he smells like a tramp's underpants.

[@alexanderjones9572]

1:15;43 What’s that splodge on the picture of Jack? Looks like Hilda went mad with the polish and just left it!

[@londonlady227]

It's a glare from the studio lights. It's at 1:15:43

[@Nefetiti1]

That lorry driver Dan doesn't half sound like Sid James and just as creepy.

[@londonlady227]

That's who he sounded like !!! I was trying to place it!.All he needed was to do that laugh...

[@jstewart3517]

Ken n Alf r horrible to ms.sharple to leave her out in the cold of winter homeless,then push their responsibility off on others ( hmm just like our world today)

[@damianmcdonagh7908]

24:38 Pat Phoenix at her best.

[@Chillmax]

Burt definitely wanted to do it himself!

[@itallia666]

Lol when Bett says Rita could make Len move to Accrington Made me burst out laughing The reason being i was once told a joke with the punch line of Accrington Blue Bricks Problem is, i cant remember the rest of the joke but it was extremely funny and over the years everytime i hear the place name Accrington i start laughing OK im odd but whatever makes you laugh cant be bad! Cheers 🇬🇧👧

[@eileenlocke7877]

Been going long time Corrie

[@josephbland3904]

I still can’t understand why a feisty intelligent woman like Elsie was a complete doormat to those lorry drivers she took in as lodger’s… Sge should’ve left em on the pavement… especially that Ben Johnson character … a complete annoying jumped up prick he was.

[@williamf4544]

Dan Johnson seems the type who would keep munching on a kebab while giving you a good time

[@paullynton-green6570]

Lol.

[@nandsall9492]

uncanny resemblance to the yorkshire ripper

[@alexanderjones9572]

Does Mavis’s paper girl who she offers a job to remind anyone else of Lucille Hewitt?

[@roderickscott7429]

no name check at the end either , and i haven,t a clue what she was ranting when Len removed the sales rep from Kabin

[@kuchikopi4631]

She looks like Tracey Beaker chuck

[@gilliangrant8764]

Alf is worse than an old woman for spreading gossip. Asking Len if he didn't know about those magazines, when Mavis told him Louise had taken them by accident.

[@HelloImNik]

All those guys fancying Gail... yikes

[@amyishere67]

Bet drooling over Dan Johnson is so cringe 😆 🤢

[@hx7193]

Is that Pete Beale at 49.30?

[@acesigma06]

Yup

[@francesgillotti1378]

Elsie be very careful 😘

[@MrIrrepressible]

The decline of standards and the rise of the philistine. ...that just sums up the world we live in

[@rabbit64sj91]

43 years on, yes indeed! 😂😥

[@sunnyshine2215]

I love the Annie Walker and Mrs Taylor-Brown scenes so funny

[@WallyPyneoil]

Strange storyline about Len and Rita. In 1979, Len was collapsing through overwork, and Rita was very worried about him. In 1980, he's a lazy slob who Rita has walked out on. She was never a doormat in that marriage. Feminist misandry infiltrating soap storylines often made them silly.

[@kylie-mareebaldwin4672]

Stan cracks me up. Honest and all with Mrs Walkers bag.

[@adrinathegreat3095]

Good to see lens finally decided to change his ways. By going a day without getting pissed up in the rovers, instead he has a few cans of beer at home and pretends to measure up a new curtain pole to impress Rita. I'd guess by the amount that Len drinks he's nearly always over the limit when he's driving his van

[@jimbanda]

Seems like everyone in Corrie those days would have high blood alcohol levels... ALL the time!! 😂

[@ghostdemon7936]

I did find Rita rolled over. She couldn't manage to make a living and ve independent. Getting back with Len meant she had a jib and a house to live in. Some women just aren't self sufficient and need a bloke to take care of them. She carried on as if nothing happened and Len belted her one. Takes all sorts I guess. Rita is just a strange character in general. I respect Elsie more. She doesn't settle and she makes her own rules in her own home.

[@mariemurray3638]

Stan really was a horrible character, and he got worse, but I don’t remember Len being so nasty. Thankfully he got better. Funny how they didn’t mind Len giving Rita a slap, and hadn’t Stan hit both Hilda and their daughter when they came to the street, with the daughter having been in care? Changed days now, when Stan is remembered as being a lovable rogue!

[@joannamaxwell]

Pete Beale 😂

[@nb8936]

1:55:30 that joke made me forget about the last 15 months.

[@bridgetjones4702]

“Truth you’re a man and I’m a woman” edgy talk in 2021 😬 😆

[@kuchikopi4631]

You identify as a meat eating oak tree, and I am a sabre tooth chicken XD

[@frazzleface753]

Blimey, all that fuss over an 'adult' mag 🤣But hold on, I distinctly remember The Kabin selling 'Fiesta' a few years before this, AND Mavis' curiosity getting the better of her.....

[@RiaLake]

The sales rep was a sleazy, creep.

[@williamf4544]

These ones were way worse than razzle i wont go into the gory details on here

[@Ardoyne10]

theses where the happy days when if you brushed into a woman you wouldent be taken to court and sent to jail for 5 yrs like todays woke mob

[@francesgillotti1378]

I couldn’t fancy Else’s dustman boyfriend . His jacket just looks not attractive at all. Best show.

[@bsaunders5271]

That jacket looks like it's harbouring a family of ferrets.

[@MultiKs22]

len is very fanciful in my book see how he wear those tight blue jeans with that large belt.

[@jacinta992]

Is this all March 1980 episodes

[@ironknobsteelworks4063]

1.51. Baldwin back and forth throwing one dart. What happened to the other 2??? Mave the rave and the mukky mag saga, im now being tortured by images of mave`s rug on the centre spread of escort.

[@queendeirdre7436]

Alf Roberts is a bigger woman gossip than the lot of them 🤣

[@sharonmulligan7584]

how is the man playing darts seen him before

[@jameskeeth4037]

Annie would die knowing the pub is no more.

[@sunnyshine2215]

I don’t watch Corrie anymore, have they got of the Rovers?!😟

[@londonlady227]

​@@sunnyshine2215no, it's still there.

[@paullynton-green6570]

Gees face when annie denies him a tip from mrs tb.quality.

[@0flan]

What flavour Crisps??

[@dementednun1175]

The mucky magazines

[@Scottfree166]

2:05:45 😂😂😂 1-0 to Albert 😅😂😂😝

[@jstewart3517]

1:23 who's the guy in background hiding ( ha) by tree ( right corner of viedo)

[@taitchison1]

pete bale in eastenders

[@marinashan4]

Hilda..47.55..😂😂😂

[@alexanderjones9572]

Did Ivy say there was no restroom (🚽) at the factory? That’s the least they’re entitled to!!

[@bsaunders5271]

Baldwin didn't care much about his workers' rights.

[@williamf4544]

There must have been a lav - just not a staff area for powdering your nose and having a quick pot noodle

[@frazzleface753]

Restroom in the UK is not a toilet as it is in the US. It's just a room to take your break - drink your coffee or have your lunch.

[@soniaclarkstewart]

Ernest Bishop had to hide in the men’s lav when the women stripped him during a holiday party.

[@AriAdu]

​@@frazzleface753its called a break room in the states

[@williamf4544]

I wonder what Kaffy Beale would say if she knew wot her old man wos up to with that Gale

[@MJ69ism]

Great days when harmless flirting didn’t catch you in a law suit, things made so much more sense

[@TraceyMella]

That Dan is pure creepy, not good enough for Elsie

[@jameskeeth4037]

Annie walker. She’s is an awful little back street pubs 😂

[@williamf4544]

As much as i like Bet she was a right Trollup sometimes

[@angelapay3718]

Sometimes????

[@ghostdemon7936]

At least she was honest about it. Deride is the biggest trollop. Hiding behind her poor single mum routine and "woe is me" act. Ray, Billy, Ken. Poor Tracey!

[@williamf4544]

Oh yes indeed - What you saw was what you got - There is a lot to be said for that - Makes life so much straight forward @@ghostdemon7936