Coronation Street - March 1985

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

I don't know how it's possible but the Websters have been replaced by an equally (if not more) annoying family. 🤪

[@hugoboss5895]

I’d could sit and watch this all day. Had to ditch the present day version mind. Fucking hell that’s a right mess.

[@Chillmax]

I did, it took up all of covid 😆.

[@eph2817]

Good grief this family in number 11 are more boring than the Websters.

[@dementednun1175]

Even Linda Elsie's daughter was badly written

[@elainedoe1981]

Gail, serving cups of tea is more important than the business she insisted Brian bought into, that woman was never satisfied.

[@derekhorne8076]

Woman. Thy worst enemy is woman! Doesn't matter that Gail has a job. She has two staff relying on her (not just Kevin). Doesn't matter that she is bring in money to the household. No, Brian had his fun an has got his son and heir who he is happy to spend time with when it suits him. Gail should be chained to the oven and the nappy bucket! Yup, I get he's building a business but actually, half that business is Gail's she gave up her home to keep that business. Yet Brian must be catered for and have everything his own way. She can't have people to look after his sick son when he wont take his fair turn, she must have his dinner in the table. He can't bring her anything back or sort out any food for her. Oh no, he is God and she is his servant!!!!! Oh yeah Gail, what a selfish, whining good for nothing ungrateful b you are!!!! Elainedoe1981 - you are even worse that Ivy!

[@0flan]

And they sold there house to invest in the business. Gail's a selfish arse

[@0flan]

@@joemalone9380 what?

[@irenemorley75]

She has been around Ivy too long🤭

[@joemalone9380]

she's her mothers daughter

[@leeorr9071]

The best days on the street and now it’s gone rubbish with very bad actors on coronation street now summer is one and fizz is so bad so please get someone who can sort this show out asap

[@SandraDunleavy]

Watched it all my life but not now, Elsie Tanner and all the other strong women must be spring in their graves.

[@bollywayne14]

Hi if I'm honest with you I stopped watching Corrie after COVID. I can't believe that even now they hardly have anyone in the Rovers. Don't the writers of today's Corrie understand that the Rovers is the main meeting place of coronation Street. That's why so many people are watching the older episodes. Same as EastEnders. A total waste of the TV licence fee. Anyway thanks to KZbin we can always watch Corrie in its prime.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

@@bollywayne14 It’s prime??! These several uploads of this are so boring and useless!

[@Wildzippy]

The Websters were bad enough but the Claytons? Yawn, all dull as dishwater, no wonder they didn't last 5 minutes either!

[@niad5630]

They were terrible and boring...

[@02bher1]

Funny to see Martin Platt future husband of Gail and daddy to David. This is a time machine and I don't want to get out. LOVE IT.

[@irenemorley75]

I was thinking the same.

[@joannamaxwell]

Martins younger here than David’s now 😮

[@johnlarkin-i3z]

Gail and Brian spend half the day, first in the house, and then in the garage, and then back in the house, arguing about whose work is more important, and neither of them getting a stroke done!

[@rickallen6378]

Glad the Claytons never lasted. It's hard to watch them.

[@saxongreen78]

The Barlows replaced an antique, carved timber sideboard ('a monstrosity') with that 'orrible brown pile of tat...no accounting for taste.

[@MissMarie1377]

I thought the same thing!!!!

[@cherylreid-panasiewicz6485]

I always thought it was the same sideboard until now. There is no difference 🙈

[@londonlady227]

And the wallpaper was better before instead of those brown stripes...

[@soniaclarkstewart]

I preferred it too but it too up too much space and they received a nice amount for it. It became theirs to do what they wanted.

[@joshirley2308]

I know, unbelievable 🤷‍♀️

[@eyezj7412]

Brian is 💯 in the right. They sacrificed the house for the garage, outweighs the bloody cafe job

[@greggildersleeve3484]

I disagree. Gail's job is as important as Brian's. This story line really hits home about the difficulties families face with two working adults and competing responsibilities. There is no easy answer, but at least they had Ivy to look after Nicky part of the time.

[@eat_a_dick_trudeau]

Disagree all you like. Gail doesn't own the cafe, and the cafes existence doesn't rely on her. They DO own the garage, and Brian being there fixing cars is what keeps it going. For someone who spends her day around food, Gail doesn't know which side her bread is buttered on.

[@paulinecorreia5538]

Hilda’s alway’s hilarious 🤣. She alway’s making sarcastic remarks.

[@glorysengo6289]

HILDA’S ALWAY’S HILARIOUS 🤣. SHE ALWAY’S MAKING SARCASTIC REMARKS GLORY SENGO XXX 😘

[@irenemorley75]

@@glorysengo6289 Why are you shouting ?🤔

[@cise748]

@@irenemorley75for the hard of hearing

[@irenemorley75]

@@cise748 I wasn't talking to you, I see you didn't have anything better to do over the New Year, grow up.🙄

[@clarea1801]

Those were the days when you had a hour for lunch and could afford to go to the pub everyday

[@zeddeka]

exaggerated for dramatic effect. The people who could go to the pub every day were sadly the people like Bernard Youens, who paid the price, dying at just 69

[@glorysengo6289]

THOSE WERE THE DAYS WHEN YOU HAD A HOUR FOR LUNCH AND COULD AFFORD TO GO TO THE PUB EVERYDAY GLORY SENGO.

[@greggildersleeve3484]

I'm really amazed that these people spend their lunch hour at the pub drinking alcohol. I know it's dramatic license, but still. Even the pub staff drink while on duty. AA would have a field day in Weatherfield.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

@@greggildersleeve3484 All of these characters are alcoholics! They couldn’t go one day without a drink!

[@nathaniliescutotherescue6047]

Nobody eats vegetables in this show!

[@HelloImNik]

that's why they've mostly all died of strokes and heart issues

[@Alan-ss3xp]

Chips, bacon butties and booze.

[@bsaunders5271]

Mushy peas

[@greggildersleeve3484]

We don't need no steenking veggies! We have pints and crisps.

[@Self-Deport]

I never saw anyone drink a glass of water until I went through all of 1984.

[@johnlarkin-i3z]

Gail accuses Brian of being "deliberately thick"! Taken long enough for her to realise ...he's got gold medals for it ...

[@jakehaymes4438]

And he looks like a candidate for 'crabs' as they said then.

[@reginajohnson353]

The mullets on brian and Kevin! 😅

[@cicerodiello1]

Mid 80s was the era of the mullet. Check out an Aussie band called Uncanny X-Men for some classic cuts 😂

[@HelloImNik]

mid 80s fun

[@greggildersleeve3484]

MTV era.

[@londonlady227]

Wilf Starkey was a dead loss too, not too sure what the point of him was. He only appeared 46 times.

[@marieince1479]

those clatons were so boring like watching paint dry .

[@williamf4544]

Maggie Clegg brought Gordon up - he was in his twenties when he found out Betty was his real mum - hope he is giving Maggie the respect she deserves

[@bibakroll8999]

R. Kevin's voice makes my throat hurt.

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

Verbally aggressive wee alky

[@R31922]

Or gob and a half.

[@nicolataylor6011]

Gail anyone can look after my kids Tlydsley..mother and wife of the year shes not

[@bsaunders5271]

Too right.

[@MissMarie1377]

Exactly

[@alexanderjones9572]

Anyone think George ( the new van driver who replaces Henry, who Ivy becomes friendly with) looks a bit like Don?

[@HelloImNik]

she deffo has a type

[@HelloImNik]

Phyllis's advances on Percy always were so funny - poor her!

[@cicerodiello1]

Jack should have been Bet’s first cellar man. I suppose he’s out there developing some substance doing hard yakka work. He was a much better man behind the bar. This year is a waste with the Clayton’s and Wilfe. I liked Henry for Hilda’s lodger but I suppose they had to make way for Kevin to move in.

[@greggildersleeve3484]

Bet could probably have paid Jack off with pints alone, but he's basically untrustworthy. No, a responsible manager would find a responsible potman.

[@mattburke3457]

"if you could buy men in bulk, I'd be ordering you by the dozen" hahahha

[@jaclynholland-strauss7054]

Their mistake in introducing these characters was they were in their own bubble. They should have interacted with characters we already love, like Hilda, etc.

[@zeddeka]

Eastenders had just been launched on BBC 1 the month before, and Coronation Street was being criticised for being stuck in a nostalgic view of the past rather than reflecting 1980s Britain. perhaps the new characters were a panic measure to try and reinvigorate the Street.

[@booth2710]

It seems to be a feature of soap opera production. I notice when I new families comes in the there are intense story lines in centered around them. EG when the Mc Donalds first came into the show, and when the Websters first came into the show etc ...

[@johnlarkin-i3z]

How does Ivy attract one man after another? She is a complete shrew.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

She's also a hypocrite it's OK for her to have a new relationship after being widowed but a few years later when Gail does the same its wrong. In fact Ivy was seeing someone while her husband was dying in 1983

[@richieferguson3610]

A twisted old bag was Ivy

[@1916jamesconnolly]

The Mavis/Derek Newspaper storyline was hysterical, Comedy Gold, " Well i don't really know", so much better than the crap on the Street today.

[@alexanderjones9572]

“A pensioner? And a bit of a kid?” That ‘bit of a kid’ is your next husband, Gail...

[@nicolemclean9028]

Yeah 1 of many husbands

[@bowler8]

That unit is as big as the other one

[@jstewart3517]

A babysitter is a person hired to mind childern / when a parent minds their children is being a responsible parent

[@zeddeka]

The month before, in February 1985, Eastenders had launched on BBC 1 to great acclaim. Coronation Street was being criticised for being stuck in a nostalgic view of the working class, which did not reflect the rather darker realities of 1980s Britain. Eastenders sought to portray a rather darker picture, which seemed more realistic at the time. There had been a number of new characters around this time and it seems they were an attempt to freshen up Coronation Street.

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

0:50 Mavis - "on the same page as Gary Glitter" 😅😅😅

[@MultiKs22]

Harry clayton is a very caring father just like he was when he became ned glover in Emmerdale in 1994 to his children Dave Linda and Roy, when he be always there to defend their honour in against people who would accuse them of summit. that might haven't been their fault entirely

[@alexandramassey9258]

It’s only make believe

[@MultiKs22]

@@alexandramassey9258 I was eluding to the character Harry clayton not the actor Johnny Leeze who portrayed him.

[@douglashutnik5621]

Man, am I tired of Derek and Mavis.

[@richieferguson3610]

Especially Derek! What an arsepiece

[@alexanderjones9572]

We e not had bright white light round ‘ere for 300 years.” Bit of an exaggeration, Rita. According to a book of mine, the street was built in 1901.

[@williamf4544]

The woman who played teenage Andrea Clayton was 52 apparently

[@williamf4544]

@@tiberseptim560 Yes but what age will she be now i wonder

[@theresapierce3934]

At the time of playing the role of Andrea Clayton, she was 23 and is now 62.

[@williamf4544]

@@theresapierce3934 Oh sorry - an easy mistake to make

[@bsaunders5271]

I'd forgotten how irritating Mavis was. Neurotic doesn't even cover it.

[@professionalgun6674]

She really is. What I like to do is step back for a moment and remember that Thelma is throwing herself into the roll. Not many of the other actors had to really do that, only stress their own real character.

[@EveHenleySpread]

@@professionalgun6674 that’s true, most of the characters are exaggerated versions of the real life actors. Not the case with Thelma Barlow, annoying as the character can be at times. Obviously Jean Alexander was another example, she was nothing like Hilda.

[@KuchiKopi179]

My favourite character is Mavis, I know she can be dotty and in her own mind at times, but she is innocent in her own ways :s I also like Emily.

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Mavis was the local freakshow!

[@leeorr9071]

It’s just acting and not real get a life if you think this is real please god help us with comments lake urs wow

[@MissMarie1377]

Mavis thinking she is too good for Phyllis 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@paulinecorreia5538]

Mavis alway’s seems 2 be upset 😠 very often just about everything.

[@Her.Serene.Feline.Cuteness.]

She's highly strung. The actress must be about 40 - 50 but that hairstyle and her demeanour make her look about 60 - 70.

[@Chillmax]

Gail is being ridiculous, as per usual, yes, she's got a job, but it's Brian's business, and by extension Gail's too, nagging like this will only end in tears!

[@remyhocage9854]

I'd forgotten the struggle married couple's had over "equal rights." These days everyone has to work. Ivy isn't any help; what does she keep in her drawers that would shock Hilda ? And Connie was truly God sent.

[@MissMarie1377]

Yes, thanks to those women nobody mothers their own children anymore. We pay strangers who do not love them to merely make sure they stay alive every day. Then we wonder what is wrong with the world. We have generations of kids who had no loving mother around from the time they were three years old. Yay Womens lib, such freedom….punching a time clock, jumping to someone else’s demands, doing a crappy job ANYONE else can do…instead of doing the most important job in the world….raising the next generation. Nobody can replace the mother of a child but ANYONE can do the crappy jobs they go to instead. Who would you rather have when you were a child…your mother or a paid stranger???? Be honest.

[@iand.3544]

Ken Barlow ... the most exciting thing to happen since the invention of corrugated cardboard

[@rbr2023]

🤣🤣

[@johnlarkin3821]

Ken Barlow's got a cheek, turning his nose up at a fifty year old ... someone nearer his age than Dreary (the actor was 53!)

[@MultiKs22]

Bell and Cherelle weren't the 2 barmaids that replaced bet and betty . when the walked out on when Gordon Lewis was in charge in 1981.

[@MrHarryHewitt1983]

The school kid in this episode is now a grandmother to quads.

[@eatmywords]

you mean she grew up? never!

[@cherylreznor181]

@@eatmywords you cant say ewt anymore without an idiot commenting back with a sarcastic comment can you.

[@eatmywords]

@@cherylreznor181 or a humourless moron 😙

[@williamf4544]

Is it you ?

[@eatmywords]

@@williamf4544 the one and only 😏

[@alexanderjones9572]

2.20.59 Missed the perfect opportunity to mention a past character-Eddie. Bet could’ve said she had ‘Eddie Yates’s dust cart driving around in her head.’

[@madwatermelon1316]

The cracks in Gail and Brian's marriage are beginning to show. Ivy doesn't help. She probably thinks she's the glue keeping them together and doesn't realise she's actually slowly killing their relationship.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

My God Gayle’s son is sick and she still says she is going to work??! Work is more important??! She can care less about that kid!!

[@KuchiKopi179]

What do people have in their sitting room drawers? I just keep random bits of post it notes and other stationaries, I don't know why Ivy was so offended that Hilda would dare breach Tilsley manor 🙄 Also 2 mature adults arguing about dinner, 1 works in a damn cafe and the other lives a few minutes from the local chippy....

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

I had chicken pox years ago and had calamine lotion on the spots as they were itchy!

[@alexanderjones9572]

Isn’t this where Brian and Ivy seem to swap second marriage philosophies? Brian’s all for Ivy and George-but Ivy decides she can’t marry George because he’s divorced.

[@bibakroll8999]

I don't know about that but Ivy's religion forbade her from marrying a divorced man.

[@jakehaymes4438]

The last sensible thing my mum said was the Ken 'wants a rocket up his arse'. That was about mid eighties. She is nearly 80 now.

[@nancyridenour1815]

She must be 50, if she’s a day--- hmm, about Ken’s age, & all the rest of the men

[@bibakroll8999]

Yes, but of course women aren't allowed to age.

[@HelloImNik]

Wow Brian's chauvinism

[@Nats99]

I knew he wouldn't get her any chips. Poor Gail.

[@alexanderjones9572]

So as far as Bet knows, all her relatives have been hung, deported or dead. The ones that’ve been hung are dead, aren’t they?

[@montrayjones1947]

I was mostly watching Benny hill by now, maybe he wrote this joke…

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

Think she's meaning hung in the sense that they were a bad lot rather than just died of natural causes.

[@glorysengo6289]

SO AS FAR AS BET KNOWS, ALL HER RELATIVES HAVE BEEN HUNG, DEPORTED OR DEAD. THE ONES THAT’VE BEEN HUNG ARE DEAD , AREN’T THEY GLORY SENGO XXX 😘

[@glorysengo6289]

? XXX 😘

[@elizabethbower2168]

I often wondered when Martin Platt would be introduced into the scheme of things

[@R31922]

Unfortunatly.

[@bowler8]

The young girl is Jane Hazlegrove (Bernie Winter), bet she didnt realize years later she'd be back in the soap

[@angelfish08]

Mavis will “b on same page as Garry glitter”… 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤣🤣

[@greggildersleeve3484]

As an American, I know Gary Glitter from "Rock and Roll Pt. 2" in 1972. I'm surprised he was still newsworthy in 1985.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

If Mavis knew all of that, why did she accept his proposal in the first place??!

[@alexanderjones9572]

I forgot Hilda’s comment to Wilf that she ‘yawned her way all the way through Psycho’ 😂😂

[@bsaunders5271]

She has probably known worse horrors in her own life, over the years.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Can’t remember Annie coming back from a lady victualler’s do in Bet’s state.

[@rbr2023]

Starting to wish Mavis had married Victor!

[@pedanticradiator1491]

The Claytons were possibly the most boring family to join the programme. In fact I never rated the actor who played the father

[@krish2427]

Brian was a proper caveman i never liked him

[@bsaunders5271]

Agreed

[@lindarowe8550]

I agree to

[@bibakroll8999]

@@lindarowe8550 And me!

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

Nothing to do with being a "caveman" why I can't be doing with him. Simply that he's an uncharismatic bore.

[@scottanthony6269]

And he married ET with a wig

[@Chillmax]

The new family must've been an idea to have a regular, everyday family, but it just didn't work! It might be the storylines, but for me it's the actors, they're just miscast, with very flat and dull performance, if I remember rightly, they're off pretty quick.

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Thing is with job applications more are disappointed than not!

[@christinefougere]

they must be changing actresses because Tracy has not been seen for over a year.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

One of the actresses who played young Tracy moved with her family away from Manchester and did not tell Granada TV

[@ChristineNicholson-bk9jq]

Christ Ken is a patronising gift!

[@ChristineNicholson-bk9jq]

I meant git!

[@dementednun1175]

Stella is the Spitting Image of Cilla Black looks and style

[@kathystahl4690]

Only 1's going threw drawers would be Ivy and Vera

[@greggildersleeve3484]

So odd to see a different family living at No. 11. I had barely gotten used to the Websters. I know it's because Peter Armitage decided to leave after a year, but it feels weird.

[@louiseowusu246]

I do like Mavis and Emily, but a holiday with them will be a real barrel of laughs...Just up Rita's street😜 Brian is sitting directly opposite the kitchen and he's moaning about getting food. I hate this kind of thing.

[@MissMarie1377]

Gail is moaning about being a mother so…..

[@williamf4544]

Women dont understand - a man has to rest his balls especially after work - its all to do with circulation

[@Cackle77]

Best excuse ever! 😅​@@williamf4544

[@kellyscourfield77]

Gail and Brian don’t have a good marriage. Brian is not a great husband, it’s all about him.

[@kylie-mareebaldwin4672]

Mavis is a classic. She makes me laugh. And I love how Rita stirs the pot.

[@annrobertson109]

Sue Clayton a young Bernie Winter!

[@dementednun1175]

What is the song playing on the radio

[@montrayjones1947]

Sounds like gloria

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

On a 3 hours video? Can you narrow it down!?

[@dementednun1175]

@@MarcoNegrisEye 2:01

[@dementednun1175]

@@MarcoNegrisEye I found it Alvin Stardust I won't run away

[@niad5630]

@@dementednun1175 Correct, well done...

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Why is Brian whining to Ivy about his dinner??! Does he think it’s Ivy’s responsibility??! Why can’t he go out and get something to eat??! And is there no food in their refrigerator??! Acts like a 2 year old!

[@Self-Deport]

He’s a mama’s boy. It’s Ivy’s fault he’s like that. Even when Gail and Brian first married and were living with her and Bert, she was constantly catering to them. They’re both spoiled brats.

[@bradleyferguson1087]

Gemmas mum ?

[@dementednun1175]

Yes but she is playing a different character the whole family just lasted 12 episodes cause no one liked them. Than the Mc Donald's arrived to replace them

[@alexanderjones9572]

@@dementednun1175 Wonder what Gemma would be like if she’d had grandparents like Harry and Connie ( and an aunt like Andrea)?

[@jasbegs1258]

Thank you for validating what i thought. Also, i did not like this family at the time.

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

I didn't like the Clayton's either as they didn't fit in!

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

@@jasbegs1258 I thought they were rubbish as well!

[@bazgent]

Hilda sounds like that 🧙‍♀️ ov wizard of oz 😂

[@paulwatson525]

Bernie winters jane hazelgrove in the part of sue clayton younger sister of andrea in her younger days strange how years later shes back as berni winters gemma n pauls mum lol

[@nancyridenour1815]

Thought Ivy wanted help paying her bills

[@alexanderjones9572]

I can think of a way to stop the others muscling in on George, Ivy-tell him what happened with his predecessor...

[@ara8253]

I knew a wooden rocking horse with more brain than Mavis

[@paulinecorreia5538]

I’ve noticed that Mavis @ Derick are very irritated 😤 couple. 😮😮❤❤❤ 14:23 14:25 14:26 14:27

[@paulinecorreia5538]

Mavis seems 2 cry about really 😢stupid things 😂She’s just 2 hysterical. She must have 2 much stress..😮😮❤❤ 25:38

[@WorthW-f3s]

Feel sorry 4 the lovely Gale! Oh what muppets she was surrounded within the Family.

[@rickmoore4482]

Unbelievable that Brian couldn't have anything to eat until Gail got home! Is he not capable of going to the kitchen and opening a tin of something to put in the microwave! Hopeless dependence on his wife!

[@GinaRussell-c2c]

What did Mr Clayton do for a living?Because I’ve not seen him go out to work yet, And why can’t Brian look after himself and make his own meal? And I wish he would stop 🛑 arguing with Gail she as to work also

[@eat_a_dick_trudeau]

Milkman.

[@marieince1479]

boring clatons horrible mc donalds back to the 70s for me .

[@scottpeacock5492]

Laurel and Hardy having a smashing time in the cafe i see 😆😅🤣😂2:06:42

[@themistermillson]

George is so boring. Not the actor's fault. Whoever wrote for the new characters let them all down, considering not long after this, they got rid of george, Will, and the Claytons. Perhaps they should have got rid of the writers.

[@kellyscourfield77]

Mavis the drama queen

[@jonathancheetham7683]

Haha love Phylis

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Brian’s hair looks awful!