Coronation Street - May 1978

[@MissTLI1980]

The current Corrie writers should look back at these old episodes. This is what Corrie should be. X

[@loonylinda]

corrie isnt corrie anymore..light years away

[@Lucy0809]

I don’t watch now

[@lorikadas3719]

Unfortunately I don't watch it anymore. Stopped 2 years ago

[@robclark4507]

Corrie dead if it started 10 yrs ago it would be axed but because it Started 60 yrs ago its going

[@robclark4507]

@@loonylinda me my misses watch it for a laugh poor acting

[@bevtilbrook1675]

Amazing to watch all these different episodes back to back. Absolutely love it. 💐💐

[@jayrox40]

Thank you. Love this era.

[@mikehudson8884]

The adventures of Suzie, Gail and Elsie...great comedy. All the favourite characters in this period of Corrie, Brilliant era loved ep 1 just like wheel tappers and shunters social club, filmed at the same studio I think. So innocent and funny back in the 70s Eddie calling Ray 'Pig Face' cracked me up....The Pram Race episode so silly but gentle fun...

[@77hwjeushs81]

Why did the women have to push the heavy men !!!

[@brucedanton3669]

Yes it would have been of course as they were both filmed at Granada Television's studios in Manchester at the time so too.

[@williamf4544]

Yes a bit like The Liver Birds only better

[@Evette-f4n]

Thanks again all my favourite characters.

[@lorrainegriffin1443]

Corrie the good old days,can't stop watching,they don't make it like this anymore "Pity"

[@elterrifico9522]

I love how Ralph has a Texas accent although he lives in Pittsburgh. 🤣

[@pamib29]

Ralph (James Berwick) was in Minder & in Father Ted. I agree about the accent, not the best & funnily enough he was actually Irish ☘️

[@5gx673]

I grew up in Pennsylvania. Nice try buddy 😂

[@AriAdu]

Phony texas accent

[@RY4N0909]

@@AriAduhe’s Irish so duh

[@paullynton-green6570]

Diabolical accent.

[@jaynehinds3339]

The pub I worked 8n Scotland did the prom race omg what a banter lol still done every year loved it xx

[@myalfie]

You never see that back room in the rovers I’d completely forgotten about it?

[@londonlady227]

It was done away with after multiple renovations.

[@GinaRussell-c2c]

I’m sure Annie walkers son billy walker later became Tom king in Emmerdale, Thank you for the upload I love the old ones I’ve got a lot of fond memories of watching these episodes 😊😊😊

[@callummorgan5058]

Ive watched the 70s ones im on late 80s abd and that's when the show began to go down hill

[@clairemelia4950]

That bird Ray is talking to at the party is the first Aveline Boswell from Bread.

[@williamrennie9331]

She pops up again in 81 as the stripper at Fred's stag do. She has a funny scene with Bet.

[@YvonneSmyth-t9f]

Coronation street is the best soap awards

[@bernadetteaspinall6710]

Love how when they cook and sit down to a meal .. it’s the real thing.. it was so well executed.. 🫶

[@bethshields4903]

It makes me hungry ! 😊

[@nitad4203]

Thank you so much for all the great episodes, at the risk of sounding greedy.... will you by any chance be uploading any 1979 episodes? If so that would be fantastic and if not well thanks again for all your uploads.

[@bernadetteaspinall6710]

I really hope so 🤞

[@ZowieBBowie]

I can’t be doing with ‘79 and beyond , I really miss not seeing Ray anymore his absence is felt well into the 80s. It was good in that he returned many years later but he left it too late and was poorly at the time,sad.

[@philstrachan]

I think Australia was quite a few years behind in airing the show here as I was only 10 in 1978 but watched these episodes as a teenager 🤔📺

[@districtline]

Been watching this playlist for the past two weeks because I can't stand hearing about the 2024 election a minute longer 😡. I've never been so relaxed. Thanks very much ❤. Having said that, the guy from Pennsylvania visiting Hilda changed his accent three times in 2 lines

[@lucyjane103]

That’s NO Pennsylvania accent…..yes I know he’s just acting…..

[@stevenwilliams8545]

Annie walker was not only a matriarch, but she was also a hypochondriac and a skiver too. The amount of times she had a migraine, flu, cold, or just went away short notice was plentiful, then she kicks Fred out of his bed at short notice.

[@SeanSmith-f3t]

She was a very old lady.

[@mikehudson8884]

@@SeanSmith-f3t That's right the actress who played her took 20 years off her age and got away with it until 1980 when it came out she was actually 81. It really upset her and she left not long after.

[@moaningpheromones]

It was 15 years and you're telling half the story in a brief comment. She is Doris Speed. 'Got away with it' hahaha no-one thought she passed for 46 when it first aired. 20 years would've been even more laughable@@mikehudson8884

[@stevenwilliams8545]

​@@billy9816blimey it's not real, it's just a programme. I think people forget that.

[@TheGlassman63]

Both missing episodes are on Dailymotion. Simply enter in the DM search-bar `5-3-78` for the first missing episode and `5-8-78` for the second. Yes the month is the first number and the day is the second. For example May 5 1978.

[@elterrifico9522]

Thanks for the tip!

[@bethshields4903]

Just announced Gail is leaving corrie after all this time .she is 73 now!

[@williamf4544]

I always thought i was half Scottish half Irish through and through but i recently found out my great great grandparents were born in Warrington near Manchester wayhay

[@jujuoliver6959]

Years ago when I was just a mere youngster (a squillion years back) we did a sponsored pram push with work colleagues as Corrie characters and I was dressed up as Hilda Ogden, the pinny, the rollers, the headscarf, the lot, around a local country park. I didn't realise at the time because someone else organised it, but this was probably why, they had obviously seen it on here and thought it was a good idea.

[@5gx673]

Love Eddie and Mavis ❤

[@CliveEvans-oj2nn]

Today s corrie writers should look at these and take note..

[@Chillmax]

Such a shame that the function room disappeared in the next few years, it was a great place, I guess people were staring to notice that the physics of it were impossible, unless the Rovers was a TARDIS.

[@bethshields4903]

@@Chillmax 😂

[@stevensharks3256]

1978 was a good year the year l was born

[@clairemelia4950]

Eddie Yates singing and Ena Sharples playing the old Joanna. Class lol.

[@oldschoolgamer7731]

thank you so much for this it was here for years but sadly went i was gutted because i was lkooking for the guitar song thank you so much this is my fave epsiode do you no what song it its when anne kirby is dancing with that man abd ray talking to that girl.

[@veneker9949]

One or two posters have mentioned the current Corrie cast, and Emma Thompson, who's not short of acting ability herself, pointed out in a more general sense that many younger performers can't act but obtain work as their social media profile is popular. Ex-Bill stalwart Mark Wingett was asked for advice by a young actor and Mark posed the question did the guy want to act as if it was as important to him as breathing. The response was in the negative; he was in it for the cash and the celebrity status. A TV critic wondered some years ago if Corrie would be commissioned now as it was in 1960, with mainly older actors in everyday situations, You can imagine today's TV executives scoffing at such a notion, no doubt pointing out how times have changed and conveniently ignoring the ludicrous storylines of today's 'modern' Street, which are far removed from reality. No wonder fans deserted Corrie in vast numbers. TV bosses would have you believe this is due to more choice, as if millions are watching niche channels on a daily basis. The truth is viewer loyalty will only stretch so far and people dislike being treated like fools. Never mind the Cold War in 1978 - the tensions between America and the USSR were nothing compared to Albert Tatlock and Ena Sharples going toe to toe (Ena really should have pushed Albert in the pram race after a decent head start). Eddie's turn at the little do is a showstopper and there's a warm welcome from Stan to Hilda's old American pal - a lavvy flushing - and Mr O continued to be the genial host by snoring during the Yank's chat with Hilda. 😄 On a much more serious note, I hope I didn't hear two trumps from Eddie (surely not Mavis) at 2:31:26.

[@liamsawyer2088]

4:00 made me howl how Ena started on Albert 😂😂

[@elizabeth-jk5vo]

Miss TLI1980 no truer word spoken...I cannot believe that they cannot have seen the ratings drop and all that has been said and written about the poor writing. acting and story lines that is now Coronation Street....does not resemble the writing, personalities, great wit of these old episodes

[@yeshuas_follower]

Theres a couple of episodes missing...i had ro nip onto another channel to get them before coming back

[@ginagina9720]

Wasn’t mr Goodwin dereks boss later on in years at the paper factory or is it the wrong person? I love ❤️ these old episodes thank you 🙏 for the upload

[@stormhawk3319]

Something about Billy Walker that rubbed me up the wrong way. A very superficial character, a chancer and a shallow man unlike his dad, gentleman Jack.

[@ddrose06]

That old bastard Albert knew exactly what he was doing. Dropping everybody in it, to the brewery.

[@londonlady227]

Typical of those over a certain age that feel the world owes them a favour.

[@paullynton-green6570]

Horrible, ignorant scrounging old git.

[@eddielloyd4070]

the tv researchers did not do their homework ,because they have a standard dartboard instead of a manchester dartboard in the pub ,,,

[@matthewa.morgan6214]

Mrs walker had such a big heart

[@theresapierce3934]

Mr Goodwin aka Voctor Pendlebury, Mavis's romantic interest in future episodes.

[@kathystahl4690]

Back when ppl knew how to enjoy everyone's company n pubs were about more than drinking switch to 2023 no one gets along

[@paullynton-green6570]

So much aggression and not enough laughter.

[@susandoig4192]

And no manners

[@emgee81]

17:48 Don't you think it's a bit weird that Deidre is ok with being felt up by a complete stranger in front of her husband considering it wasn't long ago that she was molested in the viaduct? Those two are a strange couple with their constant game-playing and arguing with eachother and other people. But it's not in the same way as the Ogdens - Ray and Deidre's twoing and froing is manipulative and cruel at times - more like Rita and Len's carrying on. Remember, Deidre's not that much older than Gail or Suzie but to hear her talk she's a woman of the world and knows better! And Ray's just the same. It's no wonder Tracey turned out the way she did!

[@jstewart3517]

Pair of grifters

[@timmytrimble4069]

Perhaps the guy at the party was a plesant person. Perhaps she felt safe.

[@bethshields4903]

@@timmytrimble4069 very good point .

[@sheenamcguire123]

Well said totally agree

[@michaelleacy]

In real life Dierdre was three years younger than Gail

[@vaughanjohnston3165]

I have always wondered is it real beer 🍺🍺 they drink in the Rovers or something else it looks real

[@bibakroll8999]

It's not real beer! Apart from anything else, they had too many alkies in the cast.

[@ladygrinningsoul992]

It’s shandy and the whiskey is apple juice , vodka is water or just tonic water

[@londonlady227]

@@ladygrinningsoul992 they added a little lime to the water to make it seem more syrupy.

[@paulinecook9157]

The glass of wine was only weak lime..

[@jacinta992]

Do you have August 1978

[@queendeirdre7436]

Hilda scrubs up really well 😊

[@susandoig4192]

They always made it out that dreary was god s gift to men and she wasn’t

[@juleerowley9706]

100%

[@christinefougere]

I noticed Bill Tarmey in the Select. He will become Jack Duckworth soon.

[@acesigma06]

31:02 before he became Victor Pendelbury

[@frazzleface753]

Very odd decision to give Emily the starting pistol!

[@stevenwilliams8545]

Bit sick too, especially as her husband was shot dead.

[@dantemedici8179]

Deirdre acted like she was 60 when she was 25

[@jstewart3517]

Uncle Albert just like Ken ( stirring up trouble) can not stand the whole Barlow family

[@Keepingitrespectfulmostly.]

4:26 Ena bossing Albert about. Pure comedy gems. Know it's only fiction, but hats off and respect to Emily, following Ernest's funeral. 2:12:15 Pram race looks like monster fun.

[@itallia666]

Love Her or Hate Her You have to admit Annie Walker Is number 1 Queen of the Rovers Return! She radiates an aristocratic & supreme ruler of all she surveys with diplomacy and an iron will! Annie suffers no fools about her & underneath her impenetrable Armour is a sympathetic & giving & very caring lady! I always thought she'd stay at the Rovers till she was 100! I knew she left the " street" amid Some vindictive & awful slurs which were untrue but i think she was right to resign! To keep her good name & status she retired! But i think, sadly, it finished her after the many decades of acting on Corrie, she was badly treat! Just noticed from 1976 to mid 1978, Ray Langstons hair has gone from a lovely dark gloss to salt & pepper! Wonder why he left Corrie? He had a good part & could have set up as a rival to Len , With an off/on relationship with Deirdre! Marrying Ken after Ray, Deirdre Became a neurotic boring irritant & a moaning minnie of the highest magnitude! Ken was always a bore & pessimist! Although he played his part well, i think he currently holds the record for the longest acting career in a Soap! ( his son, Linus Roache is a very good actor!) Thank you Generation Gun 66 for your brilliant uploads Today ( day 4 of constant exclusive viewings of Corrie fr 1976 onwards) I cried twice today, the Ernest Bishop murder & trial, so sad & Emilys acting was 1st Rate! 2nd, when Elsie played her last episode before she left temporarily, in early 1978 when after reading her divorce from Alan Howard was final & her bar pick up from the scumball who thought she was a Lady of the Night! I wept my heart out in her heartbreaking scenes! Pat Phoenix's acting was incredible! AAA grade acting! There are VERY few things to make me cry in films & certainly not in a British or any other weekly Soap! But Corrie ticks all the boxes! Well at least these old ones do. There is laughter, tears, angst Anger, crime, betrayal, weddings Funerals, fights, friends, ploys, Scandals, schemes ( Stan & Eddie) Not these days, im informed, & my last viewing of Corrie ended with the arrival of the Battersbys I just didnt gel with these characters at all! That was it! I was never a Soap fan & only ever watched Corrie a British Institution! They"ll never create a Soap like Corrie, akin to these past episodes Dont know if its the marvellous acting, Characters or storylines I think its the writers! The past writers were magicians Modern writing is 💩 Compared to the quality of the past writers & producers As another commenter said; The writers of today's Corrie should definately look at these past videos to see how it SHOULD be done, learn from it & get some ideas. Get some good solid actors & match them to brilliant scripts & storylines! Im enthralled with these videos Regards 🇬🇧👧

[@SeanSmith-f3t]

I thought Doris Speed left the Street because the tabloids found out her real age and something about a break in at her home.

[@jstewart3517]

Victor the pottery man 😅

[@Chillmax]

I like a good 'bad' boy, but Billy's just unpleasant, how on earth is he supposed to have come from the Walker's I don't know.

[@johnlarkin3821]

Eddie on stage turns vulgarity in to an art form ...

[@SueGarden]

Its the pram epsiode 😮 1:44:54 1:45:20 2:12:01 2:12:49 2:23:31 2:24:19 2:30:50 2:34:43 SU garden

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Suzie pulls up and not out of breath, but the other one is!! 🤣😂

[@teenabrunk83]

Ralph was played by a British actor.

[@londonlady227]

Irish I think.

[@clivestuarteardley6049]

Totally agree

[@RosieWoolf]

Coronation at its utter finest.

[@liamoification]

We seeing Len in his underpants with a playboy magazine knocked me sick 🤮

[@julielewis5051]

Hideous..

[@gusjackson3658]

Musically Coro never much got past the 40’s for some unknown reason.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Those women did not push those fat, heavy men all that way and back again in those buggies! 🤣😂

[@frazzleface753]

Weirdest Pennsylvanian accent I've ever heard 🤣More like deep south, Mississippi....

[@5gx673]

Or someone who's never been American 😂

[@queendeirdre7436]

The origins of Betty's Hot Pot!

[@bowler8]

Thats Victor Pendleberry

[@paulmajor8865]

Pre victor pendlebury

[@jstewart3517]

Uncle Albert is such a miserable old coot ( acting top notch ) back then they took pride in their profession and kept their clothes on 😊

[@williamf4544]

1:31 Ray Langton

[@clarkpatient7950]

Some of the episodes this month were dreary as hell

[@Kevin-vc9nw]

I prefer the youger Gail She looked happier before she met Brian

[@DarylDevine]

2:30:35 interesting moment between Ken and Deirdre. You can feel the unbridled sexual tension between then even then.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Why does Hilda tell people her business??! That’s the only way that bar maid found out!! 🤣😂

[@roderickscott7429]

27.10 - steve 1 , suzie 0

[@Anonymous_Anon882]

Pennsylvania or Louisiana? You wouldn’t be able-to tell from that accent.

[@bsaunders5271]

Hilda's old flame... his American accent is appalling.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

This man is not from Pennsylvania, he’s from the South!! 🤣😂

[@KuchiKopi179]

That has to be one of the most awful American accent ever on a show XD

[@shylinh5939]

No, there have been far worse examples.

[@StCloud-ns7vt]

48:57 omg lol

[@paullynton-green6570]

Mr goodwin soon to become victor pendelbury the love interest of mavis

[@journeybymoonlight3216]

I hope Emily Bishop won't give them the money.

[@ironknobsteelworks4063]

The hunt for Gails chin goes on.

[@liamoification]

She’s terrible at folding towels.

[@paullynton-green6570]

Lol.

[@miriammacdermid8163]

I thought I was the only one who noticed lol

[@julielewis5051]

Unkind of you

[@malimbep4298]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@susandoig4192]

That billy had a brass neck talking to his sister like that he was always tapping his mum for money

[@williamf4544]

Tarra Love

[@Staggercfc]

Missing episodes after 21 minutes : kzbin.info/www/bejne/p53Cdn2jnrRnrK8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bme8mpmImtKogpI

[@kathystahl4690]

Ray/Dederia = loosers

[@SeanSmith-f3t]

Losers even

[@RM-ti8nf]

You mean losers?

[@bazgent]

Fred and the hogdan's are funny!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂