Coronation Street - May 1983

[@nitad4203]

I love these classic episodes so much. The actors were so down to earth and the storylines were great. All the characters had their distinctive traits. One of my favourite episodes is 'The Car in The Lake', it's excellent comedy. I like the character of Fred. Despite his often awful personality he's never boring and the storylines he features in are some of the best. I haven't watched Coronation Street since the 90s. When a lot of the original characters left the show lost some of its magic and was never the same. My all time favourites are Elsie, Stan and Hilda, Eddie, Bet, Mike and Annie Walker. Thank you ProfessionalGun 66 for uploading these episodes, I have tried before to get them on DVDs but only certain episodes are available.

[@glorysengo6289]

I LOVE THESE CLASSIC EPISODES SO MUCH THE ACTORS WERE SO DOWN TO EARTH AND THE STORYLINES WERE GLORY SENGO.

[@susi-emily]

I remembered the car in the lake from when it first aired, but in my head the car was an Austin Princess. Perhaps Fred had a Princess later in the show and I'm confusing the cars.

[@melvynwalker3661]

Yes I quite agree I'm enjoying classic corrie on TV at the moment I don't watch the new ones anymore

[@theculturedthug6609]

Stan, Eddie and Hilda were the best. So funny.

[@elterrifico9522]

Stanley smiling and waving in the funeral procession. Hilda: stop that, you’re not going on your holidays! 🤣🤣🤣

[@alexanderjones9572]

watching Classic Emmerdale now- and I was trying to think who Shadrach Dingle in that reminded me of!

[@theresapierce3934]

How sad to think that Elsie saying to Suzie, " what would you do if you only had 2 years to live". Pat Phoenix only had 3 years left.

[@bsaunders5271]

I was thinking the same. Poor Pat.

[@staceygrove5976]

She still looked really good though in her final appearance in the Street (January 1984).

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

Would have been good if Suzi asked Elsie and she said "join EastEnders"

[@stormhawk3319]

Apparently she smoked 60 cigarettes a day most of her adult life.

[@MultiKs22]

@@staceygrove5976 those scenes were recorded in November 1983 that's when the late pat Phoenix rip left the screen for good . she left in 1983 not 84 . her final scenes were showing on the 4th of January 1984 .

[@jonathancheetham7683]

The combination of Bet, Betty, Fred and Annie at the Rovers was the best. Best years of the street.

[@nitad4203]

That is so true. I loved the storylines. I've seen a few comments saying that Fred was a horrible character but I liked him and he was always in a good storyline and was a great character. The banter between Fred and Bet was hilarious 😂

[@bsaunders5271]

I remember seeing the car in the lake escapade when it aired, I was 10, and I can vividly remember my parents falling around laughing

[@pamib29]

Me too! It’s about the only one I remembered! Looking forward to watching it! 🙂

[@looopylooo5320]

I can remember the car in the lake episode as if it was yesterday. Fond memories sitting with my Mam & Dad rolling with laughter as the car headed into the water! Now watching these classic episodes with 50 year old eyes & enjoying the fantastic acting talent, great scripts & the nostalgia but also appreciating the social history, a glimpse back to my childhood- fashion, cultural references, etc. Really appreciate the time & effort that it takes to upload these videos .. many thanks

[@EveHenleySpread]

I had a Rover P6 myself… mine was better than Mrs Walker’s though.. the 3500s, was a fantastic car - same colour too, Lunar Grey.. I wish I still had it. I love seeing that car in these old episodes.. even if it did end up in the lake! 😂

[@bsaunders5271]

Bet is such a great character, she gives every scene an electric energy

[@suzanndurrette120]

Whoever wrote the Vince St. Clair storyline was a genius!

[@cicerodiello1]

Julie Goodyear was brilliant at delivering one liners. I think her dialogue was essentially just one liners. Highly entertaining

[@bevtilbrook1675]

Yes, agreed. Thank you for your dedication on making us happy❤️

[@MsArrowroot]

In the car scenes, Fred looks like Mr Toad.

[@marymongan6360]

I love watching these gems It’s my mother’s favourite show for donkeys year’s who has passed away three years ago and that’s why I love them,, Thank you to whom put these on god bless you,, Got to love KZbin really do

[@ladygrinningsoul992]

One of the funniest episodes! Bet and Betty were truly underestimated actresses

[@carolinegauld9570]

Just watching it now. So funny!

[@annmc8392]

😄😃🤣😂

[@billysmith8851]

They were the best double act I’ve seen so far

[@irenemorley75]

I sent Bet Lynch some ear rings in the 80s, she wore them for one episode.🤗👌👍

[@kato2644]

Thanks for all your time and effort. I've really been enjoying all these episodes, especially all the comic escapades. "Perry Fairclough" made me laugh.

[@theresapierce3934]

Thankyou so much for uploading these. I love the old Corrie.

[@leeorr9071]

These are the best days off Corrie

[@bethshields4903]

For sure

[@gilliangrant8764]

I am just loving watching all these uploads. Thank you so much, and so many episodes as well. You have made this lockdown bearable for this middle aged insomniac xxx

[@alexanderjones9572]

How would some of them cope in lockdown? Stan & Hilda? Elsie, Marian & Susie?

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

@@alexanderjones9572 Annie Walker would be sound. She spends most of time hidden away with a "migraine" anyway!

[@trae7302]

I'm so excited. Thank-You , Thank-You , Thank-You.

[@bsaunders5271]

Those fellas on the dating agency video are comedy gold.

[@6611haggis]

Late ‘83/ Early ‘84 saw a changing of the guard in The Street. We bid farewell to old school favourites Bert Tilsley, Len Fairclough, Elsie Tanner and the Grumpy Old Men, Uncle Albert and Stan Ogden and in came geeky Curly, whiny Kevin, the deeply annoying Percy and the odious Terry Duckworth.

[@2500mike]

Didn't Eddie go as well?

[@nicholasgargano7396]

@@2500mike and Fred gee

[@MultiKs22]

that's when the street started to decline . mind you Percy was a good actor the late Bill Waddington RIP. he knew how to act .incidentally he appeared in it in 1976 when Alf married Renee Bradshaw the owner of the corner shop.

[@jubileebaby9787]

Annie Walker too

[@paullynton-green6570]

Bert,len,stan and Elsie were irreplaceable. Tatlockwas no loss.l barely understood a word he said. They should've got rid years ago along with dreary.

[@dhcrasher1]

Bet WAS Coronation Street back then...mind the writers gave her some brilliant lines, but she delivered them perfectly, and her character stands the test of time, nearly thirty years later and I've cried laughing at the whole car in the lake storyline...it definitely wouldn't have been the same without her and Hilda, my other favourite person ❤

[@leoparkes7536]

I hate to tell you this - it’s FORTY years on! 😭 Wholeheartedly agree with your comments about Bet, the show lost something vital in 1995.

[@dhcrasher1]

@@leoparkes7536OMG 40 years ! 🙈 .. and definitely, Bet leaving, for me, was the beginning of the end ..

[@nicolataylor6011]

Classic episode with the car in the lake with Bet Betty and Fred face 😂 brilliant these uploads ..thank you

[@professionalgun6674]

Lens final appearance in the Rovers asking Betty about solicitors and earlier fixing Annie Walker's toilet...I wonder if he knew what they were doing.

[@bsaunders5271]

😔

[@H3len50]

Awww that makes me sad, for all his big mouth and aggression I still like Len. To have a death off screen is such a cruel and half arsed end for him. I know there was other supposed reasons at the time but he was fully exonerated. I think after all those years he deserved better.

[@theresapierce3934]

@@H3len50 None of the cast attended Adamsons funeral. I know he was cleared of the assault charges, but it does make you wonder if the cast knew something.

[@H3len50]

@@theresapierce3934 , I think that might have had something to do with his selling stories to the press and also his own story. Even though he was fully exonerated it cost him dearly in legal costs and he needed the money.

[@jubileebaby9787]

I recall Peter Adamson's Sunday People interview in May 1994 where he revealed none of the Coronation Street cast had ever made contact with him since his dismissal, he wrote to Julie Goodyear twice but she never replied. Johnny Briggs and Jean Alexander did pay tribute to him upon learning of his death though.

[@nicholasgargano7396]

Fred Gee is a legend

[@allanjoseph5601]

Fred Gee was a flaming legend!

[@alexanderjones9572]

When Mavis said SHE’D swap places with Bet, and Bet went “Done!” Imagine if Mavis actually had swapped places with Bet-how would she have coped in Bet’s place? “I don’t really know...”

[@elainedoe1981]

That trip to the countryside was a real classic! 😂

[@Wildzippy]

Vera was at her best in these episodes, rough but hilarious with a kind edge. They changed her as she went on which was a shame.

[@th8257]

When Stan died, they moved Vera and Jack over to replace Hilda and Stan as the comedy married couple. Their role changed quite a bit.

[@memoir4you]

Yes she was a bit "nicer" in the early Eighties , she had time to chat to people with some warmth . Gradually she got nastier and meaner .

[@soniaclarkstewart]

I really disliked her and her mouth, but it just shows that she was a terrific actress.

[@carasmith549]

Fred Gee was such a blustering, aggressive man, when he wasn't toadying to Mrs. Walker or any possible conquest he had his eye on. He seems to come across as a deeply unpleasant embarrassment of a man, and his boastfulness, greasiness and sweatiness would surely turn most women's stomachs. Yet there were times I could feel sorry for him. His ambitions always exceeded his abilities and he had quite a pathetic existence. Also his doomed marriage to Eunice made everything worse for him. A real no-hoper.

[@alisonroberts5228]

A truly odious man and character. I can't bare him.

[@annmc8392]

Everything about him is cringe. Today he would be arrested for being a sex pest.

[@MrIrrepressible]

Fred is one of my favs. I like him

[@bethshields4903]

Just goes to show what a good actor can do .

[@dominewimbury2039]

The car in the lake episode 🤣🤣🤣 Stan waving at the girls and showing Hilda up again 🙈🙄🤣 Bet getting put in the cowpat and her general performance 🤣🤣🤣

[@saxongreen78]

Bloody Fred - it was infuriating to see such a mediocrity succeeding in ripping off an honest and skilled trader like Brian Tilsley...Brian reminds me of my Dad - he was often ripped off as a young mechanic.

[@dominewimbury2039]

@@saxongreen78 hated Fred

[@annmc8392]

😄😃🤣😂

[@cicerodiello1]

The Rover was a character so much more interesting than Fred.

[@4oclocktimefortea794]

Eddie says Stan is like a baby bird waiting for Hilda to come home with the worms! Love Stan - he is like a big teddy bear.

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

More like a big teddy boy in concrete boots

[@paullynton-green6570]

More like humpty dumpy.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Woman in charge of the ‘Bill and Coo’ dating agency is Shirley Stelfox ( Edna Birch on Emmerdale).

[@acesigma06]

And the original Rose, from Keeping Up Appearances

[@simplywonderful1]

She also played a separate role in the mid 1990s as a B&B landlady in Blackpool that Vera stayed at…

[@Paulzor923]

🤣 I knew it was gonna be Jack on one of those videos 😂

[@th8257]

Suzy was certainly an unpleasant character. But a bit of an uncomfortable ending when Suzy's husband left and they all turned and looked at Suzy, like she'd brought on the stalking and domestic violence on herself. All too common of social attitudes back then - almost like stalking and domestic violence were justified in some cases. Pretty unpleasant today and indicative of how widespread domestic violence was in that generation.

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

I don't know, it would take me all my self control not to thump that unpleasant, selfish, lazy brat of a person.

[@bibakroll8999]

Sadly, it seems that a lot of people still have that attitude. The "What were you wearing?" crowd.

[@jubileebaby9787]

The guy at 18:04 later turned up as Sean Skinnner, Des Barnes Boss in the bookies.

[@louiseowusu246]

I've just watched the car scene loads of times!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@janwong9437]

Bernard Yeouns looked very unwell, bless him

[@alexanderjones9572]

So the whole picnic/lake thing was actually GAIL’s fault, for letting Fred take the car before it was ready!

[@josephbland3904]

Yep old ferret face screwed it up yet again..

[@lorraineydays57]

What the hell is with Deirdre telling poor Hilda she can't refund her for the tinned food she bought for Archie' funeral tea, because its perishable???

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

#VinceStClair #CaroleMonroe 1:48:02 The legendary Vince St Clair 😅 2:07:30 The lovely Carole Monroe ⚡ 2:10:26 Vince rumbled 2:28:41 A tempting bait 2:59:18 💥💥💥

[@carasmith549]

1:31:14 - last ever sight of Len Fairclough.

[@niadavies6418]

Just Loving these old 'Corrie' episodes...

[@EM-yk1dw]

These episodes must be Peter Adamson’s final scenes.

[@memoir4you]

How very ironic at 1:20 he talks about court and being on very dicey ground ...

[@paullynton-green6570]

Len was one of my favourite characters. Really good actor

[@ghostdemon7936]

I was glad to get to this episode after watching the Terry/Suzi one. Elsie came through for Suzi in the end. Shame it took for her to have see the result of Suzi's bruises after being attacked by Terry. Bet and Betty stuck in car and still insulting the idiot thrt is Fred was classic. The one liners are the best. Greet aftkng and script writing. Edit: I was on a roll with my opinion and omitted to day thank you for your time to uploaded these episodes of Corrie. The older ones are the best. Thanks for your hard work.

[@kathrynthomas6138]

When life felt real. I wish i had a time machine.

[@PeowPeowPeowLasers]

3:20:55 Mavis says "I don’t really know"!

[@acesigma06]

So May 11th is Len Fairclough final appearance,he’s just talked about until the end of the year,sad decline,but the snowball which saw the end of a lot of characters in a short space of time

[@alanberkeley7282]

Quite a non-descript way of going out for the character but he was arrested on 24th April 1983 and fired four months later and killed off in December.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Stan “ That’s the first time Archie’s been through that door in ten years.” Has he ever been there? Don’t remember ever seeing him...

[@stevenhighams4190]

Yes, in the early 70s.

[@jubileebaby9787]

Jack and Vera Duckworth, one of Coronation St best couples. They were like a real life husband and wife.

[@th8257]

It's interesting how they came to that role. As the actor who played Stan Ogden got more unwell in real life and couldn't handle all the scenes, Vera and Jack were slowly moved to replace Hilda and Stan as the comedy married couple.

[@bibakroll8999]

You're right about them being very realistic but I can't say I ever liked either of them.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

These episodes here were so good and so funny! Love glamorous Bette! She’s so funny! 😂🤣

[@carasmith549]

Was the Terry Goodwin actor taking some magical elixir of youth, because when he returned as Sean Skinner, over a decade later, he hadn't seemed to age a day.

[@MultiKs22]

he was the guy who ran the betting shop he was quite good looing and handsome just like he was here in 1983 episodes.

[@paulinecorreia5538]

Quite a shock Vera will get! AkA Carol Monroe!!

[@kelleybunny]

Rita was another one i didn't like most of the she was always mean.

[@philstrachan]

When Archie dies is about the ony time I've ever seen Stan show ANY love towards Hilda. He treated her so bad 😢

[@alexanderjones9572]

What Terry says he’ll do-get in his car and drive flat out at the first wall he comes to-is actually the way Don Brennan dies in the 90s.

[@theculturedthug6609]

Stan.. "Do you know if he left a Will" 😂

[@dominewimbury2039]

Vince and Carole 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

It truly is getting more and more difficult deciphering Albert and Stans lines. Quite a sad end to two essential ingredients. Aye well Ken play the white man and realise she left you that hatchet job so you could contact her for a ride. That weed of a Londoner didn't hit baw heed hard enough for she remained in coronation Street. "GENTS OUTFITTIN'!??" 😂

[@alanberkeley7282]

Yes by 1983 Albert is looking very frail and it hard to understand what he's saying. The actor's final appearance was in January 1984 and as his health deteriorated he never returned and died at the end of March. Same with Stan it is obvious his health is failing by now he can't walk hardly, he's overweight and his speech is hard to understand. Perhaps it might have been kinder to have killed the characters off the year before but the actors wanted to stay. The actor died late August 1984 and his final appearance was in early March but filmed January/February.

[@paulinecorreia5538]

I think 💭 I’m really going 2 enjoy 😉 this episode. It’s full of Enrique! I just love 💕 it!!

[@kuchikopi4631]

That cold hearted greedy woman, she could have at least passed over a double helping of fish and chips to Stan (feud or not), he's like a big hungry baby!

[@uszatku9417]

We love ‘em!

[@ritanolan9492]

Rita was a terrible greedy person who tried to be so cute. She was not cute to anyone but herself.

[@waynedumas5523]

This British Soap Opera is so funny and nice to watch.

[@yvetterock2728]

If tea was abolished the whole street would be carted off like Hilda’s brother!!

[@paullynton-green6570]

Eddie frying tonight. He's a card.lol.

[@Keepingitrespectfulmostly.]

When Betty, Bet and Fred walked back to the car, I thought it might be in the water but the writers took the scene to a whole new comedic level. Hilarious. 2:07:16 She, keeps reminding me slightly of Alma from yonder cafe. 2:08:33 Carol Monroe, almost beats to death, Vincent St Claire. 😂😂

[@alexanderjones9572]

Annie “ If I wasn’t feeling so tired, I’d come along myself” imagine if she HAD been there!

[@elterrifico9522]

🤣🤣🤣

[@bsaunders5271]

It would have been brilliant.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Hilda “Well, if seein’ ‘im cremated hasn’t convinced you, nowt will.” 😂😂

[@katy4779]

Is there a funnier sight than Fred giving Bet a piggy back out of the lake? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@TheSweetTubFactory]

It's Edna Birch!

[@bethshields4903]

Hate seeing hilda crying 😭

[@thebadtemperedbrit]

They really pushed the boat out, haha, with this somewhat special bank holiday episode, lots of action all together like this was still rare at this time, so the Suzie & Car storylines would've been quite a big event. I checked to see if both episodes were broadcast as a double special on Bank Holiday Monday, but they weren't, they were as usual Monday and then Wednesday, so when they're talking about it being Bank Holiday in episode 2, it is in fact Wednesday.

[@ka2146]

I can't stand Fred Gee! I'm looking forward to him leaving! But other than him, it's great seeing these older episodes, thank you for posting them:)

[@alexanderjones9572]

3.05.50 Obviously that was supposed to be Len on the phone, but I think by then he’d made his last actual appearance.

[@simplywonderful1]

If only Tracy remained that adorable as a person 😂🤭

[@leeorr9071]

Ken ur wife loves Mike

[@bsaunders5271]

😂😂

[@scratchy1704]

Can you imagine being married to a Stan????😮

[@alexanderjones9572]

Vince St. Clare 😂😂😂

[@alexanderjones9572]

Imagine if Elsie and Vera had still been there when Terry reappeared. Vera’d have her handbag flying-this time NOT at Jack.

[@nicholasgargano7396]

1:48:00 Vincent st claire

[@TraceyMella]

I don't like to see Hilda cry, makes me upset.

[@adamholden1491]

Even though 1983 was 6 yrs before I was born never laughed so much with the car in lake and Bet getting dumped in cow dung it killed me so much. Also tune playing at 51:00 We are Detective by Thomson Twins

[@th8257]

There are always characters like that, no matter which era you're from. Certain types of comedy are eternal.

[@ria1636]

Bet and Vincent St Clare. 😆🤣

[@normasouthwood3182]

I remember the Carol Monro incident almost word for word, but have no recollection of the Crabtree fish n chip fiasco! Poor Hilda, I have to find the next video A.S.A.P. to see if she gets it. (Something tells me that she doesn't.)😐

[@alexanderjones9572]

Only Fred could use a death (Archie) as an opportunity to chat Susie up!

[@josephbland3904]

Yep Fred Gee was as discreet as an air raid siren & as sensitive as a wire brush polishing an antique coffee table..

[@normasouthwood3182]

I'd love to see the episodes when Sally Webster had an affair with a slimey car salesman. His name escapes me, and I don't remember the year. Thanx for all the uploads.

[@queendeirdre7436]

The lady at the video place was in Keeping up Appearances for a while as Rose.

[@user-sh8gm4dl4v]

Second post ?? ye gods we're lucky to get a daily post round here !! I do remember the 'second post' those were the days ! x

[@user-ns4wt9zf6x]

I think suzie husband terry was Sean skinner who bought the bookies years on and worked with des barnes

[@pamelahughes341]

25.39 = Bet says "I suppose it could be worse...could be in Florida..." Ha, Ha, Ha! Those of us whose live in the Southern part of the USA know Florida very well. It is well known for much stranger things than the tight spot the employees of Mrs. Walker find themselves in. East Tennessee Loves the early shows of C.Street!

[@alexanderjones9572]

2.31.50 Fast forward-Hilda could be talking about Stan, following his death!

[@chuckynickolodean8420]

When Fred takes Betty and Bet out in his rover, Bet gives Fred ideas and then makes excuses about the time, this is funny...

[@alexanderjones9572]

Did Jack say “Weatherfield cabs” before he said he’d ‘get’ Vince St Clare? What would an American entertainer be doing in a Manchester cab office? Clue? 😂😂

[@bibakroll8999]

Who was the American?

[@TheMeeja]

@@bibakroll8999 Vince had a mid Atlantic twang to his voice

[@insidestoryuk]

Did people really drink warm bottled beer 🤢

[@bsaunders5271]

That arrogant reporter, Pam Mitchell, is a dreadful character. I have to skip all her scenes.

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

With the poor quality I keep on thinking it's Alma. As much as she's a wanker, I think she was an essential character after Deirdre had her ideal of a perfect man, Ken needed his next.

[@jstewart3517]

Notice they find the most obnoxious kids

[@janwong9437]

Susie had the chance to get away when she had to pass the front door to go upstairs and then again on the way down 🤷‍♀️ like you would trust an abusive nutcase 🤷‍♀️

[@alexanderjones9572]

Any Star Trek fans-does Elsie remind anyone of the American actress Nana Visitor (Kira Nerys)?

[@th8257]

Not really. They similar-ish hair colour but that's about it.

[@tinaquinn9042]

1:20:31 Mike Baldwin just give his arm pit a sniff

[@donnabrunet9936]

😊

[@paulweston6049]

Frying Tonight...Hahahaha...Classic Corra.

[@allangilchrist5938]

Poor Frustrated Fred. A day out with "Lynch" and big Betty the "gooseberry".

[@alexanderjones9572]

Vera “Fancy Hilda ‘avin a brother. Mind you, she ‘an’t now, ‘as she.” Honestly, Vera!