Thank you again. I feel like a kid in a sweet shop, I'm spoilt for choice, I don't know where to start
@bevtilbrook16753 жыл бұрын
Love it, just like a sweet shop.
@glorysengo6289 Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU AGAIN. I FEEL LIKE A KID IN A SWEET SHOP, I’M SPOILT FOR CHOICE. I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START BROTHER GLORY SENGO.
@SueGarden Жыл бұрын
Blanche have comment I think it was the long time she left untill 1996 then 2000😮
@Lytton3332 жыл бұрын
I have to say, Bet Lynch is utterly magnificent. I could listen to her saucy stream of consciousness all day.
@michellefalleur960 Жыл бұрын
... She has such a brilliant delivery of her lines, no one quite like her.
@R31922 Жыл бұрын
Amen to that.
@geocasey6015 Жыл бұрын
Russell Brand of the 70s
@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын
@@geocasey6015 What a horrible insult to the great Julie Goodyear and the superb Corrie scriptwriters!
@geocasey6015 Жыл бұрын
@@glamdolly30 I meant the hair! Apologies to Julie!
@professionalgun66743 жыл бұрын
Get settled in for November 1978 and enjoy.
@pheezy19703 жыл бұрын
The joy you have given myself and others by uploading these ( again ,EY!) . Brings me back to a time when I was 8 and things were simple 💜🏴
@andywright34503 жыл бұрын
Hey you got any more episodes too put on please
@junesymonds83402 жыл бұрын
Thank you ☕🍰❤
@sherylbarker9465 Жыл бұрын
Thankyou so much
@keriannandrews7362 Жыл бұрын
Classic Coranation street was bloody brilliant, compared to the story line now 🎉and don’t everyone agree 🎉Annie Walker ,brought a little class to the show 🎉 RIP to all the people who have passed away from the show,that was ❤
@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын
Yes, sad that so many of the cast are no longer with us, but what a wonderful legacy of superb performances they left for us to enjoy.
@wretch1 Жыл бұрын
Jean Alexander always managed to steal every scene lol. Brilliant actress.
@DavidRenwick-t1e10 ай бұрын
Not when she was in a scene with Doris Speed she didn't!
@MarcoNegrisEye8 ай бұрын
@@DavidRenwick-t1e don't be daft, Annie Walker wasn't a patch on Hilda 😂
@chicagogyrl48466 ай бұрын
The Langdon’s are the only reason I watch this, and I skip over most everything else! The Langdon’s is the reason this show survived! Every one and everything else on this show is boring and stupid!
@MarcoNegrisEye6 ай бұрын
@@chicagogyrl4846 here, I think you forgot this... 🎣 😂
@allysonaustin Жыл бұрын
I was 10 years old when these episodes went out and I remember all the characters and their names. What is striking, watching as an adult, is the writing. Rita Fairclough - 'Principles are like a trapdoor, stand on them and you fall through'..... a comment made in a working class corner shop, such a gem on life. The scene where Blanche is trying to convince Dierdre to stay in her marriage was like an Alan Bennett scene, two women, sat at the kitchen table with two things between them - the ubiquitous 'gold' carriage clock, a sign of working class aspirational retirement and a ham butty on white bread without a plate, looking wilted and flat.... I almost passed over this as old TV soap rubbish - but honesly, this is just GOLD.
@prd1073Ай бұрын
I was two months past 10 years old too, and yes, it’s acting and script writing gold.
@notonyournelly5475 Жыл бұрын
2.20...Eddie says let's hope she doesn't live until she is 90.. That's exactly how old she was when she died!!
@PaulDoe798 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for these videos. My mother was British and she passed recently. Watching these episodes makes me feel closer to her as she loved this show.
@lindarowe85503 жыл бұрын
Professional gun 66 you're great
@michellefalleur960 Жыл бұрын
Yes, thank you so much, these are Brilliant to have a bit of a wallow in, and go back in time, to when I was happy !
@peterraimondi95693 жыл бұрын
PG66 is great for uploading all of these precious videos.....
@SuzyQ3342 жыл бұрын
Stan and Hilda were the best,
@Lucy0809 Жыл бұрын
No worst decision to kill off Martha for these idiots-the producers even admitted this
@damiencrowley2506 Жыл бұрын
Lucy Badman most viewers would disagree as Stan and Hilda were the most popular couple and Hilda won the award for best soap character of all time .
@acesigma063 жыл бұрын
Watching November 1978, In November 2021
@Nobodycares6682 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these. When you get engrossed its like youre back in 1978
@bsaunders52719 ай бұрын
Sometimes I wish I was.
@paullynton-green65703 ай бұрын
If only
@lawrencejhutchinson Жыл бұрын
Ray and Deirdre reunited on Anne Kirkbride's This Is Your Life - it was the highlight of the show!
@bsaunders52719 ай бұрын
It was great, but Anne Kirkbride later stated she was off her face on valium at the time, and couldn't feel any emotions, just numbness.
@paullynton-green65703 ай бұрын
Why was she on valium?was she ill?
@02bher1 Жыл бұрын
Tracy is the crabbiest baby I've ever seen. Love going back in time.
@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын
Poor little mite was always crying for her mum - you sometimes saw her reaching out to her, behind the camera!
@franceshaypenny848110 ай бұрын
She's in her mid-forties now! She was a beautiful baby.
@bsaunders52719 ай бұрын
I hate hearing her cry, it's the cry of a little child who can see her real mum just out of camera shot and is desperate to reach her. It's just plain awful. As a mother myself I can hardly stand it.
@debndavid Жыл бұрын
These are fantastic when coronation street was brilliant acting and good story lines
@theresapierce39343 жыл бұрын
Pat phoenix was a fair actress, but she rushed her lines and fluffed them a lot.
@gilliangrant87643 жыл бұрын
I agree! She was terrible for it. Makes you wonder just how bad she really was, if the ones left in after God knows how many takes are as bad as they are...
@shylinh59393 жыл бұрын
I know she fluffed her lines at times, but when they were delivered rapidly, I assumed it was reflecting the character's impulsivity, the inclination to speak and act without thinking.
@williamf45442 жыл бұрын
I think it makes her seem more natural and realistic to be honest few of us are always word perfect all the time in real life
@thertraumatic Жыл бұрын
Thats why we love her!
@Lucy0809 Жыл бұрын
Awful acting Winds me up 😡
@jstewart3517 Жыл бұрын
It never really works out when you break TRUST 💔
@clarkpatient7950 Жыл бұрын
Ena was so lovely to Deirdre after she broke up with Ray. I love that they mellowed her character
@anothercomment2 жыл бұрын
Ena had become a much nicer person compared to the woman she was in the first episode almost 18 years previously.
@franceshaypenny848110 ай бұрын
She mellowed, didn't she.
@paullynton-green65703 ай бұрын
@@franceshaypenny8481we all mellow with age
@blipblip88 Жыл бұрын
I started watching Coronation Street some time in the mid 80s and always was charmed by the host of characters, the mix of drama and humor. What strikes me is that, here I am, watching from a few years prior to where I started, and still find all that charm very accessable-even though I barely know the deeper plotline. Thank uou Prof -how on earth did you get all these old videos?! LOL. Well however you did-thank you so ever much!
@stevebbuk9557 Жыл бұрын
The last few years of Coronation Street at the top of its game.
@pamib292 жыл бұрын
Just realised that Carol Gordon the woman that Mike offered a job too is Louisa Rix (her parents are the late actors Brian Rix & Elspet Gray) she was in Harry Enfield & Chums,Kevin & Perry Go Large (Kevin’s Mum), Brookside ( Jordaches lawyer), Colin’s Sandwich with Mel Smith & loads of other films & programs! She’s actually only 23 years old in this! 😊
@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын
Wow great info, thanks - I knew I'd seen her before!
@SeanODonovan-hc1he Жыл бұрын
The great Joe Lynch ! A great singer as well as an actor
@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын
2:51:55 Alf Roberts looking to the left at the director for his cue to hand that extra her change!
@tonyhancock39127 ай бұрын
I blame the editor for that one 😁
@anothercomment29 күн бұрын
An Acorn Antiques moment!
@glamdolly3028 күн бұрын
@@anothercomment HA! Totally!
@nitad42033 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the Upload :-)
@angelapay37182 жыл бұрын
The way Dierdre binned Ray was beautiful NEVER take back a fella that fucks you over……… NEVER. Elsie does herself no favours does she?
@Lucy0809 Жыл бұрын
Elsie awful actress 🙀🤮
@susandoig4192 Жыл бұрын
Ray was just after another women any woman
@marieince1479 Жыл бұрын
Was different when dreary went off with Baldwin
@mikebaldwin6112 жыл бұрын
Don't undestand why Steve cares so much about Suzie given how badly she treats him
@shylinh59392 жыл бұрын
Because he's a total wet fart and doesn't know when someone isn't interested, she's not even nice to him, or he likes being treated like rubbish. He's always trying to ingratiate himself with her or trying to save her, even if it's at the expense of Mike, who gave him a job and pays his wages.
@jstewart35172 жыл бұрын
Men seems to enjoy it
@fionasteele3642 Жыл бұрын
Susie is extremely pretty ,but I don’t know why Steve Cares about her so very much , he just does .
@soniaclarkstewart Жыл бұрын
He hoping to get lucky.
@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын
I never thought the actress who played Suzie, Cheryl Murray, was right for the role. Suzie was supposed to be drop dead gorgeous/sexy, hence all the men going gaga over her. But she just wasn't! To be blunt, there were many prettier, more charismatic actresses around, with better figures. But more to the point, Suzie was written as a cheeky, 'naughty but nice', lovable rogue character. But Murray played Suzie as very dislikable! It was hard to warm to her. Sadly I think the actress just couldn't pull off what was required. And as often happens when an actor has settled into a role, the writers started responding to the way it's played. As a result, Suzie Birchall became a more one-dimensional, self-centred 'baddie' the longer she was in it - till finally she became so unredeemingly horrid, she had to be written out for good! Suzie betrayed her old pal Gail by trying to seduce hubby Brian, and after that Elsie finally had enough and showed her the door. Cheryl Murray cried when producer Bill Podmore called her to his office and told her he was axing Suzie. She pleaded with him to reconsider, as she'd just got a huge mortgage on a swanky house, on the strength of future earnings. But his mind was made up - and I think he was right. All Suzie had to recommend her was youth, without the charisma and sex appeal of Pat Phoenix (Elsie Tanner) she would not have aged well as a character.
@olgagarcia5710 Жыл бұрын
Mrs Sharples would be very saddened to see what the world looks like today😢😭
@DavidRenwick-t1e10 ай бұрын
So would Mrs Walker and Uncle Albert.
@MarcoNegrisEye8 ай бұрын
I'm saddened to see what the world looks like today and I wasn't even around back then 😂
@stuartcooper6312 жыл бұрын
But Hilda /Jean lived till 90, for a few days
@cise748 Жыл бұрын
I’m in Australia 🇦🇺 Always wanted to watch Corrie. Thank you, loving it ❤
@callahancateo84062 жыл бұрын
Thank you!! I love these soaps. Makes me want to be British. Really, it does. 🙂
@Lucy0809 Жыл бұрын
It’s not Britain anymore like this we were taken over 😢
@MarcoNegrisEye8 ай бұрын
@@Lucy0809 ain't that the truth. I never even got to experience this era which makes it worse watching how things were compared to this Orwellian 💩 hole now.
@zanducktv23983 жыл бұрын
We knew Hilda would apologise and Deirdre would accept her apology and they’d be friends again, because we wanted it to happen and also because that’s the kind of characters they were. Even Rita softened after being such a cow to her the day before. Alright, Hilda was tactless and incurred Deirdre’s wrath, but there was no need for Rita to be so scathing. If that was a scene between today’s characters, they wouldn’t be speaking for weeks.
@shylinh59393 жыл бұрын
Rita was regularly rude and snide towards Hilda and scathing about her to others, about the 'the Oggies' in general. She was always a cut above them - a bit of a discount Annie Walker, She ridiculed and bullied Mavis, her so-called best friend, she was arsey towards Deidre and often Bet too. And obviously, she was full of venom when Elsie was around. though why I don't know, she's the one who ended up with Len. On second thoughts, that's enough to make anyone toxic.
@nicolataylor60113 жыл бұрын
Rita's horrible..dont know who she thinks she is
@williamf45442 жыл бұрын
Todays characters would have murdered each other and hid the bodies
@anothercomment2 жыл бұрын
I agree, Rita should have kept out of what went on between Hilda and Deirdre, it was none of her business and not very professional for someone running a business. She must be one of the most unlikeable characters in these classic episodes of Corrie, acting all superior and the 'tough' woman. Thankfully, the character became less of a bully in her later years especially after Len dying and grew up somewhat.
@mattburke34572 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised more people don't have a go at Hilda, she's always in everyone else's business and takes too much pleasure in the misfortunes of others
@caroldanzer36219 ай бұрын
Fabulous - I love it all - thank you !!!
@Sarah-z1f6c20 күн бұрын
Tracy was such a cute little kid
@williamf45442 жыл бұрын
The days when you could just up sticks an bugger of to any part of the world you felt like to live - not quite so simple now is it
@clarkpatient7950 Жыл бұрын
Especially after Brexit.
@williamf4544 Жыл бұрын
Yes thats true - messed up a lot of young folks dreams thst has - In both directions -Its them i feel sorry for in regards to Brexit@@clarkpatient7950
@pauljefferson21076 ай бұрын
@clarkpatient7950 It doesn't present any obstacles whatsoever to migrants, illegal immigrants and bonus asylum seekers ... ☹️ all with the blessing of the Eurocrats of the EUSSR.
@pauljefferson21076 ай бұрын
@@clarkpatient7950 The EUSSR sees to it that migrants, illegal immigrants, and bogus asylum seekers have no problems in that respect ... especially when dumping them on 🇬🇧 Britain from France 🇨🇵 !
@bibakroll89995 ай бұрын
Oh I don’t know - I thought you could just jump into a rubber dinghy …
@SeanODonovan-hc1he Жыл бұрын
Deirdre first said it was between Canada and Australia, and then a few days later it was between Australia and New Zealand
@JulianOrchardfan Жыл бұрын
Then Holland and finally back to Weatherfield.
@GinaRussell-c2c2 ай бұрын
46 years since these episodes wow where as time gone, I think Hilda and Stan were good together both good on the show,Hilda always got straight to the point and Stan listened!
@katy47792 жыл бұрын
Never understood Steve's continued concern for Susie and Gail, when he clearly warned them, yet they chose to carry on taking the mick out of Mike Baldwin. Their attitude to their job would have seen them fired from most places.
@carasmith5492 жыл бұрын
Soppy Steve seems like a forerunner to soppy Ashley Peacock, who was to arrive nearly 20 years later.
@angelapay37182 жыл бұрын
Because like most blokes he was ruled by his tallywhacker.
@ZowieBBowieАй бұрын
hahaha
@melissakrauss91802 жыл бұрын
Deidre, Ray, and Blanche are perfect for each other. Blanche the control freak, Deidre, the coward wanting to run and hide, and Ray the selfish bastard. Perfect for each other!
@jstewart35172 жыл бұрын
1 big happy family
@marieince147911 ай бұрын
Bet she didn't think about adultery when she did it to ken Barlow she always got on my nerves .
@lewisgreen16333 жыл бұрын
Max Wall!! Absolutely brilliant
@joshirley23082 жыл бұрын
I thought I recognised him.
@derekhorne8076 Жыл бұрын
Yes! Before he moved to Kings Oak and ponced off Kath Brownlow!
@adrianmole7431 Жыл бұрын
Wally Soper didn’t like him in Crossroads either.
@5gx673 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for these, I love them.😊 Hope we get to see a lot more of that DC 😂
@connielincoln8681 Жыл бұрын
Oh wow they mentioned my homeland new Zealand so proud
@sherylbarker9465 Жыл бұрын
Coronation street mentions NZ quite often, always puts a smile on my face, my homeland to
@ironknobsteelworks40632 жыл бұрын
Interesting fact. Stan used to model Y fronts for empire stores catalogue.
@michellefalleur960 Жыл бұрын
Well ! ... Talk about ' learn something new every day ' !!
@soniaclarkstewart Жыл бұрын
So Stan was an underwear model! 😂😅
@gubbins1933 Жыл бұрын
Pics or it didn't happen. 📸
@Handlebar-MustDash Жыл бұрын
Suzie Birchall was stunning back then, gorgeous.
@ronnysimon302 жыл бұрын
I always fancied Betty Turpin. Right cracking bird.
@notonyournelly54752 жыл бұрын
yes, she was a hottie.
@ronnysimon302 жыл бұрын
@@notonyournelly5475 I still keep a pic of old Betty when I go drinking . The more I fancy her the less I want to drive home
@cliveeardley73554 ай бұрын
Max Wall is brilliant in his guest role as Harry Paine.
@roderickscott74293 жыл бұрын
jack duckworth ,on 1 hour , 24 minutes.
@mikebaldwin6112 жыл бұрын
Are we meant to feel sorry for Gail and Suzie? They were takinh liberties at work and stealing yet they seem to fell their entitled to Mike's unconditional forgiveness. Sure Mike was looking for any excuse to sack them but if anyone deserves it it's those two.
@ZowieBBowie27 күн бұрын
Don’t go Ray, stay. You’re missed to this day.
@malcolmroache7010 Жыл бұрын
I remember the original broadcasts of some of these episodes,
@susandoig4192 Жыл бұрын
Rays mate is like boycie in only fools and horses
@DavidRenwick-t1e10 ай бұрын
And as it happened Deidre did end up stuck on the Street forever.
@MarcoNegrisEye8 ай бұрын
She did get to Morocco for a short while though.
@gertchacowsongertcha Жыл бұрын
One thing I have noticed is that the women in corrie in 1978 were a helluva lot sexier and attractive then, and Deidre even in a pinny looked gorgeous
@adrinathegreat3095 Жыл бұрын
Steve is a decent loyal guy but utterly hopeless in business, he knows the shop is losing money, Gail and suzie keep leaving early, borrow gear from the shop, use the phone for endless personal calls, yet can't understand why mike wants to sack them and sell off a business that's losing money
@Sarah-z1f6c20 күн бұрын
So Ray left and he was replaced by ‘our Brian’ 😮
@StCloud-ns7vt Жыл бұрын
ugh this show is so gooooood
@chicagogyrl48466 ай бұрын
She said she was going to get her face on, but she didn’t even put on any lipstick! 🤣😂
@Peaceandlove135 ай бұрын
Ray and his screaming banshee,wife,mother-in-law and tracy, he didn't stick around to see adult banshee tracy,mother-in-law blanch didn't want ray for son inlaw until she heard money contract then she want sour dearie to stick with him.😂😂😂😂
@theresapierce39343 жыл бұрын
Poor Hilda, Rita needs a good slap, behaving as if shes something special.
@anothercomment2 жыл бұрын
Rita was highly obnoxious in these classic episodes, one of the most unlikeable characters.
@janethammond5925Ай бұрын
@@anothercomment And hard as nails, especially where money was concerned.
@paullynton-green65705 күн бұрын
Gold digger@@janethammond5925
@bsaunders52713 жыл бұрын
I'm conflicted, because it's good riddance to rotten Ray, but his departure leads us into a new phase, where we get to see Dierdre living life as a 'Single, looking to mingle'. And 'mingle' she does. Repeatedly.
@vashna37992 жыл бұрын
“Rotten Ray”? He was a terrific old school Jack the Lad. Stood up to Blanche when no one else did. Wasn’t a boring sod like Ken. Only had that affair because Deirdre was becoming a nagging middle aged fishwife.
@notonyournelly54752 жыл бұрын
@@vashna3799 I do agree.
@Lucy0809 Жыл бұрын
It’s unbelievable that he would allow Tracey to be adopted
@apollonia-ava Жыл бұрын
Blanche !!! Young !!! Wow .. was a great actress ❤
@bsaunders52719 ай бұрын
@@vashna3799oooohhh that's no excuse
@ddrose06 Жыл бұрын
Poor Hilda. She brings it all on herself.
@mrsteel902611 ай бұрын
Hilda's great. They don't make em like that anymore.
@mariemurray36382 жыл бұрын
Poor wee ‘Tracy’ does a lot of crying for her mummy, doesn’t she?
@cicerodiello1 Жыл бұрын
A nightmare from the day she was born.
@soniaclarkstewart Жыл бұрын
She also caused Deidre to cry a lot 😂😂.
@jenlfpotter387011 ай бұрын
She doesn't cry so much in this November 1978 Corry though... but she is one heck of an emmotional annoyance.
@marieince14799 ай бұрын
Tracy turned out rotten to the core
@peterraimondi9569 Жыл бұрын
2:51:56. At this point, you see Alf looking for his cue to begin the scene.
@DavidRenwick-t1e10 ай бұрын
Did anyone notice Bill Tarmey AKA Jack Duckworth..1:23:05
@vinnyvincent2862 Жыл бұрын
Imagine if they were still around today ( despite their age ) Stan would now be Hilda and Hilda would now be Stan ! 🤯
@KuchiKopi1793 жыл бұрын
Blanche looked like a very glamarous granny.
@glamdolly303 жыл бұрын
Blanche was a very attractive woman in middle age. She went so thin and wizened in old age, and became quite a different character. Very waspish and very funny - but it's hard to believe it's the same woman we see in these episodes!
@shylinh59393 жыл бұрын
@@glamdolly30 I didn't realise she was the same woman. She's very good in these and old Blanche was excellent, so sharp, critical and funny.
@glamdolly303 жыл бұрын
@@shylinh5939 I agree, Maggie Jones was a very talented actress, and always totally believable as Deidre's mum. They looked increasingly like mother and daughter as the years rolled by, didn't they - even down to the glasses! After graduating from RADA in the late 1950s, Maggie Jones played several leading West End theatre roles, among them in the all-female cast of 'The Women'. Her first ever TV role in 1961 was in Coronation Street - as a policewoman! I recognised her again in a fleeting Corrie role in black and white from 1967. She played Maggie Monks, a scruffy shoplifter who got chatting to a mortified Annie Walker in a police station waiting room. Maggie advised Annie to do what she did whenever she was arrested - pretend to police she had lost her memory! (Annie was there, rather improbably, for accidentally breaking a shop window, while researching football hooliganism for herself!) Maggie took over the role of Blanche Hunt in 1974, after the suicide of actress Patricia Cutts, who played the role for just two episodes. Maggie popped in for flying visits as Blanche from 1974 - 1998, becoming a permanent cast member from 2000 to her death in 2009. She breathed life and fire into the character Blanche Hunt, making her one of the Street's best ever battleaxes. Who could forget Blanche's love-hate relationship with son-in-law Ken Barlow? Blanche had so many hilarious scenes over the years, but for me, two in particular stand out - when she hijacked her grandson Peter's Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and turned it into family therapy, and her sudden, unshakeable conviction that Ken was gay! Maggie died aged 75 in December 2009, and her screen daughter Deirdre, alias Anne Kirkbride, died just over 5 years later in January 2015, aged 60. Two very special and much-missed women and actresses - and an utterly unforgettable screen mother and daughter.
@shylinh59393 жыл бұрын
@@glamdolly30 Thanks for taking the time to write all this information. It's an interesting rundown on Blanche and Maggie Jones' history in Coronation Street. She and Deidrie made a good mother and daughter combination. Blanche was domineering and intrusive, but Deidrie stood up for herself, which was essential to avoid repeatedly compromising her own life and freedoms, the way Mavis did with her manipulative aunt. Blanche didn't sugarcoat anything, always upfront and direct, unsentimental, indelicate and sometimes wounding. She was also endearing and very funny. I don't remember the episode where she hijacked Peter' AA meeting, but I'd like to see it. I do remember her conviction that Ken was gay -brilliant. I loved the way she cut straight through Ken's pomposity and sense of his own rightness in everything. After years of Ken's moral and intellectual grandstanding over his less well-equipped neighbours, it was so refreshing. Blanche was in the tradition of older no-nonsense strong, opinionated matriarchs but with her own twist, avoiding stereotype. Characters like this are an important addition to soaps and one that's absent from today's CS. Maybe Rita and Audrey come the closest but neither are really in that mould.
@glamdolly303 жыл бұрын
@@shylinh5939 It's a real pleasure chatting with another fan of vintage Corrie. I'm fascinated by the plotting and scripting of these old episodes, which are surely some of the finest TV drama the UK's ever produced. Crucially the action is always character-driven, which is what powers it and gives it truth and authenticity. It also boasted a superb cast list back then. I gave up on modern Corrie about 10 years ago. Today it's so far from the quality drama it once was, it shouldn't be allowed to carry the Coronation Street name at all IMO! As you identified, the Street's female characters were fantastic, providing the backbone of the soap from its launch in 1960. Strong women are what made it so gripping - reflecting creator Tony Warren's own family and his formative experiences of working class Lancashire life. They might not have been able to admit it, but the women ran the show - on and off screen! As a child, Tony Warren would hide under his mother's kitchen table and eavesdrop on the women, aunties, grandmas, cousins and family friends, gossiping over pots of tea. This no doubt, is where he got his superb ear for dialogue - especially female badinage - and probably a few juicy plots too! As I mentioned, I don't watch Corrie now, but I recently caught a TV report about Maureen Lipman's character. She was clearly intended to be a battleaxe in the Blanche Hunt style, but the clips of her I saw were just a load of badly overacted, poorly written, cliched insults. Not a patch on Blanche, or any of the legendary battleaxes of old - Hilda Ogden, Ena Sharples, Annie Walker, Vera Duckworth and Ivy Tilsley among them - who graced vintage Coronation Street. Hilarious how Ken was the Street intellectual, regarded on a level with Stephen Hawking just because he went to Uni! The number of professional careers he walked into with ease (some with questionable qualifications), was ridiculous. In the Seventies his council 'job description' appeared to be clutching a clipboard and loitering in the Rovers selling raffle tickets. Did he really need a degree for that?! He also had various stints as a teacher at primary and secondary schools, and a sudden, crunching gear-change to become a taxi driver. In the 'eighties he inexplicably morphed into Weatherfield's answer to Rupert Murdoch, as editor of a free sheet that employed only one reporter! But of course Ken was drunk with power and abused it to do a hatchet job on his nemesis Mike Baldwin's new Graffitti nightclub. The newspaper's owner wasn't having that (Mike was a big buyer of advertising), and put Ken firmly back in his box! Ken's pathological pomposity was constantly asking to be pricked, and a bloody huge, razor sharp 'pin' arrived in the shape of Blanche Hunt. I loved Blanche from her earliest appearances, giving her loutish son-in-law Ray Langton a tongue lashing for refusing to change Tracy-luv's nappies. It's a miracle Deirdre persuaded so many men to marry her (Ken twice), when she came as a package-deal with the mother-in-law from hell! If you've never seen Blanche's magnificent 'Alcoholics Anonymous' takeover of 2009, you are in for a treat. Here's the link - Enjoy! XXX kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5Cnhnhnn756ncU
@chicagogyrl48466 ай бұрын
“I’m not going.” 🤣😂
@algie-t2w3 ай бұрын
Mavis does well in feeding the old ones. I think one day she'll make a good "dinnerlady".
@TARZANBOYWRESTLER Жыл бұрын
Grenville from Nearest and Dearest at 3h 23
@lucywilliamsx10022 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad I wasn't an adult back them everyone looking at deirdre as if she's the one who's done wrong for not forgiving when it was ray who couldn't keep it in his pants makes me sick
@michaelgregory8322 Жыл бұрын
Ray wasn't that bad, Deirdre put him to shame later it the show with her affairs, good character,s all the same
@glamdolly30 Жыл бұрын
Agreed, it's shocking how even Deirdre's Mum Blanche who can't bloody stand Ray, is urging her to stick with him after he cheated on her! It shows how sadly dependent women were on men back then. I seem to recall even Rita made a pious little speech about what a fool Deirdre was for throwing out a perfectly good husband. Which was prescient, since she would soon split with her own grotty hubby Len, before taking him back because she couldn't stand supporting herself as a middle aged, single woman!
@paulblighe4173 Жыл бұрын
I love mavis looking back at those years, she has such a kind hearted lady
@jenlfpotter387011 ай бұрын
But her voice alone, totally turns me off her, sounds like her windpipe's being pulped every time she speaks, or she's having her feet pulped to make her screech every syllable like that. god!
@nicolataylor60113 жыл бұрын
Deirdre get to that Olland, or you've a life with Ken Barlow waiting for you
@kevinoldham84212 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@theresapierce39342 жыл бұрын
A fate worse than death. Ken the most boring, self centred, drone voiced, up himself man, whoever trod the cobbles.
@bibakroll89992 жыл бұрын
@@theresapierce3934 And I have a feeling he was the same in real life!
@ironknobsteelworks40632 жыл бұрын
If I were Ken i would be buying dreary the 4 eyed fishwife a one way ticket to Holland.
@michellefalleur960 Жыл бұрын
Ha !!! .. well said !
@williamf45443 ай бұрын
These is something in the British peoples mindset (myself included) that thinks every country would welcome us with open arms should we decide to move there when in fact the may well see us in the same way a lot of people here view people coming to the UK from abroad
@R3192211 ай бұрын
Brilliant Bet ❤
@chicagogyrl48466 ай бұрын
Why is the pub closed at 5:30??! 😂🤣
@Cackle778 күн бұрын
Old British licencing laws
@Kevin-1969 Жыл бұрын
I wish Suzie had stayed on
@brianmcneill1972 Жыл бұрын
Continuity mistakes again, in 1974 Eddie Yeats cooked Xmas Dinner for him, Albert Tatlock, Ena Sharples and Minnie Caldwell as he had been chef in Walton Nick!
@olgagarcia5710 Жыл бұрын
If I were Deidre I would not move. Hold your head high, who cares about the gossipers.
@SueGarden Жыл бұрын
The last time we see Ray was in 1978 he came back in 2005 poor Neville he see Ann 😇he died in 2020
@chicagogyrl48466 ай бұрын
This guy is lying right to his face, and stands there and says I’m not a liar! 😂🤣
@juleerowley97063 ай бұрын
Elsie cobstantly fluffed her lines
@kathystahl4690 Жыл бұрын
Deidria doesn't want to go 2nd thoughts
@bibakroll89995 ай бұрын
It’s a pit Dreary didn’t leave when Ray did.
@chicagogyrl48466 ай бұрын
He’ll be making a packet of money down there??! Doing what??! 😂🤣
@chicagogyrl48466 ай бұрын
They went through two bottles of champagne at lunch??! 😂🤣
@MsArrowroot13 күн бұрын
2:51:56 Alf waiting for his cue to give change.
@Handlebar-MustDash Жыл бұрын
Not many people realise that calling someone a Berk is cockney rhyming slang - 'Berkshire Hunt .... C*nt !'
@chicagogyrl48466 ай бұрын
I’ve never seen a bigger collar than on Elsie! 🤣😂
@chicagogyrl48466 ай бұрын
So just where does this Deidre work??! I’ve never seen her anywhere but at home, at that store, or the pub! Never heard any mention of one, either! 🤣😂
@alans.27353 ай бұрын
Ken swanning in and out whilst Mavis and Eddie do all the cooking is aggravating!!!
@Kiinell2 жыл бұрын
OLLAND?
@chicagogyrl48466 ай бұрын
If I had $1 for every time that I have heard “daft” on here! 🤣😂
@ZowieBBowieАй бұрын
A very sad episode seeing Ray leave , I know he wanted to be written out but looking back at this it’s almost as though he took the heart out of Coronation St when he left, a dark heart at that . These miss you nights are the longest .
@cicerodiello1 Жыл бұрын
Rita is compensation for Elsie Tanner.
@williamf4544 Жыл бұрын
Mavis deserved a medal - i cant be doing with old folk - no pleasing them
@kato26449 ай бұрын
Ken Barlow's a pain in the tonsils ! He always organises an event but expects everyone else to bail him out when things don't go to plan.
@liscatcat87568 ай бұрын
Never gets his hands dirty
@chicagogyrl48466 ай бұрын
The Rover has champagne all of the sudden??! 😂🤣
@Handlebar-MustDash Жыл бұрын
I wonder if Stan, Hilda and Eddie were really swingers but the story was too hot for 7.30 TV. Damn the watershed ......... 😂😂😂.