Coronation Street - November 1981

[@SuzyQ334]

Stan and Hilda were comedy gold - followed a few years later by Jack and Vera. The humour overall was legendary and IMHO is what made Corrie unmissable for so many years - and then, sadly, it all turned to sh** when the new breed of producers decided viewers needed to be "educated" instead of "entertained". I stumbled over these years of classic episodes when I was searching "British TV drama" on KZbin and am loving/bingeing every minute. Thanks ProfessionalGun66. Much appreciated.

[@ironknobsteelworks4063]

You hit the nail on the head. The modern corrie not only tries to educate it also indoctrinates.

[@actualbennett2245]

There was already quite a lot of Feminist dogma creeping in though bought by women and men, without question. The casual misandry and generalisations of some of the women characters was crass. Think you know Feminism? Do check out Janice Fiamengo and Karen Straughan, who have the story from its beginnings.

[@helengraham5934]

I couldn’t agree more! Todays media feels obligated to educate… or re-educate us all! Old Corrie was great 👍

[@garethsmyth6593]

I was only about one year old whenever this was originally aired. I never watch Coronation Street much these days. I prefer the classic Coronation Street because there used to be so much fun and humour back in the day. I can’t help listening to some of these over and over again. Thank you for posting.

[@michaelhammett9016]

How elsie looks so glam all the time bless her

[@johnusher7628]

She has always been my favourite

[@user-dq6kr2gd1y]

Elsie was England's Sophia Loren ...

[@jennydickson4424]

Such a shame Corrie went so far downhill in the 90s. These characters were so good, you almost felt that they were family. 27 million watched Hilda unwrap Stan's glasses after he died. How many actresses can boast the same in a soap

[@elterrifico9522]

These old episodes are fantastic.

[@stormhawk3319]

I’m beginning to wonder where the idea of Del Boy came from when you see Mike Baldwin giving it the smooth charm on the market stall.

[@dementednun1175]

His father was more del boy

[@cliveevans9795]

Bert is a natural hes lovely

[@diggythree]

How wonderful it is to have found this! My uncle had a small part in a number of these episodes around the end of 1981 and early 1982. Living in Canada I didn't have the opportunity to see the show, and now I can. Thank you!

[@R31922]

Bets brilliant one liners ❤

[@judithrichards792]

Stop mitherin’! Fantastic word. I use it often (from East Midlands)…. I gave my daughter a jumper today because the polo neck was mitherin’ me!🤣🤣🤣

[@alexanderjones9572]

Alf doesn’t seem very bothered about Audrey having had the shop open less and getting less takings!

[@RiaLake]

Irresponsible of Alf to say the least, letting ditsy/flaky Audrey run (ruin) the business. Renee would be turning in her grave!

[@bibakroll8999]

He's thinking with the other head ...

[@TheGlassman63]

Two or three years later, the actress (Vikki Chambers) who played the robbers attractive girlfriend, went on to play Ken Barlow's `love interest` secretary Sally Waterman. Funny how so very often actors got bit parts before landing larger roles in the show.

[@H3len50]

Fred is a thoroughly unpleasant character, he gives me the heave ;-).

[@bsaunders5271]

Agreed. No lips, either.

[@2500mike]

Same

[@francesgillotti1378]

he thinks he is Gods gift to some and his huge round face but he was a great acter.

[@jaynehinds3339]

@@bsaunders5271 😂

[@Velasca]

He used to burp and fart all over the place apparently. I couldn't have stood that 🤣

[@williamf4544]

Imagine an American version of Corrie back in the day Derdrie - Lauren Bacall Ken - Cary Grant Elsie - Joan Crawford Rita - Bette Davis Bette - Mae West Mike - Frank Sinatra Audrey - Gloria Graham Hilda - Thelma Ritter Gale - Mia Farrow Emily - Olivia De Havalind Mavis - Butterfly McQueen Stan - Clarke Gable

[@susi-emily]

That would be perfect, although as I'm imagining a 1930s pre-code version of Corrie, I'd drop Mia Farrow as Gail and bring in Joan Blondell. I'd swap Mike from Sinatra to Humphrey Bogart, and Audrey from Gloria Graham to Tallulah Bankhead. Alf would be Spencer Tracy. I wonder who my favourite, William Powell, could play? Gloria Graham would make an excellent Audrey for the 1940s Film Noir version of Corrie, with Robert Mitchum as Mike Baldwin.

[@rthompson7282]

No, Elsie would be Sophia Loren!

[@MrIrrepressible]

Loving these classic episodes. Thanks for uploading. Its like seeing old friends when seeing these classic characters. Loving Vera, Ivy and Audrey. Thanks again.

[@MissMarie1377]

Does anyone else remember R Brian’s boss saying his job at the petrol place was to help ladies who couldn’t figure out how to use the self serve pumps. I know I heard him say that specifically now they are rewriting history.

[@muk8804]

🤣love it that to this day, after all these years, everyone still calls R Brian "R Brian". Poison Ivy was like a broken record !!

[@susi-emily]

@@muk8804 It's even better when they call him "Our Brian" to his face.

[@kelleybunny]

Deirdre forgets how many times she left Alf with Tracy .

[@paullynton-green6570]

Yeah and anyone else she could dump her on.

[@robclark4507]

Do u know its not real

[@kelleybunny]

@@robclark4507 no ..really 😒

[@fluxington]

@@robclark4507 Do you have a brain injury?

[@michaelhammett9016]

I wish elsie would find somebody to love

[@bsaunders5271]

Her nature wouldn't allow her to be happy in a relationship, it isn't in her make up, she is only attracted to bad 'uns, and would be bored by someone who would treat her properly.

[@williamf4544]

@@bsaunders5271 Im the same

[@mattburke3457]

And someone to love her back properly

[@londonlady1966]

She does, eventually.

[@professionalgun6674]

Poor Deirdre quits Alf's shop coz she'd being used as a dish rag and is run of her feet. Yes it was a terrible strain for her lifting a tin of beans every hour, weighing up cheese and bacon and all those other hardships endured by the shopkeeper. This is the same bollocks Rita and Mavis go on about when they say theirs a rush on, OR, the oldest one of all about being stuck at home, ALL DAY washing pots and pans, nappys and looking after the baby.

[@davidspencer2419]

lo,hit the nail on the head there mate.

[@kuchikopi4616]

Mavis and Deirdre even had free lodging with their job for a while, was that a common thing I wonder.

[@professionalgun6674]

@@kuchikopi4616 I worked in a corner shop in the early to mid 80s and the flat above went with it, but as far as it being a regular thing I don't know.

[@shylinh5939]

Lol, yes, but don't forget all those corned beef barms she has to make or the effort of denying the Ogdens' 'tick'. Not to mention getting Emily's order ready, it'll at least involve putting a loaf of bread, tea, sugar, eggs and tins of salmon and sliced peaches in a box. no wonder she's exhausted!

[@acesigma06]

Eeeh it’s like aar Brian is back from the grave and writing on the comments section on KZbin , Or is he channeling ProfessionalGun66 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for the posts though, made an old man very happy ❤️

[@rogerforrester2904]

Alf bought a brand new car. However, it was not brand new, it was second hand, look at the reg, it was a S reg, when they filmed the m.g, it was when X reg was new! Good one.

[@jstewart3517]

Ivy was born upset

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Len can’t even remodel his own house but he’s building an entire one! 🤣😂

[@irenemorley75]

Len didn't pay for the cheese and Audrey didn't pay for the tights🙄I think I will do my shopping there🤭🤣

[@cise748]

Cheese wasn’t even wrapped lol

[@londonlady1966]

Getting a home phone would really help the Tilsleys. A better investment for them.

[@DaveyC95]

They've got a phone!

[@alexanderjones9572]

This is when Eddie ages about 40 years prematurely-playing crib with Uncle Albert.

[@H3len50]

Brian is a right wooden top. I have had chest of drawers that can act better than him.

[@roderickscott7429]

anymore wooden and he would have a bucket of creosote tipped over him !!

[@bibakroll8999]

The actual Woodentops were better than him!

[@williamf4544]

I thought he was quite good really to be honest

[@lyn4108]

He was a professional dancer, not actor, they hired him for his bodywork 😮

[@user-dq6kr2gd1y]

The Brian actor was a dancer in musical theatre ... he's a right milksop.

[@madwatermelon1316]

In the 80s, Thatcher dressed and had the same hairstyle as Elsie.

[@LFnDC]

I wouldn't think that Alf could fit comfortably in that car...

[@carlacusanelli8206]

love Coronation Street!!!!

[@dianaosullivann5075]

Ahh do love hilda

[@2500mike]

Fred, I get on with anybody That's a laugh Audrey destroys everything she touches. I wouldn't come within a mile of her. Watching that prat stick his finger in Faircloughs face like that. Not sure that would have stood in real life.

[@mattburke3457]

Deidre"I gave the best years of my life to Alf Roberts and he's not getting anymore" HUH ?? She didn't even work there a full year did she?

[@BlueyKind]

It was a joke - exaggeration for effect.

[@nandsall9492]

50.50 Annie said it was 42 years since she and Jack arrived at the Rovers. And yet an episode in 1977 marked the fortieth anniversary of their tenancy.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Audrey “Are you accusing me of leading him (Alf) on, Mrs Walker?” That’s pretty much what you’ve just told her you ARE doing, Audrey!

[@josephbland3904]

Tawdry Audrey was a no good piece of gold digging trash…

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I can’t believe that Audrey was only 38 years old here!

[@lawrencejhutchinson]

Yeah Elsie looked great and she was 60 then! 2 years later and she was dead!

[@dominewimbury2039]

Just under five years later she died and she was probably 58 in real life here. She died in September 1986 aged 62

[@jstewart3517]

Why do men brag they do all but can not wash a dish/ vacuum/ iron a shirt 🤔

[@williamf4544]

Why on earth would they do stuff like that ?

[@chrissywales6575]

Mine can do all that. He had to when he was in the army.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

“Our Brian” Like a baby. 😂🤣

[@maryseragusa9072]

How did Len manage to build his house in such a small space?

[@gailwilkinson8848]

It was built on where a house use to be.

[@williamf4544]

Harry Hewits house - i remember the night it fell down - all the rest of the houses are the same breadth - they look broader when theyre built

[@acesigma06]

1:29:12 Bertha Holmes being drunken disorderly at 66 is the greatest part of this episode 🤣🤣🤣

[@bsaunders5271]

It's a classic moment 🤣🤣

[@susi-emily]

And. It's Drunk "and" Disorderly.

[@TrevorThompson-nf9dp]

I love these old episodes Alf Roberts/ Bryan Mosley was a brilliant actor

[@nicolataylor6011]

Lazy though he is I just love Stan Ogden

[@wesleypresley1000]

It's hard not to.I think it's because,deep down,we all know of someone like him.

[@michaelhammett9016]

Me too Stan is loveable

[@dr.andrewmulenga3455]

He reminds me of Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances played by his Geoffrey Hughes who is Eddie

[@jaclynholland-strauss7054]

And he means no harm unlike others.

[@francesgillotti1378]

@@wesleypresley1000 he’s a lazy good for nothing just uses poor Hilda . I cannot stand him 😫

[@dirkdeboer7061]

Golddigger Audry, words fail me.

[@alexanderjones9572]

With her shorter hair, Rita looks a bit like Elspet Gray ( the queen in the first Blackadder series).

[@jaynehinds3339]

Can’t stand Fred’s stepdaughter

[@louiseowusu246]

Ivy manages to centre herself in everything. However Eddie's hair is 10 years ahead of its time... #Madchester #Ravestylee

[@williamf4544]

Are you talking about the hair on his head ?

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Audrey said they shouldn’t close the shop because someone might come in for their dinner. That never stopped her before, if she was fixing someone’s hair, or went to drink!!

[@lorraineydays57]

Audrey was such a freeloader, thought the world owed her a living back then.

[@DaveyC95]

She was always on her back back then...Usually with a married man!...

[@excelents]

1:13:32 Goes on to play Sally Waterman employed at the Weatherfield Recorder with Ken in 1983.

[@wesleypresley1000]

haha Yeah. Stilll better storylines than now though.What the F is going on in that factory now?No workers and when they are in they aren't running up any garments.Just sitting there with a pair of knickers in their hands. Nearly as bad as the car lot in Eastenders.Two cavaliers each side of the portakabin door for 20 years supporting 3 families for a living.FKIN unbelievable lol

[@elinebrock5660]

For the love of God oil the sewing machines! They sound like bloody chainsaws!

[@soniaclarkstewart]

My mother was a seamstress and she worked out of the house so I grew up hearing one but I never heard any of hers sounding like those. They sound like lawn mowers to me.

[@fluxington]

Any possibility they're not actually sewing but just passing material through a machine and playing a sound effect?

[@cliveevans9795]

Can you imagine Annie walker and the battersbys

[@TheGlassman63]

Alf says "Its nearly two years since Renee died". Well No Alf, its nearly 16 months since she died !

[@gearoid9835]

11:50 That man is forty years before his time.

[@lindarowe8550]

That Councillor crotchless is a right creep.

[@josephbland3904]

Yep a smarmy greasy slippery snake…

[@eph2817]

Fred is really gross.

[@fluxington]

Fat?

[@alexanderjones9572]

Surely if the other guy’s done a runner, that can only work in Brian’s favour even if he is caught and the trial does go ahead!

[@clarea1801]

"There will always be markets" obviously the writers couldn't see into the future.

[@fluxington]

There's a market in my town every week.

[@randnsmom]

Mrs. Walker snorts sometimes when she laughs. How cute. 51:28.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Mike’s patter needs some work! “Ere, ladies-‘ow about doin’ yetselves a favour and giving yer’ husbands a heart attack!” Strange favour!

[@R31922]

Flaming is the corrie swear word of choice.

[@williamf4544]

Imagine Ivys face if she had walked in when Elsie had the kid in the pub

[@benstevens6982]

i could not quite catch what the kids said to alf about got any doughnuts left over , but i pissed meself laughing

[@alexanderjones9572]

Fred doesn’t mince words! I understand how annoying Debbie is-but she’s Eunice’s daughter and he threatens her with the back of his hand!

[@bsaunders5271]

Fred has a dreadful temper. He is my least favourite character of all time!

[@eamonnquigley2125]

debbie the buxsom blonde she should of have had more lines she was only in the show a wet minute ...

[@alexanderjones9572]

Mavis “Have you had any luck, Mr Tilsley?” Bert “ What-with Eunice’s daughter y’ mean?” Now you know Mavis didn’t mean that, Bert! 😂😂

[@user-hc8sn1vs2k]

So this episode getting number 7 rebuild since 1965 wow 😳 SU garden

[@user-hc8sn1vs2k]

Thanks no location I see hmm in December 1981 SU garden

[@allangilchrist5938]

Albert to Audrey: "I suppose I'd rather look at you than the back of a bus". The old romantic fool.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Did anyone else watch Goodnight, Mr Tom? Slight similarities with John and Len & Rita. Could it really be the same reason John prefers it at theirs than with his mum and this ‘Uncle Bill’?

[@olgagarcia5710]

I think Mrs walker fancies Alf & jealous because she’s too old for him.

[@cise748]

How can Len think that he can build a house in that small hole? 🤣

[@paulinecorreia5538]

Really funny 😂how Vera lied about not being able 2 have that job after all. 😮Jack didn’t know anything about it. 😅Looks like she conned the mug 🍵. 😮 😮😮😮

[@ingridogilvie3664]

I wonder if Audrey was declaring her earnings, hairdressing.

[@bernadetteaspinall6710]

Brilliant script… Annie about Hilda and gossip… it isn’t every stream that’s tainted by its source …Bet giving her just enough to want more …superbly played

[@queendeirdre7436]

Definitely think that Eddie and Mavis could have made a great couple. Eddie would have brought out the best in Mavis😊

[@mathewdunne5771]

at 44 minutes Bert is in two scenes! He's talking to Ivy in the corner and then answers Mavis at the darts match!

[@cise748]

Yessss lol

[@fluxington]

Bert is at the bar, involved in the darts game with Mavis. Ivy walks in, he talks to her at the corner of the bar along from the darts game, and when Mavis asks, he comments on the score, and then continues talking to Ivy.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

If Bert would have took that job they could have bought that lot! I’m so tired of him always brooding that he’s unemployed when he had a job offered to him and turned it down!!

[@saxongreen78]

Film stock (picture) seems a bit ropey in these compared to the 1970s stuff...maybe old Lew Grade was screwing down on the Shekels.

[@acesigma06]

15:23 and fast forward 34 years later, his good looking son takes over

[@allangilchrist5938]

If Ivy's workplace was any nearer it would be inside her house.

[@bsaunders5271]

1:56:49 has Elsie borrowed Eric Morecombe's glasses?

[@saxongreen78]

He left 'em on the bedside table when he popped by in 1972. 😁

[@bsaunders5271]

​@@saxongreen78😅

[@nicolataylor6011]

Brian Tyldesley was a bonny looking man no denying that

[@bsaunders5271]

His acting was a bit wooden though

[@H3len50]

@@bsaunders5271, like a sideboard ;-).

[@H3len50]

Too short for me but not bad looking. How him and chinless whiney wonder ended up together I will never know ;-).

[@bsaunders5271]

@@H3len50 yes it's a weird pairing, I think she was punching above her weight. He had good muscles, did Bri.

[@williamf4544]

He would have been a huge hit in the Aussie soaps - with his little speedos and big surf board

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Fred said he’s not moving out. No surprise.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I would have took the new job if I were Vera! She’s only working 3 days a week at Baldwin’s!

[@bsaunders5271]

Hang on.... Bert hasn't said d'you know what I mean for a while now... did Peter Dudley get told to stop it...?

[@margolenney6032]

What’s a BABBY Ivy.

[@joe-vl3nd]

Fread and Eunice a match made in Heaven.. 😆 lol

[@ivandickson6063]

Yeah,God made them and the Devil matched them lol....tbh it would be a shame to spoil two houses with them 😂😂

[@connielincoln8681]

Yea idiots

[@connielincoln8681]

And Debbie useless

[@fluxington]

Fread rhymes with bread.

[@williamf4544]

Omg imagine if Ourbrian had went to prison - Good looks , lovely hair , fit body , I dred to think what might have happened to him

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Al barely fits in that tiny car! 😂🤣

[@ghostdemon7936]

No wonder the lad (can't remember his name) ran away. Step dad and mum were too busy thinking about themselves. No intelligence to sp3ak to the kid amd listen tonwhy he ran away make things better. The ignorance of parents is off the scale. They need to loom to themselves before pointing the finger. That Billy was a right nob head. Typical old fashioned bloke, laykng the law down and not usinf g his brain to work out a solution.

[@ara8253]

Audrey, what a mouth. When you think Corrie has enough of them already she turns up.

[@kryzondaan1855]

Ivy has me in stitches with the way she snaps at people. Although, I remember with Don in the late 90s / early 90s, it wasn't that funny

[@lordwalker71]

She’s horrendous

[@chicagogyrl4846]

How can you run a store when it’s open one minute closed the next??! 🤣😂

[@chicagogyrl4846]

If Alf had more money Audrey would have married him! 😂🤣

[@williamf4544]

Audrey got better looking as she aged and is still a fine looking woman for 92

[@pamib29]

Sue Nichols (Audrey) was born 23rd of November 1943 so she’s 79 this year! Her late husband Mark Eden (Wally Randle/Alan Bradley)died in 2021 aged 92 ♥️

[@ironknobsteelworks4063]

You got to be kidding me.

[@fluxington]

She was more attractive when playing the secretary at Sunshine Desserts in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

[@stephanblack4558]

Len likes to the swimming pool.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Why does Len want to destroy that nice bench??! If I were Rita I would keep it! You could easily put it in the yard!!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Fred complains he’s skint and jobless, but he’s forever drinking in the Rover’s! Never see him looking for a job! And when Mavis offered , he turned her down! But then why would Mavis ask him to paint when the man she is seeing is a painter??!! 😂🤣

[@montrayjones1947]

Pierre Trudeau, huh?

[@DaveyC95]

Justin Trudeau's, (the current Canadian Prime Minister's) late father...

[@bernadetteaspinall6710]

Where did Deirdre get a plunging apron….😂.

[@BernadetteSwemmer-jz7yl]

Fred's hair is terrible...😮