Coronation Street - November 1987

[@philstrachan]

On-screen, Hilda departed for Hartington, Derbyshire, to make a new life for herself as the housekeeper for Doctor Lowther. 27 million viewers watched. It remains the highest-rated episode in Coronation Street's history. It has been described as the most moving scene in Coronation Street that did not involve a death.

[@philstrachan]

❤🍻👏🇦🇺

[@christinefougere]

Eddie!!! One of my all time favourites. Eddie and Hilda together again. I absolutely loved Eddie.

[@greggildersleeve3484]

I knew Geoffrey Hughes primarily as Onslow in Keeping Up Apperances. It's so good to see him as Eddie. He and Jean Alexander had a certain chemistry.

[@philstrachan]

Indeed they did. Corroe producers made a huge mistake not raising his ay and exiting him.

[@katy4779]

Awww Eddie should never have left Corrie, one of the best characters ever. Geoffrey Hughes portrayal of a lovable rogue was top class.

[@TOTRAVEL-f3c]

Geoffrey Hughes was a top class actor.

[@dr.andrewmulenga3455]

​@@TOTRAVEL-f3c​I also loved him as Onslo

[@trudyandrew6088]

Died a few years ago now

[@annieheyward502]

​@@trudyandrew6088 aà

[@elterrifico9522]

A comic legend

[@kellyscourfield77]

Awe Eddie and Hilda back together again ❤my two most favourite soap characters

[@EveHenleySpread]

As others have remarked, it’s brilliant to see Eddie back for a couple of episodes this month. Apparently he was keen to act with Jean Alexander one last time as he knew was leaving. What a fantastic actor Geoffrey Hughes was.. he brought so much to role of Eddie Yeats.. and putting him with Stan & Hilda as their lodger was a stroke of genius!

[@philstrachan]

❤

[@ont.cobbles]

Ohhh Eddie!!!!! I never expected to see him! Him and Hilda having a little laugh together made my day. I just love him.

[@theresapierce3934]

I felt like crying seeing Eddie again. Hilda, Stan and Eddie were a great act and Corrie was never the same after all three were gone.

[@bsaunders5271]

Absolutely

[@bigregful]

totally agree

[@R31922]

Agree.had a little weep.

[@philstrachan]

100% right ❤

[@elsiedaly6624]

Loved Eddie Yates ❤ He had the same chuckle as Hilda

[@ivandickson6063]

must be a Liverpool chuckle they have lol

[@bazgent]

I can't stand him!

[@madwatermelon1316]

Thank goodness Susan is on her way out of the show. Mike was silly for marrying her in the first place.

[@mosaicmuse9797]

She is the most boring flat personality. Don't know what he saw in her! But he genuinely cares about her.

[@Siasmummy]

I’m so glad it’s not just me, I never watched it much years ago due to raising a family and working, totally addicted now but blimey, she’s such a bad actress for one and what a spoiled nasty little girl she played, just so ungrateful, I think she’s afraid to smile in case her face cracked

[@77hwjeushs81]

Shame on story she had to portray killing a life instead if having the baby and getting a nanny then getting on with her career!!!

[@philstrachan]

Yeah but we couldn't tell him. But what she did to him ~ killing his child ~ was just afwful. 😡

[@liamoification]

Eddie and Hilda together are just the best!

[@philstrachan]

❤

[@MissMarie1377]

HOW is MIKE the villan in this situation?! I’m blown away and disgusted beyond belief

[@distantrambler]

Me too I would love a Mike Baldwin in my life

[@christinefougere]

Me too, I never understood that evil Mike was so awful to Susan. Of course Ken always made him the villain.

[@stormhawk3319]

Agreed. Mike was no villain, Susan was an insufferable character who wanted to marry him and Ken was the villain in this with his spiteful vengeful agenda against him.

[@shylinh5939]

@@stormhawk3319 Mike was a great character, but the writers made him a selfish and manipulative husband to Susan Barlow. She was insufferable, obviously, but he married a 21 year old woman and was talking about having kids immediately. He wasn't supportive of her working, he even sacked her! And when she did get pregnant, he drives her to the middle of nowhere and tells her that's going to be their new home, and what a wonderful life his children will have there, and how he'll need plenty of boys. She's a couple of months pregnant and it sounds like he's got another four or five pregnancies planned for her. Virtually any woman would walk away from that.

[@chrissywales6575]

​@@shylinh5939Maybe women of 2023 wouldn't like it. Women of 1987 would have loved to be loved and provided for by a man like Mike. Men were men and women were women.

[@ddrose06]

Poor old Jack. TWO fish wives, under the same roof!

[@philstrachan]

Ken "the compassionate " unless it's someone he doesn't like. MIKE LOST A CHILD!!!!! 😡

[@londonlady227]

What's going on with Ivy's hair? And I think they brought Vera's mum into be another Hilda as she starts cleaning the pub. Big mistake, you cannot replace a legend.

[@philstrachan]

100% 👍🍻

[@raidenwolfe6495]

I can't believe eddie just walked in...i had to go have a right good cry! how the hell do we get so into these shows or is just me? never been so happy to see someone in forever lol damn i missed him and stan..the three of them together ❤thats coronation street at its best!

[@philstrachan]

Familiarity breeds love. ❤

[@shivkptheorganist3809]

Derek is such a horrible man! Made a right monkey out of Mavis many a time! Wish Jerry never died, he was the best man Mavis ever had

[@philstrachan]

I think the same but interesting Thelma quit because of them writing him out. You can tell the actors that had secure mortgages.....

[@francesgillotti1378]

Seeing Vera’s mother it’s no wonder she is a maniac !

[@williamf4544]

Fanny Crabbie - she was in a lot of British films

[@philstrachan]

She doesn't look anywhere near the agr she SHOULD be. 🙄

[@elterrifico9522]

Percy knows how to throw a grenade and run. 🤣

[@mral8145]

Vera’s mum could eat an apple through a letterbox! 😂

[@theresapierce3934]

I only realised recently that the picture in Jack and Veras, of the Spanish dancer, is the same picture that hung in the Krays front room. 😊

[@philstrachan]

It was a chrap print ~ 60s-70s. You see them for $2 in Op shops in Australia 🇦🇺🍻

[@Deborah4Antiques]

Eddie left Corrie I read that he didn't think Eddie would have got married and he felt it wasn't true to the character. He was a big plus for Corrie!!!

[@theculturedthug6609]

Eddie Yates was the best ever character in Corrie in my opinion. They should have offered him as much as he wanted to stay!

[@Deborah4Antiques]

@@theculturedthug6609 I agree!

[@philstrachan]

It dropped a notch the day he left ~ for whatever reasons... 😳

[@louiseowusu246]

Vera's mum could pass for Ken Dodd's sister

[@HelloImNik]

Ken now saying this is susan's home but before he was saying she needed to deal with her life and Mike lol

[@bsaunders5271]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, with Stan dead, Hilda belongs with Eddie! That character deserved to be put out to pasture with the people she looked at as family, not with Dr. Lowther. I don't get why the scriptwriters chose that end for her, I really don't. For Hilda to leave her home, surely she would only realistically have done so for a really special reason, ie being welcomed into the Yates house as an honorary grandma for Dawn.

[@eatmywords]

because coronation street was wholly deterministic, and never idealistic.

[@gilliangrant8764]

I agree, or another nice ending for Hilda would have been for her to have ended up marrying Tom Hopwood and going to live in his bungalow with him. It would have made more sense than Dr. Lowther proposing, just wouldn't have happened in real life

[@77hwjeushs81]

Well said mike

[@hollandwawasan1221]

I wouldnt mind a rich husband who bought a lovely house in the country, theyd also have at least a maid/cook and babysitters or a fulltime nanny.... he could afford it... and id ask for a jaguar of my own too 😊 Plus Mike is a softie at heart

[@philstrachan]

I would have turned gay for Mike 😮

[@philstrachan]

Am sooo angry - give Mike a break ~ he's human and he's grieving! 😢

[@philstrachan]

Mike has every right to be angry with her! She went about the whole thing wrong.

[@MissMarie1377]

Susan has issues. She is acting like having a baby is a death sentence She is so selfish and childish, she shouldn’t have gotten married. She should have gotten herself a cat and lots of boxed wine so she could enjoy her empowerment alone

[@alexanderjones9572]

When Dr Lowther said about a young man who used to lodge with Hilda ( meaning Kevin) I thought he was referring to Eddie.

[@Amusementnational]

When hilda got attacked I felt so bad for her. 😔

[@pandacutlets83]

Sarah Lancashire as Wendy who later played Raquel.. :)

[@spartybrearly7221]

Wendy Farmer changed her name to Raquel Wolstenhulme, quit as a nurse and got a job in Bettabuys.

[@bsaunders5271]

The noises Mavis makes when she is dithering and wittering drive me totally nuts. I can't believe she was never afforded a dry slap during one of her panicking episodes.

[@professionalgun6674]

Haha you are so right...on the other hand you have to give her her dues as an actress, I mean she must be one of the few, when after the director said "cut" who stopped acting while many others hardly would have altered. I think to make it through one of the many Mavis fluttering fits of nervous convulsions is to remind one's self she is acting, which is hard to do while shouting at her from the settee.

[@bsaunders5271]

@@professionalgun6674 🤣 we're in agreement!

[@eatmywords]

i think she's perhaps the best actress on the show. to portray this emotionally fragile woman, always seemingly on the edge of a nervous breakdown, certainly takes some acting ability. equally, she acts as the touchstone for other people's emotional chaos.

[@memoir4you]

Yep I fast forward all her scenes now. I never used to before but now she's hysterical practically every time.

[@bsaunders5271]

@@memoir4you absolutely

[@dominewimbury2039]

Yay it's Eddie

[@philstrachan]

Ive always hated Bet Lynch but when she bothered to go see Hilda changed my mind. These great actresses were so under-appreciated. Jean more than Julie, was the only true actress.

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

17:35 Ivy "My Bert could turn his hand to anything luv" Aye. Anything except blowing up tyres.

[@TheMeeja]

Actually, he was very good at blowing them up. He was lousy at inflating them though...

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

@@TheMeeja 😂

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

With respect to ken he has no business ordering a grown adult like Deirdre around!

[@Siasmummy]

I never realised what a prick he really was

[@philstrachan]

Ken deserves no respect. Hesa total wanker.

[@H3len50]

Poor Mike :-( but so glad top be rid of Susan as she was a right wee whinny madam who behaved like a child. The whole storyline with them both was tedious.

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

That Susan was rubbish!

[@bsaunders5271]

Mike is terrible with women though, he can't keep one to save his life. He's too overbearing, and uninterested in their opinions or requirements. In Susan he chose a right cold fish.

[@mattburke3457]

That country home was beautiful tho

[@irenemorley75]

@@bsaunders5271 🙄🙄

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Mike getting advice from Dreary about his child wife! 😂🤣

[@H3len50]

Vera really should get done for domestic abuse, she is forever smacking Jack, poor sod. Now if it was the other way about it would be a whole different story.

[@Rachel-ub3nw]

Not in them days it wouldn't

[@H3len50]

@@Rachel-ub3nw yeah... You are probably right there. I perhaps thinking more now rather than then. I suffered at the hands of domestic abuse so sadly I know the story well.

[@monisamontoya288]

Am I the only one who can't understand Vera?

[@KuchiKopi179]

Jack deserves it, he was a work shy, gambling, cheating man. He does improve massively, but I credit Vera's slaps for that.

[@fluxington]

@@KuchiKopi179 He improves because it's written in the script. There's no excuse for domestic abuse and no-one 'deserves' it. If you don't like someone then leave them. You absolute fool.

[@paulacookgomez1046]

Susan Barlow is a monster!

[@philstrachan]

She has no conscience.

[@TraceyMella]

She lost her mother at a young age.

[@ritanolan9492]

Mike Baldwin and Deidra Barlow should have been together. They had a loving and friendly relationship. Ken Should have been a bachelor. Himself is all he cares about.

[@bsaunders5271]

I always believed that Mike really loved Dierdre. He probably would have ruined it in the longrun if she had left Ken for him, as he can't seem to deal well with the women in his life, but I would have liked to have seen them give it a go. Ken is like a robot in a wig.

[@notonyournelly5475]

@@bsaunders5271 I think Mike said it once. I think to Emily, in the Rovers.He said ' Deirdre was made for me but I don't think I was right for her' Emily said that that was probably very true.

[@bsaunders5271]

@@notonyournelly5475 he did. I remember thinking he really meant those words.

[@notonyournelly5475]

@@bsaunders5271 I agree..It was great acting. It was as if you could really believe it.

[@philstrachan]

👏🍻

[@H3len50]

Mavis and Derek are the King and Queen of dithering and panic!

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

That was hilarious when the lad knocked on the shop door and interrupted Mavis and Derek!

[@bsaunders5271]

They irritate me so much.

[@H3len50]

@@CatServant13, very true. 😂

[@clairemelia4950]

Annoying all the same

[@irenemorley75]

@@bsaunders5271 Don't know why you watched it, you found everyone irritating .🙄

[@alexanderjones9572]

Of course Mike didn’t mean to sack Hilda or throw Alan out- he was just angry about what Susan had done ( understandably). And Alan unwittingly saying at least there were no kids involved ( as there had been- Jenny-with him and his first wife) just made it worse.

[@jonathancheetham7683]

Unpopular opinion - I don’t think Granada did much to help Wendy Jane Walker. She’s actually not that bad an actress (look at her compared to Brian, Kevin, Alan, Jenny) and she was so very young at the time (about 21) where she was largely working with older actors. There’s rumours she and Johnny Briggs didn’t get on and everyone seems to blame her. Couldn’t he have been the difficult one? We’ve seen how young people (women & men) are effectively abused, bullied and harassed in this industry so imagine what it was like in 1985 when she came back on the show. I imagine she was treated quite poorly. I also think it was rotten of the much older Bill Podmore to criticise her casting. No wonder she left the business. Ask yourself this - at 21 in an industry full of sexism, bullying and being paired up with established older men to act love scenes with - how would you have come off in 1985 as someone who was really just a kid. Perhaps she stood up to them? Perhaps it gave her mental health issues? I don’t think it’s a coincidence she never acted again. Wendy now lives a very happy, quiet life in Cornwall with her family. I’m Pleased to hear it. I can’t believe she was so bad she became the unpopular figure she seems to be. But it seems the producers wanted to write little comments about a character they named Wendy in to the script and had Susan abort her baby behind the father (a popular character’s) back. They knew in 1987 that the audience would largely dislike Susan for that. I feel like they did it on purpose to further demonise Wendy.

[@williamf4544]

yes she was a good enough actress to have had a decent career - The Corrie script did her no favour an as you say conpared to the vile Jenny she was way way above in her acting

[@philstrachan]

From personal experience: 20+ year olds are babies suddenly expected to react in an adult acting level.

[@philstrachan]

Yes, youre soooo right.

[@lizauger9828]

Such a very sad month of episodes

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

"Oh Derek, we must be careful; one touch and the fuse.could we'll be lit..." M. Riley 😂😂😂😂😂

[@williamf4544]

Veras mother - The wonderful Fanny Crabbie - she was in a lot of British films in her day

[@greggildersleeve3484]

The argument between Susan and Mike . . .two different world views clashing. Brilliant writing. So true to both characters.

[@ginagina9720]

Jack was happy 😃 when he knew his mother in law wasn’t coming for dinner 🥘 lol 😂

[@ddrose06]

Vera's mum played a canteen girl, on one episode of On the Buses.

[@kevinfowkes2327]

Yep, though her character was more an old boiler than a girl, implausibly finding Butler irresistible. Incidentally, the actress playing Vera's mum can't do a northern accent to save her life. It's awful.

[@cathy3613]

Aww Eddie took time off from Keeping up Appearances.

[@anothercomment]

Keeping Up Appearances didn't debut until 3 years later in 1990.

[@map1537]

I was born on Nov 3rd 1987🎉

[@philstrachan]

I think youll get through it. ❤

[@MissMarie1377]

Wow Snuffing out a baby because you are too focused on yourself and you don’t want anything to get in the way of your total self focused happiness?!?! Wow. That is sick

[@nicolataylor6011]

100% agree

[@londonlady1966]

Still the woman's choice though.

[@MissMarie1377]

@@londonlady1966 it is. I never said it wasn’t. It’s completely beside the point but thanks for pointing out that most obvious and basic fact.

[@chrissywales6575]

But we all know that she doesn't murder her baby. Adam, the victim in question, is in current Corrie... married to Sarah-Louise.

[@mosaicmuse9797]

Can't stand her.

[@connielincoln8681]

Ty so much for uploading these episodes great fan from nz here 💓

[@derekdykeman9160]

Vera's Mom was on an episode of On the Buses.

[@cherylreznor181]

I never seen this comment an i just put the same comment myself lol

[@philstrachan]

The actress was no where near the correct age.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Actually, Hilda, you could still have a job with Mike. He’s obviously not broadcasting it yet- but the move to near Glossop that him and Susan were planning is definitely out of the question…

[@roybarnes-thewildlifeman1855]

Derek and Mavis are more irritating than haemorrhoids.

[@bsaunders5271]

Both needed a slap.

[@cathy3613]

😂😂😂😂 hate them

[@saxongreen78]

I don't mind Mavis on her own (well, during the 1970s era) but Derek is quite appalling.

[@eph2817]

I love them.

[@philstrachan]

Yes

[@kalilynnanderson3269]

Mrs. Lowther’s sister came back years and years later as Colin Fishwick’s mom if I’m not mistaken!

[@kleverkloggs]

Jean Fergusson - Marina in 'Last of the Summer Wine'

[@bsaunders5271]

Am I right in thinking that years later it turned out Susan HADN'T actually had an abortion...

[@deckywalsh8418]

She had a son, Adam

[@Teener9791]

Either way she is/was a self centered brat, to put it nicely.

[@chrissywales6575]

He grew up to be Adam Barlow, husband of Gail's daughter, Sarah.

[@philstrachan]

Woooooow! No way! Shit! Bloody hell!!

[@ryanwilliams1800]

Does anyone think Vera's mother looks and sounds a bit like Lou Beale from EastEnders? lol

[@bazgent]

No

[@philstrachan]

The actress is no where near old enough old enough.

[@ddrose06]

Bett: "Don't tell Hilda about Mrs. Lowther" Kevin: "Oi Hilda, Mrs. Lowther's snuffed it. Got any grapes?" Bloody twit!

[@philstrachan]

Kevin is such a knob.

[@Lornataylor-f2l]

Susan was wrong to do that and not tell mike

[@philstrachan]

1p0% fathers to this day have little rights but people seem to forget that withouy the male "spark" it's not going to jappen anyway. Bout time Dad's got a voice. Corrie was way ahead of its time in that regatd.

[@hollandwawasan1221]

What an excellent actress! "Mavis"

[@cise748]

When I was at catholic school I was in the nativity scene and all the kids were teasing me. The nun said “Denise, you hold your head up your playing a very important role, being the donkey you share your hay with baby Jesus “ 🤣 Gail saying about Nicky reminded me ❤

[@hollandwawasan1221]

Some people when they're heartbroken do lash out at irritating people bearing goodwill .... i think i would too

[@alexfrederickson1540]

I’m very pro choice but what Susan did to Mike is disgusting. If she felt so strongly, she should’ve maintained that position instead of agreeing to try for a baby a few months ago. Poor Mike 😢

[@philstrachan]

Would have been nice to at least tell gim pre. She murdered his child because she felt like it. Fathers Rights 🥴

[@cathy3613]

What happened to Jenny engagement ring

[@Deborah4Antiques]

Susan always has a smirk on her face.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

That doctor’s wife barely fell down! 😂🤣

[@kyms9390]

Jack's comment about keeping vultures 😂😂

[@ddrose06]

Bet has always supported Hilda, when she needed it. Look at the concern and support she's giving her now. Meanwhile, all Hilda has done, lately, is run around behind Bet's back, putting the poison and boot in, everytime Bet has any problems.

[@hollandwawasan1221]

Dr Lowther is a darling

[@roybarnes-thewildlifeman1855]

All the jury duty stuff is just limp filler. Scriptwriters must have suffered a mental block….

[@elterrifico9522]

Today’s episodes are all filler. Sad

[@cherylreznor181]

Vera's mum was on on the buses lol

[@paulinecorreia5538]

Sometimes, 😮Mavis 😊 doesn’t know what she’s on about. 😅😅

[@philstrachan]

Often ...

[@MissMarie1377]

1:17:20 YES!! You took the words right out of my mouth

[@chicagogyrl4846]

It only takes 2 hours from the house Mike wants to buy to Coronation street! She acts like they are moving to Australia! 😂🤣

[@raidenwolfe6495]

I dunno..derek trying to squeeze into mavis's bed and seeing hilda like this and mavis flying around hoping to lose her virginity lol I'm sitting here laughing and crying like a crazy person 😮 lol

[@TheMeeja]

1:24:00 Sarah Lancashire as Wendy Farmer before she became Raquel....

[@jonathancheetham7683]

Oh there’s Marina from Last of the Summer Wine as Lowther’s sister!

[@michaelleacy]

Interesting that they had a character called Wendy in the last episode of Wendy Jane Walker. And wrote a line into it "not very well brought up, is she - WENDY!" Too much to be a coincidence. It seems the actress wasn't very well liked

[@philstrachan]

What's a Wendy House? My cousins in england had one. But who is "Wendy"?

[@user-fs5hr2oi7u]

2:34:16 That moment when he's thinking 'Wait a minute...' lol. I appreciate the little details.

[@bobslobbers5311]

The beginning of the end either hilda leaving

[@philstrachan]

Yes, it was the pinnacle of Corrie and its descent into crap.

[@zanducktv2398]

Even if they didn’t interact much previously I’d have thought Vera knew Eddie well enough to have a brief catch up chat rather than just a quick token hiya. I know he was sat with Kev, Sally and Curly so maybe she didn’t want to intrude but that’s never stopped her before lol.

[@gilliangrant8764]

Vera hated Hilda Ogden and everything to go with her, so I find it believable enough she wouldn't go out of her way to speak to her former lodger

[@philstrachan]

Good point. 🍻

[@chrismacdonald7955]

That's not nurse Wendy, that's future barmaid/model Raquel 😂

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Why does stupid Mavis talk to Derrick and listen to him complain about his wife??! 😂🤣

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Mike tells Sue “We’re adults.” 😂🤣

[@standamoza]

Miss Wendy Farmer No one else but Raquel in the rovers and then with Curly.

[@tynedaly595]

Susan Barlow may not have been a very likeable character, but the way Mike was planning her life out for her when she found she was pregnant would put anyone off. Driving her to a cottage in the middle of nowhere and telling her he's going to need plenty of boys - provided by her, is dreadful. I'm sure she had seen enough after all that.

[@elterrifico9522]

Then don’t marry him.

[@eivissalyn655]

She was a spoilt little madam

[@nicolataylor6011]

Easy answer....stay single.. pardon the father for acting delighted and wanting the baby brought up in thr middle of the country instead of a grotty tiny flat .

[@shylinh5939]

@@elterrifico9522 You could say the same to him. He should have married a woman who felt she'd achieved a lot professionally and now wanted to have kids, not someone barely out of their teens. Mike marrying Ken's daughter was a terrible development, but the writers obviously wanted to keep the Baldwin, Barlow feud going. Unfortunately, they didn't do a very good job of it by going in this direction.

[@chrissywales6575]

It was a beautiful house in a stunning location.

[@clarea1801]

Who knew Phil Bellamy would be a criminal before becoming a policeman

[@philstrachan]

I had to look up Thelma Barlow interviews, in the hope she wasnt as stupid as she was as Mavis. She wasnt, thank god. But sooo many Corrie street actors just played themselves....

[@carasmith549]

Susan Barlow was so unlikable. Spoiled little madam.

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

That one was rubbish!

[@bsaunders5271]

Definitely.

[@bsaunders5271]

Vera's mum 😂😂

[@irenemorley75]

What about her ?

[@philstrachan]

No way old enough.

[@williamf4544]

Them candle sticks would fetch a few bob - solid silver them are

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I’m sure Eddie would have sent Hilda a photo of the baby!

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

35:54 Dreary Barlow looking a RIGHT state 😳

[@chicagogyrl4846]

So how did Gayle get back with Brian??! Hate missing episodes!

[@rl7012]

After Brian abducted Nicky, he eventually brought him back 4 days later and dozy Gail took that as a sign of love and they got back together again.