Coronation Street - September 1978

[@professionalgun6674]

"Where is August" I can hear you wondering or even shouting out loud. Sad thing is I only possess the one episode which I have included here. Apart from that September continues the Corrie ride and the buzz does not let you down and how can it when it's chocablock full of iconic characters in every scene who are dealing with the best storylines, drama and comedy ever put on the small screen. 1978 and 1979 were the highest point the street ever reached, whether officially or unofficially, and still towers above today's version, where real life isn't fictionally formulated to entertain, but to represent today's world, enhancing it toward it's fundimental depressive conclusions. No fun to be had there, but here in September 78, when the world was great in life and on the telly, you can be transported back to a time...you know the rest.

[@pheezy1970]

That’s one of the reasons I love this , it takes me back to the 8yr old me , happy and. Simple times .

[@EveEve5]

You are one of my favourite uploaders on yt. It cheers me up to receive a notification from you. The 70s episodes are great. The story lines and characters were so believable. Thank you again.

[@iamnoone3352]

There are 8 episodes in September - so either this video has in fact 9 episodes in it, or one episode of September is missing.

[@elterrifico9522]

Even The Rovers looks ugly in today’s Corrie. Sad

[@frazzleface753]

The good thing is that Corrie is not difficult to pick up if you miss an episode or a few 😊 Thank you for your uploads.

[@helentucker6407]

We were all so young and beautiful back in 1978! Such comfort tele. 👍👍👍

[@benholmes964]

I wasnt born till 94 don't watch new coronation st but been watching this lol😂😂

[@beebeelicious]

Totally agree, I was only 4 then but remember watching at my Grandparents ❤

[@elspethcoogan1499]

Hilda to Annie: “I thought that would send your suspenders twanging”. Brilliant line! 🤣

[@philipo5259]

Jean Alexander's pace and delivery is just superb. ❤

[@gilliangrant8764]

Drunk Mike Baldwin is absolutely hilarious! RIP Johnny Briggs, an exceptional actor.

[@cherylreznor181]

He is! When he said i like big girls to Elsie I was shocked as she's not big??

[@glamdolly30]

@@cherylreznor181 I think that was one of actor Johnny Briggs' legendary ad libs, teasing his old pal Pat Phoenix (they were mates since first meeting by chance in the Granada canteen in 1960, when she was new to 'Coronation Street'). I recall another of his naughty quips to 'Elsie' was in the factory, when his parting shot to her was 'Keep taking the slimming pills'! Her face was a picture, it definitely wasn't in the script!

[@cherylreznor181]

@@glamdolly30 if someone said that to me friend or not id be so pissed and swing for them lol x

[@glamdolly30]

@@cherylreznor181 Ha! Ha! Me too, I'd be bloody livid! But having read both Pat Phoenix and Johnny Briggs' autobiographies, it's clear they enjoyed a very respectful and affectionate friendship over many years, so I guess she forgave him! Pat's much-publicised return to Coronation Street in April 1976 was the reason Johnny accepted the brand new role of factory boss Mike Baldwin later that same year. When he first started on the show he was commuting to Manchester from the Midlands each week, and forgot it's a few degrees colder up north. Pat noticed him shivering in his shirtsleeves during an early rehearsal, and popped out at lunchtime to buy him a gift. She caught up with him in a corridor that afternoon, and handed him a carrier bag - he was thrilled to find a beautiful, pale blue cashmere sweater inside, which was a perfect fit. He said the gesture was typical of her thoughtfulness and generosity. In 1976 Pat was separated from her second husband, actor Alan Browning, who she'd married on the show as Alan Howard. Knowing family-man Johnny was living a lonely bachelor life in a hotel Monday to Thursday and living on room service food, she often invited him to her cottage for a home-cooked supper after work. This was usually his favourite steak and chips (and a bottle of her favourite tipple, champagne), served up by her elderly housekeeper Kitty, who was a superb cook. He recalled her many kindnesses in his book, and how after dinner they'd sit relaxing with her many dogs, helping each other learn their lines, but mostly just chatting. They were never more than great friends, but I bet a few tongues wagged at Granada Studios when Mike Baldwin and Elsie Tanner rolled up first thing in her chauffeur car, after he'd spent the night in her spare room!

[@MultiKs22]

@@glamdolly30 Joe lynch was different in that role more posh in your talk then was in Bracken and Glenore which you might have seen on Tara gold it was Irish station on satellite for people in the uk such as yourself to watch the old Irish soaps that we had here over in Ireland .as for Johnny Briggs rip he was fantastic actor with dapper clothes and charismatic looks I remember when pat phoenix rip passed away in September 17th 1986 Joe lynch paid a tribute to her in Eire stating she was fine actress and wonderful talent and a lovely lady to work with. jean alexander did really get on with pat phoenix in real life . i wonder why.

[@bexj9919]

Thank you im unwell and needed Cheering up this has done it I love the old corrie the storyline are so much better im hooked x

[@beebeelicious]

Me too 😂

[@JulianOrchardfan]

These are absolute classics, the writing, the characters, pinnacle of great tv for me. Thank you so much for sharing them.❤

[@luvhart]

That character ‘Ron Mather’ was played by Irish actor Joe Lynch who went on to become a tv legend in Ireland, when he played the role of Dennis ‘Dinny’ Byrne on Irish soap ‘Glenroe’ for 17 years.

[@MultiKs22]

BC he was also in Bracken another 78-83 another Irish soap also starred Gabriel Byrne Irish international actor.

[@brianmcneill1972]

He was also in Never mind The Quality feel The Width and the Narrator on Chorlton & The Wheelies

[@glamdolly30]

@@brianmcneill1972 Great info! I loved the character of Ron - he was the most charismatic and attractive boyfriend Elsie ever had. Yet for some reason their romance never really got off the ground before it finished. I never understood why she was always so lukewarm about him. Ron wasn't rich, but it was slim pickings for quality, single men, and he was quite a catch - handsome, hard working and generous. Separated too - not married like some of her previous disasters! The writers suggested Elsie wasn't in love with Ron - there was very little romance seen between them, and when he got possessive and pushed her for a commitment she told him she wanted to be free to date other fellas (including, hilariously, Max Wall - who was old enough to be Elsie's dad!) I think Pat Phoenix might have had some glorious, exciting storylines if they had only married her to Ron. Joe Lynch was a great actor, securing him for a long run of a few years would have been a coup for Corrie. Of course it's possible he didn't want to be tied down to the soap for too long. As a middle aged woman myself I got quite depressed seeing Elsie crash from one broken romance to another. I think many female viewers would have loved to see her in a happy marriage to a good bloke. Ditto Rita and Alan Bradley, played by the very handsome and likeable Mark Eden, a former movie actor. Once they made Bradley a baddie, his days were numbered on the show. A great shame. Alan could have been the trophy husband glamorous Rita richly deserved, after putting up with that hideous, warty toad Len Fairclough for so long. Can't have been fun for actress Barbara Knox - you could almost hear her bum cheeks clenching with disgust whenever he kissed her! 🤣🤣🤣

[@lorraineydays57]

@luvhart Those were the days, Dinny and Miley on the farm, Biddy and Miley getting married and Fidelma coming along creating the Glenroe love triangle. Loved that show!

[@deirdrekiernan5070]

he was great brillant in glenroe

[@deirdrekiernan5070]

stan+hilda were class

[@TheGlassman63]

As anyone ever noticed that whenever someone knocks at Elsie's door, or when someone rings her phone she always makes a disapproving groan followed by a "Oh, who the hell's that" !

[@bsaunders5271]

That's Elsie for you!

[@juliewebb1335]

That's why I like Elsie.

[@moulinrouge5716]

I'm excately the same, love Elsie x

[@anothercomment]

@Moulin Rouge that's me also 🤣

[@alimo1611]

my mother said the same

[@nitad4203]

Thank you so much for the Upload :-)

[@Mrs.Beezley]

The Albert tatlock lettuce scandal is absolutely priceless.

[@katy4779]

Amazing that this Peter Barlow (Joseph McKenna) went on to become THE No.1 hair stylist in New York!

[@williamf4544]

Omg really ?

[@andywright3450]

Hey proper Corrie great actors and actresses

[@philstrachan]

Thanks for uploading all of these. Been great reliving my teenagehood! 👏🇦🇺🍻

[@itsdeanya]

"Thought followed a muck cart and thought it was a wedding." Nice. Old sayings can be very truthful.

[@itallia666]

Oh haha Annie Walker is so wonderfully snobby & does it with such a sense of distain its precious! For the life of me, i cannot remember who took over the Rovers Return after Doris Speed Who played Annie, left the show. Was it Billy Walker? Im sure i remember Billy being in Corrie at one point, for quite a long while! Its lovely seeing fellow Geordie ( Newcastle Upon Tyne) Actress Angela Bruce! Shes so gorgeous & a superb actress, shes played some great roles in theatre, TV & film. I can also remember another Black Geordie actor called Tony ( cant remember his surname) but he was a fellow inmate along with Ronnie Barker & Richard Beckinsale in Porridge, the huge comedy hit tv series about life in prison. I had always wondered if Angela Bruce was a relative of Tonys It was quite rare ( unfortunately) to have 2 Black Geordie actors who were around in the late 1970s & 1980s and about the same age, from the same far North city of Newcastle. I think Angela was in a great medical drama series on TV about A hospital & the Nurses & was called " Angels" I always thought Angela was a super actress & very pretty Wonder what shes doing today? Its a hazy memory but im sure she did some film work in America But i may be wrong! Thank you for these great vids 🇬🇧👧

[@williamrennie9331]

Yes, Billy replaced Annie, but was bought out by the brewery due to after hours drinking and selling cut price spirits. I think the Tony you're thinking of is Tony Osoba, who's actually from Glasgow.

[@homeless_greg_games]

I love these old episodes so much ! ❤❤

[@prd1073]

A rare sighting of Doris Speed sans wig, in the allotment scene.

[@Kiinell]

I think it would have been kinder and more realistic to kill Ray off, or have him go to prison or something. The overnight affair and disappearing act made no sense at all.

[@jstewart3517]

he left like the coward he was

[@cherylreznor181]

A bit like what helappened with len

[@jstewart3517]

No couldnt put up with Deirdre 's whiskey whining voice carrying on

[@Glitter101]

RIP Anne. Always loved Deidre excellent actress still very much missed bless her❤

[@glamdolly30]

@@Glitter101 Yes, Deirdre became a national treasure, and by all accounts actress Anne Kirkbride was a lovely lady and a very loyal friend, God bless her.

[@mariemurray3638]

Isn’t Deirdre’s hair in great condition?

[@bsaunders5271]

Yes, before the perm years

[@ironknobsteelworks4063]

Apparently Vosene sponsored her for a few years. Unfortunately the nicotine put paid to her shiny locks.

[@theresapierce3934]

@@ironknobsteelworks4063 you mean the perms.

[@martinistakis1825]

​@@ironknobsteelworks4063Most of the cast had cracking hair. My brother says it is because people didn't wash their hair so much in 70s.

[@romybath318]

Rare to see hair so naturally glossy. Amazing hair.

[@pamib29]

Dawn Sampson (Marjii Lawrence) the woman who goes to visit Elsie about Ron Mathers is the mother of Tv 📺 personality Sarah Greene. ♥️

[@glamdolly30]

OMG Great call, thank you!

[@deborahwatson2730]

Never had Dierdre down as being that naive….her husband, dressed in his best suit, wearing aftershave she bought him but he has never worn before, announces that he’s going out to meet a guy she’s never heard of before 🤣. Personally I’d smell a king sized rat.

[@cherylreid-panasiewicz6485]

Young Deirdre was a bit daft, but she learned her lesson by the the time Ken did the dirty. She knew full well then what he was up to!

[@glamdolly30]

I can't believe she ever trusted sleazy Ray Langton, he was always a self-serving rat who would sell his granny to a glue factory for beer money.

[@bibakroll8999]

I always liked the Ron character and thought it a pity that he wasn’t a more permanent fixture.

[@annmc8392]

It might not be the pies, it could have something to do with Annie and Bettie not washing their hands😄

[@loonylinda]

aww wish we couldve seen the episode where hilda and stan were asleep and the bath overflowed?

[@ROBDV-7-9-6-5]

Here is the episode .. Aug 28th.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/raXOZnlplt6LpKs Followed by .. Aug 30th kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpa9dZ2Ebr-ojtU

[@cherylreznor181]

​@@ROBDV-7-9-6-5thankyou x

[@barbarapalmer8224]

They could not have picked a better actor to play peter..he is so like ken.the nose l think.

[@bsaunders5271]

Hate the way Ray cheats on Dierdre. It seems totally out of the blue, which of course it was, they had to write in a plausible leaving story for NB.

[@lucyjane103]

Producers put in a tall skinny gay woman to try and make an affair seem real with Ray.... It was soooo unbelievable. Producers chose some really awful, probably low cost, characters ...They ruined the reality of the show....

[@bsaunders5271]

@@lucyjane103 was she gay?

[@lucyjane103]

@@bsaunders5271 In real life yes she is.

[@lucyjane103]

@@bsaunders5271 In real life, yes she was and still is a gay woman. Producers used the worst choices in SOO many Corrie storylines... The worst actors...Like Dan Johnson....UGH.

[@bsaunders5271]

@@lucyjane103 ah, ok

[@deridreflinn]

10/10

[@roderickscott7429]

think Glasgow would be mighty relieved that Hilda gives the place a bodyswerve !!

[@mikeedwards1851]

Stan and Hilda comedy gold 👏👏👏

[@stormhawk3319]

What did Ray see in that waitress? Not exactly a looker. Made Deirdre look like a page 3 model.

[@ZowieBBowie]

Exactly ! he was more of an hour glass figure man but then after acquiring the womaniser label he’d no doubt shag anything and everything as they say .

[@frazzleface753]

3:13:57 quick, get the Part Two card ready!

[@elterrifico9522]

Ray is the grossest kisser I’ve ever seen

[@lucyjane103]

He's kissing a lesbian woman , she's not interested in him at all.... He is not interested in her at all also.....very POOR on Producers to to add a tall skinny lesbian woman to play short asshole Rays love interest....

[@eatenalive85]

They were both gross.

[@glamdolly30]

That kissing scene was vile - they were chomping on each other's faces for what felt like an eternity. The longer it went on, the less erotic it was! They should have cast a young, sexy, feminine actress for the Janice role, and had her chase Ray. We might have believed him cheating on Deirdre, if he were flattered by the attentions of a gorgeous younger woman. That actress was built like an ironing board, with all the warmth and allure of a fridge freezer. What were Corrie bosses thinking of? We were suddenly expected to believe Ray went from happily married family man, to sex craved love rat - and his head was turned by a flat-chested tom-boy so cold and aloof, she stood him up on their first date! I can't see cocky Ray Langton putting up with that!

[@JulianOrchardfan]

​@@glamdolly30Absolutely spot on, risk losing lovely locks Deirdre for Janice, not on your nellie lol, there was more lustful chemistry between Albert and Ena.😂

[@ZowieBBowie]

Oh really you should have seen him during the steamy affair with Audrey back in 1970.

[@francesgillotti1378]

I remember when they didnt wrap the bread 😮 oh god ! And there must be lots of Arnold’s out there 😂

[@robclark4507]

Councillor Murray from only fools horses

[@dominewimbury2039]

Oh it is her!

[@lawrencejhutchinson]

Ray's affair was badly contrived. He decided to leave because his American wife wanted to go back home. He spent the remaining 40 years of his life in Las Vegas. See Anne Kirkbride's joy when he came back as a guest on her This is your life show!

[@eatenalive85]

This was the first time where the writing on the show got sloppy. The Ray/Janice affair just came out of nowhere and was rushed. Not only that, they chose an actress that was not believable. Ray cheats on his wife with a woman that's built and looks like a chap? Very strange pairing. And those kissing scenes were not believable.

[@adrianmole7431]

Have you danced with him , really thought that question to Elsie was a euphemism.

[@glamdolly30]

Agreed, it wasn't the best plot. But to be fair, Corrie bosses had to come up with that storyline super fast, since actor Neville Buswell told them abruptly he was about to emigrate to the US with his American wife. He begged them not to fire his friend Anne Kirkbride as on-screen wife Deirdre, saying it wasn't fair she should lose her job because he was leaving. Writing Deirdre out at the same time as Ray, had been producer Bill Podmore's original intention - in 1978, it was unusual to see single mothers depicted on mainstream TV. Thankfully he thought again. Deirdre embarked on her most varied and dramatic adventures with chauvinist hubby Ray out of the picture, and stayed on the show for 42 years til Anne Kirkbride's sad untimely death in 2015. You're right, it was very unfortunate they miscast the role of Janice. Bad enough they rushed the affair so viewers went from believing Ray and Deirdre were happily married, to him becoming a sex-mad sleazebag overnight. But it was even harder to believe Ray (and factory manager Steve Fisher among others), lusted after that particular actress. I've since learned from the comments she is gay, which comes as no surprise to me, but explains a lot including the lack of chemistry between her and Neville Buswell. Angela Bruce is a successful actress, she just isn't the sexy dolly-bird type the Janice role demanded. Plus she was written as such a hard-faced and cool character, it didn't ring true the conceited Ray would have chased her. If she'd chased him, we might have bought the affair more, believing he was flattered and succumbed to temptation. But we had to believe he pursued her, even after she stood him up. Not Ray Langton's style! The kissing scenes were awful, and clearly 'performed'. They practically ate each other's faces, UGH!

[@seansmith445]

@@glamdolly30 Please, only men can be gay. She is a lesbian.

[@jethro1963]

The role of "the other woman" was horribly cast here. In many cases of extramarital affairs the husband is not trading in for a "younger model" but a sympathetic one, often not as attractive as the wife. They are usually conveniently located and willing to lend a sympathetic ear something this character didn't do but she was centrally located :)

[@ZowieBBowie]

From one of your comments to another episode , you reckon Ray was a sleaze bag in real life quite possibly , hen pecked too ! lol wifey making him go to the US ,although he was still a handsome guy during the later Corrie years NOT when he returned though , he left it too late and looked totally clapped out and ill - which he was . Rip Derbyshire lad.

[@maureencurry4276]

Great stuff

[@sharonboult4042]

Is that pearl ,from, last of the summer wine 🍷

[@matthewa.morgan6214]

It looks odd Renee and Deidre in the same scenes together same heads

[@glamdolly30]

I often think it's the same woman looking in a mirror!

[@francesgillotti1378]

Someone has the Judge Judy look .

[@vernicemccall2858]

Much appreciated anyway

[@paullynton-green6570]

Anne walker is wonderful. As dry as a bone😂

[@James-zw6wb]

Ray making out with fourteen-year-old Michael Jackson.

[@oliverclothesoff5397]

Lolololol

[@liscatcat8756]

3.21 00 I get you 😂😂😂

[@francesgillotti1378]

Ken is so wrong about his son . He will waste his life going back to school he needs art, music, etc whatever he wants.

[@williamf4544]

I hope the poor actress who kept Susan and Peter all those years in Glasgow got paid by Granada TV for all her trouble

[@glamdolly30]

LOL!!!

[@ironknobsteelworks4063]

Poor old dreary, Playing second fiddle to microphone head.

[@deborahwatson2730]

That’s cruel….cruel but I couldn’t help laughing 😂

[@cherylreznor181]

Tut tut x

[@paullynton-green6570]

Lol.nice one.

[@oliverclothesoff5397]

Lolol

[@seansmith445]

😂

[@sporkfindus4777]

The march through the allotment

[@liscatcat8756]

2 cups of tea bacon egg round of toast 72p Dearie hair is so shiney 😮

[@sharonboult4042]

Aunty wainwright ,summer wine 🍷

[@normasouthwood3182]

Too much snogging. Gets on my wick!

[@eatenalive85]

I'm glad it's not just me who thought those kissing scenes lasted way too long. It was gross and weird.

[@glamdolly30]

@@eatenalive85 Far too long - I think the director was trying to compensate for the total lack of sexual chemistry between the two actors, so made them chew each other's faces like starving cannibals for what felt like an eternity. I've never seen anything less erotic in my life!

[@jstewart3517]

Ewww janet wipes ash trays and then wipes tables with same cloth

[@R31922]

Have to cover my eyes when Ray kisses. Yuk.

[@jstewart3517]

❤ Betty wipes out ash tray then wipes counter 😊 Uncle Albert needs banned from all stores hes annoying n mouthy

[@hollandwawasan1221]

Pay the taxi with the petty cash already!

[@StCloud-ns7vt]

2:44:00 ! lol

[@user-tg9jz5gq3o]

Is it just me or are all these characters horrible, whiny, complaining people?

[@marieince1479]

Hilda is without doubt the vilest person she really gets on my nerves i fast forward her most of the time .

[@itallia666]

With refs to Gails jippy tummy & Steves remedy courtesy of Ena Sharples reminds me of a remedy that you could buy over the counter at the Chemist This stuff looked vile with a thick sludgy pale liquid which sat at the bottom half of the bottle & A murky liquid at the top & you had to shake the bottle vigorously to amalgamate the Mixture It had the curious name of Chlora-Morph-Mist-Annum It was short for the chemical names of its constituents. It had a wierd taste that was aniseedy menthol and ?, but after it went down made everyone shudder at the aftertaste! It worked though! Cleared up a jippy tum, relieved a hot churning stomach & about any ailment known to mankind Im not sure if you can still buy this medication at the Chemist anymore & the main ingredients are most lightly now in commercially sold, expensive tummy relief! Im sure the mixture i used to use is the same that Steve gave to Gail! It cleared up a bad tummy in a few minutes... great stuff! Cheers 🇬🇧👧 PS another sure way to settle an upset stomach or soothe nerves Or settle a burning roiling tummy Then drink 1 measure of Brandy to 2 measures of Port! Sounds weird, & it did to me & i was sceptical but since it was a bar manager who told me about it I tried it one day when visiting a country pub & had a bad stomach due to car sickness & jippy tummy... it worked like a dream & tasted very nice too, but drink no more than the one glassful of the above measures.

[@cherylreznor181]

Thanks x

[@R31922]

It was called koalin& morphine...brilliant for upset stomach. Think they took it off the market..it was very reasonably priced and worked.

[@glamdolly30]

All over-the-counter remedies containing morphine were banned in the UK around 10 years ago, so that one along with others were taken off the market. My family used to buy a wonderful remedy for stomach upsets/diarrohea called 'Dr Browns'. For many years we kept a bottle in the house for emergencies. One day we struggled to find it at any chemist, and learned it was discontinued due to a new ban on morphine. Ridiculous - there can't have been more than a trace in it! The shame of it is in 2023, you can no longer buy an effective, non prescription liquid cure for a stomach upset. My elderly mum often gets tummy trouble and the doctor gives her tablets for it - but they are no good, as they send her the other way and make her constipated. The 'Dr Browns' would have sorted her out, no problem. I wonder if the one measure of brandy to two of port recipe actually cures a gippy tummy - or if you're so drunk, you no longer care?!! 🤣🤣🤣