Freshco Siege (2000)

All scenes from the Freshco Siege story from Coronation Street in 2000.
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Cast:
Dean Sykes- Ciaran Griffiths
Lenny Larkin- David Derbyshire (Credited as Darbyshire)
Ashley Peacock- Steven Arnold
Fred Eliott- John Savident
Mike Baldwin- Johnny Briggs
Ken Barlow- William Roache
Alma Halliwell- Amanda Barrie
Curly Watts- Kevin Kennedy
Wendy Jones- Michelle Totton
Frank O'Conner- Eamon Boland
Emma Watts- Angela Lonsdale
Deirdre Barlow- Anne Kirkbride
Maxine Peacock- Tracy Shaw
Linda Baldwin- Jacqueline Pirie
Vikram Desai- Chris Bisson
(October 2000)

[@Ksim3000]

I remember when this episode was promoted on the TV back in the day. We were all excited for this episode and it didn't disappoint! Cant believe its been 24 years since this was on the TV. Classic ep and one of the best of the old Corrie!

[@lucylucy-ei2ph]

the way Maxine loved Ashley was just too precious. everytime she hugs him in all episodes she has a big smile on her face

[@1000000man1]

Poor Maxine 😢

[@Spindler2007]

No matter what he's in, I'll always know Ciaran Griffiths for his role as Mickey Maguire in Shameless. He was so funny on that show.

[@QBee240]

I don’t remember this at all…but it reminds me of that Only Fools and Horses episode where the guy comes late to rob the supermarket safe

[@stinameaner]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@generichuman2044]

The shadow 😅

[@MrDeadhead83]

That dam, elusive sh-a-dow

[@Ospyro3em]

"Bloody Watch!"

[@Unicysis]

Curly: It’s on a time delay. It won’t open until tomorrow. Lennox: Well, thank you VERY much. What am I supposed to do now? Ashley: Can’t ya come back first thing in t’morning?

[@MrDeadhead83]

That dam, elusive, sh.a.dow

[@Monty2022]

Fred Elliott saving the day with his steaks setting off the fire alarm 🤣

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

Steaks, I say Steaks

[@andrewbellringer404]

R.I.P john savident

[@Monty2022]

@@andrewbellringer404 RIP I've just seen it myself 😢

[@adam2.075]

Clever Fred, I say, clever Fred.

[@AP-di6gu]

Damon Hay was no different when he was younger, then.

[@PoiroReilly]

😂 definitely not ! Lol

[@sengo1st]

Damon Hay was no different when he was younger, then Glory Sengo.

[@nottyrese]

not Damon mate

[@AP-di6gu]

@@nottyrese It’s the same actor.

[@sengo1st]

DAMON HAY WAS NO DIFFERENT WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER, THEN GLORY SENGO.

[@ChristopherS9627]

43:14 - Deans friend saying yeah it is. Looooool

[@ghostriley1697]

God i love fred he's a funny old chap

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

Funny, I say funny

[@thomsboys77]

So he was basically playing Damon years before he became Damon

[@5340robert]

God this really was a high point in corrie history. My mum and sister still do watch it. I used to watch it by association also.

[@phillipbates9587]

Nice old-fashioned classic coronation street TV shows

[@joshsheekey5512]

First time I’ve heard the word “GobS*ite used in Corrie

[@walnutbrain7569]

@@jenniferdean144 Actually, He said “flaming”. You might want to get your facts around.

[@jenniferdean144]

@@walnutbrain7569 Actually he did not say say flaming. You need your ears cleaned and tell your mother she should teach you some manners. If you can't speak politely then do not speak to me at all.

[@walnutbrain7569]

@@jenniferdean144 😂. I am using my manners and I’m also right!

[@jenniferdean144]

@@walnutbrain7569 check again.

[@jenniferdean144]

@@walnutbrain7569 and what does 'get your facts around ' mean?

[@kbone797]

Wouldnt it be funny if this actually was damon and now he suddenly starts talking about how this robbery went wrong 😂

[@Ellie-ym9et]

The paramedic was so rude at the end. Regardless of wanting to get away in a hurry, they are not supposed to talk to relatives of patients like that.

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

You do realise it’s not real?

[@Ellie-ym9et]

@@misplacedkiwi9498 Course I do! What a moronic reply.

[@Evolutionator944]

Still

[@hermanthetosser4219]

They should be rude and put nose up to people being NHS workers

[@kwesiidun8512]

Well, this is one way to meet your brother-in-law! 🤣🤣🤣

[@ghostriley1697]

Wow Emma watts that's a good shot well executed

[@claireparrywales]

Dean was in shameless as one of the McGuire’s x

[@QBee240]

‘Kee-Yah-Battah’ roll……😄….WHAT….I had to pause and think about what he was saying…..‘ciabatta’

[@juliansmith4295]

Why didn't Baldwin learn from the first time he assumed a loaded gun was empty, when Jackie poked him in the nose with a rifle?

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

Fred, i say Fred wants some Icecream I say ice cream

[@Gaz-84]

22 years ago. Crazy. Wendy's acting though 🤣

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

You haven’t lived, I say you haven’t lived until you’ve had one of Fred’s steahhhks

[@Mike-ou8ty]

I remember this was shown at 9:00 pm, the producers were obvy trying to be edgy by having violence and bad language on coronation Street..but it just came across as contrived and desperate. It just wasn't coronation Street.

[@DDaSilva1980]

It was a ratings ploy to get one over on EastEnders in terms of sensational storylines.

[@MosesDeLaRoses]

Agreed. Almost Brooksideesque.

[@iannnv_reuploads2717]

33:54 What was the point of that? Which one looks more suspicious? Lots of people tied up, or lots of people sat down, eating food?

[@colinwharton]

I never knew this until now that the guy that played Dean the Robber is the same actor to now appear on Corrie as Damon Hay 😂

[@ashleybuckley5594]

One error on the credits: Deirdre Barlow was Deirdre Rashid at the time Until 2005 when she remarried Ken Barlow

[@user-ky7rr8sz9t]

Mike and ken doing friends work the past good stuff its amazing from the past😮

[@daisybee5943]

This is so funny 😂

[@stevedavidson5038]

The guy playing Dean was also in EastEnders, he was a part of Aidan Maguire's heist, might as well have been the same character, lol.

[@joeedwards3471]

U mean he was in shamless not EastEnders u donut

[@stevedavidson5038]

@joe Edwards He was in EastEnders as well you fucking tool!

[@jenniferdean144]

he was in the bill

[@ashleybuckley5594]

Ciaran Griffiths who's playing Dean Sykes on here played PC Gary Best in The Bill

[@stinameaner]

He was in both you donut​@@joeedwards3471

[@stephenfinnan2972]

Very awkward situation for Mike Baldwin knowing that 1 of the armed criminals that took him hostage with the others turned out to be his brother in law

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

Awwww!!!! 50:32! The Floof, I say the Floof ❤❤

[@joestewart-paul7181]

Is it alright if I get some bread?

[@xenonplays_]

You forgot Audrey Roberts (Sue Nicholls) from the cast.

[@corriearcade60]

Can u put the Mike/Ken feud

[@nathaliegrieves3859]

I do think Mike and Ken like each other really

[@johntaylor6345]

In real life William Roach and Jonnie Briggs were good friends.

[@ghostriley1697]

When Mike's Wife was trying to say to the Armed police officer he just turned Around and look at her then just said nothing not a word all he was doing is just standing there and looking at them

[@joestewart-paul3260]

Good on Audrey standing up for Maxine against that nasty Linda

[@chelseabray7565]

It's mickey from shameless just less spit 🤣

[@sundelight8230]

Good old corrie episode. Those were the days

[@stemple11100]

Damon in his younger days when he was building up his criminal empire, had to fake his death to avoid prosecution

[@Nostalgic-Memories89]

First time I've seen this storyline, don't like it when the armed police detain Mike and Ken, just shows the police can have bad judgement. Though their were safe at the end.

[@joestewart-paul7181]

Agreed

[@lucylucy-ei2ph]

so armed police can tell just by looking at someone in an ill lit smokey room that that person is not involved in the robbery? I didn't know police had special powers like that.

[@-moondust-]

Their run away car, is his pink limousine!

[@TheGuvOfWythenshawe]

Ciarán Griffiths who plays Dean would later go on to play PC (and later DC) Gary Best in The Bill

[@Evolutionator944]

4:38 is this the only time where S*** was mentioned in coronation street

[@ghostriley1697]

Hey Emma Norman does have a point it happened really quick he didn't know.

[@1000000man1]

The guy was firing the gun though. She did exactly what she's supposed to do in that situation.

[@JoeyTheBeastHD]

44:27 is that AJ from Emmerdale

[@ghostriley1697]

It is

[@meowthx1985]

Back from the dead as Demon for Corrie also?

[@Evolutionator944]

Gob shites Shit and Git Good old corrie also is the only time we’re corrie went for it in terms of language

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

Why does she feel so bad, they had weapons and she’s a copper. Fred 😆

[@ghostriley1697]

Ashley: you greedy pig Me: crikey Moses you really are a big eater

[@goldendash9290]

one with the gun is the actor of damon from corrie today.

[@brwhizz3060]

4:39 I’m surprised they could get away with saying ‘shit’.

[@corrieplattfan4847]

brwhizz 30 and ‘shite’ at 13:34. They made this exception for this special episode alone, since it was transmitted at 10.00pm.

[@Liam-qn2kn]

Well people were less pathetic and weren't offended by everything in those days

[@JoeyTheBeastHD]

We didn't have Snowflakes and Cancel Culture back in those days

[@ghostriley1697]

@@Liam-qn2kn when Dean said shit it could've been demonetized especially when it's on an soap does it mean they can do that or is it quite Rare they can use words like that At a certain time like 10:00 or 11:00 at night

[@walnutbrain7569]

That scene only appeared in the US version for some reason. Either that or we’d be searching for some Corrie lost media.

[@Salman.m786]

Ciaran Griffiths

[@1000000man1]

46:39 Damn those eyes! 😍

[@lavenderoil2922]

Look at the prices!

[@ghostriley1697]

Don't beat yourself up Emma it's was accident

[@ruperthayes6108]

Then Dean comes back as someone else after years another Den Watts

[@ghostriley1697]

Emma you didn't mean to kill Dean it was a accident

[@user-ky7rr8sz9t]

I count 8 People you see Norman face lucky emma go girl 😮

[@KingOfTea7708]

DAMONNNN

[@johncooper5805]

1:04:14 - Why on earth did Linda weep and wail over Dean although he was evil?

[@elgee6202]

Because he was her teenage brother ...

[@ZekeBurns-om3yt]

Really couldn't work that one out yourself? How's life with autism?

[@Ospyro3em]

Pretty sure you'd be inconsolable too if an immediate family member died

[@RPBeamont]

we know dean three years later he was gary best in the bill

[@QBee240]

He looks a lot older than 17

[@Txbbqsauce]

Nah he actually was 17, Ciaran Griffiths who plays him

[@r4h4al]

Looked about 20.

[@kevinlongman007]

I don't know why Curly was giving Emma a hard time. She was just doing her job and he had fired at them first.

[@jenniferdean144]

she wouldn't have been allowed to unveil herself

[@robgweston965]

Who’s the dibble? 🤣🤣🤣

[@iannnv_reuploads2717]

*whispers* ‘the police’

[@hondacr250hrc4]

Top cat the cartoon

[@robgweston965]

Yea.... I was commenting on the line being funny.... I know who the dibble are!

[@DDaSilva1980]

A rip-off of a 1985 episode of The Bill called "Hostage" in which Sgt. Cryer talked a gunman into handing his weapon over before he got killed.

[@andrewcameron1465]

oooh its gary best from the bill 7:47🤣😂

[@Keibro]

I remember this getting such a slagging in the press. Corrie was trying to reinvent itself and compete with edgier EastEnders and Brookside. This didnt suit Corrie. It was implausible not to menion very dull!

[@betbinch]

Horrible era at the time although this is standard fare for Corrie these days

[@Keibro]

@betbinch true this would be a "big" week in todays Corrie, the show has declined so much

[@MrDeadhead83]

Edgier than Eastenders but then during the seige, they have a barbecue are bowling

[@waynetaviener6938]

One of the robbers plays jacobs dad now in corrie and best know for dc gary best the bill

[@juliansmith4295]

THAT's why he looked so familiar. Thank you.

[@TintinMusicVevo93861]

40:10

[@TintinMusicVevo93861]

46:00

[@superbrit3845]

It's Mickey from Shameless lol

[@sarahwynn6486]

What are the chances Emma gets a job as armed officer and the supermarket gets raided by gunmen …..

[@Evolutionator944]

BBQ Houseold goods ice cream 🍦 Isles Now it’s abit much having that in a store but that’s either to add to the story or just as part of a joke because There’s no way I’ve seen them in a store before

[@richardrule3134]

It's Damon

[@dennyterrell893]

grumpy paramedic

[@Evolutionator944]

How is the robbery funny serious and sad at the same time it’s almost like a comedy then drama then Sad

[@glorysengo6289]

FIRST TIME I’VE SEEN THIS STORYLINE, DON’T LIKE 👍 IT 👩‍💻 WHEN THE ARMED POLICE 👮‍♀️

[@ghostriley1697]

Your wrong Mike 1. It's not a toy gun 2. The gun was loaded 3. The gun opened fired

[@briangatt2956]

4. Everyone proceeds to get their ear drums ruptured or they would've in real life.

[@childrenstreetcom3]

4:39 SHIT!

[@michaelleacy]

Embarrassing, between them all they couldn't have overpowered these two goons?

[@lucylucy-ei2ph]

say that again when someone is holding a gun on you, am sure you wouldn't be so rational then.

[@rockerboy92]

I don’t know it’s just I looked through the shutters and that’s all I saw. Come on it’s not that difficult you either saw him or you didn’t. Linda are you thick or what she just told you that’s all she saw so obviously she didn’t see Mike but as for dean why feel sorry for him in the end after everything he did he really deserved what he got

[@briangatt2956]

No way would the police let the paramedics into the shop until the shop's been cleared oh hang on it's coronation street.

[@lucylucy-ei2ph]

exactly what i was thinking

[@briangatt2956]

@@lucylucy-ei2ph thats the only reason i watch corrie just to watch the mistakes🤣

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

Yeah, in the world of coronation street, kidney transplants have easy recovery times and no anti rejection drugs

[@sarahwynn6486]

@@misplacedkiwi9498tracy was taking anti rejection drugs

[@kaysmith8992]

Linda was horrible but a great character, a pity the actress is no longer acting.

[@sarahwynn6486]

Ripped off only fools and horses …

[@ghostriley1697]

Come on armed police officer mike was one of the hostages for crying out loud you should know you're a armed police officer not a idiot use your common sense

[@lucylucy-ei2ph]

they run into a smokey room where there are gun men, they cannot take the risk of who may or may not be carrying a gun. That is common sense!