Coronation street was worth watching back then . The Baldwin - Barlow feud was compulsive viewing and their regular punch ups and slanging matches made it some of the very best television drama...
That storyline of Mike's affair with Deirdre had one of the highest viewing figures in the soaps history ' that among many more highlights of my Corrie viewing days growing up.
They May of had feuds over the years but when Mike was dying on the cobbles it was Ken comforting him and holding him the moral of the story it doesn't matter where you start it's where you end that matters 🙏
I remember the dying days of Mike Baldwin, in particular when Ken was trying to attend to Mikw when he was having a heart attack, he was surprised Ken was attentive given he hated him. Ken responded "I don't hate anyone that much."
@@Hate_JJYT 🤣🤣🤣 I suppose Mike is Ryu then!!! SHORYUKENBARLOW🤣🤣🤣Wait there’s more🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Thanks for uploading this! Wish mikes combo had better impact sound effects!
@@sebhoward6674 definitely a clash of styles. Ken was the street fighter with solid knockout power. Mike was technically superior though! The dodge, the knee to the chest, the 3 punch combo. Pure poetry!
The Golden Age of Coronation Street. Real family viewing watching the frequent dust-ups between Mike and Ken. Although neither in my opinion would have stood an earthly against Ena Sharples 🧡
What I couldn't understand about Mike was the fact that he never lived in a huge mansion for somebody who was a successful businessman .He spent his life in apartments.
Until Big Jim pulled him away! Mike always was an aggressive little squirt - but he wouldn't have come off well if he'd started on big Jim - Jim would've flattened him!
@@Hate_JJYT - Well it was mostly verbal showdowns, but they were still showdowns and all just as entertaining all the same. They bickered in 2000 when being held hostage in the Frescho Siege, and then 2001 saw the two rivals clashing over custody for Adam following Susan's death. The aftermath of this and Toyah's rape storyline in which Ken and Mike argued over Peter being around Adam at the time saw their rivalry toned down when Alma died. I'd say it all ended in 2006 with their last scene together when Mike remembers his affair with Deirdre and taunts Ken in his final moments. For me even though Mike was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease at the time, the words he uttered to Ken seemed genuine as it recounts the history of their compelling rivalry that practically dominated the show's headlines for over two decades since the love triangle with Dierdre back in 1982-1983 itself. Plus in the 1990s they also had a few showdowns over Maggie Redman, as she was Mike's old flame who dated Ken and that fallout was over Maggie's choice about not wanting Mike to know he is the father of their child Mark - it was something that Ken supported partially for Maggie's sake but mainly because of his rivalry with Mike. I remember in the last episode of 1992 in the last ever seen of the show's year in fact. Mike and Alma were about to go out for a New Year celebration meal when Ken came over to warn Mike in staying away from Maggie and Mark, which led to the two rivals bitterly arguing until Alma intervened. Having said that, I also reckon Ken and Mike clashed over Alma as well as Mike's discovery of Ken's affair with Wendy Crozier if I am correct on that.
My wife started watching it again recently, I nearly fell asleep while watching an episode with her the other night. It's just really dull and the acting is really wooden.
0:53 First Ken punches Mike at his work 4:12 And then Mike retaliates and punches Ken back at the rovers return pub Now that’s what I called a feud between the pair of them
Ah good old 4 channel television. Before it was ruined by the 1000s of channel world nowadays not a thing worth watching. Corrie eastenders Totp dukes of hazard two Ronnie’s ect ect. The whole family would sit and watch even if some claimed not to like certain programs. Wholesome stuff way better than the internet world of today
When Ken punches Mike in the factory office, you can hear one of the girls exclaim (I think) flippin’ ‘eck, but it don’t half sound like f’ing hell 🤬 😬
"Concrete" Kenny Barlow. A lot of the heavyweights like Tyson, Joe Bugner, Paul Sykes, etc, refer to that lethal left hand .... no wonder Baldwin went down like a lift with the cables cut. Pete 🏴
@@jaym1512 your missing the point crap stain. I never once said they couldn't be shown. I meant the time line in the 90s. We didn't have all this trans and me2 stuff what we have today sausage
Ken was happily married to deirdrie then she had an affair with mike baldwin. Johnny briggs was the one who started the feud in the first place. All ken wanted was peace but mike had other ideas he is a marriage wrecker.
A wee bit more complex methinks. Ken was quite self centred, had told Deirdre that he wanted no more children when she suggested having a baby (right decision as he was a hopeless father across several decades) and tended to stay in watching Chekhov, while his younger wife festered in a corner, to the extent that even Albert Tatlock said he should be taking her out now and then.
Although Baldwin does give him the old bap-bap-bap in The Rovers (and it was a very decent combination), overall Ken comes out on top in this beef. I seem to remember Fred Gee lamping Eddie Yates in The Rovers, putting the affable scouse binman on his backside.
At somepoint you should probably try and do the complete feud of Mike Baldwin and his other nemesis Don Brennan in Coronation Street. This may have occurred throughout Don's stint from 1987-1997 but it was the later 1990s that saw their conflict really turning out for the worst. Mind you Mike and Don started out as mere competitive opponents in that poker game with Alan Bradley and Jack Duckworth back in 1988 itself. From then onwards they were mere neighbours who had few problematic interactions in pre-1996. Then the year itself came when Mike conned Don into buying his garage for a lot worth than it's original valuation and this led to Don's bankruptcy and mental breakdown in which he took his frustrations out on Mike for what happened and Mike reacted indifferently to the matter by pointing out that Don isn't totally blameless on his situation himself. And then their quarrel became nastier in 1997 with Mike's indifference and Don's descent into madness that results in the latter embarking on a dangerously obsessive vendetta against the former himself. They had many confrontations up to the point where Don's campaign of revenge involved setting fire to Mike's factory, kidnapping Alma before trying to kill her along with himself in a failed suicide attempt by driving the vehicle with them inside it into a canal, and finally attempting to murder Mike himself that culminated with Don's death when he unsuccessfully tried to run over Mike on the street.
Woah… I don’t even know how I don’t know this one! Of course I’ll do it! However, I’m definitely going to need your help with some of the scenes if you don’t mind! I love taking requests especially for feuds!
@@Hate_JJYT - You can do their poker game competition in December 1988, particularly in their most recent one in the last episode of the year that gets even more tense up to the point where Mike and Don go all-in with their cash. Mike wins and Don loses in the end. Then 1996 would see their differences heating up from time to time, especially in June 1996. At one point Mike visits Don to see if his girlfriend Josie Clarke, who was working for Mike at the time, can help with a fax problem and Don has a go at Mike for interrupting their date. Then a few episodes later they get into an argument in the corner shop when Mike arrives just as Don is getting something. Don is telling Rita about the problems with his relationship with Josie and their ownership of the garage. Mike walks in during the discussion and gets involved, to which Don responds by having a go at Mike for tricking him and Josie into buying the garage for much more than it was originally valued. July 1996 sees Don shutting down Mike when the latter wants to know if Josie can return to work for him. Then a few episodes later in a memorable scene Mike is about to have a drink when Don drunkenly confronts him over the garage scandal. Don attempts to punch Mike but misses and he tries again, but Mike blocks him and instead punches Don to the ground in self-defence. The next episode Mike sees Don in the cafe where Alma is and they almost fight in front of Nick when Don goads him to try and hit him. Mike instead tells Don to calmly go and then goes on to say that Don is not blameless for the mess he was brought upon himself. I would say December 1996 they had another dispute when Mike calls a taxi and Don realizes that Mike is his intended customer. Don refuses to drive Mike and they get into an argument until a policeman intervenes and notices that Don has been drinking and gets him cautioned in front of Mike. It is then 1997 happens and the story of the year in Corrie for me is the ongoing conflict between Mike and Don that swiftly becomes more nastier and dangerous as time goes on. January that year sees Mike confronting Don for trying to slander him with messages that he even sent to Alma and warns him off. Stephen Reid listens in to their argument at one point if I am correct. On a few occasions Mike and Don have more confrontations, such as when Mike hires Ashley and Don tries to advise Ashley against it. Then of course April 1997 sees the first of it's episodes conclude with Mike confronting Don for setting fire to his factory. Don admits it and discloses his hatred for Mike. That month sees the pair have several interactive confrontations over the fire factory and Don's vendetta. Mike often visits Don to confront him or they just exchange harsh words in the pub. But then after the Don-Alma horror episode in which they ended up in the canal and then in hospital, Mike rushes to confront Don as he is being examined by a nurse. Mike barges in and goes to throttle Don, even calling him an evil bastard, for kidnapping Alma and trying to kill her. Mike starts throttling the unconscious Don when both Martin Platt and the policeman guarding the door restrain him as he says he'll kill Don for what he did to Alma. And then of course there is their final confrontation in October 1997 when Don ambushes Mike at his factory and attempts to kill him by beating him to death. That fails and the scenario concludes with Don attempting to run over Mike in Alma's car, but he misses and ends up killing himself as Mike watches on alongside Ken Barlow and Rita Fairclough as well as several other people at the climax. Perhaps you can even do the next episode in the aftermath of Don's death when Mike constantly makes it clear to everyone that he is glad that Don is dead, thus signifying the extent of their hatred. If anything this feud is the British non-gangland version of Gustavo Fring and Hector Salamanca if you ask me.
@@CamEraFitnessChannel team Ken myself, couldn't stand how Mike had taunted him all those years when he was the one sleeping with a married woman. It was heartwarming the way they later became friends, and Mike didn't deserve his awful fate.
@stevensmith426 Lol, brilliant. In all honesty, I'm in my 40s so don't remember how it started or ended because I also stopped watching. I just found Ken boring as a kid, that's all. I'm Irish, my mother was obsessed with Corrie. It was imo ahead of it's time, but I haven't watched it since around 2003 or so. Best wishes to you Steven. 👍
The writers of the show created the rivalry between them as Ken Barlow’s character had become such a very dull and boring man. There was a campaign to kill his character off but since William Roache was intent on staying they felt the need to create a rival for him in Mike Baldwin who’d already been in show for the past 6 years just to liven Ken’s boring personality up.
Barlow luckily got not guilty with Webster who was absolutely petrified by the thought of going prison. S offending people in tv like KR sadly conned the jury
Don't follow it anymore but whenever I have heard it in the background these last 20 years all I seem to hear is some angry young woman or other screeching at some man or other who I assume is in a relationship with her but from the endless verbal volleys of vitriol directed at him appears to have no redeeming qualities .
2:01 They Missed an open goal on this one. Ken could’ve glassed him with a pint pot And become the don Corleone of Wetherfield for the next 20 years. Ruining everybody with fear. Walking out with, if anyone grasses they are next!
I agree so much mate! That’s why I did this video because of the crap on telly it’s always good to remember the good times! Leave any request if you want!
Remember this. Used to love Coronation Street..haven't watched it for years. Brilliant back then
Over a woman lol
Coronation street was worth watching back then . The Baldwin - Barlow feud was compulsive viewing and their regular punch ups and slanging matches made it some of the very best television drama...
The affair Mike had with Deirdre was the best ' the rest were after my time.
That storyline of Mike's affair with Deirdre had one of the highest viewing figures in the soaps history ' that among many more highlights of my Corrie viewing days growing up.
All of the original cast members are either passed away or retired
Mike Baldwin wasn't boring
The character was always exciting and risk taking
Finally, The Feud Between Ken And Mike is Uploaded
Yeah! It’s a classic feud in surprised no one done it before
They have its been on youtube for years.
@paulanthony5274 I mean all together in one!
Bring it on.
Both better punchers than anthony joshua 😂
Mike Baldwin was the best character in coronation street
Johnny briggs played the part superbly for 30 years
From '76 to 2006
Rip Johnny briggs
Loved his character ' his dry humour ' and never afraid to speak up.
It was worth watching back then.
When telly was worth the licence
We don't pay the licence for itv, only the bbc
You can't watch ITV without a licence
@andygallagher6361 which isn't right, it's a BBC tax, not a TV signal tax
Absolute classic TV. Best soap feud ever. Back when corrie was worth watching, and the storylines weren't so appalling.
William and Johnny were actually good friends in real, William said he always relished it when he saw a fight between them coming up in the script.
I always wondered what it was like fighting your best friend on camera!
This was corrie gold this has to be the best rivalry in soap history thats why soaps are boring today
Defo mate! I always accept requests! Let me know when you have one!
BIT OF A STRETCH
If Ken went round punching everyone his wife had slept with he would spend his life fighting 🍺🍻
Aww the golden era of corration Street
R.I.P. late Johnny Briggs
With William Roache he is still in it
RIP Johnny Briggs what a legend 😭👊
@@Hate_JJYT I got the names molded up well spotted
Coronation Street Fighter 2
hhhhaaaarrrruuuuuuuuuuuuu KEN BARLOW
😂😂😂
Should make a fighting game called Barlow vs Baldwin and an Eastenders version Mitchell vs whoever
I think deep down they had a lot of mutual respect for each other.
They had from it.
I believe they had a very strong friendship off screen.
@@andrewcharley1893 They enjoyed playing golf together, I read that once. They seemed to be good friends.
@@gordontaylor5373 absolutely!!!!!
They May of had feuds over the years but when Mike was dying on the cobbles it was Ken comforting him and holding him the moral of the story it doesn't matter where you start it's where you end that matters 🙏
It’s not real you know …it’s a tv drama 🎭
I remember the dying days of Mike Baldwin, in particular when Ken was trying to attend to Mikw when he was having a heart attack, he was surprised Ken was attentive given he hated him. Ken responded "I don't hate anyone that much."
4.07 Vera doing her best elepant impression
🤣
When coronation street was worth watching
No pride flags,just pride between two great soap characters
Homophobic moron
Oh you hate gays? How 1950s of you darling
Back when the Soap was literally entertaining. It's a mess these days unfortunately.
Wonderful stuff , up there with the J.R. and Cliff Barnes feud over the pond lol.
JR was so evil!
@@Hate_JJYT He really was, if he wasn't wrecking Cliff's life he was putting Sue Ellen in the sanatorium 😃
What a bugger.
@MarkStevens8899 No wonder Kristin shot him 😂
@@Hate_JJYT 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Golden drama. Perfectly acted.
Jonny Briggs left a special legacy
Ik! Such an amazing character and actor! Let me know if you have any request!
4:10 Mikes Triple combo 👊 was Dope!🤣 Ken is KO!!!
😂 a lot of people said that it should be a game called Coronation Street Fighter
@@Hate_JJYT 🤣🤣🤣 I suppose Mike is Ryu then!!! SHORYUKENBARLOW🤣🤣🤣Wait there’s more🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Thanks for uploading this! Wish mikes combo had better impact sound effects!
In round one it took Ken just one punch with no sound effects 😂😂😂
@@sebhoward6674 definitely a clash of styles. Ken was the street fighter with solid knockout power. Mike was technically superior though! The dodge, the knee to the chest, the 3 punch combo. Pure poetry!
@@paarker 🤣🤣🤣
0:25 the old Hitchcock shot
How did the Mike-Dierdrie-Ken thing end up anyway? Was it Mike/Dierdrie, Ken/Dierdrie, Ken/Mike or a three-way?
It was Ken/Deidre/Mike! She was married to Ken before falling in love with Mike if that answers question 😅
Ken absolutely levelled him in his office like. Mike did well to come back from that.
Yeah with that three punch combo that sent Ken to the afterlife 😂
Although it was a sucker punch.
0:51 what a shot 😂
The Golden Age of Coronation Street.
Real family viewing watching the frequent dust-ups between Mike and Ken. Although neither in my opinion would have stood an earthly against
Ena Sharples 🧡
What I couldn't understand about Mike was the fact that he never lived in a huge mansion for somebody who was a successful businessman .He spent his life in apartments.
Golden times
Mike's 3 punch Combo really put Barlow in his place
Until Big Jim pulled him away! Mike always was an aggressive little squirt - but he wouldn't have come off well if he'd started on big Jim - Jim would've flattened him!
Show was really good once upon a time.
Agreed!
Wow when corrie was worth watching!!
Definitely! I wasn’t born yet but I always heard about it growing up!
Ah bliss these days of corrie were the best 😄😄
Corrie is what you call dog scrap now 🤯
This is when coronation street was worth watching..i stopped watching years ago.....
I honestly started watching clips a few years ago too
Wasn't it 1983-2006 if I can ask?
Because they did have showdowns in the 2000s as well.
Oh really can you tell me some of them? I remember out just being really high during this era
@@Hate_JJYT - Well it was mostly verbal showdowns, but they were still showdowns and all just as entertaining all the same.
They bickered in 2000 when being held hostage in the Frescho Siege, and then 2001 saw the two rivals clashing over custody for Adam following Susan's death. The aftermath of this and Toyah's rape storyline in which Ken and Mike argued over Peter being around Adam at the time saw their rivalry toned down when Alma died.
I'd say it all ended in 2006 with their last scene together when Mike remembers his affair with Deirdre and taunts Ken in his final moments. For me even though Mike was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease at the time, the words he uttered to Ken seemed genuine as it recounts the history of their compelling rivalry that practically dominated the show's headlines for over two decades since the love triangle with Dierdre back in 1982-1983 itself.
Plus in the 1990s they also had a few showdowns over Maggie Redman, as she was Mike's old flame who dated Ken and that fallout was over Maggie's choice about not wanting Mike to know he is the father of their child Mark - it was something that Ken supported partially for Maggie's sake but mainly because of his rivalry with Mike.
I remember in the last episode of 1992 in the last ever seen of the show's year in fact. Mike and Alma were about to go out for a New Year celebration meal when Ken came over to warn Mike in staying away from Maggie and Mark, which led to the two rivals bitterly arguing until Alma intervened.
Having said that, I also reckon Ken and Mike clashed over Alma as well as Mike's discovery of Ken's affair with Wendy Crozier if I am correct on that.
@nickyhaugh2390 Oh! Thanks so much! I didn’t even know half of this happened! I thought they would’ve fought over Adam! Thanks for this!
@@Hate_JJYT - No worries mate.
Baldwin is hard
Those three punches were epic 😂
Ikr! Mike knocked Ken into the other land with those
Back when the street ruled the roost, been crap for at least 10 years now, stopped watching ages ago😢
My wife started watching it again recently, I nearly fell asleep while watching an episode with her the other night. It's just really dull and the acting is really wooden.
@@townsjim I haven't watched it for a few years now
@@townsjim 😂 Did she make you watch it! My girlfriend does that to me all the time just for fun.
@@Hate_JJYT Nah, I just sat down in the living room while she was watching it.
@@townsjim It was a mistake wasn’t it 😭
Well Done 🥰
Thanks so much!
0:53 First Ken punches Mike at his work
4:12 And then Mike retaliates and punches Ken back at the rovers return pub
Now that’s what I called a feud between the pair of them
Mike gave Ken that work in the pub!
@@Hate_JJYTdidn’t he
Never knew Ken had a tough side
"Not this time"
Always remember that scene. The first time Mike actually won a fight with Ken.
Can't believe ken is still in Corrie
Nostalgia is a hoor of a mistress.
That’s nothing short from the truth!
Mike ‘Knickers’ Baldwin with the 3 piece and a hotpot 👊🏻
KO
Shows that the good guy is only seen as a safe pair of hands
You don't love our Tracy do you Ken.. Never forgot those words she said..
Ah good old 4 channel television. Before it was ruined by the 1000s of channel world nowadays not a thing worth watching. Corrie eastenders Totp dukes of hazard two Ronnie’s ect ect. The whole family would sit and watch even if some claimed not to like certain programs. Wholesome stuff way better than the internet world of today
Defo! This was so amazing mate! The best feud in soap history
When Ken punches Mike in the factory office, you can hear one of the girls exclaim (I think) flippin’ ‘eck, but it don’t half sound like f’ing hell 🤬 😬
I bet you can’t fight
Knowing ITV they probably aired it out mate!
I remember that scene at the time where Mike catches Ken having an affair with Wendy Crozier 🤣
"Concrete" Kenny Barlow. A lot of the heavyweights like Tyson, Joe Bugner, Paul Sykes, etc, refer to that lethal left hand .... no wonder Baldwin went down like a lift with the cables cut. Pete 🏴
'Marvellous' Mike Baldwin's 3 punch combo was a thing of beauty though mate.
@@CIMAmotor both were "flawless victory" territory 😅
I didn't know Mike Baldwin had hands like that lol.
UFC hands!
Loved It When Baldwin Owned Pompus Barlow In The Rovers 🤜✊
@@David-h4z2s good 3 punch combo
Baldwin got well stuck in
Iconic 👑👑❤️❤️
Best comedy ever
That's back when coronation street had real actors
Never heard of Ken Barley or Mike Bollock.
Ken like Liam Neeson in Taken for the first strike hahahah
Poor old Alec at the end 😂
😂
After all that fighting outside the Woman lingerie factory Mike with his last words saying Deirdre's mine died in Ken arm 😂
😂 Mike will always remember seeing the unforbiddden world with Deidre
41 years since Ken and Mike became enemies
Time flies!
Back before all this woke crap
Everything was better than!
Eh up 😂😂😂
These scenes could easily be shown today. Hayley first appeared in 1998. I guess it was even "woke" then. Get a grip.
@@jaym1512 your missing the point crap stain. I never once said they couldn't be shown. I meant the time line in the 90s. We didn't have all this trans and me2 stuff what we have today sausage
@@jaym1512 You're missing the point. Obviously not talking about the show. Talking about that era
As I recall, after this they did start working together to help Deidrie
That’s what I remember too! I forgot they had more arguments afterwards
Ken was happily married to deirdrie then she had an affair with mike baldwin. Johnny briggs was the one who started the feud in the first place. All ken wanted was peace but mike had other ideas he is a marriage wrecker.
A wee bit more complex methinks. Ken was quite self centred, had told Deirdre that he wanted no more children when she suggested having a baby (right decision as he was a hopeless father across several decades) and tended to stay in watching Chekhov, while his younger wife festered in a corner, to the extent that even Albert Tatlock said he should be taking her out now and then.
Overdid the coffee appreciation a bit at the end
2 best freinds hateing eachother
I bet it was such a laugh for Bill and Johnny’
Although Baldwin does give him the old bap-bap-bap in The Rovers (and it was a very decent combination), overall Ken comes out on top in this beef. I seem to remember Fred Gee lamping Eddie Yates in The Rovers, putting the affable scouse binman on his backside.
Its crazy to think Ken is not far off 100 years old.
I think he's 92 - or at least Bill Roache is.
Ken is meant to be 85.
I thought I was watching ufc !!
Mike was giving Ken that work!
ken barlow was like the terminator, always out for mike baldwin.
I thought there would be more lol
Was there nothing after 1998?
Not that I can find! If you do see anymore clips let me know though! I’ll add them!
@@Hate_JJYT Will do 👍🏻
The stoylines with Ken and Mike were great
At somepoint you should probably try and do the complete feud of Mike Baldwin and his other nemesis Don Brennan in Coronation Street. This may have occurred throughout Don's stint from 1987-1997 but it was the later 1990s that saw their conflict really turning out for the worst.
Mind you Mike and Don started out as mere competitive opponents in that poker game with Alan Bradley and Jack Duckworth back in 1988 itself. From then onwards they were mere neighbours who had few problematic interactions in pre-1996. Then the year itself came when Mike conned Don into buying his garage for a lot worth than it's original valuation and this led to Don's bankruptcy and mental breakdown in which he took his frustrations out on Mike for what happened and Mike reacted indifferently to the matter by pointing out that Don isn't totally blameless on his situation himself.
And then their quarrel became nastier in 1997 with Mike's indifference and Don's descent into madness that results in the latter embarking on a dangerously obsessive vendetta against the former himself. They had many confrontations up to the point where Don's campaign of revenge involved setting fire to Mike's factory, kidnapping Alma before trying to kill her along with himself in a failed suicide attempt by driving the vehicle with them inside it into a canal, and finally attempting to murder Mike himself that culminated with Don's death when he unsuccessfully tried to run over Mike on the street.
Woah… I don’t even know how I don’t know this one! Of course I’ll do it! However, I’m definitely going to need your help with some of the scenes if you don’t mind! I love taking requests especially for feuds!
@@Hate_JJYT - I'll see what I can do for you mate.
@nickyhaugh2390 Thanks mate!
@@Hate_JJYT - No worries.
@@Hate_JJYT - You can do their poker game competition in December 1988, particularly in their most recent one in the last episode of the year that gets even more tense up to the point where Mike and Don go all-in with their cash. Mike wins and Don loses in the end.
Then 1996 would see their differences heating up from time to time, especially in June 1996. At one point Mike visits Don to see if his girlfriend Josie Clarke, who was working for Mike at the time, can help with a fax problem and Don has a go at Mike for interrupting their date.
Then a few episodes later they get into an argument in the corner shop when Mike arrives just as Don is getting something. Don is telling Rita about the problems with his relationship with Josie and their ownership of the garage. Mike walks in during the discussion and gets involved, to which Don responds by having a go at Mike for tricking him and Josie into buying the garage for much more than it was originally valued.
July 1996 sees Don shutting down Mike when the latter wants to know if Josie can return to work for him. Then a few episodes later in a memorable scene Mike is about to have a drink when Don drunkenly confronts him over the garage scandal. Don attempts to punch Mike but misses and he tries again, but Mike blocks him and instead punches Don to the ground in self-defence. The next episode Mike sees Don in the cafe where Alma is and they almost fight in front of Nick when Don goads him to try and hit him. Mike instead tells Don to calmly go and then goes on to say that Don is not blameless for the mess he was brought upon himself.
I would say December 1996 they had another dispute when Mike calls a taxi and Don realizes that Mike is his intended customer. Don refuses to drive Mike and they get into an argument until a policeman intervenes and notices that Don has been drinking and gets him cautioned in front of Mike.
It is then 1997 happens and the story of the year in Corrie for me is the ongoing conflict between Mike and Don that swiftly becomes more nastier and dangerous as time goes on. January that year sees Mike confronting Don for trying to slander him with messages that he even sent to Alma and warns him off. Stephen Reid listens in to their argument at one point if I am correct.
On a few occasions Mike and Don have more confrontations, such as when Mike hires Ashley and Don tries to advise Ashley against it.
Then of course April 1997 sees the first of it's episodes conclude with Mike confronting Don for setting fire to his factory. Don admits it and discloses his hatred for Mike. That month sees the pair have several interactive confrontations over the fire factory and Don's vendetta. Mike often visits Don to confront him or they just exchange harsh words in the pub.
But then after the Don-Alma horror episode in which they ended up in the canal and then in hospital, Mike rushes to confront Don as he is being examined by a nurse. Mike barges in and goes to throttle Don, even calling him an evil bastard, for kidnapping Alma and trying to kill her. Mike starts throttling the unconscious Don when both Martin Platt and the policeman guarding the door restrain him as he says he'll kill Don for what he did to Alma.
And then of course there is their final confrontation in October 1997 when Don ambushes Mike at his factory and attempts to kill him by beating him to death. That fails and the scenario concludes with Don attempting to run over Mike in Alma's car, but he misses and ends up killing himself as Mike watches on alongside Ken Barlow and Rita Fairclough as well as several other people at the climax.
Perhaps you can even do the next episode in the aftermath of Don's death when Mike constantly makes it clear to everyone that he is glad that Don is dead, thus signifying the extent of their hatred. If anything this feud is the British non-gangland version of Gustavo Fring and Hector Salamanca if you ask me.
Don't hear Ken swear very often.
Emily Bishop acting as referee 😂
Would love to see a poll to see how many were on which side between these two. I'm team Mike I'd say. Ken just annoyed me 😂
That can be arranged!
@@CamEraFitnessChannel team Ken myself, couldn't stand how Mike had taunted him all those years when he was the one sleeping with a married woman.
It was heartwarming the way they later became friends, and Mike didn't deserve his awful fate.
@stevensmith426 Lol, brilliant. In all honesty, I'm in my 40s so don't remember how it started or ended because I also stopped watching. I just found Ken boring as a kid, that's all. I'm Irish, my mother was obsessed with Corrie. It was imo ahead of it's time, but I haven't watched it since around 2003 or so. Best wishes to you Steven. 👍
@CamEraFitnessChannel me neither, stopped watching long ago. Best wishes to you too my friend.
And people still think this is real life.
0:51 - He barely touched him 😂😂😂
Mike Baldwin 1976-3006
Good innings.
That would mean he’s been on coronation street for 1036 years
The writers of the show created the rivalry between them as Ken Barlow’s character had become such a very dull and boring man.
There was a campaign to kill his character off but since William Roache was intent on staying they felt the need to create a rival for him in Mike Baldwin who’d already been in show for the past 6 years just to liven Ken’s boring personality up.
Imagine fighting over that old harridan 😅
😂
I'd of loved to of seen Blanche have a rant at Mike as Mother-in-law lol. Nowt a pc bone in that women, not even a cell 😅
Alec was a really funny person
Barlow luckily got not guilty with Webster who was absolutely petrified by the thought of going prison. S offending people in tv like KR sadly conned the jury
4:15 ken better be careful or he'll end up in (thick Irish accent) "da big house"
What aboyt ya jim
4:05 After acting like the hard man, Jack gets knocked down by a tiny shove from Ken Barlow
😂 Jack nearly fell on his face
Ahh. Jim Mcdonald. 'When men were men'.😅
Don't follow it anymore but whenever I have heard it in the background these last 20 years all I seem to hear is some angry young woman or other screeching at some man or other who I assume is in a relationship with her but from the endless verbal volleys of vitriol directed at him appears to have no redeeming qualities .
40 Years later and fb name and shame them, Takes over lol
Amanda Barrie is the best actor throughout this compellation.
Don brenen and Ken Barlow hated Mike Baldwin.
2:01 They Missed an open goal on this one. Ken could’ve glassed him with a pint pot And become the don Corleone of Wetherfield for the next 20 years. Ruining everybody with fear.
Walking out with, if anyone grasses they are next!
The Americans had Joe Frazer v Muhammad Ali. We had Ken v Mike.
😂 I know so amazing!
The original mark darcy/daniel cleaver
Shoryu-KEN ! ☄️☄️
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Ken hit Mike so hard he gave him Alzheimer’s.
😂😂💀
Handbags at dawn.
When corry was good
They battled like TITANS over women.
Over Deidre 😦
@@Hate_JJYT Love knows no bounds. Baldwin and Barlow battle for her down the ages.
From when Corrie was great, its crap now unfortunately but nearly everything on telly is.
I agree so much mate! That’s why I did this video because of the crap on telly it’s always good to remember the good times! Leave any request if you want!
Ken dropped him with 1 punch..