40+ years later, almost brought to tears watching this. It just took me back to a time when things and people were so much nicer, and the world was not as bitter and divided as it is now.
The eggs story still cracks me up 43 years later That and the foot through the ceiling are some of Hildas best moments ! When the actors were genius and the writers likewise it’s just bliss !
I just discovered this show last year here in the states through UA-cam and Britbox (crying like crazy over the Alfie and Abi story). None of our American soaps are this good. Enjoying both classic and current episodes. Hilda and Stan are big favorites of mine. The egg story was hilarious. I love the comic relief they provide in this show!
Thanks so much for these great episodes, you are the best channel on UA-cam! I haven't watched television since I found your channel and its a breath of fresh air watching all the classic episodes from a great era, so different from the garbage they constantly push on us nowadays. That's my weekend sorted for viewing :-)
I couldn’t agree more… Fantastic viewing… It’s a pleasure to watch these classics.. I’ve ditched regular television long ago… So glad I found these gems… Big thanks to the uploader… Bringing joy to thousands of Retro television fans…
Right up there with Dickens in quality! And getting close to half-way to Dickens in age. Very minor quibble the opening and closing credits have been chopped, but then you were supposed to tear the covers and the advertising off the partworks of Dickens in order to have them bound into volumes, too, so....
THANKYOU!! A thousand million times over for these uploads… I’m binge watching them everyday… It’s blissful… Waves of Nostalgia are building from within…. This is what proper telly used to be… Marvellous….
Stepped back into the past watching these. Late 80s/90s are usually what I watch and I have to say there are many things that are familiar. Deirdre saying ''Tracy'' about 100 times an episode is one of them.
Wow, I'm shocked that Stan's only 57 in the story - he looks at least 10 years older! I just looked up actor Bernard Youens who played him, he was born December 28 1914, so in early 1979 he was actually 64, if my maths is right. And frankly, he looks it! He died 27 August 1984 aged 69. I reckon the cigarettes are what did for him, sadly. He had a heart attack in 1972 and a stroke in '75 which badly affected his speech - that's when the writers relied on the character of Eddie Yates to ease the burden on him, initially moving him in as Stan and Hilda's lodger to reduce Stan's dialogue. With actor Geoffrey Hughes' support as Eddie, he was able to play Stan until early '84 when his health deteriorated again and another stroke marked the beginning of the end. Bernard was taken into hospital on 2nd April and died there on 27th August after suffering a heart attack. Life mirrored art, and the Street scriptwriters explained Stan's absence as him being admitted to hospital on doctor's orders, after Hilda collapsed from the strain of looking after him. The decision to kill off the character was made soon after he died, and his death was revealed in the programme on 21st November 1984. Bernard Youens was, for a time, the UK's most famous working class northern man - despite in reality hailing from genteel Hove in Sussex! Before he took the role of Stan he was well known for his velvety smooth voice as a TV continuity announcer, and he was likened to movie stars Ronald Coleman and Clark Gable for his moustachioed good looks.
46:30 Has anyone else noticed how often there's a strategically placed loaf of 'Sunblest' bread on a character's table - or a 'random' sighting of the 'Sunblest' delivery van out on the cobbles? I'm not sure what the rules were about product placement in the late 'seventies and early 'eighties, but Granada were definitely doing a deal with that particular brand of sliced bread!
Looking back now at the Brian and Gail romance, it does seem doomed from the start, and not just because of Poison Ivy's fierce disapproval. Gail has all the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old with a crush on a pop star. And Brian just comes across as a meathead - selfish, rather thick and crass. There's no discernable love there at all, and Gail is so clingy and pathetic she'd have turned most men off. I suppose the marriage might have worked had they grown-up during it, but they didn't. Gail is such a drip at this point, but having the mother-in-law from hell toughened her into the belligerent hysteric she became later on.
Spot on… perfect analogy of the situation… Yep Old Ferret face Gail’s ditzy devotion to cave man Brian was cringeworthy at times… And yes Ivy was pure Vitriol 90% of the time… She thought Our Brian was a God… And poor old Bert was the ultimate grey gravy doormat… Ivy had beaten all the spirit out’ve him..
2:02:22 Funny to hear Bet Lynch mention Prince Phillip, in view of his recent death. I don't suppose, even back then, they'd have been surprised to hear the Queen's husband would live to be almost 100. Life as a royal is a damn sight easier than life as a commoner up north!
Greetings from the land of Oz, oh give over that's Australia. I am a Corrie addict who loves these early episodes. Any road watching them cannot hurt me, no danger, I'm watching more lately cause I'm poorly and need my rest.
@@bsaunders5271 Brian isn't so much creepy as in he is just SHITE! Can't act at all as wooden as hell roll on when he gets stabbed and puts us all out our misery, Ivy is awful as well!
Hello Chuck - I'm feeling down. It's the 2 year anniversary of my beloved little dog's death. Any chance of the June '79 episodes? It would take my mind off my bunions! Thanks again for all your hard work & dedication, you are loved! XXX
I don’t know if anyone else feels the same, but I feel like Gail became a whingepot after she met ‘Our Brian.’ She was actually quite likeable before she met him.
LOL Good catch! I've paused it, and it's actually an optical illusion. The guy is wearing black trousers with black belt loops, and a wide tan belt going through the belt loops - which looks like flesh and gives the impression his arse is hanging out! The middle belt loop resembles a black G-string, or the crack of his arse. Good God - what am I doing with my life??!!
Thanks for doing this. I started again at January 1977 and am working my way through but had to stop at April 1979 until this recent upload. Will you be able to finish uploading the rest of 1979? I did, last night, jump to January 1980 but I'll hang fire if I know the rest of 1979 will be available shortly. Thanks again! 😁
Gail true to form as she continued to be, always full of drama! She TOLD Brian to dance with Suzi because she was cheesed off she couldn't dance as well as Brian, then gets the hump when Suzi does it better than she can! I don't even like Suzi Birchall but Gail is annoying here to say the least!
I was 17 in May 1979 and always liked Gail, especially her antics with Susie. I didn't remember the early days with her and Brian. I didn't know that Poison Ivy was so poisonous right at the start of the relationship, they didn't really have a chance did they? Also if they weren't right for each other they would have drifted apart naturally, with Ivy's interfering they fought against her. I think Ivy made Gail eventually transform into an Ivy clone 😂
I was the same age then. I also had a poisonous future Mother In Law. 😆she picked on the wrong one with me. She missed out on grandchildren and great grandchildren. All her own doing.
1:22:19 well Deidre, John Travolta: absolutely gorgeous for starters and he's a great dancer. Ah ah ah Stayin' Alive 🕺🎼🎶🎵 and our Brian is his only competition 😂😂😂
Tracy at bday party so off to the pub!! what a treat with fred, simpering whimpy gail and arent I lovely boy brian with his bad tempered mum and hen pecked dad!
Woah! That Brian was a real Mammys boy… & fancied himself waayyy too much… Steve would’ve belted him proper if it wasn’t for Ivys apron strings interrupting… And as for Gail.. what he’d ever see in old ferret face is beyond me… At least Suzy was a scorcher… A shallow jumped up character but still a real babe… And as for Ivy banging on every five minutes about “Our Brian”… no wonder he thought he was gods gift when she constantly built him up into being some kind of god like Adonis… Also loved Berts comment to his missus Ivy when says to Brian “Start crawling now and you’ll spend rest of ya life crawling… And Bert replies… “That’s right I mean look at me I’m a shining example“ about him being downtrodden and hen pecked… “Ya know what I mean…”
Definitely agree with that, even Gail's character went from a fun loving girl to the miserable cow she is now, I don't even bother with the soaps today.
I thought all those you mentioned were pretty dam good - for me the rot set in with the influx of rather unlikable young characters like Sharron , Jenny and Martin Patt - i dont include Sally Kevin Cury or Terry duckworth in that group as i think they done a good job too , Bet leaving the Rovers was a big blow too they never got the right landlord/lady after that and still havent - and the scripts got recidudlous too
I know what you mean. I can't bear the Websters or, Lord save us, the Claytons. Sally Seddon/ Webster is the reason I can't watch post 1986. Ivy makes me savage, but I quite liked the Duckworths, except Terry. It all went wrong for me during the big cull, when Stan, Eddie, Elsie, Len, Bert, Albert and Ena left within a relatively short time of each other. And Granada should have paid Julie Goodyear whatever she wanted in order to keep her.
@@williamf4544 oh Jenny was awful. I hated how she turned on Rita and stuck up for Alan after he flipped his lid and tried to kill her. I always thought that Gail choosing Martin after Brian was odd. How different could two blokes be...although maybe that was the attraction.
@@bsaunders5271 I got into old Coronation Street a couple of years ago and absolutely love it from the start until the early 80s. Once those characters you mentioned started to leave and the likes of Kevin, Sally, Curly, Phyllis, Percy etc replaced them I can't watch it. Even watching a character I like, Hilda, in a 1986 episode wasn't enjoyable because of the idiots around her.
How on earth could Else Tanner describe the music at disco as just a lot of noise. She obviously dose not have an ear for good music. I have to admit i was more for 80s music than 70s
Why doesn’t anyone stand up to Mrs W? Absolute horror and as for Ivy.. needs locking up in the factory as they move to other premises.. never to been seen again!!!😂😂
Anyone binge watching in 2024? These episodes are fantastic, great acting, great characters.
Yes for the second time.
💯👏xx me x
❤ me! 😊
I stumbled on it two days ago and have been binge watching since. Brings back good memories.
I can't stop!
40+ years later, almost brought to tears watching this. It just took me back to a time when things and people were so much nicer, and the world was not as bitter and divided as it is now.
I know exactly what you're feeling.
Me too!🎉❤
Me too 😊
Yes me too.coronation St.andsons and daughters are
Couldn't agree with you more
The eggs story still cracks me up 43 years later
That and the foot through the ceiling are some of Hildas best moments !
When the actors were genius and the writers likewise it’s just bliss !
I just discovered this show last year here in the states through UA-cam and Britbox (crying like crazy over the Alfie and Abi story). None of our American soaps are this good. Enjoying both classic and current episodes. Hilda and Stan are big favorites of mine. The egg story was hilarious. I love the comic relief they provide in this show!
Cracks you up..good one..😁
Yep your eggsactly right… The egg storyline was brilliant…
It was a big mistake getting rid of Martha for the bloody Ogdens 😢
Martha and Hilda would have had some moments
Yes I still watch these old corrie episodes today. Today's episodes are totally rubbish and sad. The fun and humour have long gone right out of it.
Thanks so much for these great episodes, you are the best channel on UA-cam! I haven't watched television since I found your channel and its a breath of fresh air watching all the classic episodes from a great era, so different from the garbage they constantly push on us nowadays. That's my weekend sorted for viewing :-)
Ha I'm the same, I'm paying a fortune for Netflix and Amazon Prime but this is so much better! :-)
@@EveHenleySpread I reckon the TV licence is on borrowed time, thanks to fantastic UA-cam channels like this one!
I couldn’t agree more… Fantastic viewing… It’s a pleasure to watch these classics.. I’ve ditched regular television long ago… So glad I found these gems… Big thanks to the uploader… Bringing joy to thousands of Retro television fans…
I’ve applied and been accepted to say i don’t need tv license
Right up there with Dickens in quality!
And getting close to half-way to Dickens in age.
Very minor quibble the opening and closing credits have been chopped, but then you were supposed to tear the covers and the advertising off the partworks of Dickens in order to have them bound into volumes, too, so....
THANKYOU!! A thousand million times over for these uploads… I’m binge watching them everyday… It’s blissful… Waves of Nostalgia are building from within…. This is what proper telly used to be… Marvellous….
Yes me too Joseph. They are so good. Real strong characters so so good.
Same, it’s brilliant. It’s of a time, I don’t think you could create characters like this now
Elsie Tanner... Just fabulous.
She was. I thought she was the epitome of glamour when I used to watch this as a kid. Still do 😊
Stepped back into the past watching these. Late 80s/90s are usually what I watch and I have to say there are many things that are familiar. Deirdre saying ''Tracy'' about 100 times an episode is one of them.
Yes a Big Thank You for these uploads. I was 15 in 1979. Brings back so many memories
Ok your 4 years younger than me no need to rub my face in it
Wow, I'm shocked that Stan's only 57 in the story - he looks at least 10 years older! I just looked up actor Bernard Youens who played him, he was born December 28 1914, so in early 1979 he was actually 64, if my maths is right. And frankly, he looks it!
He died 27 August 1984 aged 69.
I reckon the cigarettes are what did for him, sadly. He had a heart attack in 1972 and a stroke in '75 which badly affected his speech - that's when the writers relied on the character of Eddie Yates to ease the burden on him, initially moving him in as Stan and Hilda's lodger to reduce Stan's dialogue.
With actor Geoffrey Hughes' support as Eddie, he was able to play Stan until early '84 when his health deteriorated again and another stroke marked the beginning of the end.
Bernard was taken into hospital on 2nd April and died there on 27th August after suffering a heart attack. Life mirrored art, and the Street scriptwriters explained Stan's absence as him being admitted to hospital on doctor's orders, after Hilda collapsed from the strain of looking after him. The decision to kill off the character was made soon after he died, and his death was revealed in the programme on 21st November 1984.
Bernard Youens was, for a time, the UK's most famous working class northern man - despite in reality hailing from genteel Hove in Sussex! Before he took the role of Stan he was well known for his velvety smooth voice as a TV continuity announcer, and he was likened to movie stars Ronald Coleman and Clark Gable for his moustachioed good looks.
Thankyou for this, it was really interesting. It's great to get some back story on the actors.
@@katy4779 You're welcome, I'm a born gossip and love the behind-the-screen facts and figures! X
@@glamdolly30 The smoking and being overweight, as well as liking a drink all combined to damage his health
@@alanberkeley7282 Little doubt about that my friend! Sad.
Aawww thank you so VERY much for these special facts about a Genuise...xooo
Just LOVE the Elsie, Gail and Susie trio......Brings back childhood memories. I always loved it when they were on and had a storyline going.....
Pat was such a shite actress! They made a big mistake getting rid of Martha AND Renee
Thank you very much this brings back so many childhood memories in London.
1:17:00 why on earth would anyone get upset with a young lad selling a bike in favour of a car? Ivy should be seeing Dr Gillespe, not Alf Roberts!
46:30 Has anyone else noticed how often there's a strategically placed loaf of 'Sunblest' bread on a character's table - or a 'random' sighting of the 'Sunblest' delivery van out on the cobbles?
I'm not sure what the rules were about product placement in the late 'seventies and early 'eighties, but Granada were definitely doing a deal with that particular brand of sliced bread!
Sunblest was very mainstream back then, they even used to do home deliveries like the milk men.
It wasn’t allowed, think they got round it with shops , but had to be discreet otherwise
The loafs of bread in Dawsons cafe looks burnt 😆
These classic episodes are absolutely 💯 brilliant
Love watching these episodes I don't watch street now.great actors
OMG what a fantastic start to my Friday to find the May 1979 episodes uploaded here! ProfessionalGun 66 - You are a GOD! THANK YOU & HAPPY FRIDAY! XXX
Looking back now at the Brian and Gail romance, it does seem doomed from the start, and not just because of Poison Ivy's fierce disapproval. Gail has all the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old with a crush on a pop star. And Brian just comes across as a meathead - selfish, rather thick and crass. There's no discernable love there at all, and Gail is so clingy and pathetic she'd have turned most men off. I suppose the marriage might have worked had they grown-up during it, but they didn't. Gail is such a drip at this point, but having the mother-in-law from hell toughened her into the belligerent hysteric she became later on.
Spot on… perfect analogy of the situation… Yep Old Ferret face Gail’s ditzy devotion to cave man Brian was cringeworthy at times… And yes Ivy was pure Vitriol 90% of the time… She thought Our Brian was a God… And poor old Bert was the ultimate grey gravy doormat… Ivy had beaten all the spirit out’ve him..
Brian is a misery Gail got on my nerves here and even worse today corrie went downhill yrs ago .
Agreed. Brian and Gail was a nightmare.
Coronation Street wasn't real, It was fantasy. 😂🤣
@@ianwhitehead691 Gee, thanks Captain Obvious.
2:02:22 Funny to hear Bet Lynch mention Prince Phillip, in view of his recent death. I don't suppose, even back then, they'd have been surprised to hear the Queen's husband would live to be almost 100. Life as a royal is a damn sight easier than life as a commoner up north!
Royals get the best money can buy.
Thanks for posting these 😊 It’s funny seeing people I used to see as old and now being older than them 😂❤
1:47:02 Ivy complains about everything. 😮😮 I don’t know 🤷♂️ how anybody stands her. Especially Bert.😢😢😢😢
Thank you, l am so enjoying these episodes. ❤️
Absolutely brilliant 1970s Corrie ❤
Has there EVER been anything likeable about Gloomy Gail??
After a lot of memory searching, I'm concluding that no, there hasn't.
@@bsaunders5271 I would have to agree.
Audrey
Nah!.. Old Ferret face has always been grey gravy…
Before Brian she was much better, she put way too much focus on men
Greetings from the land of Oz, oh give over that's Australia.
I am a Corrie addict who loves these early episodes.
Any road watching them cannot hurt me, no danger,
I'm watching more lately cause I'm poorly and need my rest.
Annie Walker, Jack and Billy: perfect casting and superbly acted. Why the producers didn't hang on to Kenneth Farrington I will never know.
Thank u so much! ❤️
At 2:47 when Dierdre puts Tracy on the counter in the cabin the little girl is saying "Anne, Anne" to Annie Kirkbride
Tracy onthe ccuntr
15:44 check the bloke at the bar, whose pattern on his trousers makes him look like he’s wearing a thong!! Lol 😂😂
Yikes 😂😂😂
😂
Ivy, the mother from hell. Poor Bert, what did he see in her.
I wonder the same. She is a pure misery, and her hold over R. Brian is almost creepy. A boy's best friend is his mother. Not.
@@bsaunders5271 Brian isn't so much creepy as in he is just SHITE! Can't act at all as wooden as hell roll on when he gets stabbed and puts us all out our misery, Ivy is awful as well!
@@brianmcneill1972 Ivy's hold over R. Brian is creepy, not the man himself.
@@bsaunders5271 the man himself cant act for toffee and has all the presence of a plank of wood
@@bsaunders5271 Brian isnae creepy just the guy playing him can't act for toffee!
Brilliant-thanks a lot.
Mavis said, "that girl's(Deidre) got something.."
Rita said, " must be them goggles"......
Aha ha ha ha....
Laughed myself at that, go on Rita
@@michaelgregory8322Rita's personality to the 100.
Classic Coronation Street is the best but this Gail and Brian storyline is mind numbing ..
Elsie in her efforts to cover for Gail ends up making the situation ten times worse lol. Thanks for the uploads... Corrie gold.
Uncle ken,uncle ray,uncle al code word back in 60's 70's for mommies new bow 😊
Grumpy Gail! Holy moly run Brian. Unfortunately she doesn't get any better 😮
Christopher Quentin was a dancer at the beginning of his career...
He should have stayed one.he was to acting what ena sharples was to grand prix motor racing😅
That figures
Oh, for God's sake, Gail, belt up! I can't wait for her storyline to be done. She's getting on my wick.
Hello Chuck - I'm feeling down. It's the 2 year anniversary of my beloved little dog's death. Any chance of the June '79 episodes? It would take my mind off my bunions!
Thanks again for all your hard work & dedication, you are loved! XXX
Gail: "Not sausages again?"
Susie: "I, said upmarket"
Elsie: "cocktail sausages?" 😂😂
Corrie isn’t the same these days it’s too political and hard to watch is a shame
You Can skip a few months these days and not miss much unfortunately
Judging by the ratings it hasn't got many viewers left
I don’t know if anyone else feels the same, but I feel like Gail became a whingepot after she met ‘Our Brian.’ She was actually quite likeable before she met him.
Guy at the bar at 15:46 why I noticed this i don’t know why I noticed it but you would have thought the director would have noticed the half moon lol
LOL Good catch! I've paused it, and it's actually an optical illusion. The guy is wearing black trousers with black belt loops, and a wide tan belt going through the belt loops - which looks like flesh and gives the impression his arse is hanging out!
The middle belt loop resembles a black G-string, or the crack of his arse. Good God - what am I doing with my life??!!
@@professionalgun6674 Ha! Ha! Coronation Street Bloopers - LOVE it! I'm there! XXX
@@glamdolly30 Haha now that I look again
@@glamdolly30 Lol
Mind you it would've been a bit of realism!
I wonder why they didn't do a retake when Pat Phoenix fluffed her lines 🤔
Cost / expense, to take again
Because it’s real. People do it in real life all the time.
Bert: to Brian " Because your Mothers just jealous, that's why " 👏👏👏👏
Great to see coronation street when it was at its best no murders rapes thanks
Thanks for doing this. I started again at January 1977 and am working my way through but had to stop at April 1979 until this recent upload. Will you be able to finish uploading the rest of 1979? I did, last night, jump to January 1980 but I'll hang fire if I know the rest of 1979 will be available shortly. Thanks again! 😁
Is this the start of Ken and Deidre ?
Why did they have to get rid of Renee? I liked her character
Gail true to form as she continued to be, always full of drama! She TOLD Brian to dance with Suzi because she was cheesed off she couldn't dance as well as Brian, then gets the hump when Suzi does it better than she can! I don't even like Suzi Birchall but Gail is annoying here to say the least!
Gail was, is, and always will be as irritating as a nettle down the trousers.
@@bsaunders5271 LOL! On point, Gail!
Can't stand the whiney chipmunk.
@@bsaunders5271😂😂😂😂
Actually Brian was wrong to dance the second dance , a slow one with susie ,,,, I m sure gail could do that as food as her so called friend !!!
my grandmother and mother were from bristol it his home fantastic
1:51:06 R. Brian's spins on the dance floor 🤣
Cringeworthy.
R Brian's backflip. Lol
John Travolta wannabe!
He's a complete pratt.
Cheers!
I was 17 in May 1979 and always liked Gail, especially her antics with Susie. I didn't remember the early days with her and Brian. I didn't know that Poison Ivy was so poisonous right at the start of the relationship, they didn't really have a chance did they?
Also if they weren't right for each other they would have drifted apart naturally, with Ivy's interfering they fought against her. I think Ivy made Gail eventually transform into an Ivy clone 😂
I was the same age then. I also had a poisonous future Mother In Law. 😆she picked on the wrong one with me. She missed out on grandchildren and great grandchildren. All her own doing.
Steve should have got a van and gone ghost hunting with his dog Scooby doo
1:22:19 well Deidre, John Travolta: absolutely gorgeous for starters and he's a great dancer. Ah ah ah Stayin' Alive 🕺🎼🎶🎵 and our Brian is his only competition 😂😂😂
It's amazing how car show rooms have changed over the years
When I look at Gail when she was young she reminds me of Sarah . Like mother like daughter
I don’t know why they have kept Gail all these decades
Annie Walker really took the piss out of Fred without knowing it.
When did they swap the position of the stairs???
After the big fire
Could you do this for 1970
Sorry mate, once these years are finished that's it.
@@professionalgun6674 ok no prob
@@professionalgun6674 good channel anyways because it has pretty much every episode from the 70s
@@professionalgun6674 wait. What does it mean once the years are inside that’s it???
1:45:09 GQ Disco Nights!!!! Go DJ! Thats my DJ! The feeling's right the music's tight! Disco nights oh🎶🎵🎼🎶🎵
That Gail is a pain in the .ss. Such a child!
Paul Shane is a legend.
I dont know why people give Brian a lot of stick i think the actor who played him was really good
Good April Fool comment
He was better in Jaws.
And better in Godzilla
Mavis and Emily - two peas in a pod
Gail, no rhythm nation, mad at Brian because he can dance. 😂
Elsie has fabulous hair
She was the Elizabeth Taylor of The Street 😊
Gail really is miserable, why Brian was with her, I’ll never know
Ourbrian could have had a dance troup - the male version of Pants People
Miss Minnie in these episodes 😢
Thank you for this
I agree with Gail, I think the second dance should have been with her
And thats why your single
Albert Tatlock being given the entire roast chicken😭😭😭
Scrounging old git.always on the ponse.
Tracy at bday party so off to the pub!! what a treat with fred, simpering whimpy gail and arent I lovely boy brian with his bad tempered mum and hen pecked dad!
I say, does anybody know WHERE THE HELL BET IS???!!!
I think Julie Goodyear was being treated for cancer at that time.
That was an interesting comment Gail made about Emily. "If half the world were like Emily the other half would be like the tramp."
People who snore always say they never snore
Billy was at this point a decent guy.l liked him then.
Whatever about the thoughts on mental health now,back then it was seen as major stigma
Crafty Ken quoting the old misogynist Schopenhauer who was quite wrong regarding the gender urges. I suspect Ken was quite aware of this fact.
Rita was having a bad hair day.
Woah! That Brian was a real Mammys boy… & fancied himself waayyy too much… Steve would’ve belted him proper if it wasn’t for Ivys apron strings interrupting… And as for Gail.. what he’d ever see in old ferret face is beyond me… At least Suzy was a scorcher… A shallow jumped up character but still a real babe… And as for Ivy banging on every five minutes about “Our Brian”… no wonder he thought he was gods gift when she constantly built him up into being some kind of god like Adonis… Also loved Berts comment to his missus Ivy when says to Brian “Start crawling now and you’ll spend rest of ya life crawling… And Bert replies… “That’s right I mean look at me I’m a shining example“ about him being downtrodden and hen pecked… “Ya know what I mean…”
i keep thinking deirdre and ken are together
giving The tilsleys excluding bert, the duckworths,, later the websters, and Derek wilton more prominent roles ruined this programme.
Definitely agree with that, even Gail's character went from a fun loving girl to the miserable cow she is now, I don't even bother with the soaps today.
I thought all those you mentioned were pretty dam good - for me the rot set in with the influx of rather unlikable young characters like Sharron , Jenny and Martin Patt - i dont include Sally Kevin Cury or Terry duckworth in that group as i think they done a good job too , Bet leaving the Rovers was a big blow too they never got the right landlord/lady after that and still havent
- and the scripts got recidudlous too
I know what you mean. I can't bear the Websters or, Lord save us, the Claytons. Sally Seddon/ Webster is the reason I can't watch post 1986. Ivy makes me savage, but I quite liked the Duckworths, except Terry. It all went wrong for me during the big cull, when Stan, Eddie, Elsie, Len, Bert, Albert and Ena left within a relatively short time of each other. And Granada should have paid Julie Goodyear whatever she wanted in order to keep her.
@@williamf4544 oh Jenny was awful. I hated how she turned on Rita and stuck up for Alan after he flipped his lid and tried to kill her. I always thought that Gail choosing Martin after Brian was odd. How different could two blokes be...although maybe that was the attraction.
@@bsaunders5271 I got into old Coronation Street a couple of years ago and absolutely love it from the start until the early 80s. Once those characters you mentioned started to leave and the likes of Kevin, Sally, Curly, Phyllis, Percy etc replaced them I can't watch it.
Even watching a character I like, Hilda, in a 1986 episode wasn't enjoyable because of the idiots around her.
Ivy, nag, nag, nag, but she was right about Gail
Strange bur very nice that the group that are friends in real life are all still alive Rita, Mavis, Renee, and Valerie Barlow
@1.55 Ivy Vera and Ida describing Corrie from 2000😂😂
How on earth could Else Tanner describe the music at disco as just a lot of noise. She obviously dose not have an ear for good music. I have to admit i was more for 80s music than 70s
Age. I love the music of the 60s, 70s and some of the 80s. But to me, today's music is "just a lot of noise".
Why doesn’t anyone stand up to Mrs W? Absolute horror and as for Ivy.. needs locking up in the factory as they move to other premises.. never to been seen again!!!😂😂
Like miss sharples I was in st Anne's 1979 watching the British open. Seve won
Gail and Brian were so mismatched - even here. I wonder if that was the writers intention from the start?
Why does anyone marry anyone like poisonous Ivy?
Susie was a horrible character and even worse was how other characters (Alf and Renee) thought it was ok poor Hilda
The famous Red Rec gets a mention just under 5 minutes.
G'ddam, let Brian shake that beautiful body 😥
Agreed
These episodes confirm my memory is correct -- Deidre was ALWAYS as annoying as I remember......
Brian proprer mammys boy
What horrible neighbors these people have! If I lived with these types, I would move!!