It's amazing, I hated Hilda when I was a kid moaning nagging old bat, only now I'm older I can see what an amazing character she is, quite smart and quick witted also has a heart of gold and conscientious.
Yes - She was more the type of women our Mums and Grannies were very familiar with - The Elsie Tanners were the type they all gossiped about while Hilda was no threat and if truth be told was a bit like them themselves back in the day
Drinks were so much cheaper then. 47p for a gin and tonic is equivalent to £1.90 in today's money, yet in most pubs now a G&T won't leave you much change from a tenner!
Remember who was in charge in the west. Reagan was US president. That's when our housing market went through the roof. Same in Britain. Gail and Brian were out priced. Sad.
It’s so nice of Mike taking Hilda out for a meal i love ❤️ this episode thank you 🙏 for the upload i love ❤️ the old coronation street so many memories
I watched during the 70s and early 80s mostly ' not so much 90s ' today 's Corrie I can't even understand ' dark and depressing ' like a different world ' Ken Barlow is the only original ' part of the cobbles.
Great to see Hilda looking so lovely. ''Never even been in a bank.'' 🥰 Mike was often a cold-hearted corporate bugger but he also had these great moments of sweetness, understanding and pure class... Meanwhile, Emily reminds me of a character from a Jane Austen novel, more fitting for the 1880s than the 1980s. I can't understand why she considers herself homely. And Dierdre never tells her she isn't, even while encouraging her! lol
Emily and Mavis were an antidote to the plethora of strong, brassy female characters on the street. They both were as important, well written and brilliantly acted but in a more subtle and complex way.
I’m glad Hilda won that raffle because it’s about time she was treated like a princess, I ❤Hilda’s character she makes me laugh 😆 and smile 😊, I ❤the old ones of Corrie better than today’s Corrie thank you 🙏
This is so good. I prefer watching this to the current Coronation Street. There are no characters you really like (except Rita, Ken, Gail and Adam Barlow) The storylines are believeable not like now. Why did it go SO downhill?
These are the golden years before Redmond put a body in a patio and airplanes fell from the sky in other soaps. For me that was the watershed on when soaps changed.
The internet and social media makes it so that one's attention span is very short. So they want to try to make coronation street and other shows as exciting as can be....some people don't want to spend the whole hour watching one thing anymore
To add my two-pennyworth - I remember reading an interview in the early Noughties with one of Corrie's contemporary producers after the first lesbians were introduced to the street. And before anyone accuses me of homophobia I found the characters of Sophie Webster & her gf Sharn very likeable and at that stage the "issue" was well handled IMHO. But then this producer was quoted as saying something like if we can "educate" viewers ..." and that's where he lost me and it was also about the time the show began its sad descent from must-watch entertainment into dreary, humourless "let's put every one of society's criminals and weirdos" into our favourite street. Not only was his attitude arrogant and patronising but he completely missed the point of why Corrie had been so popular for so many years. Loving these wonderful classic episodes.
I'll second that opinion ' they don't hold a candle to old Corrie or Crossroads eg ' Eastenders has gotta be the worst of them all ' like Hell in a part of London.
Ivy and Bert talking about their hardships when they first married, but just a few months ago, Ivy was telling Elsie, how Bert insisted on them buying their home and furnishing it. The writers really do take liberties.
These episodes really are Gail & Brian overkill. Gail & Brian's relationship, Gail & Brian's wedding, Gail & Brian's house, Gail & Brian's baby. I shall be glad when some other characters get a look in. As for Ken and Alf, they can now start the Two Dead Wives Club.
@@paulfrost8895 Yes Audrey was too much or a floosie for him she was more suited for Mike I do like Audrey though she is funny 😁 they early years of her getting drunk is so funny
The characterisations are rich, the nuggets of homespun philosophy are choice, the northern wit and humour are sometimes hilarious. The moments of pathos and the human touches are warming and humanising. It's a world away from the current incarnation, which is just a perpetual psychopathic misery-fest.
Awww poor Bert I mean the actor who played him died at the age of 48, he had been arrested twice for exposing himself to men in a public toilet, first time was 1981 he was fined £200 but kept his job in Corrie then he had a stroke that really changed him due to stress, then he was arrested again for the same thing a few months later he wouldn't plead guilty so. it was going to crown court, the first trial was in the papers where he plead guilty but the second trial was going to crown court so it would be in the papers again,he was fired he had another stroke and a massive heart attack and died at 48, he was openly gay, he seemed a lovely man what a tragic end to his life 😔
@@nitad4203 I agree.. the writers got rid of her because they felt the marriage between her and Alf was "humdrum", which I always thought was a shame. After all, many marriages ARE humdrum, so it was realistic.
Women/girls like bet always chum up with someone rather plain - oldest trick in the book to make them seem more attractive - not so much nowadays but back then places were rife with the tarty girl and her less attractive friend - lads used to toss a coin over it
I liked Hilda and Stan, i would have liked them as neibourghs, Stan was happy as long as he got his pint, poor Hilda had dreams off something better, but she loved Stan really, down to earth folk.🙂
There's an episode missing in coronation Street July 1980, it's the episode where Alf and Renee go on the driving lesson and later where the accident with the lorry happens. Maybe that episode by mistake comes on in August 1980 coronation Street. I noticed in the February 1980, there was a episode which should've been in January 1980 the episode where ken and Albert tatlock were talking whilst reading newspapers, as I said that particular episode was in the February 1980 and should've been in the January 1980 sequence episodes. I know because I've got the d.v.d of January 1980, and that's how I know. Coronation Street classic fan.
I made a few mistakes along the way. Write the numbers of the episodes that are in the wrong month for me so I know exactly. The missing episode is in the "Missing Episodes" video.
@@professionalgun6674 I'm affraid I don't know the number of the episode. But as you said, it's in the missing episode video. But I won't be watching it, it was very very devastating seen Renie in that awful accident even though that episode was filmed 42 years ago. And Madge hindley who played Renie hadn't been in coronation Street for only a couple of years! I wished the directors had kept her on for at least a few more years into the mid eighties.
I have been enjoying watching these episodes but I wasn’t looking forward to seeing the episode where Renie was killed. I remember watching it when it first aired when I was 5 years old. I found it really disturbing then. I then saw it again a few years ago and was shocked at how graphic it was. Even by todays standards it’s disturbing. I still don’t understand why they chose to not only axe Madge Hindle but then kill off a particularly gentle light hearted character in such a brutal way?
Would that have had anything to do with the recent ITV strike? In relation to the earlier ones ' there was a break in filming during the strike ' so it was behind schedule for a few months ' my theory.
I thought I recognised Elsie's grandson. He was the Knight of the Square Table in The Young Ones, also played a character called Brian Kennedy in Brookside
Apparently the producers killed Renee off because she and Alf made a humdrum couple. I can kind of see where they were coming from because though Audrey and Alf were like chalk and cheese they had an interesting relationship. Renee was a bit of a go nowhere character in that sense.
i wondered about that as well , looking on YT for following episodes , then i sussed it was the time of the ITV strike , approx mid August to late October 1979
Arnold Swain was such a strange little man..very theatrical and camp..its obvious he batted for tuther side..or at least helped them out when they were short staffed..he turned out to be a psychotic bigamist..so shame on Mavis and Dreadrie etc for pushing the little toad on Emily!
Too bad half of the episodes are missing. I would have loved to see Hilda dragging Elsie from the fire! I will check to see if I can buy the series so I can watch all of the episodes that are missing.
Hilda. The greatest soap character in history. Played superbly by Jean. A world away from what Corrie is now x
It's amazing, I hated Hilda when I was a kid moaning nagging old bat, only now I'm older I can see what an amazing character she is, quite smart and quick witted also has a heart of gold and conscientious.
Yes - She was more the type of women our Mums and Grannies were very familiar with - The Elsie Tanners were the type they all gossiped about while Hilda was no threat and if truth be told was a bit like them themselves back in the day
I'm exactly the same. At 8 I thought she was awful. At 50 I think she is ace.
Shes on( lasts of wine pbs ) she runs the junk shop
@@skapunkno1😮77
Hilda and Mike were pure gold. Hilda made this show for me, its never been the same since she and Eddy left.
I agree
Totally agree with you, Hilda and Mike were the best characters
I cant watch modern day corrie,either, but love these golden oldies, great characters back then, great story lines. Keep em coming pleeeese. 😀
Bless! Seeing Hilda have a wee taste of luxury with Mike.
That made me cry when I seen her at that table all dolled up and mike was sweet to her. Heart was bursting ❤️
Aye that’s what a wis thinking k
Hilda was a lovely lady.she deserved so much more.mike showing his soft side.
Yes, bang on.
A sufficient amount of money gives one the 3 big C’s:
choice, control and confidence.
Elise Tanner, Bet Lynch, Hilda O ..... fabulous
Stan and Eddie are just like 2 genuine blokes at the bar. Love watching these, thanks.
Brilliant gems they are definitely worth the watching,,
Thank you to who ever put them on
Drinks were so much cheaper then. 47p for a gin and tonic is equivalent to £1.90 in today's money, yet in most pubs now a G&T won't leave you much change from a tenner!
Remember who was in charge in the west. Reagan was US president. That's when our housing market went through the roof. Same in Britain. Gail and Brian were out priced. Sad.
It’s so nice of Mike taking Hilda out for a meal i love ❤️ this episode thank you 🙏 for the upload i love ❤️ the old coronation street so many memories
The characters is these old Coronation Street episodes are so much better than todays show.
I only watch old coronation street now instead of new ones. 80s and 90s corrie was definitely the best
I watched during the 70s and early 80s mostly ' not so much 90s ' today 's Corrie I can't even understand ' dark and depressing ' like a different world ' Ken Barlow is the only original ' part of the cobbles.
Absolutely. The late 70s and early 80s are the best.
Absolutely!
Hilda “It’s bad enough keeping one lazy, idle thing in comfort.”
Stan “Oo’s that, Chuck?”
🤣🤣🤣
I'd love to live on a street like this where everyone is friends with everyone and they all look out for each other x
Great to see Hilda looking so lovely. ''Never even been in a bank.'' 🥰 Mike was often a cold-hearted corporate bugger but he also had these great moments of sweetness, understanding and pure class...
Meanwhile, Emily reminds me of a character from a Jane Austen novel, more fitting for the 1880s than the 1980s. I can't understand why she considers herself homely. And Dierdre never tells her she isn't, even while encouraging her! lol
Deidre needs to stop pushing Emily..
@@theculturedthug6609 Deirdre's Really annoying me in all these episodes to do with Swain , she should really keep her flaming nose out of it
Emily and Mavis were an antidote to the plethora of strong, brassy female characters on the street. They both were as important, well written and brilliantly acted but in a more subtle and complex way.
I’m glad Hilda won that raffle because it’s about time she was treated like a princess, I ❤Hilda’s character she makes me laugh 😆 and smile 😊, I ❤the old ones of Corrie better than today’s Corrie thank you 🙏
The tragedy is people telling Elsie to quit smoking and 6 years later the cigarettes really did kill Pat Phoenix.
I get you but our bet is still puffing at 8o god bless her. Down to genetics maybe.
@paullynton-green6570 She smoked 60 a day, I don't even know how anyone can smoke that much, that's a pack and a half during an 8 hour work day.
Anne Kirkbride smoked a lot in character as Deirdre and she died in her 60's too.
This is so good. I prefer watching this to the current Coronation Street. There are no characters you really like (except Rita, Ken, Gail and Adam Barlow) The storylines are believeable not like now. Why did it go SO downhill?
There was humour and pathos in it in these dsys. The decision to have Eddie Yeats as the Ogdens lodger was a masterstroke.
Did read Mavis may be coming back. She ‘wouldn’t really know’ what’s going on there now.
These are the golden years before Redmond put a body in a patio and airplanes fell from the sky in other soaps. For me that was the watershed on when soaps changed.
The internet and social media makes it so that one's attention span is very short. So they want to try to make coronation street and other shows as exciting as can be....some people don't want to spend the whole hour watching one thing anymore
To add my two-pennyworth - I remember reading an interview in the early Noughties with one of Corrie's contemporary producers after the first lesbians were introduced to the street. And before anyone accuses me of homophobia I found the characters of Sophie Webster & her gf Sharn very likeable and at that stage the "issue" was well handled IMHO. But then this producer was quoted as saying something like if we can "educate" viewers ..." and that's where he lost me and it was also about the time the show began its sad descent from must-watch entertainment into dreary, humourless "let's put every one of society's criminals and weirdos" into our favourite street. Not only was his attitude arrogant and patronising but he completely missed the point of why Corrie had been so popular for so many years. Loving these wonderful classic episodes.
Stan and Eddie are pure comedy😂😂
'A power cut in a strip club' hilarious 😆 Anyone else enjoying these episodes in 2024?
Not ‘arf!
Oh Yes !
Yes. I re-watch them every now and then . Love them. It used to be my favourite show, but then it changed drastically not the same now.
Fred, "Tell us a joke" Hilda "Have you looked in the mirror?" 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Eddie Stan Hilda Annie Walker THE FAB FOUR.
Bet is runs the Rovers Return.
You can't beat the old soaps, today's are pure rubbish.
I'll second that opinion ' they don't hold a candle to old Corrie or Crossroads eg ' Eastenders has gotta be the worst of them all ' like Hell in a part of London.
I love Johnny Briggs!
Ivy and Bert talking about their hardships when they first married, but just a few months ago, Ivy was telling Elsie, how Bert insisted on them buying their home and furnishing it. The writers really do take liberties.
Arnold is creepy af.
A wrong un
So weird to think that Madge Hindle is still alive and kicking to this day, far outliving screen husband Alf!
True that!
Hilda looked so lovely dressed up for Mike
27:00 Little Tracey wiping her face after being kissed by Auntie Emily! Bless her little heart 😂😍
Brilliant child actress, stole every scene she was in - sad that she was only in the show for a few more years.
@@michaelmuldowney8 As opposed to Nicky who killed every scene he was in
These episodes really are Gail & Brian overkill. Gail & Brian's relationship, Gail & Brian's wedding, Gail & Brian's house, Gail & Brian's baby. I shall be glad when some other characters get a look in. As for Ken and Alf, they can now start the Two Dead Wives Club.
Fred would be a very creepy driving instructor.🤢😬
It's difficult watching Elsie choking on a cigarette knowing that only a few short years later Pat Phoenix would succumb to lung cancer.
When you’ve seen Stan looking for a job for someone else, you’ve seen it all!
😜
Loooooool little Tracy wiping Emily's kiss off her cheek 🤣
Proper coronation Street
Mavis really grates on me with that mimsy voice of hers ❤
Yes me too but the irony of that is in real life she is soo well spoken so shows what a good actress she was
@@marieince1479" I don't really know Rita"
I’ve only recently started watching these and the number of times I’m sure Eddie’s bound to come out with, “oh, nice!” like Onslo…
The child playing Tracy - stole every scene she was in.
Emily kisses Tracy, Tracy rubs it off :) 26:53
Omg I have to fast forward when Elsie's Brummie grandson is talking, it's not the Brummie accent! It's him trying too hard 😖 it grates on me 😖
Good lord Brian Tilsley’s pants are TIGHT!!!!! 😂😂😂
Positively rude I would say 😂
So tight, he can hardly walk 😂😂
Yeah but what a bod !
They shouldn't have killed Rene
I agree ' her and Alf were a match made in heaven.
@@paulfrost8895 Yes Audrey was too much or a floosie for him she was more suited for Mike I do like Audrey though she is funny 😁 they early years of her getting drunk is so funny
The characterisations are rich, the nuggets of homespun philosophy are choice, the northern wit and humour are sometimes hilarious. The moments of pathos and the human touches are warming and humanising. It's a world away from the current incarnation, which is just a perpetual psychopathic misery-fest.
Awww poor Bert I mean the actor who played him died at the age of 48, he had been arrested twice for exposing himself to men in a public toilet, first time was 1981 he was fined £200 but kept his job in Corrie then he had a stroke that really changed him due to stress, then he was arrested again for the same thing a few months later he wouldn't plead guilty so. it was going to crown court, the first trial was in the papers where he plead guilty but the second trial was going to crown court so it would be in the papers again,he was fired he had another stroke and a massive heart attack and died at 48, he was openly gay, he seemed a lovely man what a tragic end to his life 😔
It's a shame Renee and Bet grew apart after Renee met Alf. They were such good friends.
That's what happens when your best friend gets hooked up with a love interest. Sad but true.
I wish they hadn't written Renee out of Corrie, I liked her and she was more suited to Alf than Audrey.
@@nitad4203 I agree.. the writers got rid of her because they felt the marriage between her and Alf was "humdrum", which I always thought was a shame. After all, many marriages ARE humdrum, so it was realistic.
Women/girls like bet always chum up with someone rather plain - oldest trick in the book to make them seem more attractive - not so much nowadays but back then places were rife with the tarty girl and her less attractive friend - lads used to toss a coin over it
@@nitad4203 well said .were Audrey was only a gold digger for Alf only loved him for his money
I liked Hilda and Stan, i would have liked them as neibourghs, Stan was happy as long as he got his pint, poor Hilda had dreams off something better, but she loved Stan really, down to earth folk.🙂
There's an episode missing in coronation Street July 1980, it's the episode where Alf and Renee go on the driving lesson and later where the accident with the lorry happens. Maybe that episode by mistake comes on in August 1980 coronation Street. I noticed in the February 1980, there was a episode which should've been in January 1980 the episode where ken and Albert tatlock were talking whilst reading newspapers, as I said that particular episode was in the February 1980 and should've been in the January 1980 sequence episodes. I know because I've got the d.v.d of January 1980, and that's how I know. Coronation Street classic fan.
I made a few mistakes along the way. Write the numbers of the episodes that are in the wrong month for me so I know exactly. The missing episode is in the "Missing Episodes" video.
@@professionalgun6674 I'm affraid I don't know the number of the episode. But as you said, it's in the missing episode video. But I won't be watching it, it was very very devastating seen Renie in that awful accident even though that episode was filmed 42 years ago. And Madge hindley who played Renie hadn't been in coronation Street for only a couple of years! I wished the directors had kept her on for at least a few more years into the mid eighties.
I have been enjoying watching these episodes but I wasn’t looking forward to seeing the episode where Renie was killed. I remember watching it when it first aired when I was 5 years old. I found it really disturbing then. I then saw it again a few years ago and was shocked at how graphic it was. Even by todays standards it’s disturbing. I still don’t understand why they chose to not only axe Madge Hindle but then kill off a particularly gentle light hearted character in such a brutal way?
Would that have had anything to do with the recent ITV strike? In relation to the earlier ones ' there was a break in filming during the strike ' so it was behind schedule for a few months ' my theory.
I don’t k ow why they married Rita to Len. They never seemed to care for each other & he’s a lout
Yeah, I never understood it, either.
😆Stanley to wise crackin Fred: “You wanna watch it. You’ll be waking up with a crowd around ya.”
Darn it. I'm hooked on this show!!
7:51 loved these moments between stan and Eddie 😂
Fred Gee behind the bar at 1:14:44. In the corner shop at 1:14:45. Either he is super human, or continuity not top of list, LOL!
Very good. And he had time to put his jacket on!
I thought I recognised Elsie's grandson. He was the Knight of the Square Table in The Young Ones, also played a character called Brian Kennedy in Brookside
Fred’s sexual frustration was growing. He became a walking self deluded social embarrassment.
Gail has never changed, always a whiny cry baby
Apparently the producers killed Renee off because she and Alf made a humdrum couple. I can kind of see where they were coming from because though Audrey and Alf were like chalk and cheese they had an interesting relationship. Renee was a bit of a go nowhere character in that sense.
Yes. Renee is actually still alive in 2022 and Alf, Betty, Deirdre, Ken, Stan, Hilda, Eddie, Annie, and Mike have all passed away.
Ken is still alive! ☺️
Ken is still in it ' about the sole survivor ' in it from the very first episode way back in 61.
@@paulfrost8895 60
Is there an episode missing? When Hilda actually rescues Elsie?
It was up for a while, then I think it got deleted. It was a good one as well, a bit of seriousness sprinkled into vintage coronation street.
It's on ytube put in Elsie sofa fire it's in 2 parts I hilda saves elsie 😁
No Rene crash episode either
Check out my Missing episode videos ladies, that's why I put them there.
Did Betty get the clock back? I’ve missed that episode!
She didn’t get it back.Eddie couldn’t find the guy that bought it off his “friend/thief in a pub. X
i wondered about that as well , looking on YT for following episodes , then i sussed it was the time of the ITV strike , approx mid August to late October 1979
@@roderickscott7429 I remember the strike ' had make do with 2 channels for at least a couple of months.
No. She didn't. They left that story after Eddie was let off. It turned into an Eddie story then nowt else.
Ivy's like camouflaged against the decor in The Rovers 😂
Arnold Swain was such a strange little man..very theatrical and camp..its obvious he batted for tuther side..or at least helped them out when they were short staffed..he turned out to be a psychotic bigamist..so shame on Mavis and Dreadrie etc for pushing the little toad on Emily!
Do none of the men button their shirts up properly, even Ken’s at it?
i wonder how old Emily was supposed to be here.
Arnold Swain is a bit too much, over the top...
Agreed Jerry. I'm loving catching up on all these classic Corrie episodes but the relationship between Arnold and Emily is becoming very boring.
Alf is such an ovetbearing selfish human being Deirdre /ken such pompous bums
They want the same price for the store and home as the price of the house Gayle wants- $16,000! 😂🤣
So sad about Renee :(
I can’t believe that Mavis is only 49 years old!!
What happened to the crash scene with Renee and Alf ? Big chunk of episode missing
It's on youtube now , - 28th July 1980 .. Episode number 2016
ua-cam.com/video/sIuqRBZmGrM/v-deo.html
In Nottingham we called it Coro, never Corrie
Yes same here in Derby, maybe its an East Midlands thing.
Much better: I hate 'Corrie'. 'Auntie Corrie': euchh!
Alf (to Ivy) “Oh, er...just ‘elp yerself, love. Nobody else ‘round here cares, so why should I??!”
Elsie's grandson gets on my nerves plus he is bone idle .
I thought he was Paul Mcartney
When fat Alf said "do you know who i am "
Get carter 👍👍👍
Is Martin starting to outmuscle Brian Tilsey…
Haha Alf doesn’t want to teach Renee to drive so she goes and gets a sliver Fox to make him jealous.
Elsie's implausible, awful Brummie grandson adds nothing but irritation to the plots ...
The way he prounounces "you" as "yow" makes him a bit more Black Country than Brum itself. But yeah, he's bloody annoying.
He talks more black country
He talks more black country
He sounds like Rodney Trotter with a mouth full of peanut butter.
Drives me bonkers.
Drinks all round in the Rovers the only Public you don't have to buy a round, Cheers
Martin's right. Elsie is silly having a cig straight after almost bloody dying in a fire caused by a cig 🙄
God look at Alf's sour face 😖
1:05:21...Identify Eddie's Rolex!!
Very beautiful 😍 Italian 😊 restaurant.❤❤❤ 18:35
Too bad half of the episodes are missing. I would have loved to see Hilda dragging Elsie from the fire! I will check to see if I can buy the series so I can watch all of the episodes that are missing.
ua-cam.com/video/hn1z3j0xShg/v-deo.html
Missing Episode 2011 is July 9th 1980 ,.. (I've wrote this incase the link to it from my previous comment is removed)
How was smoking indoors become acceptable. Were there lots of house fires back then?
laugh out loud moment on 1hour 30 from Fred about Eddie
Seriously, the lady who wants to buy the shop looks exactly like a Monty Python lad.
Jim Lea from Slade is alive and well and working with Len Fairclough in weatherfield!
🤣🤣🤣 Hilda in the Jag bloody hell I didn't half laugh
Totally skipped where the house went on fire and Hilda saved Elsie.
It has recently been uploaded on Erik Stone Channel , - July 9th 1980
ua-cam.com/video/hn1z3j0xShg/v-deo.html
She'll sew your knickers to your vest 😢😢😢
Hilda keeps on rubbing it in. Elsie is going nuts 🥜 about Hilda drives her nuts 🌰.😅😅😂😂I can’t picture the pair of them as friends.😮😮😮❤❤❤ 1:29:00
I love seeing Hilda treated like a queen.
Thelma Barlow is a genius
Oh yes, this is where Eddie becomes the mug that ends up subsidising the Ogdens. On top of that, Hilda gets to run his life, for him.
My God, the Tilsley's are so dreary and boring.
Renee Roberts death. Alf went on to marry Audrey Gail's mother.
They missed out on their vacation, plus owe Ivy 60 for their deposit, all for nothing!!
1:12:45 😂😂😂😂😂
I hate Ivy's teaset.
I never liked reene