Takes me back to sitting in my parents house, my Nana would never miss an episode! I see her sitting there in her pinney , her favourite programme! As they say, the good old days!
Hilda gets the best lines! Pure pleasure watching archive Coronation street. I started with the first episode weeks ago and it's taken over to the extent that I've given up all my usual UA-cams. A thing I've noticed is the people leaveing the Rovers with drink still left in their glass, even Stan and Eddie who I'm sure would never do that. Hilda is my favourite character.
Utter joy to watch Violet Carson and Doris Speed - their extraordinary gift of playing a scene totally straight yet being absolutely hilarious. All nearly choked when Deirdre called her daughter “a little gold digger” - talk about being able to see the future !
LOL, the days when you could simply ring up about a flat at 2.30 in the afternoon and be installed in the place that same evening, seemingly without the need to find a months rent in advance, or go through any form of reference checks. So simple back then !!!
Most definitely. Here in Adelaide rentals are extremely hard to come by since Covid and they’re very expensive. A rental comes up for lease and there are at least 50 people applying.
The beginning of the end, of some of coronation streets greatest characters, this was Ena Sharples last appearance, after being in the programme since the beginning, Violet Carson was to return,but became ill with pernicious anemia
That's Ken's MO. He is Judgemental of the way other people live their lives but does precisely what he wants, he might agonise briefly, then decides he's right as usual.
They spend about 15 mins having a conversation about whether his daughter is or isn't getting any (I presume that's what he's getting uptight about) without mentioning sex once. I presume there was some sort of restriction on it being mentioned at 7.30pm.
What? utter bitchiness, nastiness, vitriol, hatred, spite, loathing, jealousy & hypocrisy, then we have the charming Mr Barlow, with his reputation, his on set nickname of being called ‘cockroach’ it’s pure heaven to watch. Oh & don’t forget the evil bitter twisted thoughts of Mr Tatlock. That’s one OAP who should have lost his memory coming back from his allotment.
Actor Richard Shaw (born 19th November 1920), who played lothario trucker Dan, wasn't even attractive! If he'd been a tall, gorgeous Sean Connery type fair enough, but he was a deeply unsexy short-arse, who always looked like his enormous sheepskin coat was wearing HIM! The first two posters are absolutely right - definite shades of Sid James. And Bet and Elsie were supposed to be head over heels and fighting over this charmless, geriatric dwarf? Not remotely credible! That particular bit of disastrous casting (Dan the supposedly 'sexy, love-cheat lurry driver'), is a real bugbear of mine. Along with other casting nightmares involving gorgeous actresses in their physical prime, and embarrassingly over-the-hill actors. IMO Granada's Corrie has a history of choosing the most unappealing males as romantic leads for it's most glamorous leading ladies. They must have been male casting directors, for female casting directors would surely have cast those roles very differently! What an insult to the Street's most gorgeous sirens like Bet Lynch, Elsie Tanner and Rita Littlewood, who were forced to play love scenes with hideous old blokes like warty toad Peter Adamson, John Junkin and even Max Wall!
@@glamdolly30 Bet always got the worst. Dan Johnson was particularly repulsive in every way, but she never got together with an attractive and decent man. Des Foster, Alf's colleague on the council used her and lied to her. The policeman, who was happy to have a non-serious good time with her but was interested in Rita. And she briefly had something going with Len Fairclough and Jack Duckworth! Obviously, none of them is up to much, but Dan is by far the worst. He looks like he needs to be hosed down.
later in the 90s she meets Charlie the truck driver, he was nice and treated her well but they just didn't last. Bet seems incapable of sustaining happiness, it's like she feels she doesn't deserve it@@shylinh5939
I must disagree. I thought he was a repulsive character, and latterly all he seemed to say was ‘where’s me dinner?’. They should have retired him after his stroke.
@@glamdolly30 but do you still watch it. it seems to me that you catch glimpse of it from time to time when you state it is total garbage. yes, I do agree whole earthly its total rubbish garage with actors who can't act and but impersonating voice accents. they should end the series altogether like neighbours was axed in Australia due to it couldn't get a tv station to air it.
Dean pipe it's the actors/actresses who can act .and the storylines that the portray that's where the problem. Lies it ran his course to me in the mid 1990s .
@@MultiKs22 I agree, I would like to see 'Coronation Street' axed, as it's no longer the quality drama it was, and in my view no longer worthy of the name! The stark difference in quality between the show it used to be, and the dross it is today, is only too clear when you watch vintage episodes like these, from its prime. I last caught an episode around 3 years ago, and was shocked at both the poor standard of acting, and the weak, cliched script. But I share your view that the rot set in by the late 'nineties - I generally date the Street's demise to the arrival of the ghastly Battersbys.
I remember watching this as a kid and rolling around laughing that Dan Johnson was supposed to be attractive to women. Elsie scraping the bottom of the barrel!
1:20:53 - Bet (with a sudden overdose of scary Baby Jane hair) and Vera, vying for the attentions of a wizened old Rumpelstiltskin. Dan the lorry driver was about as attractive as a gargoyle. Were they really that desperate?
I think they were that desperate. Only someone who's given up on life or gone insane could possibly find Dan Johnson anything other than hideous and to be avoided.
I still cant understand how people could have a few pints or a double scotch at lunchtime. If i did that there would be no work after lunch, id either be full on for the day or have to go home bewildered to snooze..... 😂
I remember my first job in the late 80s, friday was pub dinner, I'd have 2 pints and be staggering about all afternoon, the older guys found it funny af of course. 😂 I Just realised I was only 16/17 as well ffs.
The pubs were full at lunchtime back then, and more than a few couldn't make it back into work in the afternoon. They would usually blame lunchtime food poisoning from the pub lunch 😂 and phone in work sick before ordering the next pint.
I was too young to watch this the first time around, so it's strange to see Peter Dean in Wetherfield instead of Albert Square. Is it just me who likes to add "Treacle" to the end of all his lines?
@@glamdolly30 I loved Violet Carson’s portrayal of no-nonsense Ena Sharples, she was beautifully abrupt & an expert at putting people in their place. 👏👏
@@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351 Absolutely, a superbly written character, brilliantly brought to life by the late, great Violent Carson. I think the cast of 'Coronation Street' in its glory years (1976-1984), have achieved the closest thing to immortality you can get - we're still watching them, talking about them and enjoying their performances 50 years later - and will continue to do so!
@@glamdolly30 I agree, Violet Carson was a formidable lady, and she may have been similar to her Character in real life? Coronation Street suffered after 1984, after all the big names exited the show. These episodes on UA-cam are the real halcyon days of ‘the street’ & it’s a privilege to rewatch them.
Ha! Ha! Dan is possibly the worst piece of casting ever seen. A swarthy dwarf pensioner, with a fake Cock-er-nee accent, who we are supposed to believe was such hot stuff that the Street's sex sirens Elsie and Bet both went ga-ga over him. As if! What an insult to those two great actresses (and a challenge to their acting skills), to play love scenes with that! I looked up the actor and if memory serves he was in his sixties here - so too old to be convincing as a lorry driver, least of all a lothario!
@@glamdolly30 lol 😂, I love your description of him, ‘swarthy dwarf pensioner! 🤣🤣🤣. The actor Richard Shaw was almost 60 years old at the time of these episodes. I agree, he was totally miscast, Elsie & Bet’s desperation at trying to hang on to this man was a ridiculous premise by the writers, but in 1980 people thought differently than say now. Just goes to show how amazing both Julie Goodyear & Pat Phoenix (both total legends 🤩🤩) were to convince the watching public that their characters would put up with that man. It was laughable 😂😂.
Bit of a continuity error in this. Susan is actually only 15, not 16. They were born in 1965 so that makes her and Peter 15 in 1980, perhaps even 14. Weren't they born in May so their 15th birthday is coming up?
Thankfully, it totally disappears from his vocabulary after his stroke, so episodes after December 1982 until his last appearance in July 1983. Those episodes are a delight to watch. I got sick of his bloody catchphrase!
Absolutely reflection of daily life not some made up stuff taking on problems of the era Not some made up gobbledygook that has nothing with real life today
The look on Mrs Walker and Renee's face when Bet paraded that awful Dan Johnson through the shop. So po-faced! So Bet had a bit of rough stay the night - so what? It may have been 1980, but it may as well have been 1950.
This was meant to be 1983 never hea4d such rubbish and I never see so many people going to a pub. These people never stop drinking how they work id beyond me,I was a teen ager in 1980 working class family .the went to a pub maybe one a week they lived in terraced houses they all had telephones central heating well we had that since 1950infact my great grandmother had it in her flat since1920. Really not sure who lived liked that as for holidays abroad we had a least two weeks a year abroad and two weeks in the uk by 1983 it was twice a year abroad for my family my grandparents where all workers in factories. My grandparents had cars and we where a two car family even in 1970s . My parents worked hard and we never went without but there was no wasting money. But these characters where so unbelievable. There values where put dated the who Ken and daughter thing was from 1950 not 1980s. And Mrs walker character was totally unbelievable even at the time. Not sure I lived in the same northwest of England. This soap opera was meant to be reality but which decade I fo not know?
I love all the Corrie characters apart from Fred Gee, i cant help but shudder whenever he appears on screen! He plays an odious character & seems sleazy & greasy, dishonest & shifty, if that was the plan of his character, then i cant see why the writers had to put such a persona in the show! Stan & Eddie are rogues & shady characters but they are so well played by the actors they have become beloved characters! They dont make your skin crawl whenever they appear! A couple of friends say the same & cant stand Mr Gee, i think its a female 6th sense where hes concerned & find him creepy. Anyway thank you for the shows Regards 🇬🇧👧
I remember when he was dancing with Elsie and he was trying to unzip her dress. She was laughingly resisting him, but I was appalled. I rely on the the posts here so I don’t know what happened after that.
@@moaningpheromones obviously she didn't have them in every scene, they were her trademark the same with Nora Batty..the power of UA-cam to bring out the hard of thinking folks
It's hard to believe you're bothered by it. It makes no sense given the context of the conversation, and there's no hatred towards people with other skin colours.
Ivy and mortgage never h3ardcsuch rubbish thiscwas meant to be 1980 not 1950. Put mortgage down. No one spoke like that it was repayment . Over 25 years no ever heard of that saying about 90 p and £1 . Story line was so out of touch
I would have phoned Dan, but I don’t know where to reach him. You don’t know where your boyfriend is, and how to get a hold of him??! If he really did have a blown tire, he would have got a room, and would have called you from it!! She doesn’t think that it’s wrong that he didn’t call her and tell her where he is, and where to call him??! How convenient for him that she has no idea where he is!! 😂🤣
Takes me back to sitting in my parents house, my Nana would never miss an episode! I see her sitting there in her
pinney , her favourite programme!
As they say, the good old days!
My Nana's nickname for this show was "The Poms".
As in, "let's see what the Poms are doing tonight"
@@kevinmoore7255 what a lovely memory
Ena Sharples....one of the all time greats. Much missed xx
Much missed like before not like todays episodes. Too dark.
Hilda gets the best lines!
Pure pleasure watching archive Coronation street. I started with the first episode weeks ago and it's taken over to the extent that I've given up all my usual UA-cams.
A thing I've noticed is the people leaveing the Rovers with drink still left in their glass, even Stan and Eddie who I'm sure would never do that.
Hilda is my favourite character.
Utter joy to watch Violet Carson and Doris Speed - their extraordinary gift of playing a scene totally straight yet being absolutely hilarious. All nearly choked when Deirdre called her daughter “a little gold digger” - talk about being able to see the future !
I was just thinking that 😂😂😂😂😂
LOL, the days when you could simply ring up about a flat at 2.30 in the afternoon and be installed in the place that same evening, seemingly without the need to find a months rent in advance, or go through any form of reference checks. So simple back then !!!
That’s one of the main reasons why I love these episodes. Memories of a simpler life xx
Iiii but
Oh iiiiij no
That's usually because people were more trustworthy maybe.....and landlords
Most definitely. Here in Adelaide rentals are extremely hard to come by since Covid and they’re very expensive. A rental comes up for lease and there are at least 50 people applying.
Omg and to think i used to watch this twice weekly!
I love the classic brilliant I watch them.every afternoon
The beginning of the end, of some of coronation streets greatest characters, this was Ena Sharples last appearance, after being in the programme since the beginning, Violet Carson was to return,but became ill with pernicious anemia
Yes it was a shame she couldn't return due to her ill health, she was a brilliant actress and it was a pleasure to watch her.
Bet’s wig needs billing of its own in the credits.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
As does Elsie's
Takes me back to my childhood watching this. Amazing to think that they were still making textiles in the ‘80’s. All gone now.
I love the way Eddie calls Mavis 'Mave' haha he's great
Ken Barlow moralising his teenage daughter who he barely sees. What a tool.
That's Ken's MO. He is Judgemental of the way other people live their lives but does precisely what he wants, he might agonise briefly, then decides he's right as usual.
She does turn from Scottish to English later on so you can’t blame him lol 😂
They spend about 15 mins having a conversation about whether his daughter is or isn't getting any (I presume that's what he's getting uptight about) without mentioning sex once. I presume there was some sort of restriction on it being mentioned at 7.30pm.
There never seems 2 be a dull moment in the Rovers Pub!
Who else fast forwards whenever Gail or Bryan appear😂
I do. They seem to get the lion's share of screen time. Particularly in 1981, too. I find their stories too boring.
Back when Corrie was Brilliant.... Plenty of Excellent Characters...
What? utter bitchiness, nastiness, vitriol, hatred, spite, loathing, jealousy & hypocrisy, then we have the charming Mr Barlow, with his reputation, his on set nickname of being called ‘cockroach’ it’s pure heaven to watch. Oh & don’t forget the evil bitter twisted thoughts of Mr Tatlock. That’s one OAP who should have lost his memory coming back from his allotment.
Thanks for these classic episodes im binge watching from 78 the stan hilda eddie stories are hilarious 😊😊😊
The bloke who plays Dan Johnson, is literally old enough to be Julie Goodyear's father. She's 38, and he's 60, in 1980.
brotherlove the say the older the man the better he is more experienced in the bedroom department .
Actor Richard Shaw (born 19th November 1920), who played lothario trucker Dan, wasn't even attractive! If he'd been a tall, gorgeous Sean Connery type fair enough, but he was a deeply unsexy short-arse, who always looked like his enormous sheepskin coat was wearing HIM!
The first two posters are absolutely right - definite shades of Sid James. And Bet and Elsie were supposed to be head over heels and fighting over this charmless, geriatric dwarf? Not remotely credible!
That particular bit of disastrous casting (Dan the supposedly 'sexy, love-cheat lurry driver'), is a real bugbear of mine. Along with other casting nightmares involving gorgeous actresses in their physical prime, and embarrassingly over-the-hill actors.
IMO Granada's Corrie has a history of choosing the most unappealing males as romantic leads for it's most glamorous leading ladies. They must have been male casting directors, for female casting directors would surely have cast those roles very differently!
What an insult to the Street's most gorgeous sirens like Bet Lynch, Elsie Tanner and Rita Littlewood, who were forced to play love scenes with hideous old blokes like warty toad Peter Adamson, John Junkin and even Max Wall!
@@glamdolly30 Bet always got the worst. Dan Johnson was particularly repulsive in every way, but she never got together with an attractive and decent man. Des Foster, Alf's colleague on the council used her and lied to her. The policeman, who was happy to have a non-serious good time with her but was interested in Rita. And she briefly had something going with Len Fairclough and Jack Duckworth! Obviously, none of them is up to much, but Dan is by far the worst. He looks like he needs to be hosed down.
@@glamdolly30😂😂😂😂😂🎉
later in the 90s she meets Charlie the truck driver, he was nice and treated her well but they just didn't last. Bet seems incapable of sustaining happiness, it's like she feels she doesn't deserve it@@shylinh5939
Madge Hindle was a great actress! i loved her in Nearest & Dearest also, i didnt realise she was still alive! she been gone from TV for so long.
Fast forward 43yrs to 2023 and I'm 52, Len Fairclough still gives me the creeps 😬
Me too and I'm still a man, I don't know how he was ever good enough for Rita 🤢
Still recall the jokes at the time of his sexual molestation charges - 'Thumbs up for Len Fairclough' 😂😂
Oh how we loved Bernard Youens as Stan Ogden!
I must disagree. I thought he was a repulsive character, and latterly all he seemed to say was ‘where’s me dinner?’. They should have retired him after his stroke.
Better tv days than the horse shit now on the street
This was when the show was worth watching, it's absolute garbage now and not worthy of the name 'Coronation Street'.
Hence why we are here watching this. Funny to think I watched it on the telly all those years ago.
@@glamdolly30 but do you still watch it. it seems to me that you catch glimpse of it from time to time when you state it is total garbage. yes, I do agree whole earthly its total rubbish garage with actors who can't act and but impersonating voice accents. they should end the series altogether like neighbours was axed in Australia due to it couldn't get a tv station to air it.
Dean pipe it's the actors/actresses who can act .and the storylines that the portray that's where the problem. Lies it ran his course to me in the mid 1990s .
@@MultiKs22 I agree, I would like to see 'Coronation Street' axed, as it's no longer the quality drama it was, and in my view no longer worthy of the name! The stark difference in quality between the show it used to be, and the dross it is today, is only too clear when you watch vintage episodes like these, from its prime.
I last caught an episode around 3 years ago, and was shocked at both the poor standard of acting, and the weak, cliched script. But I share your view that the rot set in by the late 'nineties - I generally date the Street's demise to the arrival of the ghastly Battersbys.
The actor and actress who play Stan and Hilda are so completely convincing that I totally forget they're playing a part.
Bet all dolled up - i half expected her to start singing Ive Written A Letter To Daddie
LMAO! That Bo-Peep wig was horrendous!
😂😂😂
Hilda and stan were the best they always made me laugh 😆 thank you 🙏 for these memories I ❤watching these again…❤❤❤😊😊😊
Just brilliant so watchable...
Jean Alexander is such a great Actress, she could have Starred in any Hollywood Epic and outshone everyone.
3:14:14 Rita mimicking Mavis had me dying!
"...gastric flu" 🤕 😂
Dan Johnson.. he's about as magnetic as a wooden spoon. He looks like a pensionable Lee Van Cleef after three weeks on nothing but prune juice.
I remember watching this as a kid and rolling around laughing that Dan Johnson was supposed to be attractive to women. Elsie scraping the bottom of the barrel!
@@mathewdunne5771LOL
@@mathewdunne5771 A big LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@mathewdunne5771I always thought thick as a plank Len being a sex symbol was a bit of a stretch 😅
@@mathewdunne5771
Maybe Elsie had early onset cataracts.
1:20:53 - Bet (with a sudden overdose of scary Baby Jane hair) and Vera, vying for the attentions of a wizened old Rumpelstiltskin. Dan the lorry driver was about as attractive as a gargoyle. Were they really that desperate?
Dan is about as attractive as a sack of hair.
I think it represented a state of mind more than anything. A feeling of being trapped, lonely etc..that can lead you to some terrible choices.
I think they were that desperate. Only someone who's given up on life or gone insane could possibly find Dan Johnson anything other than hideous and to be avoided.
You made me smile. Thank you. 🎉
Carasmith.
Hilda she was absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's hilarious watching Ken and Uncle Albert grafting, so hard, to put the mockers on Shagfest 1980.
Pauline looks a cross between Deidre and Reenie= Deidleen
give over you doughnut
Ena Sharples final lines are cut!? the original broadcast was different.
Albert Tatlock was one hell of an actor :D
Mortgages and housing costs in general it's such an utter con on the public.
2:56:41 Classic Confrontation starring Hilda & Vera - with a side order from Elsie 💥
Bet and Elsie always fall for the bounders
Can't be 100% sure, but I think Rita's in her first wig, the first of millions, at 3:06:00
Started to Binge watch Old coronation street and then I notice that's onslow from keeping up Appearances😅
He was Eddie Yates first.... always will be.
Bett wasn't fussy was she, I mean Dan.😝saying that the was slim pickings on the street😄
I still cant understand how people could have a few pints or a double scotch at lunchtime.
If i did that there would be no work after lunch, id either be full on for the day or have to go home bewildered to snooze..... 😂
I remember my first job in the late 80s, friday was pub dinner, I'd have 2 pints and be staggering about all afternoon, the older guys found it funny af of course. 😂 I Just realised I was only 16/17 as well ffs.
@@skapunkno1 and I'd b running to wee all afternoon 😂
But you have nice memories 🙏👍
The pubs were full at lunchtime back then, and more than a few couldn't make it back into work in the afternoon. They would usually blame lunchtime food poisoning from the pub lunch 😂 and phone in work sick before ordering the next pint.
@@Handlebar-MustDash 😂
hard working class northerners with cast iron constitutions. would you like a biscuit?
I was too young to watch this the first time around, so it's strange to see Peter Dean in Wetherfield instead of Albert Square. Is it just me who likes to add "Treacle" to the end of all his lines?
would you like a biscuit treacle?
Tracy is going to be a gold digger how very true
Final appearance of Ena Sharples in #1983
God bless her, Violet Carson was a legend.
And Granada Plus cut her final line 🤦🏻♂️ #slowclap
@@glamdolly30 I loved Violet Carson’s portrayal of no-nonsense Ena Sharples, she was beautifully abrupt & an expert at putting people in their place. 👏👏
@@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351 Absolutely, a superbly written character, brilliantly brought to life by the late, great Violent Carson.
I think the cast of 'Coronation Street' in its glory years (1976-1984), have achieved the closest thing to immortality you can get - we're still watching them, talking about them and enjoying their performances 50 years later - and will continue to do so!
@@glamdolly30 I agree, Violet Carson was a formidable lady, and she may have been similar to her Character in real life?
Coronation Street suffered after 1984, after all the big names exited the show. These episodes on UA-cam are the real halcyon days of ‘the street’ & it’s a privilege to rewatch them.
Watching this bingo, makes me get on edge!
LoL 😂
Great stuff 👏
I agree witj you on that i hilda stan x Eddie not forgotten curly anothet favourite
Regarding Dan’s jacket 🧥… I wonder if they make them in his size? 😆😆
Ha! Ha! Dan is possibly the worst piece of casting ever seen. A swarthy dwarf pensioner, with a fake Cock-er-nee accent, who we are supposed to believe was such hot stuff that the Street's sex sirens Elsie and Bet both went ga-ga over him. As if!
What an insult to those two great actresses (and a challenge to their acting skills), to play love scenes with that!
I looked up the actor and if memory serves he was in his sixties here - so too old to be convincing as a lorry driver, least of all a lothario!
@@glamdolly30 lol 😂, I love your description of him, ‘swarthy dwarf pensioner! 🤣🤣🤣. The actor Richard Shaw was almost 60 years old at the time of these episodes.
I agree, he was totally miscast, Elsie & Bet’s desperation at trying to hang on to this man was a ridiculous premise by the writers, but in 1980 people thought differently than say now. Just goes to show how amazing both Julie Goodyear & Pat Phoenix (both total legends 🤩🤩) were to convince the watching public that their characters would put up with that man. It was laughable 😂😂.
Love Mavis 😅
Bit of a continuity error in this. Susan is actually only 15, not 16. They were born in 1965 so that makes her and Peter 15 in 1980, perhaps even 14. Weren't they born in May so their 15th birthday is coming up?
They were born on 5 April 1965, so would have turned fifteen in April 1980. 😉
@@rabbit64sj91 Two years before myself.
would you like a biscuit?
I still haven't seen one scene with Bert where he doesn't say "No wharra mean?"
Thankfully, it totally disappears from his vocabulary after his stroke, so episodes after December 1982 until his last appearance in July 1983. Those episodes are a delight to watch. I got sick of his bloody catchphrase!
I've counted 22 times since his first utterance
I’m surprised that Elsie didn’t tell her what she heard at the cafe about Dan, how he has women in every town!
Pete Beale??
2:22:20 is that a posh portrait of Stan and Hilda in the background?
The Tilsleys must have shares in the local chippy.
Was that Pete beale in t rovers,??
I saw him in Jim's Cafe too.....
I wonder if Mrs Walker came from Southport
Go on Ivy, tell him! 🤣
Thats how I remember this series back then. Not like it now its way to dark and un british looking..
Absolutely reflection of daily life not some made up stuff taking on problems of the era Not some made up gobbledygook that has nothing with real life today
Like the adverts!
Every time I see Vera I think it's
Harpo Marx - until she opens her gob.
Why wasn't Pauline Stringer on it for longer? Seemed an alright character
Emily’s response to Bateman is so silly
Incredible that the worldly wise and cynical Bet falls for such an obvious sleazebag as Dan Johnson.
Bet Lynch and Annie Walker are two of the greatest ever soap characters. Also, was this when Len started to become a nicer character?
I think Dan Johnson is supposed to be a Sean Connery type ... but he's not a rough diamond, he's just rough.
Brookside was created in 1982 because Coronation Street became very complacent back then.
That scene at 3:07:00 between Mavis and Rita made me laugh out loud. Rita certainly is no Florence Nightingale lol😅
The look on Mrs Walker and Renee's face when Bet paraded that awful Dan Johnson through the shop.
So po-faced! So Bet had a bit of rough stay the night - so what?
It may have been 1980, but it may as well have been 1950.
Is this the same Susan who married Mike? She has a Scottish accent here
No, different actress
Nope. They got the actress back who played Susan when she was a kid, cos this Scottish one couldn't act.
2:20:05 I think Betty's laughing at the end of the scene was unscripted.
hey have u all the year 1970 coronation street please
This was meant to be 1983 never hea4d such rubbish and I never see so many people going to a pub. These people never stop drinking how they work id beyond me,I was a teen ager in 1980 working class family .the went to a pub maybe one a week they lived in terraced houses they all had telephones central heating well we had that since 1950infact my great grandmother had it in her flat since1920. Really not sure who lived liked that as for holidays abroad we had a least two weeks a year abroad and two weeks in the uk by 1983 it was twice a year abroad for my family my grandparents where all workers in factories. My grandparents had cars and we where a two car family even in 1970s . My parents worked hard and we never went without but there was no wasting money.
But these characters where so unbelievable. There values where put dated the who Ken and daughter thing was from 1950 not 1980s. And Mrs walker character was totally unbelievable even at the time.
Not sure I lived in the same northwest of England. This soap opera was meant to be reality but which decade I fo not know?
Eddie & Mavis should have got it on
There’s hardly any bingo halls around 2 my knowledge. 😮😮🎉🎉❤❤❤ 2:36:07
Does anybody know what Bert means?
That Duncan guy would have made a better Peter than that Pinocio lad
Imagine buying a house for £16k, the dream
Thought the yard was Lens, not rented
2:22:33 - Its Arnold Swain ! The bigamist !
I like Uncle Albert he's funny
15 ponds for her flat/room a week is only 80 ponds indexed to today!! So cheap!! 😂🤣
Desperate Dan with the even more Desperate Bet !
Pete Beale makes an appearance
Why is Peter coming out of the street
Talk about mutton dressed as lamb
Ah, constipation st, the name that reflects the acting. Stiff and painful!
I love all the Corrie characters apart from Fred Gee, i cant help but shudder whenever he appears on screen!
He plays an odious character & seems sleazy & greasy, dishonest & shifty, if that was the plan of his character, then i cant see why the writers had to put such a persona in the show!
Stan & Eddie are rogues & shady characters but they are so well played by the actors they have become beloved characters!
They dont make your skin crawl whenever they appear!
A couple of friends say the same & cant stand Mr Gee, i think its a female 6th sense where hes concerned & find him creepy.
Anyway thank you for the shows
Regards
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I remember when he was dancing with Elsie and he was trying to unzip her dress. She was laughingly resisting him, but I was appalled. I rely on the the posts here so I don’t know what happened after that.
Annie Walker said odious as I read odious in the comment. Snap.
Susan and Peter were Scottish in early episodes of Corrie then changed to English accents later on - very confusing !!!!
Rita's wigs were awful
02:04:36 Pete Beale
Peter Neal from Eastenders
Did they bury Hilda Ogden in her curlers lol, they never leave her.
power of youtube easy to find scenes without them. would you like a biscuit?
@@moaningpheromones obviously she didn't have them in every scene, they were her trademark the same with Nora Batty..the power of UA-cam to bring out the hard of thinking folks
Bet Gilroy looks terrible in this. Great actress though!
Is it just me or does Mavis and her squeaky voice drive you crazy? It's like nails on a chalkboard!
Bet really is a good freind to have
My favorite characters are jack x vera
At 1:28:20 Eddie says “Stanley you’re a white man”. It’s hard to believe that was ever OK.
It's hard to believe you're bothered by it. It makes no sense given the context of the conversation, and there's no hatred towards people with other skin colours.
Bet looks like a gone wrong barbie 😂 I loved Julie Goodyear in her later years, but this was yikes
Ivy and mortgage never h3ardcsuch rubbish thiscwas meant to be 1980 not 1950. Put mortgage down. No one spoke like that it was repayment . Over 25 years no ever heard of that saying about 90 p and £1 . Story line was so out of touch
I would have phoned Dan, but I don’t know where to reach him. You don’t know where your boyfriend is, and how to get a hold of him??! If he really did have a blown tire, he would have got a room, and would have called you from it!! She doesn’t think that it’s wrong that he didn’t call her and tell her where he is, and where to call him??! How convenient for him that she has no idea where he is!! 😂🤣