I’m sure the social worker speaking to Rita later on in years was Richard hillman who got married to Gail thank you 🙏 for the uploads I remember watching this episode when I was a teenager with my mum
Eddie ( about cleaning the pots) “I don’t think Fred does all this!” Bet “He most certainly does! And what’s more, he does it with a merry twinkle in his eye, a song in his heart, and a smile on his lips.” 😂😂
'More Than This' by Roxy Music, playing on the jukebox in Jim's Cafe at 4.55.00, when Alma is interrogating Stan Ogden about her windows - I love hearing the great hits of the day in the background of these classic Corrie episodes. The music of the early 1980s was wonderful. Everything is rubbish now.
Mike could be tough when he wanted - that was true to life, as he grew up working class, through the school of hard knocks. But he also had a heart of gold. I loved his many kindnesses to Hilda especially. The best was when she 'won' him for a date, in a Street raffle - and he took her out to a posh restaurant for dinner, and treated her like a queen. That episode was sublime!
Stan made me laugh “a working man is entitled to a pint 🍺 on a Sunday dinner” i was waiting for Hilda to say “well you are not because you don’t work” I love ❤️ Stan and Hilda they make a great comedy act, thank you 🙏 for the old ones of Corrie
So may of the stories from the past wouldn't fly today - sure there were romances, but Annie getting her license, Stan and Hilda's "muriel" - all hilarious - and REAL. Plus, as morbid as this sounds - Corrie let's people 'die' - they don't ship them off to visit a relative, then we find out a few years later that they died.
Alexander jones its the actors and actresses ,you see and the dialogue the were superlative not like today's actors who couldn't hold a candle to these greats like Annie walker mike Baldwin Len and bet Hilda Stan and Eddie Yeats, Elsie and Rita to name a few . todays coronation street actors don't know to how to act all they seem to is shout at one another and change their accents
Present day Corrie has become too OTT intense and serious for me. I don't know why but they've managed to suck all the fun out of life on The Street. Same with Emmerdale and Hollyoaks, it all seems to be Sam Smith style depressing drama nowadays
So it's been 3 years to this month that Derek flogged those Easter eggs to Mavis and disappeared. I remember it well, and it means I've watched three years of episodes in about 2 weeks (started in 1979 which seemed a great year to pick up on) Great entertainment until I return to work. If you're off sick, I highly recommend this excellent channel and its excellent proprietor!
It is SO easy to watch years and years of vintage Corrie in the blink of an eye, thanks to the superb scripts and actors back then - and of course, the sterling efforts of our hero @ProfessionalGun. The current show isn't even half as good as the 'eighties version - I think broadcasting it under the same name amounts to fraud! For me, one of life's great luxuries is finding a whole month of episodes uploaded as one continuous video - Sheer bliss!
Hilda stan and eddy the 3 musketeers are my absolute all time favourites imagine saying half that banter now 😂😂😂😂😂😂 too many sensitive people about these days old corrie far batter than todays rubbish i dont even watch it anymore not done for years thankyou for all the amazing uploads
One thing I’ve noticed with every one of these episodes is the speed people answer the phone when they’re called, Annie Walker had barely finished dialling when the physio answered, the phone wouldn’t have even had time to ring out.
If they had any type of intelligence, they would have bought the other flat close to Ivy’s! There was a park with swings right on the corner from them for the baby, it had two bedrooms, and was only 7,500 quid, instead of 13,000!! It was affordable for them, and close to both of their work locations!! But they would rather buy the one bedroom, in the middle of nowhere flat that takes two buses to get to their workplaces which adds even more money to the cost, and is priced almost double at 13,000 quid!! The first one needed some work done in the bathroom, and most likely needed redecorated, but they could have fixed the bathroom, painted the walls, ect. and it still would have been much better and much cheaper than Her Majesty’s Castle!! These two are so unintelligent, I just can’t believe it, and I absolutely think that they have mental problems!! But, what Her Majesty wants, she gets! All she needs to do is whine, pout, and stomp her feet like a two year old, as she always does!! But Her Majesty did not want the good house, because she had to have a brand new one, not an affordable older one! Her Majesty must put on airs and keep up a fake appearance, you know!! 😂🤣
It had to be done,....a scene involving two of the Streets greatest characters..Mike Baldwin and Eddie Yeats,,and what a classic exchange between two lovable rogues
1:38:58 Eddie bringing Fred the dead and wilted flowers Bet just chucked out. 😂😂Fred, expecting a Swedish massage and a Rugby Physio arrives. Such great, comedic story lines.😂😂
re watching these has been wonderful Thank you so much for your efforts. Watching Stan get slower and other signs he is becoming unwell is so sad when we now know of the outcome. Stan and Hilda were an acting couple that are unbeaten God bless all those actors past and present who gave us the public so much from that era of the street
I've stopped watching Corrie as it is Now. Because the Storylines are a load of Crap. It's now either about Murderers getting away with Murder. All Having Affairs with One Another. Or lying Conmen Ect Ect I might as well be watching Hollyoaks, an I don't like that either. I prefer to watch all these Older Episodes when the Characters Storylines were more true to life & it had humour as well. Thanks for uploading all These Classic Corrie Episodes
Sharon tells Mavis not to worry and that Rita will be back soon from a spot of shopping. At 32:25 Mavis says she's not worried and Sharon's answer is a gem. I liked Sharon although not many others did. She was cheeky, forward and funny and when she returned after Len died for a couple of weeks I was hoping she would have stayed longer.
I liked Sharon too, great fun. She did return to Rita once more in 1999 as part of her own really good storyline. Actress Tracie Bennett played a blinder!
Sharon was far too cocky for me - I had dealings with the actress who played her some years ago, and she was pretty full of herself too! The scriptwriters had a fixation with giving poor Rita precocious foster daughters - I couldn't stand Jenny Bradley either, who was just Sharon Mark 2 - but worse, 'cos she came with killer dad Alan Bradley!
2:59:23 Don’t see how any of it was Sharon’s fault. She didn’t want Wayne there-he just turned up, and she was trying to resist going upstairs ( and we know what that means) with the other lad!
So, Nicky is around 14 months old, and Gail’s toilet training has him ‘dry during the day’? And what a lovely picture he drew on her card! Ivy’s right to think he’s clever. And, I think Bet Lynch is the greatest ever soap character, with Annie Walker a close second.
I don't know what the casting call must have been, Male actor who doesn't posses a mirror needed? Apart from Joe Lynch ( Ron ) who was the only believable character to have taken Elsie's fancy.
yes i agree it is the height of bad manners and encourages others,i actually punched a work colleague for standing over me and chewing in my ear sadly this bad habit is commonplace today as is chewing gum with open mouth UGH!
He shouldn’t be eating so much in the first place! Desperately needs to lose at least 20 pounds!! I have no idea why they had so many overweight and unattractive people on here!!!
@@chicagogyrl4846 was my work fitting nowhere else to move not the first time the person in question hovered over a colleagues work area- ended up being put in a headlock for farting in his face and almost being throttled forcalling another a welsh p***ter. irony being he was suspended and eventually fired for taking a swing at the line manager
2:06:20 Mike breaks up the commotion and almost drops an f-bomb and skillfully replacing the sound of the f with the word Gawd followed by Sake. And Cathy was right about her new co-workers and good on her. This was also one of those storylines where Vera could be a right nasty cow and we end up loving her to bits by way of the writers pen.
A few years later, Jack Duckworth would not only be a replacement for Stan Ogden, as he and Vera were both replacements for Stan and Hilda, but also for Fred Gee.
But Jack was much more attractive than both Stan and Fred, both repulsive characters. I’m presuming it’s because of Bernard Youens’s stroke they just have his character reduced to ‘ where’s me dinner?’. Hadn’t their children been taken into care because he had been beating them ? I’m sure ‘our Irma’ had changed her name from Freda when she came into the street at first.
@@mariemurray3638 Attractive!? 😂 Stan was by far the best looking out of them in his younger days. Also a much nicer character. Yes he was idle but he wasn't bent like Jack. Vera was vile as well, just a cheap scrubber. Hilda was a gossip but she was far more a lady than Vera.
3:06:44 This is a fun part of this scene with Len questioning Diedre and what Alf says to end it. A few minutes later at 3:10:50 Gail is building up on her typical rampaging nature and these scenes of her with a never ending bee in her bonet interrupt and are interspersed between other more excellent scenes and begin to grate the nerves, well mine anyway. This particular scene I have chosen is only to showcase the excellence between Hilda and Eddie that follows at 3:11:18. They are both so great together..."Even if it's only for health reasons"
The day Sharon shows up is the day Len is in Bolton, Rita should have read those signs. The Corrie writers came up with a few good coincidences or ironies and the above said moment could have been a backtrack by the writers. So at the Ogden's 40th anniversary while Len is on his way over from you know where Eddie accidently breaks Hilda's pearl necklace (Len crashing? of course) and the police enter the Rovers Return just as Rita is finishing up singing "We've been together now for forty years"....or is it only me who sees all this?
Interesting post, I wonder if Peter Adamson (Len) was already causing his bosses grief when these episodes were made, and so the writers were thinking about his future exit when they wrote these? By the way, when did Len get killed off - wasn't it after Christmas this year? I seem to recall the actual episode when the police come into the Rovers and tell Rita he's dead (at the Ogden's anniversary party) couldn't be uploaded to TH-cam?
@@professionalgun6674 Just saw your reply to my post - thanks so much, the '83 episodes were brilliant! Loved your analysis of the weird coincidences in the scripts by the way - especially the symbolism of Eddie breaking Hilda's pearls. Spooky! Coronation Street writing was so fantastic back then, it did communicate on more than one level. I've been watching Corrie repeats every weekday afternoon on ITV2, for a few years, but will have to give up on it soon. It's been very a helpful exercise - it's answered my curiosity about when the rot set in, and which year Coronation Street started its inexorable decline to the unwatchable garbage it is today. The answer is 1997, when the Battersbys moved in! There were still a few highlights after that, it's such a great show even 40 years on they could create one or two magic moments (Blanche Hunt really came into her own in retirement!) Now I think of it, the memorable moments post '97 are pretty much all death related - Alf Roberts, Alma Baldwin, Mike Baldwin, and of course the bloody rein of serial killer Richard Hillman... Misery abounded, but laughs were harder to find. The Battersbys were obviously brought in for light relief, but I found them as funny as root canal surgery. Corrie storylines became noticeably darker from 1985 onwards, in response to the competition from gritty EastEnders and a more tabloid-ey, true crime obsession that took hold across the nation. Perhaps that was inevitable, I realise fashions change. But I think the essence of this great drama was lost along the way, and that's a great shame. If people want dark, gritty stories they can watch documentaries. People loved Corrie for its heart and humour, which thanks to you, we still get to enjoy in abundance in these vintage episodes. But from what I've seen, that heart and humour left the scripts and performances 20 years ago, never to return. Nothing good lasts forever, and why should Corrie be any different? The Street had a damn good run at the top, producing some of the finest British television drama ever made, for over 30 years. That's an incredible achievement! And thanks to the magic of video - and magic people like the superstar who runs this wonderful channel - we can go on enjoying the best of Corrie.
Im watching early 80s Corrie purely for the Hilda moments 😅 - "Me mother used to get me a load of boxes of liquorice all-sorts; she'd nick em from the Co-Op. I had a drawer stuffed full of em...till that detective came round looking for lead. I got 3 months for that..." - Eddie Yates 😂😂😂😂😂
This show makes me want to go down to the pub, but I am not an alcoholic like this lot! Not one of these people can go through a day without at least 1 drink! These people drink in the afternoon, and sometimes mornings, and then again in the evening!! 😂🤣
Marion’s a bit silly acting like Mikes place is buckingham palace. Vera has a lot of nerve having a go at Elsie when she’s constantly cheating on Jack.
Huh? The same actor who played Betty Turpins son in February is now playing the role of the physio come to see to Fred's injury. He was so recently playing someone else, bizarre
Her and Ivy, I cdnt imagine having to work a shift with either of them, let alone both of them 3 to 5 days a week.... Not much else I wdnt prefer doing for a paycheck,not off the top of my head
I like Rita and Len so much better when they are fostering. Mind you, I haven't watched to the end of this set of episodes yet, so there's plenty of time for it to go pear-shaped, but I like them much more this way. Len gives his solid-gold misogyny a rest for a change. I usually despise him because of it. It's been a welcome break.
Vera must be from around Liverpool, because I hear her accent! Her accent here, and the Liverpool accent especially are my favorite accents! I could listen to these people talk all night long! That would be perfect for Vera if she were an actual person!! I wish that I could speak even half of a Liverpool accent! If she were real, I would love to go on holiday or clubbing with Vera! I love her accent, and she’s crazy fun! She’s one of my favorite characters, here! 🥂😂🤣
I wonder how much Gayle is actually bringing home a week after paying the nanny, the 2 buses she needs to take back and forth to get there, food and drinks while working, and taxes! But like she said it’s not about the money, she could care less how much money she has left from her check, because she just doesn’t want to be with and raise her baby, she’d rather pay a nanny to do it, and because she doesn’t want to be at home, in the house she whined, moaned, and stomped her feet about to have, and wants to be “out in the world.” ! This woman is obviously mental.
So nutty Gayle would rather walk to the bus station in the cold, rain, wind and snow and when it’s hotter than hell, pay and take not one, but two buses to AND from work, run around all day, wipe off and bus tables, sweep and mop the floor, ect. all day full time all week, rather than stay with her baby, and do whatever she would like, whenever she would like, and also relax when she’s not busy! This woman is definitely not on a normal mental plane!
Way too much of Rita, Len and this half boy half girl foster kid in these episodes!!I I skip over all of the scenes with them, too! Not much in these episodes, now.
Mavis said she felt a bit depressed after Emily left! No surprise! Emily is a depressing wet weekend! Makes me feel depressed, that’s why I skip over anything with her in it!! 😂🤣
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Anyone watching in 2024? I've been binge watching these old episodes! Hilda and Stan, David and Rita great double acts
Yep, me too 😅
Me too
I'm watching 2024 but these oldies are BETTER ❤ The 2024 storyline are so predictable it gets a little boring. 🙄
I'm right here with you. Started from the 60's, through the 70's and now loving the '80s . Much better than the crap that's on now 😊
I’m across the pond, and I have no idea how to access it!! 😂🤣
Brilliant characters and great story lines unlike the coronation street of today
Absolutely love these old Corrie episodes 😍.. Hilda and Stan being my favourites
Hilda Stan and Eddie Yeats were as good as any comedy act in this period.
@@colinjennings3661 o I’ll op
How bert.never left ivy
Mm. M
Plus Eddie.
I’m sure the social worker speaking to Rita later on in years was Richard hillman who got married to Gail thank you 🙏 for the uploads I remember watching this episode when I was a teenager with my mum
He was. He was also a teacher in grange hill in the early 1980s
Eddie ( about cleaning the pots) “I don’t think Fred does all this!”
Bet “He most certainly does! And what’s more, he does it with a merry twinkle in his eye, a song in his heart, and a smile on his lips.” 😂😂
Thank you so much for these wonderful old episodes. I love watching them.
'More Than This' by Roxy Music, playing on the jukebox in Jim's Cafe at 4.55.00, when Alma is interrogating Stan Ogden about her windows - I love hearing the great hits of the day in the background of these classic Corrie episodes. The music of the early 1980s was wonderful. Everything is rubbish now.
Bless Mike for stopping the bullying. It explained a lot when he said he knew a girl that topped herself voz of stuff like that.
Mike could be tough when he wanted - that was true to life, as he grew up working class, through the school of hard knocks. But he also had a heart of gold.
I loved his many kindnesses to Hilda especially. The best was when she 'won' him for a date, in a Street raffle - and he took her out to a posh restaurant for dinner, and treated her like a queen. That episode was sublime!
Ivy’s obsession with “our Brian” was downright uncomfortable.
The characterisations are spot on - we've all known an Ivy Tilsey, a spiteful busybody, whose precious mummy's boy son can do no wrong!
R Brien
Gail and Ivy got the daughter-in-law, mother-in-law they deserved. Hilarious.
@@mathewdunne5771 Very true - as confirmed by the fact 20 years later, Gail had become Ivy!
Ivy was like my mother-in-law, I learnt early on not to talk about her precious children including her first born ( my husband).
Stan made me laugh “a working man is entitled to a pint 🍺 on a Sunday dinner” i was waiting for Hilda to say “well you are not because you don’t work” I love ❤️ Stan and Hilda they make a great comedy act, thank you 🙏 for the old ones of Corrie
The scenes with Elsie and the Lester Piggott lookalike Wilf are tedious in the extreme.
That’s it! Blimey, he _does_ look like Lester Piggott!! 😂
Bet has brilliant one liners , and delivers them perfectly. The good old days,i miss them..thanks for the memories.Hilda & Stan.❤
How is it that this is so much better than today’s Corrie ( which I do watch, but don’t find nearly as good). It’s the same programme!
Agree with you 100%
So may of the stories from the past wouldn't fly today - sure there were romances, but Annie getting her license, Stan and Hilda's "muriel" - all hilarious - and REAL. Plus, as morbid as this sounds - Corrie let's people 'die' - they don't ship them off to visit a relative, then we find out a few years later that they died.
Alexander jones its the actors and actresses ,you see and the dialogue the were superlative not like today's actors who couldn't hold a candle to these greats like Annie walker mike Baldwin Len and bet Hilda Stan and Eddie Yeats, Elsie and Rita to name a few . todays coronation street actors don't know to how to act all they seem to is shout at one another and change their accents
This lot went to drama school and had excellent scriptwriters
Present day Corrie has become too OTT intense and serious for me. I don't know why but they've managed to suck all the fun out of life on The Street.
Same with Emmerdale and Hollyoaks, it all seems to be Sam Smith style depressing drama nowadays
So it's been 3 years to this month that Derek flogged those Easter eggs to Mavis and disappeared. I remember it well, and it means I've watched three years of episodes in about 2 weeks (started in 1979 which seemed a great year to pick up on) Great entertainment until I return to work. If you're off sick, I highly recommend this excellent channel and its excellent proprietor!
It is SO easy to watch years and years of vintage Corrie in the blink of an eye, thanks to the superb scripts and actors back then - and of course, the sterling efforts of our hero @ProfessionalGun. The current show isn't even half as good as the 'eighties version - I think broadcasting it under the same name amounts to fraud!
For me, one of life's great luxuries is finding a whole month of episodes uploaded as one continuous video - Sheer bliss!
I have to agree. My current obsession ❤
Same😂
I've done exactly the same... How time flies 😅
I'm watching in June 2024! Love it❤
Hilda stan and eddy the 3 musketeers are my absolute all time favourites imagine saying half that banter now 😂😂😂😂😂😂 too many sensitive people about these days old corrie far batter than todays rubbish i dont even watch it anymore not done for years thankyou for all the amazing uploads
Hilda and Stan were the very first skit I saw, and I started watching Corrie only for them!! 😂🤣
One thing I’ve noticed with every one of these episodes is the speed people answer the phone when they’re called, Annie Walker had barely finished dialling when the physio answered, the phone wouldn’t have even had time to ring out.
Yes, magic telephones!
What a cold, unwelcoming house, Gail and Brian live in.
I agree and it's so poky and small considering what they paid for it. I think they were mad buying a one bedroom place
A very bad cardboard set
@@gilliangrant8764 No they about it. Gail's way or the motorway
Specially when Gail and Brian are in it.
If they had any type of intelligence, they would have bought the other flat close to Ivy’s! There was a park with swings right on the corner from them for the baby, it had two bedrooms, and was only 7,500 quid, instead of 13,000!! It was affordable for them, and close to both of their work locations!! But they would rather buy the one bedroom, in the middle of nowhere flat that takes two buses to get to their workplaces which adds even more money to the cost, and is priced almost double at 13,000 quid!! The first one needed some work done in the bathroom, and most likely needed redecorated, but they could have fixed the bathroom, painted the walls, ect. and it still would have been much better and much cheaper than Her Majesty’s Castle!! These two are so unintelligent, I just can’t believe it, and I absolutely think that they have mental problems!! But, what Her Majesty wants, she gets! All she needs to do is whine, pout, and stomp her feet like a two year old, as she always does!! But Her Majesty did not want the good house, because she had to have a brand new one, not an affordable older one! Her Majesty must put on airs and keep up a fake appearance, you know!! 😂🤣
It had to be done,....a scene involving two of the Streets greatest characters..Mike Baldwin and Eddie Yeats,,and what a classic exchange between two lovable rogues
You'd think at Elsie's age she'd know what time to get up in the mornings. For 20 years she's been running late.
Elsie was always a free spirit. That was one of the things that made her so great.
@@stevenhighams4190 So forever being tardy is now known as “being a free spirit.” 😂🤣
@@chicagogyrl4846 You completely miss my point.
1:38:58 Eddie bringing Fred the dead and wilted flowers Bet just chucked out. 😂😂Fred, expecting a Swedish massage and a Rugby Physio arrives. Such great, comedic story lines.😂😂
re watching these has been wonderful Thank you so much for your efforts. Watching Stan get slower and other signs he is becoming unwell is so sad when we now know of the outcome. Stan and Hilda were an acting couple that are unbeaten God bless all those actors past and present who gave us the public so much from that era of the street
The only thing that's worth watching in 2022
And 2023😜
I've stopped watching Corrie as it is Now.
Because the Storylines are a load of Crap.
It's now either about Murderers getting away with Murder.
All Having Affairs with One Another.
Or lying Conmen Ect Ect
I might as well be watching Hollyoaks, an I don't like that either.
I prefer to watch all these Older Episodes when the Characters Storylines were more true to life & it had humour as well.
Thanks for uploading all These Classic Corrie Episodes
Alma stood there with a ciggie, watching Gail mop the floor and saying about ‘These kids who don’t know what work is’...
Sharon tells Mavis not to worry and that Rita will be back soon from a spot of shopping. At 32:25 Mavis says she's not worried and Sharon's answer is a gem. I liked Sharon although not many others did. She was cheeky, forward and funny and when she returned after Len died for a couple of weeks I was hoping she would have stayed longer.
I liked Sharon too, great fun. She did return to Rita once more in 1999 as part of her own really good storyline. Actress Tracie Bennett played a blinder!
I always thought she was a big hit at the time. I never found her very attractive, though.
Sharon was far too cocky for me - I had dealings with the actress who played her some years ago, and she was pretty full of herself too! The scriptwriters had a fixation with giving poor Rita precocious foster daughters - I couldn't stand Jenny Bradley either, who was just Sharon Mark 2 - but worse, 'cos she came with killer dad Alan Bradley!
@@glamdolly30I couldn’t stand Sharon .
Fred Gee getting his massage is hillarious.
Brilliant!
Made my day😄
Oh lordy...how I miss Annie and Bet's banter over Fred😂
Wonderful scripts and perfect acting
@@lindsaygrieve4384 Oh so do I - the Rovers 'family' with sweaty Fred constantly henpecked and outwitted by Annie, Bet and Betty, was just wonderful!
@@glamdolly30I can’t stand his double chin! We you look at him all you see is glasses and fat as a second chin!!
Lovely Mike Baldwin such a charmer
He reminds me of Del Boy, just smoother and more cultured.
@@louiseowusu246 and better looking
Bette lynch is just beautiful back then 😊
Factory girls just like school playground
Workplaces can be like that. I've been there!
@@stevenhighams4190 me too. Brutal
It's a wonder Gail's baby sleeps at all, the way they all clump up and down stairs !
I have worked at factories but avoided getting in with the gossip mungers. Life is too short.
Thank you! Do you have any episodes from the 1970s?
Oh Ken... SHURRRUP!
Can't stand Ken..
Me either. His tune wd change if it was him or someone he cared about that got attacked and robbed
Same here. Arrogant and selfish character.
All that support in the street and he didn't even try to raise the twins.
He’s a wet weekend. The personality of a head of lettuce, and so boring!!
Ty so much for uploading these episodes great fan from nz here 💓
In his early appearances, did Jack remind anyone else of Harold Steptoe a bit?
They could have passed for brothers
2:59:23 Don’t see how any of it was Sharon’s fault. She didn’t want Wayne there-he just turned up, and she was trying to resist going upstairs ( and we know what that means) with the other lad!
So, Nicky is around 14 months old, and Gail’s toilet training has him ‘dry during the day’? And what a lovely picture he drew on her card! Ivy’s right to think he’s clever.
And, I think Bet Lynch is the greatest ever soap character, with Annie Walker a close second.
That Sharron character must have put thousand and thousand of couples of fostering
Elsie could have pulled way more attractive men.
I don't know what the casting call must have been, Male actor who doesn't posses a mirror needed?
Apart from Joe Lynch ( Ron ) who was the only believable character to have taken Elsie's fancy.
And rich ones, too!!
It’s weird seeing Jack and Bet playing about
Wtf did she see in him?
6:10:52 as much as I love Eddie, and I DO love Eddie, the noise he makes every single time he eats has me tearing my hair out. Close your mouth, man!!
yes i agree it is the height of bad manners and encourages others,i actually punched a work colleague for standing over me and chewing in my ear sadly this bad habit is commonplace today as is chewing gum with open mouth UGH!
He shouldn’t be eating so much in the first place! Desperately needs to lose at least 20 pounds!! I have no idea why they had so many overweight and unattractive people on here!!!
@@christopherhayes2556It’s also the height of bad manners to punch a colleague!! If he bothered you, why didn’t you move to somewhere else??! 😂🤣
@@chicagogyrl4846 was my work fitting nowhere else to move not the first time the person in question hovered over a colleagues work area- ended up being put in a headlock for farting in his face and almost being throttled forcalling another a welsh p***ter. irony being he was suspended and eventually fired for taking a swing at the line manager
Jack to Bette,”What is it about me that you find irresistible?” I suddenly got nauseous.
2:06:20 Mike breaks up the commotion and almost drops an f-bomb and skillfully replacing the sound of the f with the word Gawd followed by Sake. And Cathy was right about her new co-workers and good on her. This was also one of those storylines where Vera could be a right nasty cow and we end up loving her to bits by way of the writers pen.
I loved the way Elsie dealt with the Coventry situation. Always a class act.
Yes...Brian is just “slaving away” in Cairo!! 🤣😂
Coronation street is the best soap
Sharon wouldn’t be safe if Ray Langton was still in the yard..😅
A few years later, Jack Duckworth would not only be a replacement for Stan Ogden, as he and Vera were both replacements for Stan and Hilda, but also for Fred Gee.
But Jack was much more attractive than both Stan and Fred, both repulsive characters. I’m presuming it’s because of Bernard Youens’s stroke they just have his character reduced to ‘ where’s me dinner?’. Hadn’t their children been taken into care because he had been beating them ? I’m sure ‘our Irma’ had changed her name from Freda when she came into the street at first.
@@mariemurray3638 Attractive!? 😂 Stan was by far the best looking out of them in his younger days. Also a much nicer character. Yes he was idle but he wasn't bent like Jack. Vera was vile as well, just a cheap scrubber. Hilda was a gossip but she was far more a lady than Vera.
@@edward6960you’re absolutely right! He was handsome!! 😍😂🤣
I think Marion is a doll, they couldn't have picked a better mate for Eddy.
Marion has a face like a dustbin lid ... I hate the scenes she's in.
They should have kept her and Eddie in it. They made a few wrong decisions by getting rid of some of the characters around that time
It was Geoffrey Hughes (Eddie Yeats) decision to leave 😢
Her n Eddy make a cute couple only smartvones to leave the gossiping street
Seriously a doll she was rather plain good enough actress though
Better than now❤
It’s a shame the didn’t keep electric Alec. He’s cute.
I bet we could all predict Ivy's first words to Ron Sykes: "How's our Brian! How's our Brian!" like a demented Dalek.
Nice to see Daisy from Upstairs Downstairs.
I loved Daisy in Upstairs Downstairs, but I don't really like to see her in 'modern' dress drama.
@@carasmith549 Or a couple of stone heavier !
3:06:44 This is a fun part of this scene with Len questioning Diedre and what Alf says to end it. A few minutes later at 3:10:50 Gail is building up on her typical rampaging nature and these scenes of her with a never ending bee in her bonet interrupt and are interspersed between other more excellent scenes and begin to grate the nerves, well mine anyway. This particular scene I have chosen is only to showcase the excellence between Hilda and Eddie that follows at 3:11:18. They are both so great together..."Even if it's only for health reasons"
At - 2.43.22 Rita asks Alf for 2 jars of red cabbage,then he goes to get them off the shelf,and they are already on the counter ready
This is Britain's must see T V the world today is not the same!
That social worker that tells Rita about a new foster child looks and sounds like Gail's future psycho husband Richard Hilman💛
It is him.
Brian Capron. He was Mr Hopwood in Grange Hill too 😁 the very same guy
Gail is a simple minded woman isn't she
And an expert at driving me, for one, right up the wall.
I feel so sorry for Brian
Very unintelligent, and not bright at all!!
Thank you ❤
I dont know which wkuld be more fun, hanging with bet, fred and betty in the rovers or being with vera, ivy and co in mike's factory.
Take a wild guess. Would you want to work??! 😂🤣
Heard “Poison Arrow” - ABC! 🥂🤣😂
The day Sharon shows up is the day Len is in Bolton, Rita should have read those signs. The Corrie writers came up with a few good coincidences or ironies and the above said moment could have been a backtrack by the writers. So at the Ogden's 40th anniversary while Len is on his way over from you know where Eddie accidently breaks Hilda's pearl necklace (Len crashing? of course) and the police enter the Rovers Return just as Rita is finishing up singing "We've been together now for forty years"....or is it only me who sees all this?
Interesting post, I wonder if Peter Adamson (Len) was already causing his bosses grief when these episodes were made, and so the writers were thinking about his future exit when they wrote these? By the way, when did Len get killed off - wasn't it after Christmas this year? I seem to recall the actual episode when the police come into the Rovers and tell Rita he's dead (at the Ogden's anniversary party) couldn't be uploaded to TH-cam?
@@glamdolly30 Len's funeral was on 14th December 83. I will upload the episode you mentioned when the time comes.
Synchronicity.
@@professionalgun6674 Just saw your reply to my post - thanks so much, the '83 episodes were brilliant! Loved your analysis of the weird coincidences in the scripts by the way - especially the symbolism of Eddie breaking Hilda's pearls. Spooky!
Coronation Street writing was so fantastic back then, it did communicate on more than one level.
I've been watching Corrie repeats every weekday afternoon on ITV2, for a few years, but will have to give up on it soon. It's been very a helpful exercise - it's answered my curiosity about when the rot set in, and which year Coronation Street started its inexorable decline to the unwatchable garbage it is today.
The answer is 1997, when the Battersbys moved in! There were still a few highlights after that, it's such a great show even 40 years on they could create one or two magic moments (Blanche Hunt really came into her own in retirement!) Now I think of it, the memorable moments post '97 are pretty much all death related - Alf Roberts, Alma Baldwin, Mike Baldwin, and of course the bloody rein of serial killer Richard Hillman... Misery abounded, but laughs were harder to find. The Battersbys were obviously brought in for light relief, but I found them as funny as root canal surgery.
Corrie storylines became noticeably darker from 1985 onwards, in response to the competition from gritty EastEnders and a more tabloid-ey, true crime obsession that took hold across the nation. Perhaps that was inevitable, I realise fashions change. But I think the essence of this great drama was lost along the way, and that's a great shame.
If people want dark, gritty stories they can watch documentaries. People loved Corrie for its heart and humour, which thanks to you, we still get to enjoy in abundance in these vintage episodes. But from what I've seen, that heart and humour left the scripts and performances 20 years ago, never to return.
Nothing good lasts forever, and why should Corrie be any different? The Street had a damn good run at the top, producing some of the finest British television drama ever made, for over 30 years. That's an incredible achievement! And thanks to the magic of video - and magic people like the superstar who runs this wonderful channel - we can go on enjoying the best of Corrie.
I think when the writers had to kill Len off quick, they looked back at places he had been known to go, and picked Bolton.
49:13 incredible that Liz Dawn is only 42
Bert was dying to know about Cairo from Mike, so why didn’t he ask Brian when he had him on the phone??! Makes no sense!!
Im watching early 80s Corrie purely for the Hilda moments 😅
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"Me mother used to get me a load of boxes of liquorice all-sorts; she'd nick em from the Co-Op. I had a drawer stuffed full of em...till that detective came round looking for lead. I got 3 months for that..."
- Eddie Yates 😂😂😂😂😂
2.52...Gail says she likes friends dress...fact she could say that with a straight face is impressive acting !😅
This show makes me want to go down to the pub, but I am not an alcoholic like this lot! Not one of these people can go through a day without at least 1 drink! These people drink in the afternoon, and sometimes mornings, and then again in the evening!! 😂🤣
Poor len trying to take care of Sharon lol
2.18.... can't believe what Alf said as Sharon left!
Sharon’s schoolteacher who she imitates to Mavis isn’t by any chance Annie Walker’s sister, is she??
Can see Eddie’s point about Stan’s ‘fry up’ tbh.
That woman who didnt go to the wedding - such clever humour back then
Brian's boss Ron : "Kwatter"
Bert : "Kay-tar"
Catarrh, Guitar....
Anyone else do a “by ‘eck/by the ‘eck” count?
I’ve lived in north-west all my life and I’ve never said it or heard it said. 😀
Eddie and Marion are so cute!
Marion’s a bit silly acting like Mikes place is buckingham palace.
Vera has a lot of nerve having a go at Elsie when she’s constantly cheating on Jack.
Huh? The same actor who played Betty Turpins son in February is now playing the role of the physio come to see to Fred's injury. He was so recently playing someone else, bizarre
whats the cut off between March and April ? ( its for my index )
Poor old Derek is wetter than a Kipper in the Bath, Mavis has met her ideal Life Partner, " Well i don't really know"......
God, Vera is SO irritating!
Her and Ivy, I cdnt imagine having to work a shift with either of them, let alone both of them 3 to 5 days a week.... Not much else I wdnt prefer doing for a paycheck,not off the top of my head
Neither Vera or Jack mention our Terry. Where's he? 😂
Thanks xxx!.
Amanda barrie who played alma was so hot in carry on cleo years ago❤
I like Rita and Len so much better when they are fostering. Mind you, I haven't watched to the end of this set of episodes yet, so there's plenty of time for it to go pear-shaped, but I like them much more this way.
Len gives his solid-gold misogyny a rest for a change. I usually despise him because of it. It's been a welcome break.
oh look it's Richard Hillman!
I mean why didn’t Gail just ring R Brian back when she got in and knew he called twice? 🙄
Vera must be from around Liverpool, because I hear her accent! Her accent here, and the Liverpool accent especially are my favorite accents! I could listen to these people talk all night long! That would be perfect for Vera if she were an actual person!! I wish that I could speak even half of a Liverpool accent! If she were real, I would love to go on holiday or clubbing with Vera! I love her accent, and she’s crazy fun! She’s one of my favorite characters, here! 🥂😂🤣
No she's from North West England like myself, Eddie and Hilda are from Liverpool I'm sure x
yeah Hilda was born in Liverpool
Sharron always reminds me of Worzel Gummage for some reason
Ivy is such a batch
4:26;18 So Norman Watts wasn’t the first ‘Curly’ on the programme!
Classic, but why is brown the overriding colour?
Left over from the 1970s.
Brown was the official colour of the 70’s and 80’s
@@lordwalker71 In Britain, maybe, not here!
Bloody hell jack duckworth has made an appearance 😂
I wonder how much Gayle is actually bringing home a week after paying the nanny, the 2 buses she needs to take back and forth to get there, food and drinks while working, and taxes! But like she said it’s not about the money, she could care less how much money she has left from her check, because she just doesn’t want to be with and raise her baby, she’d rather pay a nanny to do it, and because she doesn’t want to be at home, in the house she whined, moaned, and stomped her feet about to have, and wants to be “out in the world.” ! This woman is obviously mental.
Mavis was better off without Derek.
So nutty Gayle would rather walk to the bus station in the cold, rain, wind and snow and when it’s hotter than hell, pay and take not one, but two buses to AND from work, run around all day, wipe off and bus tables, sweep and mop the floor, ect. all day full time all week, rather than stay with her baby, and do whatever she would like, whenever she would like, and also relax when she’s not busy! This woman is definitely not on a normal mental plane!
Burt says “KAY-TAR”. 😂🤣
Vera's hair-do gets wider every month 😂
Party..... Cider.... Seventeen year olds..... What could go wrong?
Way too much of Rita, Len and this half boy half girl foster kid in these episodes!!I I skip over all of the scenes with them, too! Not much in these episodes, now.
What was that new wave track at 32:40?
I have no clue. I only heard a few seconds of music!! 😂🤣
Mavis said she felt a bit depressed after Emily left! No surprise! Emily is a depressing wet weekend! Makes me feel depressed, that’s why I skip over anything with her in it!! 😂🤣
Good one Mike, sending to Coventry is cruel.
Do you know which episode is where Jack Duckworth nicks Vera’s money in the Rovers and she confronts him?
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