@@stevebbuk9557 I've watched many of the later '80s episodes, and, while I love later characters such as Bet Lynch, Mike Baldwin, Deirdre, and even the Duckworths, I do miss the originals. But, for me, what caused the decline was a trend toward sensational and even violent story lines (such as the Alan Bradley arc) to complete with Eastenders.
@@greggildersleeve3484 The Alan Bradley/Rita in Blackpool storyline was first class. But the show suffered from losing so many mainstay characters in quick succession, and as you imply, Manchester is not London and should not have attempted to compete.
There was so much fun as well as drama in the early episodes, a really entertaining "Kitchen Sink Drama" as opposed to the later OTT American style soaps, loving every second of these episodes!
Helen Worth's acting is very ham in some of these early episodes. She seems to deliver her lines at times in the same,monotone whiny voice. The more I watch the more it irritates me.
Bar maid Cath and her tight perm takes me back to them mid 80s hairstyles! Terry's girlfriends hair is interesting 🙄 ..addicted to watching these ..thank you
April 1984 must be one of the dullest months in Corrie's history. I suppose they were still trying to pick up the pieces after losing so many great characters in such a short time: in just six months, they'd lost Len, Bert Tilsley, Mrs. Walker, Eddie, Marion, Elsie, Albert Tatlock, and Stan. And the new characters like Curly, Terry and Kevin just weren't interesting enough to make any impact. But the Rovers resembles a saloon in a ghost town without Mrs. Walker. The life had gone out of it, until Bet took over later.
I don't think I'll ever get used to lunch being called dinner. Admittedly I'm a Londoner but a very old, very working class Londoner and yet lunch has always been the midday meal; dinner always the evening meal. Apart from that I am loving these vintage Corrie episodes. The humour, the great characters ... shame the scriptwriters/producers lost the plot and turned a great a show to sh** about 20 years ago.
Oh sorry i missed out the n - big deal - you must be a fun person to know or even worse be related to - nothing worse than a nit picking bag ready to pounce when someone makes the slightest little error - get a life@@irenemorley75
83 and 84 - two very tough years for Corrie production wise. The loss of so many long term characters - many off screen. And in April you can see that sudden “Fred’s got pneumonia” right in the middle of his annoying temporary manager storyline due to the actor having had a breakdown. It’s kind of sad watching it here - it’s creaking and sighing.
Yep..watching years ago twice a week, you didn't notice so much that they were always in the Rovers..now binge watching you really notice it, but hey I'm enjoying all these episodes.😊😊
I love these old episodes, many thanks. Interesting to see the TV licence propaganda being spread, they couldn't detect anything from a van, and just as now, have no authority to enter your home or ask anything.
The Rovers has become a farce hasn't it? with Fred Feast in and out constantly and Doris Speeds long term absence it was a bit messy. But they did the best they could. As for Cath, well she's ok looking I guess but not the utter beauty they portray her as!
I really like how the writers work around the absences of certain actors. Let's face it: Actors are crazy. Writers have to make sense of it all. :) As for Cath, she's all right, though that perm does her no favors.
You are so right Rob Clark. Eddie's departure was easy; he moved to a different town so Marian could take care of her mother. But we lost Elsie, Len, Annie Walker, Bert Tilsley and Stan - their departures were clumsy and rushed and frankly pretty unprofessional.
2.05.01 Sounded like Ken went “Pint please, Bert!” Bert’s been dead awhile and never worked at the Rovers! Could’ve been “Bet” but sounded like “Bert”!
She doesn’t sound at all like her, but does Sally (Ken’s assistant) remind anyone of Deena Payne ( Emmerdale’s Viv Windsor) to look at? If she was a southerner...
So, all of a sudden the graffiti club is no longer a problem to everyone since Baldwin sold his portion? Also really surprised that Emily kept that front door after putting her hand thru it just trying to close it, as well as the fact that she has it courtesy of "the bigamist", u'd think she doesn't want the reminder, as well as not feel safe... If her danty frame cd push thru the glass just trying to close it, what cd someone trying to get in do??
Yeah it wasn’t the Graffiti club most of them were ago.. They were all jealous of Baldwins cash & success… Especially jumped up , fake phoney communist Ken… he was grey gravy.. It was Ken who stirred it about the club..Glad Mike got out befyit went pear shaped…
frank Harvey aka Nick stringer . what a hunk to have in the show he was all man with sense of humour and good personality he kept bet in her place like Gordon Lewis did.
Where were you living Frances? In 1972 England, most working class households had outside toilets, no running hot water, no phone and definitely no fridge.
We didnt have a fridge or a telephone until about 1974 and even as late as the eighties my mam was still using a twin tub washing machine - microwave in the mid eighties but it never got used
It was awful for Ken to get involved with the lady who wrote into his Agony Aunt column In 1984 times were different & certain things could be done which wouldn't be allowed today All replies to letters are kept impersonal & suggestions are permitted to various agencies and helplines only but never getting involved as Ken Did which was foolhardy if even allowable. He should have immediately got in touch with the Samaritans or Social Services He was unqualified to deal with a face to face situation he seemed to think he was responsible for. I was horrified when i saw him not only speak via phone to a writer of a problem letter then go round & visit her 😨!!! For both parties, this situation could turn out to be serious The lady may have had mental health problems & could have resulted in her focusing all her fixations on Ken making the situation worse for both of them I know this would never happen today & Ken could have had major problems from this lady, not to mention repercussions from the Dept of Mental Health esp not being a social worker or mental health professional. I know its back in 1984 but im sure this would not have happened & the scriptwriters tripped up with this. I worked in Mental Health in 1984 & ive never heard of an Agony Aunt from any Regional, National Newspaper or Freesheet having the info from a letter writer & contacting them via phone & then visiting them.... its quite unthinkable. Especially a journalist with no M.Health Qualification Imagine if that lady had been fully delusional & fixated on Ken Plaguing his life, stalking him Making up fantasies about him What proof would he have that nothing took place other than a helpful chat? Even friends of mine in Social Services have had someone fixate on them & go to extraordinary lengths to follow them, stalk them & had to enlist further professional help Social workers/Psychologists are Still vunerable to the obsessions of Mental Health patients. It takes long training to know how to handle such situations. Im still gobsmacked watching Ken Reply personally to a writer with a problem in his Agony Aunt Column, hes not even a qualified journalist! Only a teacher basically with work in the community. Ive got to think this senario would never happen! Lord knows how he'd cope if after leaving the woman after his visit & she committed su*cide .... shudder 🇬🇧👧
You keep forgetting that Ken was a trained social worker too, but yes, he should've deferred it to the social services. But he thought he could help before it became worse. Even in 1984, agony columns were confidential but the Wetherfield Recorder was a small local rag and probably shouldn't have run that type of column.
You raise a lot of good points. Ken reminds me of Hawkeye Pierce of MASH--so full of compassion for other human beings that he's willing to do whatever it takes to help them. But Ken can be blind to his own failings. You're right: He shouldn't have approached Mrs. Glover. In doing so, he neglected his wife in some very important ways.
Why are the writers trying to force Cath as an attractive woman? We do have eyes, essential for watching programmes. Apparently Curly got lumbered with the moody annoying one, doesn't say much about the other two cos he got the best deal. What a whinging lot.
Dear god, why Deidre stuck it with Ken, I never understood. Boring, whiney, always putting himself first, never letting her forget about Mike, selfish and always making himself the victim.
Absolutely Theresa. I reckon if the scriptwriters had put Deirdre with Mike instead of Ken, the storylines would have been much more interesting. Ken is/was such a boring, pompous, stiff, unlikeable character.
“All I can see is you’re never going to forgive me for what happened with Baldwin! You’re going to hold it against me ‘til the day I die!’ Fast forward twenty-something years “You’re finished, Barlow! Deirdre loves ME! She’s MINE!”
This is the year the younger element started entering the soap and bringing with it very little talent. They had to start appealing to another demographic after the stalwarts of the domestic housewives started leaving and dying and the younger generation needed the beefcake and youngsters.
Curly in his pinny ( or was it actually Emily’s). Wonder what Percy-who’s just told him about ‘image’,-would say. Somehow can’t picture Percy dressed like that when he was an army cook!
Hilda says Stan is due to retire next month (May) when asked in the corner shop about her retiring. I just wondered why she didn't say she'd retired in February as she had supposedly turned 60 then? They would draw their state pensions together in the same year, 1984, surely? 😉
The writer's were so good back then, like the over emotional Mavis and the lippy Ms. Lynch, wonderful writing excellent acting by all. no comparison now days. Most of the rubbish on Netflix I wouldn`t waste my time watching
Yes. Janette Beverley, who plays Elaine, was Michael Turner's (that ponce Le Vell's real name) wife from 1986- 2011 She divorced him over the child abuse claims, she believed he was guilty and got off with it. He also cheated on her when she had cancer, and his drug and alcohol addiction I remember the case well in 2013/2014 I, personally remember her as a kid in the CITV programme, Children's Ward, she played a nurse..
English pubs don't have "bathrooms". (Hell, back in those days, most working class houses didn't have bathrooms). Annie Walker always referred to it as the "lavatory". Hilda and Bet would refer to the toilet as the cludgie.
Fred didn’t half fancy himself… if he’s of just wound his neck in a bit & watched his manners in front of the Brewery bosses he could’ve had The Rovers …
Why on earth is Ken entertaining this head case? Call cop shop on the nutter & be done with it but no lefty Ken knows best 😒 Seeing as we now know how the BBC feel about underage children it wouldn’t surprise me that those detector vans doubled up as child catching vehicles swiping kids off the streets.
Im sure Anne Kirkbrides ( Deirdre) real life husband is Kevin Websters dad Bill Webster I remember they were in the Newspapers when they got married The papers said Anne met her husband on the set of Corrie when her hubby played the part of a Painter/builder/ Do All working for himself. Im so sure its him, Peter...? Someone could maybe let me know if im right or wrong. Regards 🇬🇧👧
It was the builder who redid the kitchen after Tracey set it alight with the chip pan. The MacDonald boys were there too, it was just after they moved into the street.
Bet & Hilda ..the queen's of corrie. ❤
Dead right kid ! As Vera would say .
22:15 I love it that Jack Walker's picture still appears in the background--14 years after Jack (and Arthur Leslie) passed away,.
Yes, and so poignant are the references to Annie now she's no longer in the show, marking its inevitable and inexorable decline.
@@stevebbuk9557 I've watched many of the later '80s episodes, and, while I love later characters such as Bet Lynch, Mike Baldwin, Deirdre, and even the Duckworths, I do miss the originals. But, for me, what caused the decline was a trend toward sensational and even violent story lines (such as the Alan Bradley arc) to complete with Eastenders.
@@greggildersleeve3484 The Alan Bradley/Rita in Blackpool storyline was first class. But the show suffered from losing so many mainstay characters in quick succession, and as you imply, Manchester is not London and should not have attempted to compete.
“There’s only two types of women in Fred’s book. Dead and propositionable.” 😂😂
Fred Gee is so repulsive.
There was so much fun as well as drama in the early episodes, a really entertaining "Kitchen Sink Drama" as opposed to the later OTT American style soaps, loving every second of these episodes!
PS, it didn't take Terry long before he reverted to Type did it!
Well put
Helen Worth's acting is very ham in some of these early episodes. She seems to deliver her lines at times in the same,monotone whiny voice. The more I watch the more it irritates me.
Deirdre's outfit not right for a such a grand occasion... as for Bet, hilarious!
The relief bar manager was awful to Bet though, when he said "you're not worth thumping, you're pathetic!" Bit strong!
Bet's outfit 😂
The only one who needs thumping is the baldy manager.
13:57 Good on Bill Webster here, Alf needed telling!
He is jealous because he can't get into old Rita's pants lol.
I like bill, reminds me a bit of bert
@@MrIrrepressible I would have preferred Bill stay and Kevin go.
@irenem😅orley75
Bar maid Cath and her tight perm takes me back to them mid 80s hairstyles! Terry's girlfriends hair is interesting 🙄 ..addicted to watching these ..thank you
Why are all the men going crazy for the new barmaid . It’s like the Emperors new clothes 😅
April 1984 must be one of the dullest months in Corrie's history. I suppose they were still trying to pick up the pieces after losing so many great characters in such a short time: in just six months, they'd lost Len, Bert Tilsley, Mrs. Walker, Eddie, Marion, Elsie, Albert Tatlock, and Stan. And the new characters like Curly, Terry and Kevin just weren't interesting enough to make any impact. But the Rovers resembles a saloon in a ghost town without Mrs. Walker. The life had gone out of it, until Bet took over later.
Agreed, losing so many wonderful characters was like an end to a Golden Era, Elsie, Annie and Stan were irreplaceable.
I didn't start calling dinner "lunch" until I moved to the US. But yes, it's breakfast, dinner, tea then supper, in my mind.
I totally agree.
@@londonlady227 Don't forget elevenses and snacks as well..... or is that just ME🤭🤣🤣🤣😋
Totally agree
Major Lols when Bet says to Betty over a cuppa in back room of the Rovers about Fred… “ I’d say he was showing all the signs of being on heat” 😂😂😂…
I don't think I'll ever get used to lunch being called dinner. Admittedly I'm a Londoner but a very old, very working class Londoner and yet lunch has always been the midday meal; dinner always the evening meal. Apart from that I am loving these vintage Corrie episodes. The humour, the great characters ... shame the scriptwriters/producers lost the plot and turned a great a show to sh** about 20 years ago.
Combination of poor story lines and actors nowadays. The woke mob have taken over.
Dinner at dinner time like noon to early afternoon - the you have your tea at night (evening meal) - its quite simple
It’s a Yorkshire thing mate we always call lunch dinner and it’s dinner time at 12 noon weird to outsiders I know my friend x best wishes x
@@williamf4544 Its quite simple to spell ( then )🙄
Oh sorry i missed out the n - big deal - you must be a fun person to know or even worse be related to - nothing worse than a nit picking bag ready to pounce when someone makes the slightest little error - get a life@@irenemorley75
The mid 80s tight perm really was the worst hairdo
Emily and curly have just made me cry 😢
Me too😢
83 and 84 - two very tough years for Corrie production wise. The loss of so many long term characters - many off screen. And in April you can see that sudden “Fred’s got pneumonia” right in the middle of his annoying temporary manager storyline due to the actor having had a breakdown.
It’s kind of sad watching it here - it’s creaking and sighing.
Who in their right mind would ever have anything to do with fred gee, I woulnd't LOL
He is gruesome
Dirty,lecherous character.
I liked Fred. Ugly men with his personality are considered creeps. If he was attractive he would be considered the loveable rogue.
@@paullynton-green6570 Every bar has one🤭🤮
@@ironknobsteelworks4063 That's very true. Still can't stand him though.
That Kevin character is only 3ft 8inches high - Standingon boxes in every scene even to this day - So they say
Ken Borelow: the dullest man in history?
Seen Nick Stringer ( who plays Frank) in two other roles. Max Derwin in Family Affairs, and Jumbo Mills in Only Fools and Horses.
He also played the Aussie in OFAH that bought the Ford Cortina off Del.
He was also in minder.
He was PC Ron Smollet in the Bill in the 90's too.
Sold Arkwright a washing machine in Open All Hours
also in the long good Friday
Shouda called it Alcoholic Street
Yep..watching years ago twice a week, you didn't notice so much that they were always in the Rovers..now binge watching you really notice it, but hey I'm enjoying all these episodes.😊😊
Cath reminds me a bit of the woman who played Sinead’s gran, who turned up for her funeral a year and a bit ago (much more recent Corrie!)
I love these old episodes, many thanks. Interesting to see the TV licence propaganda being spread, they couldn't detect anything from a van, and just as now, have no authority to enter your home or ask anything.
We really did believe they could tel if we had a telly.
Surprised at a commercial station playing into the BBC lies. It's not like they got any of the money from the TV Tax.
Fred Gee’s full of himself. 😅He thinks he’s God’s gift 🎁 2 every woman 👩. He’s real hilarious. 😂😅😂😂😅😅😅!!❤❤❤
He's a creep
Yet he did marry reasonable looking wives. Edna Gee was particularly attractive.
I remember my mother saying she wouldn't touch him if he was the last man in the world.
saw him in a muscle vest earlier but in his case it was a fatty fred vest! lol!
@@SuperNapalm666 🤭💯👍He looks like he stinks.
The Ken Barlow/Mrs. Glover story is silly. Ken would have had the brains to avoid her from the beginning.
He should have, but he didn't.. Ken's desire to help people overwhelmed his common sense. I find the storyline sadly believable.
7:25 Love how Bet already has a half pint glass ready for Jack 🤣🤣🍺
The Rovers has become a farce hasn't it? with Fred Feast in and out constantly and Doris Speeds long term absence it was a bit messy. But they did the best they could. As for Cath, well she's ok looking I guess but not the utter beauty they portray her as!
I really like how the writers work around the absences of certain actors. Let's face it: Actors are crazy. Writers have to make sense of it all. :) As for Cath, she's all right, though that perm does her no favors.
2.00.54 Come on, Deirdre! Ken didn’t actually want anything to do with Christine. You and Mike, however...
Thing is, I reckon the scripts could have been a lot more interesting if Deirdre had picked Mike over Ken in the first place.
@@SuzyQ334 Deirdre and Mike had much better chemistry too
Thanks Bunches.
It's great isn't it!
I think i might get me gaff done up like Mrs Bishops - classy with some nice paintings and nic-nacs about the pace
Gail's voice is like a cartoon mouse ...
Crap after 83 no stan no eddie no len miss walker
You are absolutely right. Corries golden era has now gone.
Brutal. 😢😢😢😢
Or Elsie
You are so right Rob Clark. Eddie's departure was easy; he moved to a different town so Marian could take care of her mother. But we lost Elsie, Len, Annie Walker, Bert Tilsley and Stan - their departures were clumsy and rushed and frankly pretty unprofessional.
Their young replacements were pretty damn awful.
Frank is like Fred, isn’t he? Wonder if Bet ever referred to ‘Frankface’ .
2.05.01 Sounded like Ken went “Pint please, Bert!” Bert’s been dead awhile and never worked at the Rovers! Could’ve been “Bet” but sounded like “Bert”!
He did say Bert, not sure why or indeed why the scene wasn't shot again.
She used to be called Bert haven’t you seen buggernation street ?
Even the CC thinks he said BURT. 🤣
She doesn’t sound at all like her, but does Sally (Ken’s assistant) remind anyone of Deena Payne ( Emmerdale’s Viv Windsor) to look at? If she was a southerner...
Yes
She also reminds me of Sheridan Smith
I'd forgotten Curly's original 100 yard stare. Bless him.
So, all of a sudden the graffiti club is no longer a problem to everyone since Baldwin sold his portion? Also really surprised that Emily kept that front door after putting her hand thru it just trying to close it, as well as the fact that she has it courtesy of "the bigamist", u'd think she doesn't want the reminder, as well as not feel safe... If her danty frame cd push thru the glass just trying to close it, what cd someone trying to get in do??
Yeah it wasn’t the Graffiti club most of them were ago.. They were all jealous of Baldwins cash & success… Especially jumped up , fake phoney communist Ken… he was grey gravy.. It was Ken who stirred it about the club..Glad Mike got out befyit went pear shaped…
Terry Duckworth’s girlfriend was played by Rachel Ambler who later in the mid 1990s played Emmerdale’s Zoe Tate’s girlfriend, Emma Nightingale.
I have never heard of a T.V. License. I had to find out what it was!
Anyone think Elaine looks like Gillian Taylforth ( EastEnders Kathy) did then? ( or the following year, when EastEnders was on, anyway).
Yeah I fancy Bill Webster. And he told Alf to get knotted. Always good.
Fred Gee sat down at the table with his stringed vest on 😂
Poor 😢Curly. He’s alway’s being made 😮the laughing 😂 stock.😅😅❤❤
frank Harvey aka Nick stringer . what a hunk to have in the show he was all man with sense of humour and good personality he kept bet in her place like Gordon Lewis did.
I married in 1972 we had a fridge . Didn’t they have them over there .
Well, certainly my grandmother had a fridge long before 1972!
Where were you living Frances? In 1972 England, most working class households had outside toilets, no running hot water, no phone and definitely no fridge.
We didnt have a fridge or a telephone until about 1974 and even as late as the eighties my mam was still using a twin tub washing machine - microwave in the mid eighties but it never got used
It looks like Bet has got monkey boots on....I used to have them in the late 70s 🤭🤣🤣🤣
When Deirdre was talking to the sister at Weatherfield General, I thought it was about Albert. Isn’t it about now he dies?
It was awful for Ken to get involved with the lady who wrote into his Agony Aunt column
In 1984 times were different & certain things could be done which wouldn't be allowed today
All replies to letters are kept impersonal & suggestions are permitted to various agencies and helplines only
but never getting involved as Ken
Did which was foolhardy if even allowable.
He should have immediately got in touch with the Samaritans or Social Services
He was unqualified to deal with a face to face situation he seemed to think he was responsible for.
I was horrified when i saw him not only speak via phone to a writer of a problem letter then go round & visit her 😨!!!
For both parties, this situation could turn out to be serious
The lady may have had mental health problems & could have resulted in her focusing all her fixations on Ken making the situation worse for both of them
I know this would never happen today & Ken could have had major problems from this lady, not to mention repercussions from the
Dept of Mental Health esp not being a social worker or mental health professional.
I know its back in 1984 but im sure this would not have happened & the scriptwriters tripped up with this.
I worked in Mental Health in 1984 & ive never heard of an Agony Aunt from any Regional, National Newspaper or Freesheet having the info from a letter writer & contacting them via phone & then visiting them.... its quite unthinkable.
Especially a journalist with no
M.Health Qualification
Imagine if that lady had been fully delusional & fixated on Ken
Plaguing his life, stalking him
Making up fantasies about him
What proof would he have that nothing took place other than a helpful chat?
Even friends of mine in Social Services have had someone fixate on them & go to extraordinary lengths to follow them, stalk them & had to enlist further professional help
Social workers/Psychologists are
Still vunerable to the obsessions of Mental Health patients.
It takes long training to know how to handle such situations.
Im still gobsmacked watching Ken
Reply personally to a writer with a problem in his Agony Aunt Column, hes not even a qualified journalist!
Only a teacher basically with work in the community.
Ive got to think this senario would never happen!
Lord knows how he'd cope if after leaving the woman after his visit & she committed su*cide
.... shudder
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You keep forgetting that Ken was a trained social worker too, but yes, he should've deferred it to the social services. But he thought he could help before it became worse. Even in 1984, agony columns were confidential but the Wetherfield Recorder was a small local rag and probably shouldn't have run that type of column.
Good grief, first draft of your book ? 🤔
You raise a lot of good points. Ken reminds me of Hawkeye Pierce of MASH--so full of compassion for other human beings that he's willing to do whatever it takes to help them. But Ken can be blind to his own failings. You're right: He shouldn't have approached Mrs. Glover. In doing so, he neglected his wife in some very important ways.
Why are the writers trying to force Cath as an attractive woman? We do have eyes, essential for watching programmes. Apparently Curly got lumbered with the moody annoying one, doesn't say much about the other two cos he got the best deal. What a whinging lot.
She isn't remotely attractive imo
Manchester and Liverpool guys go for women like Cath
I hate the noise made when Fred does that annoying lip smacking thing, when nervous. I could slap him.
Also him sniffing a lot is annoying
@@tinaquinn9042 oh yes, absolutely.
He's a vile creature.
Dear god, why Deidre stuck it with Ken, I never understood. Boring, whiney, always putting himself first, never letting her forget about Mike, selfish and always making himself the victim.
He also told Deirdre (in about 1982) that he never wanted anymore kids. Not with Deirdre then? Cos Denise had Daniel by him
@@dominewimbury2039 Please! You're giving me visions of Ken making babies! *shudders*😝
Absolutely Theresa. I reckon if the scriptwriters had put Deirdre with Mike instead of Ken, the storylines would have been much more interesting. Ken is/was such a boring, pompous, stiff, unlikeable character.
“All I can see is you’re never going to forgive me for what happened with Baldwin! You’re going to hold it against me ‘til the day I die!’
Fast forward twenty-something years
“You’re finished, Barlow! Deirdre loves ME! She’s MINE!”
This is the year the younger element started entering the soap and bringing with it very little talent. They had to start appealing to another demographic after the stalwarts of the domestic housewives started leaving and dying and the younger generation needed the beefcake and youngsters.
Bette said that Kat was too good looking??! 😂🤣
Kevin Webster's Dad is hot
Curly in his pinny ( or was it actually Emily’s). Wonder what Percy-who’s just told him about ‘image’,-would say. Somehow can’t picture Percy dressed like that when he was an army cook!
Curlys pinny! Too racy for Emily! If you get footage of either character wearing it again, link me up Scotty xx
Pretty sure Percy has also worn a pinny in some episodes. I think it's the ones where Emily invited Percy to live with her.
Is this the same script from when Fred gee was trying to find someone to take him the the licensed vitalizers are off to the ball
Looks so silly that sweater over Ken's shoulders.
Wow! A two week vacation! Gayle’s finances have took a great turn for the better after moving in with Ivy, and no need to pay rent! 😂🤣
Fred Gee is brilliant!!!
.................said no-one ever
Hilda says Stan is due to retire next month (May) when asked in the corner shop about her retiring. I just wondered why she didn't say she'd retired in February as she had supposedly turned 60 then? They would draw their state pensions together in the same year, 1984, surely? 😉
65 for men then
Hilda would have to wait until Stanley turned 65 to get her pension.
2:36:00 A touching moment between Mrs Bishop & Norman Arthur Curly 😊
31:56 are there two Veras???
31:54 Two Vera's
Ivy should have paid the t.v. license herself!!
Kevin called curly captian bird eye 😅😅😅😅😅it could called milky bar kid 2:23:37
28:42 Percy is the new Albert.
Introduction to the young ones, start of the decline
Spot on.
The writer's were so good back then, like the over emotional Mavis and the lippy Ms. Lynch, wonderful writing excellent acting by all. no comparison now days. Most of the rubbish on Netflix I wouldn`t waste my time watching
Norman put the goodies in it 37:02
Ken's office is a mess
Emily uses phoneme 4 instead of the standard 3 on look
Isn't Curly's girlfriend Elaine, the real-life wife-to-be of Kevin Webster?
No
Yes. Janette Beverley, who plays Elaine, was Michael Turner's (that ponce Le Vell's real name) wife from 1986- 2011
She divorced him over the child abuse claims, she believed he was guilty and got off with it. He also cheated on her when she had cancer, and his drug and alcohol addiction
I remember the case well in 2013/2014
I, personally remember her as a kid in the CITV programme, Children's Ward, she played a nurse..
Wonder if Alf’s supposed to be a Christian? I think Bryan Moseley was.
Terry t-shirt - Good looking lad
No one at the Rovers ever uses the bathroom…
And wouldn't that be riveting drama.
English pubs don't have "bathrooms". (Hell, back in those days, most working class houses didn't have bathrooms). Annie Walker always referred to it as the "lavatory". Hilda and Bet would refer to the toilet as the cludgie.
Didn’t even bother to conceal the half full glass behind the bar!
Slops - someone has to get them or they start eating into the profits
Its the first time dee and curly meet 45:29
Fred didn’t half fancy himself… if he’s of just wound his neck in a bit & watched his manners in front of the Brewery bosses he could’ve had The Rovers …
Thank you so much for these. They made Curly look like Hitler, LOL
The goodies boys kicks in 😅😅😅😅 18:32
Stan’s bandaged big toe is more attractive than Cath 😄😄
Kath looks like skeletor
Look has the same vowel as moon for her
Ken's "Fatal Attraction" storyline?
Goodies
Why on earth is Ken entertaining this head case?
Call cop shop on the nutter & be done with it but no lefty Ken knows best 😒
Seeing as we now know how the BBC feel about underage children it wouldn’t surprise me that those detector vans doubled up as child catching vehicles swiping kids off the streets.
The goodies boys in the shop 1:20:57
It's the first goodies story 10:55
2:51:38 So, the Duckworths are like the Ogdens, but Vera is the loud one?
The party stopped record stratch 1:46:38
Lols!… 😂😂😂… Bert turning up at The Rovers dressed like Worzel Gummidges Mam….
Ken Barlow has a stalker!
The Brady bunch six people
Norman and Emily place good adventure 😉
Im sure Anne Kirkbrides ( Deirdre) real life husband is Kevin Websters dad Bill Webster
I remember they were in the Newspapers when they got married
The papers said Anne met her husband on the set of Corrie when her hubby played the part of a Painter/builder/ Do All working for himself.
Im so sure its him, Peter...?
Someone could maybe let me know if im right or wrong.
Regards
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You’re wrong it was another builder
It was the builder who redid the kitchen after Tracey set it alight with the chip pan. The MacDonald boys were there too, it was just after they moved into the street.
No, he comes later
The funky Terry or vera 2:13:11
What was with the tv licence ? Was it to pay for The BBC and what exactly were you paying for ? Do you still have it in UK ?
Yes unfortunately.
Oh bet😮 1:43:38
It seems to be stuck with all those key departures of the people who made it great what was left some of the most boring tv ever!
Norman play himself never had other voice
Can’t stand Ken, mister know it all snob. Can’t understand what Deidre saw in him.