Will never understand why the writers act like Brian is in the wrong. Why should anyone feel compelled to stay with a woman who cheated and may be carrying someone else's child
that was coronation street at its best in January of 1987 ,and the late Mark Eden rip portraying Alan Bradley . what a super actor he was plus Hilda Vera and jack and Percy and Phyllis . superlative in their own right. . if only of todays so called male actors and actress could who act like him Alan and the female actresses of their day in 1987 episodes then the show wouldn't have gone to the pits and i still be watching it if there were in it .plus the late Johnny Briggs rip .aka mike Baldwin , Anne Kirkbride rip fantastic as well.
John G. Temple's run as producer ended with Episode 2755 on 26th August. After five years as executive producer, Bill Podmore returned to the producer's chair, bringing with him his usual flair for comedy. The main event of the year was the last appearance of Hilda Ogden. Jean Alexander quit her role after 23 years as she wanted to play other parts. After so long toiling away for little reward, Hilda got a happy ending, moving into a flat attached to her employer Doctor Lowther's cottage in Derbyshire. Her last appearance was in the Christmas Day episode, where the residents saw her off with a surprise party in the Rovers. This was the first time Coronation Street went out on Christmas Day when it didn't fall on one of the programme's normal transmission days, a trend which has continued until the present day (with the exception of 1993). Sarah Louise Tilsley, the latest Coronation Street baby, was born in February. She was played by twins Leah and Lynsay King, and by Lynsay alone after the sad death of Leah from SIDS. The Rovers lost two of its staff for some of the year as William Tarmey took a four-month break for heart surgery, while Julie Goodyear was absent for three months to look after her seriously ill mother. Bet re-appeared as Bill Podmore was taking over as producer and deciding the future of several characters; Bet's relationship with Alec Gilroy blossomed into marriage, their sparring re-establishing the Rovers as a centre for comedy. To bring Bet back into the fold in an interesting way, overseas location filming took place in Torremolinos, with Alec tracking Bet down after three months and popping the question. Podmore also decided to write out Susan Baldwin after two years. Podmore blamed the failure of Susan and Mike Baldwin's marriage on the casting of Susan, and dismissed Wendy Jane Walker from her role. Also, Nigel Pivaro left the programme in June to join a touring production, but was planning to return. Meanwhile, Geoff Hinsliff joined the cast as Don Brennan, who was initially a short-term character who was kept on when writers saw potential in his romance with Ivy Tilsley.
I can't help but wish that Hilda's happy ending had involved moving to Bury, to be with Eddie, Marion and Dawn. I think she deserved to be a member of their family, and would've fitted in perfectly. She belonged with Stan, and in his absence, with Eddie, who was always more of a son to her than the awful Trevor Ogden.
@@bsaunders5271 that idea was probably patched after Hilda referred to Eddie simply as "a paying guest" during last months episodes. That remark made zero sense considering their relationship. Likely due to some know it all (nothing) new writer.
Watching back into the years of Coronation st on Plus.. it’s brought back memories of how we used to live.. good old days. Hilda always makes me smile or I get the odd tear in my eye. We used to go on pub crawl’s at our local’s and first footing was genuinely fun and safe back then..
Audrey ( about Ivy) “She’s the only woman I know who probably follows funerals just so she can be in on the action.” Now if she was talking about Blanche...
Isn’t the baby ( who we know is Sarah) to do with Ivy either way, Audrey? We know she’s Brian’s-making her Ivy’s granddaughter-but if she had been Ian’s she’d be Ivy’s great-niece!
Vera is a shocking character. A bully constantly running her mouth off. Her waste of space son commits a crime and she goes around shouting at everyone else and blaming them for his actions.
Gail does her version of the Virgin Mary here. The baby is just HERS. No man was involved. Once again, if Gail believes it, it's true and real. Wish I could make that work for me!
The break in to Alf's shop by Terry Duckworth would never happen in the programme now, not unless someone was going to be killed, seriously assaulted or raped in the process. After watching all these episodes, I find it so difficult to watch current ones. Not that I want to at all at the moment after they killed lovely Seb off in the most appalling, violent way.
I've not watched it probably since around Blanche's death. Seen the writing on the wall not long after. One big long leftist lecture like the rest of them.
I can't believe how much alcohol Gail drinks whist being pregnant 🤷🏻♀️I had friends that were expecting babies around 1987 and they definitely did not drink alcohol during their pregnancy 🤔
Watching these it really strikes me how much alcohol was a huge part of everyday life whether at home or down the pub. It's like everyone in the street ends up there at the end of the day every day. I know there are still plenty that go to the pub regularly now but it just seemed more generalised and normal for everyone then to punctuate and end the day with alcoholic drinks.
Why would Curly be 1, sober on New Year's Day. And 2, go round to his work...when he's not working? Hilda said what we were all shouting at Audrey "all of a sudden I'm respectable" Roberts when she was shouting about undesirables at her party. Go back a few years and she wouldn't even have been invited let alone suspected.
Audrey is complaining that Gayle is toiling away. Then why doesn’t Gayle go down to part time, and move in with Aubrey??! After the baby is born Gayle will quit work and move in with Aubrey anyway! 😂🤣
They should have put Gail and Martin together sooner. Like when Brian was still alive. See how he would have coped with Gail with a new man and a step dad to his kids. Brian would have hated that! Lol
Why doesn't Alf just claim on his insurance, without all this mothering about who burgled his shop? We are even supposed to believe that Audrey might be too upset to go for a drink with Gail ... as if!
Oh, sure, Gayle is going to care for a toddler and a newborn on her own! 😂🤣 If I were her, I would take Ian up on his offer! But, then what would happen if the baby is Brian’s??! 😂🤣
I like Gail's acting. However she may need a psychiatrists diagnosis. Her hysteria is full on. I would diagnose Gail as multiple personally disorder. Her self sabotage is a key sign.
Have they not heard of recycling wine bottles in the green bags! Its amazing how much rubbish can get recycled and very little gets put in our black bins nowadays!
Rubbish or waste recycling was not a thing in the 1980s. It was only introduced from the 1990s onwards. All we had before that was a single black bin on wheels that you put all your rubbish into, before that a single bin that had to be carried by binmen.
We were well ahead of our time because we would reuse everything we could and would take our metal and glass to the scrap dealer. Aluminum, when it was good, would fetch 50 cents a can. It wasn't until.the 1990s that curbside recycling came to our neighborhood in the US.
that was coronation street at its best in January of 1987 ,and the late Mark Eden rip portraying Alan Bradley . what a super actor he was plus Hilda Vera and jack and Percy and Phyllis . superlative in their own right. . if only of todays so called male actors and actress could who act like him Alan and the female actresses of their day in 1987 episodes then the show wouldn't have gone to the pits and i still be watching it if there were in it .plus the late Johnny Briggs rip .aka mike Baldwin , Anne Kirkbride rip fantastic as well.
The Duckworths were the best, managing to switch from comedy one minute to high drama the next and it worked! Loved them ❤
I love ❤️ the old ones! Hilda is a great actress she makes me giggle 🤭 when she sings!
Dame Jean Alexander!
thank you so much for these classics, loved Jenny since I was a teenager, 55 now still love her today.
Will never understand why the writers act like Brian is in the wrong. Why should anyone feel compelled to stay with a woman who cheated and may be carrying someone else's child
I love how Hilda always sticks the knife in and leaves it in right before she makes her exit.
Jenny Bradley is obnoxious, like her father. Rita is wrong to put up with either of them.
that was coronation street at its best in January of 1987 ,and the late Mark Eden rip portraying Alan Bradley . what a super actor he was plus Hilda Vera and jack and Percy and Phyllis . superlative in their own right. . if only of todays so called male actors and actress could who act like him Alan and the female actresses of their day in 1987 episodes then the show wouldn't have gone to the pits and i still be watching it if there were in it .plus the late Johnny Briggs rip .aka mike Baldwin , Anne Kirkbride rip fantastic as well.
So-called
John G. Temple's run as producer ended with Episode 2755 on 26th August. After five years as executive producer, Bill Podmore returned to the producer's chair, bringing with him his usual flair for comedy.
The main event of the year was the last appearance of Hilda Ogden. Jean Alexander quit her role after 23 years as she wanted to play other parts. After so long toiling away for little reward, Hilda got a happy ending, moving into a flat attached to her employer Doctor Lowther's cottage in Derbyshire. Her last appearance was in the Christmas Day episode, where the residents saw her off with a surprise party in the Rovers. This was the first time Coronation Street went out on Christmas Day when it didn't fall on one of the programme's normal transmission days, a trend which has continued until the present day (with the exception of 1993).
Sarah Louise Tilsley, the latest Coronation Street baby, was born in February. She was played by twins Leah and Lynsay King, and by Lynsay alone after the sad death of Leah from SIDS.
The Rovers lost two of its staff for some of the year as William Tarmey took a four-month break for heart surgery, while Julie Goodyear was absent for three months to look after her seriously ill mother. Bet re-appeared as Bill Podmore was taking over as producer and deciding the future of several characters; Bet's relationship with Alec Gilroy blossomed into marriage, their sparring re-establishing the Rovers as a centre for comedy. To bring Bet back into the fold in an interesting way, overseas location filming took place in Torremolinos, with Alec tracking Bet down after three months and popping the question.
Podmore also decided to write out Susan Baldwin after two years. Podmore blamed the failure of Susan and Mike Baldwin's marriage on the casting of Susan, and dismissed Wendy Jane Walker from her role. Also, Nigel Pivaro left the programme in June to join a touring production, but was planning to return. Meanwhile, Geoff Hinsliff joined the cast as Don Brennan, who was initially a short-term character who was kept on when writers saw potential in his romance with Ivy Tilsley.
I find Susan boring myself, Percy too LOL
Writing out Susan Barlow was no loss to the program!
I can't help but wish that Hilda's happy ending had involved moving to Bury, to be with Eddie, Marion and Dawn. I think she deserved to be a member of their family, and would've fitted in perfectly. She belonged with Stan, and in his absence, with Eddie, who was always more of a son to her than the awful Trevor Ogden.
@@bsaunders5271 Great idea, especially if they had produced a comedy spin-off called Eddie in Trouble or Here Comes Hilda.
@@bsaunders5271 that idea was probably patched after Hilda referred to Eddie simply as "a paying guest" during last months episodes. That remark made zero sense considering their relationship. Likely due to some know it all (nothing) new writer.
Gail is utterly loathsome.
Writers were consistent in making both her mother and daughter as much of a tart as her 🤣
So is Jenny.
...and utterly chinless
“By ‘eck- there’s enough here to stock a shop.” Which is exactly where it’s from, Hilda!
❤
Watching back into the years of Coronation st on Plus.. it’s brought back memories of how we used to live.. good old days. Hilda always makes me smile or I get the odd tear in my eye. We used to go on pub crawl’s at our local’s and first footing was genuinely fun and safe back then..
Smug Gail. Either playing the victim or lording it over people!
Went down hill when the kids who couldn't act came onto the scene.
I love all the actors on the programme but Hilda as to be one of the best!
I loved her having a go at Audrey in the shop after the break in 😅
Gail's still over dramatic
Audrey ( about Ivy) “She’s the only woman I know who probably follows funerals just so she can be in on the action.” Now if she was talking about Blanche...
Nah Blanche preferred the courtrooms. Especially to the pictures cos the courts were free 😂
AUDREY ( ABOUT IVY) ‘’SHE’S THE ONLY WOMAN I KNOW WHO PROBABLY FOLLOWS FUNERALS JUST SO SHE CAN BE ON THE ACTION GLORY SENGO XXX 😘
Blanch loved her funerals too😂😂😂😂😂😂. Take the leftovers home
Thick Kevin always shouting ... back then, and still at it today ...
Small man sindrome 🎉
I reckon in 1987 it probably took about a week for a letter to get to Australia yet Ian seemed to rock up pretty fast 😂
Ty from nz luv these
The way little Nicky enunciates don’t cry mummy, like anything else, but not that! 😂
Gail is so aggravating.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree - I can see where Gail gets her horrible attitude from!!!
Isn’t the baby ( who we know is Sarah) to do with Ivy either way, Audrey? We know she’s Brian’s-making her Ivy’s granddaughter-but if she had been Ian’s she’d be Ivy’s great-niece!
True
Vera is a shocking character. A bully constantly running her mouth off. Her waste of space son commits a crime and she goes around shouting at everyone else and blaming them for his actions.
I can't stand vera. She is vile. Jack was crafty but loveable. Vera is horrible. To much mouth.
@@0flan She doesn't even know when to keep her mouth shut and behave Infront of her boss
200 pounds for a half page in the Weatherfield Recorder? Outrageous
I prefered Alf's shop when the counter was in the old location
The actress who plays Susan deserves an award for sounding very much like a robot.
Gail does her version of the Virgin Mary here. The baby is just HERS. No man was involved. Once again, if Gail believes it, it's true and real. Wish I could make that work for me!
Even worse she blames Brian for breaking up the family 😮
Some things never change Gail going round sorry for herself!
Sally's perm is truly shocking.😮
most are 😂
It’s the 80’s very Madonna-ish
those awful frilly blouses mavis and emily wear make me cringe ugg .
That shrieking banshee Jenny is something else ...
Yes and people say Alan was the evil one. I am convinced Jenny was really and she was a wicked influence on her father :)
I love these old episodes.❤
Hilarious is my favourite character
The Lowthers were some of the most repectable people to appear in the Street . They were very good to Hilda.
Gail calls for an ambulance and it arrives in minutes.
Clearly this is not 2024.
Where's Alma?
The break in to Alf's shop by Terry Duckworth would never happen in the programme now, not unless someone was going to be killed, seriously assaulted or raped in the process. After watching all these episodes, I find it so difficult to watch current ones. Not that I want to at all at the moment after they killed lovely Seb off in the most appalling, violent way.
I gave up on the current one before that. I do know about Seb tho.
I prefer the old episodes from the 80s and 90s!
Coronation st should be retired now due to ill health as it is rubbish now!
Today’s Corrie is unwatchable
I've not watched it probably since around Blanche's death. Seen the writing on the wall not long after. One big long leftist lecture like the rest of them.
Current Corrie is dire!
3:06. Blimey! Terry had massive arms back then didn’t he!😲💪🏻😍🔥
There's a Mae West joke there somewhere, but I think it would get censored...
roids💪
Thank you !! you are my HERO
I can't believe how much alcohol Gail drinks whist being pregnant 🤷🏻♀️I had friends that were expecting babies around 1987 and they definitely did not drink alcohol during their pregnancy 🤔
Watching these it really strikes me how much alcohol was a huge part of everyday life whether at home or down the pub. It's like everyone in the street ends up there at the end of the day every day. I know there are still plenty that go to the pub regularly now but it just seemed more generalised and normal for everyone then to punctuate and end the day with alcoholic drinks.
We didn't really spend all our time drinking. It's just what happens in soapland. Rovers, Woolpack, Queen Vic. Soaps always revolve around the pub.
Not just the end of the day but in the middle also 😅😮
Why would Curly be 1, sober on New Year's Day. And 2, go round to his work...when he's not working?
Hilda said what we were all shouting at Audrey "all of a sudden I'm respectable" Roberts when she was shouting about undesirables at her party. Go back a few years and she wouldn't even have been invited let alone suspected.
2.33 hrs. Hilda with the toilet brush 😄
Oh sure, Ian flew all the way to Britain for a baby he doesn’t even know is his! He must have money to afford that air fare! 😂🤣
1:37:14 Audrey lights up in her pregnant daughter's kitchen 🙄🙄
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1:51:35 The first of MANY Alan Bradley red flags for Rita...
Yes in the eighties people smoked in supermarkets
Ken. Is such a rhymes with custard
Hilda's final year 😔
Gutted, she was so good. I'm surprised she never came back in the 90s or 00s with a big money offer as she was still working.
Jenny's voice is so shrill when she speaks a bit loudly.
Gail always has a smary smile about her
Audrey loves meddling, usually making a mess to boot!!
Actress who plays Audrey nearly broke character XD
Had they spent all the budget so couldn't get Ian a new coat?
Audrey puts almost empty salt shakers .
Unless jenny has a driving licence, there'll be no insurance coverage but her dad works in abu dhabi so he's loaded and can buy rita a new car 😅
How can anyone on these chats detest Jenny when she likes the Housemartins? 👍🏻
Nothing on earth could redeem the dreadful Jenny ...
Gail the holier than thou 😂
All Audrey does is paint her nails, since she doesn’t work anywhere!
Independent suzie. What's she living on? Money wise?
I was wondering the same
Hilda
Audrey's meddling 🤦🏿♀️
Is this a stand in actor for Len
What on earth has Sally done to her hair????
If Jenny's talent for singing, was a small fraction of her talent for lying and manipulating, she'd of been an international superstar.
Does Gail say I feel like I’ve been abandoned or I feel like I’ve been a bastard!
I think she said "I've been an adulterous bitch and now I'm paying for my bad behaviour". Or words to that effect.
How did Audrey get Ian’s address??! 😂🤣
I fast forward Susan and Mike - and any scenes with Percy
Was drinking while pregnant a thing in the eighties ….#gail
Why does Aubrey say that Gayle is having Ian’s baby when the baby is Brian’s??!
Sally's voice grates on me. Jack's voice and facial expressions are superb 😂 I maintain Derek and Mavis were tediously boring
Why did Audrey say that the father of the baby might never be known??! 😂🤣
Gayle says after the baby is born she’s going straight back to work. And just who is going to care for a the newborn??! 😂🤣
Audrey is complaining that Gayle is toiling away. Then why doesn’t Gayle go down to part time, and move in with Aubrey??! After the baby is born Gayle will quit work and move in with Aubrey anyway! 😂🤣
Good on ya Terry! Stupid Alf!
What a thing to say to Rita! Why does she date him??! This creep is no good, she shouldn’t be dating him, and it will never last! 😂🤣
They should have put Gail and Martin together sooner. Like when Brian was still alive. See how he would have coped with Gail with a new man and a step dad to his kids. Brian would have hated that! Lol
Strange to think that Martin would eventually get with Gail 🤔😳
Martin looks like David when he was younger blimey the eyes style SU garden
What is s u garden?
@@TraceyMella that's my name okay
Thought that was Frank Skinner In a turban!!!!
Well, yeah Ian’s “Swanning through life without a care” because that baby isn’t his!
Why doesn't Alf just claim on his insurance, without all this mothering about who burgled his shop? We are even supposed to believe that Audrey might be too upset to go for a drink with Gail ... as if!
If Ian did marry Gayle, what’s he going to do when the baby is Brian’s??! 😂🤣
Oh, sure, Gayle is going to care for a toddler and a newborn on her own! 😂🤣 If I were her, I would take Ian up on his offer! But, then what would happen if the baby is Brian’s??! 😂🤣
Coronation street looks like communist Russia here the grim look😖☹️🚬
Oh, yeah Gayle, you don’t anybody and you will manage fine with a newborn and a little one. 😂🤣
ALAN AND LEN
I like Gail's acting.
However she may need a psychiatrists diagnosis.
Her hysteria is full on.
I would diagnose Gail as multiple personally disorder.
Her self sabotage is a key sign.
Poor vee Norman is really quite like a squirrel 1:03:45
Gail is a horrible actress.
Horrible actress and horrible character.
Have they not heard of recycling wine bottles in the green bags!
Its amazing how much rubbish can get recycled and very little gets put in our black bins nowadays!
Rubbish or waste recycling was not a thing in the 1980s. It was only introduced from the 1990s onwards. All we had before that was a single black bin on wheels that you put all your rubbish into, before that a single bin that had to be carried by binmen.
It didn't happen back then
We were well ahead of our time because we would reuse everything we could and would take our metal and glass to the scrap dealer. Aluminum, when it was good, would fetch 50 cents a can.
It wasn't until.the 1990s that curbside recycling came to our neighborhood in the US.
Pound on the aluminum not can
that was coronation street at its best in January of 1987 ,and the late Mark Eden rip portraying Alan Bradley . what a super actor he was plus Hilda Vera and jack and Percy and Phyllis . superlative in their own right. . if only of todays so called male actors and actress could who act like him Alan and the female actresses of their day in 1987 episodes then the show wouldn't have gone to the pits and i still be watching it if there were in it .plus the late Johnny Briggs rip .aka mike Baldwin , Anne Kirkbride rip fantastic as well.