Omg - re-visiting these classic Corrie episodes in 2022 is just brilliant. I wonder how many of us fully appreciated the comedy (Bet/Betty/Hilda - Stan/Hilda/Eddie - Rita/Len/Mavis - the lovely Bert Tisley etc etc). Some of us gave up on Corrie in the early Noughties when the writers/producers replaced the show's famous down-to-earth humour and realistic characters with caricature criminals and ridiculous humourless melodrama.
@@cbbrownclaire62 …completely agree, then when viewing figures start to fall they try and drum up interest by introducing far fetched, sensational story lines, murders….tragedies….trauma….things that do happen, but all in one street at the same time ? It stretches the bounds of credibility.
These older episodes, up till the 90s are precious. I could watch the 60s, 70s and 80s only for the rest of my life and not miss the drivel that is on the air now. Please dont ever take these brilliant episodes of Corrie Street down.
This International Women's day, I took part in an online portrait exhibition. I had to write 3 women who inspired me. One was Annie Walker because she is funny as hell!
Elsie and Martin watching University Challenge at 40.50 - classic. I absolutely love these episodes, they bring back so many happy childhood memories of watching Coronation Street with my grandparents. Thank you so much for uploading these gems.
Thank you all these uploads love watching these old corries late 70s to early 80s I wouldn't waste my time watching today's corrie not worth it 😑.....keep these old corries coming 🙂😻
Just a quick question - what is people's issue with Gail? Bearing in mind that Helen Worth has played that role for 40 years and counting so having had a job for life she gets the last laugh. I am thoroughly enjoying binge-watching these classic Corrie episodes and I love sticking my two-pennyworth into the comments - so many nasty comments about Gail. Why?
@@SuzyQ334 It's a compliment to Helen's ability as an actress that she is able to arouse strong feelings in people. Gail, with her perpetual overreactions and tears, was a bit of a nightmare, then over the years, the writers and producers turned her life into a lot of a nightmare. A husband who tried to kill her mother, then her and her kids along with himself. I think she was accused of murdering another husband and spent some time in prison (her and half the characters). Her son, David pushed down the stairs, and another husband died dramatically. Her daughter-in-law was stabbed to death, but not before she killed someone who ended up being buried under Gail's bedroom. There's probably a load of other things, her house was destroyed in a ball of flames when an aeroplane crashed into it, or it exploded spontaneously. My God, the Gail who thought the world was coming to an end when Brian was justifiably sacked from his job didn't have a clue what was coming.
@@SuzyQ334 she's boring, melodramatic, neurotic, petulant, tempestuous, exasperating, controlling, and on top of that, a needy girlfriend who stamps its feet and walks all over Brian when it doesn't get its own way. Yes, I'd say they are very justifiable reasons why so many people dislike her lol. Also, the actress was no proficient actress at all; just look at her face when she is having her conniptions, it conveys no plausible and convincing emotion whatsoever.
Gail doesn't seem to understand that you can't always have what you want in life. Sometimes we have to settle for a compromise or go without. Her character exasperates me, and don't get me started on Audraaaay.
Annie Walker was the Queen of Coronation Street. Although I was too young to remember that era having being born in 1975, it must have been a hefty blow to the show when she retired.
Thanks for these classics, brought up with Corrie and Crossroads. Catching up with what I missed at 18yo on them now. Would love to see the Crossroads episode that set my mums chip-pan on fire.😮😅
Refreshing compared to todays episodes - if this episode had been today karens dad would have murdered Martin and Brian would have to have dropped his drawers for Ron Sykes to get his job back - give me classic corrie any day
The scene where Albert lays the wreath in St Peters Square in Manchester - you can see all the people were not extras as they were all doing a double take!
Wow at 24:28 we see actor Jack Smethurst make an appearance has bin man alongside Geoffrey Hughes as as Eddie Yates. Jack Smethurst was in Love by neighbour and played character Eddie Booth with long-suffering wife Joan Booth played by Kate Williams.
1:43:27 - The Gazette photographer who "does most of the thinking" is none other than "Daddy" to Kimberley Taylor, whiny fiancee of Curly Watts, early 1990s. He did most of the thinking then, too, as "Mummy" Taylor certainly did most of the talking.
3:02:27. When Len uncorks the wine bottle (which Rita has just screwed into the cork), just look how far down the corkscrew is. The wine would be full of cork chippings. On the table in the closing credits, it has noticeably been adjusted to look how it should be.
I did make a short 10min video of Gail's "Nag nag naggin'" but never uploaded it because it made me nauseas and I didn't want the same to happen to any of you lot.
He was so used to it I doubt he noticed. He didn't often witness his father being heard over anything important. Ivy was definitely the boss and didn't hesitate to tell Bert to 'shut up', making it clear that the only opinion that mattered was hers. It's difficult to see what he or 'our Brian' got out of their marriages that was worth having. I remember a scene where Ivy and Bert were talking about their lives together and her decision to marry him, she asked if he regretted agreeing, he said he hadn't for a single day. It makes you wonder how involved he was in his own life, obviously not enough to realise he spent much of it being treated more as an irritation than a beloved spouse.
@@shylinh5939 Bert also said he hadn't chosen a single meal that had passed his lips throughout their whole married life, that Ivy had made all those decisions, too.
I love Rita’s character. The actress playing her is superb! But she should really be more pleasing to Len. Burnt toast and coffee? Having a spaz attack over the slightest. No wonder he’s unhappy. You can’t appease anyone who’s emotional like that. She seems very self centered and flippant. Does she love Len, or not? She seems unwilling to compromise at all.
1:13:23 Actor Kevin Lloyd later played Don Watkins, the crooked manager of Mike Baldwin's short lived venture 'The Grafitti Club', from 1983-84. Yet another example of Corrie recycling its actors!
The guy who played the Gazette photographer a few years later was Martin Platt's Dad, and then later again he was Kimberley Taylor's Dad, who was Curly's girlfriend. Another example for ya!
I met him in the late 80s when he was getting famous as Tosh. I was parked in a street in Paddington when out of nowhere The Bill film crew showed up setting up a shot as quick as they could so not to gather too much of a crowd. He spotted me in the car and he came over and just started chatting to me. He was dropping f bombs all over the place.
@@professionalgun6674 He sounds friendly at least! Kevin Lloyd had rather a sad end. A chronic alcoholic, he split from his wife, mother of his 8 kids (one adopted) three years before his death in 1998. He died of Asphyxia in a drying out clinic, choking on his own vomit, just a few days after he was fired from 'The Bill' for turning up to work drunk. He was just 49 years old. He'd had a very successful career as one of TV's best known faces, despite his addiction problems. It's said he'd reunited with his wife shortly before he was found dead - she sued the facility's medical staff for negligence. She lost the case, with the judge ruling the staff had put him to bed in the recovery position, having seen him carry a bottle to Scotch in that night. They could have done nothing more to prevent his death. Very sad. In another tragedy, his brother Terry Lloyd the ITN reporter was shot dead in Iraq in 2003, aged 50. There were no prosecutions over his death either, as it was impossible to determine who had fired the fatal shots.
Stan doesn’t work for the council does he-but himself! So how can him Moving the rubbish be going against the strike? What it really means is Eddie won’t do it, and he doesn’t want anyone else to either!
Len is fine actor fine man . he knew how to act properly not like Mavis with her grouting look on her face and wittering when mike warned her that she could feel Len's breath breeding down the back of her neck for a passionate moment .
Fried snowballs is a reference to James & the Giant Peach 🍑. But I also know them as buttery mashed potatoes with chopped crispy bacon & grated cheese 🧀 made into balls, rolled in flour then egg then white breadcrumbs & deep fried ! Yummy! 🙂
I absolutely LOVE the little giggle when Eddie and Hilda laugh simultaneously...It's so funny when they do that. Always tickled me.
Omg - re-visiting these classic Corrie episodes in 2022 is just brilliant. I wonder how many of us fully appreciated the comedy (Bet/Betty/Hilda - Stan/Hilda/Eddie - Rita/Len/Mavis - the lovely Bert Tisley etc etc). Some of us gave up on Corrie in the early Noughties when the writers/producers replaced the show's famous down-to-earth humour and realistic characters with caricature criminals and ridiculous humourless melodrama.
Completely agree. Watching these episodes is like watching real drama with interesting stories and real acting compared to today's rubbish.
@@cbbrownclaire62 …completely agree, then when viewing figures start to fall they try and drum up interest by introducing far fetched, sensational story lines, murders….tragedies….trauma….things that do happen, but all in one street at the same time ? It stretches the bounds of credibility.
These older episodes, up till the 90s are precious. I could watch the 60s, 70s and 80s only for the rest of my life and not miss the drivel that is on the air now. Please dont ever take these brilliant episodes of Corrie Street down.
Some of us gave up when Doris Speed left.
"Norman Bates with a briefcase" etc.
I gave up on Corrie about 3 years ago.
Ken somehow manages to be condescending, patronising and arrogant all at the same time.
God I hated him. Why the producers of the show didn’t get rid of the character 50 years ago I’ll never know.
Lol well said! Hahaha 👍
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He's a smug git. Wish he would retire.
I really don't like Ken
These are the best days off this tv show
This International Women's day, I took part in an online portrait exhibition. I had to write 3 women who inspired me. One was Annie Walker because she is funny as hell!
Elsie and Martin watching University Challenge at 40.50 - classic. I absolutely love these episodes, they bring back so many happy childhood memories of watching Coronation Street with my grandparents. Thank you so much for uploading these gems.
Bet Lynch is so beautiful (and funny). Wishing good health and happiness to Julie Goodyear after her recent diagnosis!
Julie is a legend. God bless her.
Elsie easily the coolest woman on the show
Annie Walker's face is a picture regarding getting rid of the rubbish........" Bung it in the Rover? " 😆
Understandable. Poor Roger. 😊
Thank you all these uploads love watching these old corries late 70s to early 80s I wouldn't waste my time watching today's corrie not worth it 😑.....keep these old corries coming 🙂😻
From Annie Walkers vintage sideboard door (SIDEBOARD!!! Oct 1980) to Elsie Tanner's MFI smashpot!!
That's continuity!! So good!
Such a good one
Really like seeing Eddie in his role as bin man. That Gail. No words
@@bsaunders5271 Bob on acting! Surely she's lovely in 'real life' Haha
Just a quick question - what is people's issue with Gail? Bearing in mind that Helen Worth has played that role for 40 years and counting so having had a job for life she gets the last laugh. I am thoroughly enjoying binge-watching these classic Corrie episodes and I love sticking my two-pennyworth into the comments - so many nasty comments about Gail. Why?
@@SuzyQ334 It's a compliment to Helen's ability as an actress that she is able to arouse strong feelings in people. Gail, with her perpetual overreactions and tears, was a bit of a nightmare, then over the years, the writers and producers turned her life into a lot of a nightmare. A husband who tried to kill her mother, then her and her kids along with himself. I think she was accused of murdering another husband and spent some time in prison (her and half the characters). Her son, David pushed down the stairs, and another husband died dramatically. Her daughter-in-law was stabbed to death, but not before she killed someone who ended up being buried under Gail's bedroom. There's probably a load of other things, her house was destroyed in a ball of flames when an aeroplane crashed into it, or it exploded spontaneously. My God, the Gail who thought the world was coming to an end when Brian was justifiably sacked from his job didn't have a clue what was coming.
@@SuzyQ334 she's boring, melodramatic, neurotic, petulant, tempestuous, exasperating, controlling, and on top of that, a needy girlfriend who stamps its feet and walks all over Brian when it doesn't get its own way. Yes, I'd say they are very justifiable reasons why so many people dislike her lol. Also, the actress was no proficient actress at all; just look at her face when she is having her conniptions, it conveys no plausible and convincing emotion whatsoever.
Gail makes me mental! She won't accept charity, but goes behind Brian's back to beg for his job. Hope he gets good and angry at her.
Gail doesn't seem to understand that you can't always have what you want in life. Sometimes we have to settle for a compromise or go without. Her character exasperates me, and don't get me started on Audraaaay.
Audrehhh
I like Elsie she gets straight to the point she doesn’t beat around the bush, thank you 🙏 for this upload!
I had tears in this episode albert tatlock with his wreath .
Annie Walker was the Queen of Coronation Street. Although I was too young to remember that era having being born in 1975, it must have been a hefty blow to the show when she retired.
Jack Howarth in real life fought in the First World War!
Yes and apeared in the classic film Hobsons Choice
Loving Mrs Walkers “Winter of Discontent” at the Rovers, and as usual, runs off when things get tough 🤣
Along with her "platinum pearl" hair colouring.
Thanks for these classics, brought up with Corrie and Crossroads. Catching up with what I missed at 18yo on them now.
Would love to see the Crossroads episode that set my mums chip-pan on fire.😮😅
Refreshing compared to todays episodes - if this episode had been today karens dad would have murdered Martin and Brian would have to have dropped his drawers for Ron Sykes to get his job back - give me classic corrie any day
TRUTH!
Elsie’s telephone voice 😂
I thought the same.
Elsie has a lovely telephone manner. 📞
You wouldn't think Len would want to be giving Rita a hard time considering she left him 10 months ago.
Brian looking like Andy Gibb
The blow dry, sunkist hair, the teeth 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
"You can tell by the way he uses his walk he's a woman's man, no time to talk.."
Susie birchal a character in the show, used to call him, Brian the teeth, when Gail first started going out with him.
@@cheryl71000Jaws!
Have you seen him lately? He’s still full of himself and dating a stripper in her 20s.
Well said Elsie! Put that pious copper in his place - a man who couldn’t see a problem accepting back handers from villains no doubt!!
I'm pretty sure Brian's boss only agreed to re-hire him to stop Gail's horrendous blubbering, gurning and baby talk.
The scene where Albert lays the wreath in St Peters Square in Manchester - you can see all the people were not extras as they were all doing a double take!
Uncle Albert was brilliant in these episodes
He had me in tears
@@marieince1479 me to
Each of these blocks of Corrie are an absolute treat. Thank you.
If I was Len, I would've driven Rita back to that launderette, in Blackpool, long since.
Best comment ever.luv it....she drives me up the bloody wall I swear (her and Gail and Ivy tbh)
Flippin oath mate! 👍
Yes - sad thing is Rita is probably the best example of the average wife and how her mind works - her and possibly Ivy Tilsley
Me too although l wouldn't have brought her back in the first place.good riddance.
If I was Rita I would have binned that ugly rude prick ages ago and gone off into the sunset singing
@48:54 Len fluffing his lines "Blackpool in Christmas is out" 😂
Gail doing her little girl , syrupy sweet act.
Don't get me started, she turns me savage.
*vomits*
dont see the appeal
Eddie and Hilda made Corrie and I missed these days the best Corrie days
Wow, don't know his name, but the guy in it from Love Thy Neighbour, Brilliant
Jack Smethurst, who passed away last year. He was also in For The Love Of Ada.
Never really liked Rita always thought she was a big head and looking down her nose at Hilda and it's Hilda that was doing the cleaning
I always notice how much coughing goes on in shows from the 70s / 80s, either cast or audience if there is one.
1:13:12 Kevin Lloyd, Tosh Lines from The Bill.
Another fine actor taken too soon.
Annie’s pride is costing her - paying her rates and paying to have the rubbish removed, silly woman 😂
Wow at 24:28 we see actor Jack Smethurst make an appearance has bin man alongside Geoffrey Hughes as as Eddie Yates. Jack Smethurst was in Love by neighbour and played character Eddie Booth with long-suffering wife Joan Booth played by Kate Williams.
He sadly died this year on the 16th of February aged 89 💐
@@pamib29 Thanks for info, Pamela. Love Thy Neighbour was one of my favorite shows. Today's snowflakes couldn't handle the humour.
The newspaper said Happy New Year Sale! 🤣😂
Have you noticed how Ivy holds her knife? Like a pen.
She holds her knife in the correct manner, that's all.
@@susi-emily Actually, not.
Rita & filthy Len are a match made in heaven….both as ghastly as eachother.
Yea, although Rita did mellow out with age 😊
Not at all: Rita is the sage of Coronation Street. She's right: he's lazy and self-entitled.
@@amandajstar He’s an absolute pig. Imagine being married to that!
2:36:00 is where we see Ken and Alf's brilliant plan to manipulate Annie to settle the dust bin situation.
1:43:27 - The Gazette photographer who "does most of the thinking" is none other than "Daddy" to Kimberley Taylor, whiny fiancee of Curly Watts, early 1990s. He did most of the thinking then, too, as "Mummy" Taylor certainly did most of the talking.
I thought he looked familiar
Good old tosh lines😊
3:02:27. When Len uncorks the wine bottle (which Rita has just screwed into the cork), just look how far down the corkscrew is. The wine would be full of cork chippings. On the table in the closing credits, it has noticeably been adjusted to look how it should be.
Gail is so Clingy and bossy, bloody hell, Brian Tilsley is really under the thumb...
I did make a short 10min video of Gail's "Nag nag naggin'" but never uploaded it because it made me nauseas and I didn't want the same to happen to any of you lot.
@@professionalgun6674 hahahahahah, any man would run a mile from her. Can you imagine having her as a wife.
He was so used to it I doubt he noticed. He didn't often witness his father being heard over anything important. Ivy was definitely the boss and didn't hesitate to tell Bert to 'shut up', making it clear that the only opinion that mattered was hers. It's difficult to see what he or 'our Brian' got out of their marriages that was worth having. I remember a scene where Ivy and Bert were talking about their lives together and her decision to marry him, she asked if he regretted agreeing, he said he hadn't for a single day. It makes you wonder how involved he was in his own life, obviously not enough to realise he spent much of it being treated more as an irritation than a beloved spouse.
Between Ivy and Gail.... the devil and the deep blue sea.
@@shylinh5939 Bert also said he hadn't chosen a single meal that had passed his lips throughout their whole married life, that Ivy had made all those decisions, too.
Elsie's son - is he supposed to be from Birmingham or Liverpool? The accent keeps wavering.
His accent is more Black Country than Birmingham, but I can't say I've heard any Liverpool in there.
I thought there was the bit of Scouse about him.
Did anyone hear a firework sound effect on 44 minutes 26 seconds.
Yes! Exactly the same noise you hear 2 mins later at the tiny bonfire before the break! 🎆
Rita clashing with the curtains 😂
Gail shouldn't be married, she should be studied.
😂
I'd rather study paint drying though 🤣🤣
She should be muted, and often is when I'm watching.
classic quote there
@bsaunders5271 Obviously, you see Gail as a role model 😜
Omg I had a Rover and named it Rodger! 🤣
Does uncouth Martin ever remove or wash his overalls?!
I love the way that Annie Walker treats "Frederick" like her own personal man servant.
I love Rita’s character. The actress playing her is superb! But she should really be more pleasing to Len. Burnt toast and coffee? Having a spaz attack over the slightest. No wonder he’s unhappy. You can’t appease anyone who’s emotional like that. She seems very self centered and flippant. Does she love Len, or not? She seems unwilling to compromise at all.
i believe they hated each other offset...She is difficult. Didnt the actress go on to do I know him so well
Rita is awful.
@@fluxington No, she isn't.
@@amandajstar oh ok then.
1:13:23 Actor Kevin Lloyd later played Don Watkins, the crooked manager of Mike Baldwin's short lived venture 'The Grafitti Club', from 1983-84. Yet another example of Corrie recycling its actors!
The guy who played the Gazette photographer a few years later was Martin Platt's Dad, and then later again he was Kimberley Taylor's Dad, who was Curly's girlfriend. Another example for ya!
Plus Norris used to play a Spanish waiter who tried/failed to wed Mavis.
@@shanemanchester Oh yes, Carlos lol
I met him in the late 80s when he was getting famous as Tosh. I was parked in a street in Paddington when out of nowhere The Bill film crew showed up setting up a shot as quick as they could so not to gather too much of a crowd. He spotted me in the car and he came over and just started chatting to me. He was dropping f bombs all over the place.
@@professionalgun6674 He sounds friendly at least! Kevin Lloyd had rather a sad end. A chronic alcoholic, he split from his wife, mother of his 8 kids (one adopted) three years before his death in 1998.
He died of Asphyxia in a drying out clinic, choking on his own vomit, just a few days after he was fired from 'The Bill' for turning up to work drunk. He was just 49 years old.
He'd had a very successful career as one of TV's best known faces, despite his addiction problems. It's said he'd reunited with his wife shortly before he was found dead - she sued the facility's medical staff for negligence. She lost the case, with the judge ruling the staff had put him to bed in the recovery position, having seen him carry a bottle to Scotch in that night. They could have done nothing more to prevent his death. Very sad.
In another tragedy, his brother Terry Lloyd the ITN reporter was shot dead in Iraq in 2003, aged 50. There were no prosecutions over his death either, as it was impossible to determine who had fired the fatal shots.
Stan doesn’t work for the council does he-but himself! So how can him
Moving the rubbish be going against the strike? What it really means is Eddie won’t do it, and he doesn’t want anyone else to either!
Anyone who does what strikers wont do are labeled as blacklegs
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1:12:50 DC Tosh Lines
Gail, give your face a joyride 😂
Len is fine actor fine man . he knew how to act properly not like Mavis with her grouting look on her face and wittering when mike warned her that she could feel Len's breath breeding down the back of her neck for a passionate moment .
How does Rita earn most of the money??! 😂🤣
Why did Ken not go with uncle its not right
He offered, Uncle Albert said, he wanted to go alone.
Annie Walker need only get her beloved Royal family round to shift her bins.
Len pockets the cigar cash (always the exact amount)! Thief!!! And hypocrite!
Doesn't he own the business?
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Fried snowballs ? is that a Lankashire thing ?
Fried snowballs is a reference to James & the Giant Peach 🍑. But I also know them as buttery mashed potatoes with chopped crispy bacon & grated cheese 🧀 made into balls, rolled in flour then egg then white breadcrumbs & deep fried ! Yummy! 🙂
@@pamib29 The sound amazing, but a lot of hassle to make.
Ivy, bless her heart. The actress playing her is awful. Bad casting in my opinion.
God knows Deirdre ever saw in Ken. Smug git.
I just needed to say how much I really detest Arnold. Hes got Napoleon syndrome 😊
It was shit then and it’s shit now
Don’t watch it then 👍
Boy, Flaky Emily sure picked a winner. She immediately lets him dominate her. It’s pathetic.