I was a child and these were the adults shaping our formative minds. We were safer than kids today by a million miles. A glimpse of Mrs Sharples and everything is still ok with the world.
You mentally ill? Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and Cyril Smith want a word with you. And a million kids who weren't believed and were shamed if they tried to report it.
Ken Barlow treated absolutely everyone in his life like trash, all his life. And despite that he never managed to move further than 4 doors from the house he was raised in. The one that he always thought he was too good for. I can remember being a kid and paying no heed to the show on while my mum sat there, shouting at the telly "Why the hell didn't you choose Mike, Deirdre?" Watching these episodes, I understand now exactly what she meant. Mind you, Dierdre should have chosen Billy over that sociopath Langton too. I know he was a bit shonky but at least he was fun - and didn't have a Prince Valiant hairdo.
Agree with most of that, Ken Barlow was a self righteous hypocrite but Ray was a great old school jack the lad character. Sociopath? Just born on the wrong side of the tracks.
I don't remember much at all from when I was little, and I don't think I would have been able to understand much of their English back then (since I was raised in Canada). The theme music is probably it. But once I started watching it as an adult, DEIRDRE stood out to me quite a lot. This was when she got Ken to admit he was having an affair with Wendy Crozier. Elizabeth McDonald and her family had just moved into town recently. Around that time, Bett was grappling with how to get her husband to realize his daughter didn't give a toss about him after his having abandoned her for so many years. I couldn't understand what they were saying but I also remembered Betty and Percy. The Brennans were trying to outdo Mike Baldwin with their own stitching operation. The thing about Deirdre is I could tell her voice was impacted by smoking way back then, because it sounded so deep. Then of course 20 years later it would be even deeper and gravelly as can be. I couldn't believe it when I found a clip of Deirdre talking sassy to Blanche, who then slapped her across the face. Her face and voice were so different.
Maybe he was right about that but Albert was a narrow minded selfish bigot who thought the world owed him something because he fought in the war like thousands of others did horrible man
@@SkyeandsSummer Ray had a mean streak that Tracey has inherited. Look at Ray's attitude towards the gypsies....probably more than mean, really a cold narcissist streak. Sociopathic almost. Tracey has mellowed but she still is all about Tracey.
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The coughing in the background with Len and Albert. I’ve heard coughing before in a scene with Hilda and Stan, and coughing and noises in other s ends, too! 😂🤣
Seems to me that whether you are a teacher, a factory worker, builder or a mechanic, you are always in the Rovers and never have any work to do. Must be a great life if you are not earning and yet able to spend so much in a pub!😉
At 23:48 I think Rita says she'd better keep her head down and it sounds as if Pat Phoenix's reply is she'd hate to see Rita's hairdo being knocked around. Barbara Knox's laugh sounds unscripted and I wonder if Pat Phoenix was referring to being hit on the back of the nut by a camera.
How are they swimming in the cold??! They will get hypothermia!! Ray is standing there in a sweater with his arms crossed, obviously cold, and everyone else in jackets and coats!
Yeah, plenty of baths had outdoor pools. Albert Ave Baths here in Hull still has one, used for kayaking and swimming in summer. Up until the 90s it was always open during sessions along with the two indoor pools. I'm 45 and remember the slipper baths there, still used by a few people once a week, usually during the winter when using a tin bath would be a bit too cold. Some council pools had wash houses attached. I remember a tin bath in front of the fire as it was too expensive to use the emersion when times were hard so mum used the twin tub washer to heat some water them emptying it into the bath so you could bath in front of the coal fire and telly. It was cosy ☺️
Albert was nobbut a pain in the neck. I bet Ken often wanted to put a bullet in the back of his head! To think that he was in the show for another ten years after this.....
NOSMO king I am from Coronation Street, and I always called my Uncles and Aunts by their title and name, and many courtesy uncles and aunts too. It was the norm
The look on Elsie's faces after having the camera smack her in the back of the head coming out of the snug! Classic! I love how they left that in!
she hit herself when opening the door to the snug ..
In those days, they would rarely reshoot a scene unless something went completely wrong.
@@booth2710 Oh she managed to hit herself in the back of the head. Clever.
The look she gave the camera afterwards.. you know there was hell to pay when they wrapped up!!
I also love how at 22:38 you can clearly hear pat phoenix complaining about being hit on the back of the head in the background
I was a child and these were the adults shaping our formative minds. We were safer than kids today by a million miles. A glimpse of Mrs Sharples and everything is still ok with the world.
Well you weren't very safe if you were one of the kids taking swimming lessons from Peter Adamson.
@@serendpity3478 at the Cyril Smith Memorial Pool in Weatherfield.
These were the years priests did their fiddling and got away with it remember. Keeps were not ‘safer’ in many ways.
You mentally ill? Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and Cyril Smith want a word with you. And a million kids who weren't believed and were shamed if they tried to report it.
You forgot Glitter
I love Uncle Albert's room. So cosy & homely.
Yes i would love to have had a rumage through his drawers and a good look at his old nic-nacs
I always thought it looks very harsh, dark furniture, quite Victorian. And that sofa, looks so uncomfortable.
Ken cannot write a simple note. Just another example of Ken being Ken. Thank you for posting!
Bill Roache was 41 when this was filmed. 47 years later and he’s still in it. Incredible.
🤨🤨🤨
At 22:37 you can hear Pat Phoenix telling someone she got hit on the back of the head moments after it happened.
Oh I missed that.
Ken Barlow treated absolutely everyone in his life like trash, all his life. And despite that he never managed to move further than 4 doors from the house he was raised in. The one that he always thought he was too good for.
I can remember being a kid and paying no heed to the show on while my mum sat there, shouting at the telly "Why the hell didn't you choose Mike, Deirdre?"
Watching these episodes, I understand now exactly what she meant. Mind you, Dierdre should have chosen Billy over that sociopath Langton too. I know he was a bit shonky but at least he was fun - and didn't have a Prince Valiant hairdo.
Agree with most of that, Ken Barlow was a self righteous hypocrite but Ray was a great old school jack the lad character. Sociopath? Just born on the wrong side of the tracks.
@@vashna3799 Ray was nasty.
@@teariedearie he wasn’t , just a Jack the Lad that’s all.
@@vashna3799 No he was a sadistic prick. He liked to kick anyone who was down but never had the balls to punch up.
@@serendpity3478 think your getting him confused with Alan Bradley. Who did Ray kick when they were down?
Every member of the cast had a screen presence.
I don't remember much at all from when I was little, and I don't think I would have been able to understand much of their English back then (since I was raised in Canada). The theme music is probably it.
But once I started watching it as an adult, DEIRDRE stood out to me quite a lot. This was when she got Ken to admit he was having an affair with Wendy Crozier. Elizabeth McDonald and her family had just moved into town recently. Around that time, Bett was grappling with how to get her husband to realize his daughter didn't give a toss about him after his having abandoned her for so many years. I couldn't understand what they were saying but I also remembered Betty and Percy. The Brennans were trying to outdo Mike Baldwin with their own stitching operation.
The thing about Deirdre is I could tell her voice was impacted by smoking way back then, because it sounded so deep. Then of course 20 years later it would be even deeper and gravelly as can be. I couldn't believe it when I found a clip of Deirdre talking sassy to Blanche, who then slapped her across the face. Her face and voice were so different.
Yes, not like now, not even any actual characters anymore .
Witty.. entertaining... Super production..
Witty?!!!!
This was aired on my 6th birthday
An outdoor pool. On a grey wet morning. Up north.
NO WAY AM I GETTING IN THAT!!
Stan getting his proverbials in a twist over the meaning of life !
Albert was dead right with what he said to Ken about not bothering to go up to Scotland to see his kids.
I agree. Ken wanted to be free and forget he had kids. I thing Bill Roache wanted to the character to be a ladies man.
Maybe he was right about that but Albert was a narrow minded selfish bigot who thought the world owed him something because he fought in the war like thousands of others did horrible man
Why does Ray have friends??
Does he though? He has acquaintances.
What did deardrie ever see in him I think that's why tracy is the way she is having a father like him
@@SkyeandsSummer Ray had a mean streak that Tracey has inherited. Look at Ray's attitude towards the gypsies....probably more than mean, really a cold narcissist streak. Sociopathic almost. Tracey has mellowed but she still is all about Tracey.
Yes Tracey is definitely a chip off the old block, as regards Ray. Mind you Deirdre wasn't without her faults either. Mild compared to Ray though.
@@carolineg1872 true there’s friends you have. Than you got acquaintances.
22:15 Pat bumping into the camera exiting the Snug then giving the crew a dirty look as Minnie passed her.
Look at her face hilarious don't now if she wants to laugh or cry😅
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5:15 Stan Ogden's financial illiteracy is staggering! No wonder so many people in this country have problems with debt and money management.
I still love sardines on toast after 27 years living in Cornwall. I am a true Northerner.
22:15 I bet Pat Phoenix cursed that cameraman for hitting her in the head 😂
She's hit herself on the head with the door. Probably pissed again she looks that rough.
Some expression on Pat’s face
Her face was like thunder bet he got the sack
Pat's glare at the camera said it all.
No-one could pout like Ms Phoenix!
The coughing in the background with Len and Albert. I’ve heard coughing before in a scene with Hilda and Stan, and coughing and noises in other s ends, too! 😂🤣
I'm sure it's an unpopular opinion but I think Ken is very handsome in these episodes.
Thoroughly agree.
Amyishere67. ❤️❤️
He was.
Definitely was!
Agreed!
Does anyone know where the swimming pool was?
Someone on the set coughs loudly at 6.28 when Ken is arguing with Albert.
NOSMO king It isn’t a classic Corrie episode unless you hear someone coughing on set.
@@josephbennett2457It is like hearing Neville Buswell often talking during the countdowns. Lol!
22:17 Elsie clashing with the camera leaving the Snug.🙄
Couldn't bear Albert Tatlock as a kid. Same as Percy Sugden later on.
I'd much prefer Albert Tatlock to Percy Sugden, as annoying as Albert could sometimes be.
He grows on you as you get older. Percy was awful though.
@@Funeral_Tango they've since had better versions who were at least humorous with it, like Norris.
Olympic whingers and miserable to boot.
Jeez I didn’t realise Ken had tried Rita too
Seems to me that whether you are a teacher, a factory worker, builder or a mechanic, you are always in the Rovers and never have any work to do. Must be a great life if you are not earning and yet able to spend so much in a pub!😉
15:26 I thought the man in the blue track suit was Prince Edward!😊
At 23:48 I think Rita says she'd better keep her head down and it sounds as if Pat Phoenix's reply is she'd hate to see Rita's hairdo being knocked around. Barbara Knox's laugh sounds unscripted and I wonder if Pat Phoenix was referring to being hit on the back of the nut by a camera.
Was that Mavis 's first I really don't know LOL
I DONT KNOW LMFAO
History in the making LOL
Bravo Mavis 👏
How are they swimming in the cold??! They will get hypothermia!! Ray is standing there in a sweater with his arms crossed, obviously cold, and everyone else in jackets and coats!
Yeah, plenty of baths had outdoor pools. Albert Ave Baths here in Hull still has one, used for kayaking and swimming in summer. Up until the 90s it was always open during sessions along with the two indoor pools. I'm 45 and remember the slipper baths there, still used by a few people once a week, usually during the winter when using a tin bath would be a bit too cold. Some council pools had wash houses attached. I remember a tin bath in front of the fire as it was too expensive to use the emersion when times were hard so mum used the twin tub washer to heat some water them emptying it into the bath so you could bath in front of the coal fire and telly. It was cosy ☺️
Is that pool still there? where is it in real life?
Poor pat must have hurt
Elsie Tanner drinking in the Snug? Thought the Public was more her prefrence
She was in a bad mood so probably wanting some quiet.
Ken Barlow 60 years of not acting. They deserves an award
Clever.
👌👌Classic 😂😂😂😂
That must oh hurt
Wow so that Ernest character has negatives of Ray Langton in the scud - wonder what happened to them
4:51 Ray mincing his words.
Swimming pool location anyone?
Galleon outdoor pool in Didsbury. Closed in the 1980s
Good for Ken, Albert was unbearable, aul dodger. Old age does not automatically require respect.
Albert was nobbut a pain in the neck. I bet Ken often wanted to put a bullet in the back of his head! To think that he was in the show for another ten years after this.....
Albert - what a pain in the a…
Mavis 18 lengths !!🥇😊
Lok at Elsie's face I don't now if she wanted to swear or laugh
If looks could kill at 22:12, there'd have been two deaths in this episode 😃
I never warmed to Jerry Booth's character. He was so serious and miserable with it.
Agree - a total waste of space
There was something about Jerry Booth ❤️
Yeah, he was a very handsome and sexy man.
@@gazwilliams25 Really? Entirely the opposite in my opinion!
@@teariedearie He's down to earth and masculine. That's what I find sexy. Maybe it's just a gay thing.
he looked like a worried donut
@@gazwilliams25
Why does Ken keep on saying uncle Albert this uncle Albert that ... surely everyone knows he's kens uncle so just say hello Albert 🤣
No Albert us no blood relationship to Ken.
Albert was the Uncle of his late wife, Valerie. No relation to Ken and he only started to call him Uncle in the last few years.
@@carolineg1872 thank you exactly
Probably in respect to Valerie - he was her uncle after all and she was Kens wife
NOSMO king I am from Coronation Street, and I always called my Uncles and Aunts by their title and name, and many courtesy uncles and aunts too. It was the norm
Norma is another one that I don't like
Yes i know what you mean the character just didnt quite gell
I did like her a lot in Emmerdale though - the character seemed to suit her a lot better
I think she's lovely! I liked her as Caroline in Emmerdale too, back in the day.
If there was young children in that swimming pool with Mavis. Then Len Fairclough would have been in there too.
Cheeky 😂😂😂😂
Aripl 20th 1977 len and Rita
Gillian
They say Corrie started to dip before Podmore took over. Emily trying to you interested in a sponsored swim isnt good
Even a dip in this era is head and shoulders above present day.
@@stevebbuk A plunge to the bottom of a cess pit would be head and shoulders above present day
Bless Rita she did have a dreadful voice
Len n Weather field Baths ..mmmm. Watch your purse girlies
Just gotta nip to the privy / cludgy cos I got a chogger nipping to get out....Getting bad contractions ...Gonna be 7 pounder easy....Wish me luck....