Feel sad watching these earlier episodes, Anne Kirkbride was stood in front of me in the taxi cue outside the Hare and Hounds back the early 80s in Oldham on a Saturday night RIP ❤️
So many twists and turns with the Deirdre & Jon saga, the most gripping storyline since Alan Bradley I think. Liz was such a compassionate friend to distraught humiliated Deirdre. I remember Deirdre not wanting to get caught up in Liz’s involvement with the gangster guy Fraser in ‘97 though!
It got a bit drawn out with the addition of the Sunday episode. One episode just seemed like filler, they had Deirdre coming out with trite lines to Mike and Alma like I really hope this is the beginning of the end of it all now!
What a fantastic month for Corrie, in fact I would class the first half of 1998 the end of "classic" Corrie, with late 1998 and 1999 the beginning of "modern" Corrie. January marks the Jon Lindsay saga coming to a gripping end. At 3:09:26 when Deirdre says, "I said I didn't want legal representation...I've just changed my mind". Wow, what a line and delivered perfectly. Love these episodes, thank you.
@@dementednun1175 Absolutely. The one about saving the trees was abysmal, Emily was more unbearably self-righteous than ever. The story of Nick and Leanne was silly, the same as the one involving Jack and Vera's stairs, etc. It's near the start of the era I'm most familiar with and the decline in quality is stark. And one of the dullest, most irritating characters ever appears in the form of Haley. Boring in her own right, and later intolerable as the other half of the equally insufferable Roy. I think I'd leave it here, but I want to see how the story with Deidre develops and ends.
@@dementednun1175 I do agree with you, it was the Jon-Deirdre story that was most of interest to me. I skip through the save-the-trees escapades, and also Woodentop Nick Tilsley scenes (he is awful). One of the best things about January 1998 for me, was that the episodes were a mostly Mallett-free zone, they hardly featured at all, which I really appreciated.
@@shylinh5939. The storyline involving Deirdre ends with Deirdre in prison for Jon Lindsay's crimes but is eventually released from prison after Jon Lindsay was caught and charged and imprisoned for the same crimes he had Deirdre imprisoned for. The police will catch Jon Lindsay just wait for that to come when Deirdre is released and as Deirdre leaves the prison a free woman she stands and watches Jon Lindsay be taken away to prison in police handcuffs.
@@kathleencorson Thanks for that. Poor Deidre getting a prison sentence, but at least it ended well. That must have been the start for residents of the street or people they know going to prison. There have been loads of scenes from the visitors room.
I must admit, Ashley's soppy obsession with the surly and ungrateful Zoe was as nauseating as Judy Mallett's fanatical obsession with the baby. If ever there was an ill-matched couple it was Ashley and Zoe. Why couldn't he see she was using him? As I see it, Zoe had no 'lovable' qualities at all, she was bolshy and manipulative 99% of the time, yet Ashley seemed in a daze about her. I was definitely on Maxine's side, she was right to ditch him while he was being so mawkish and pathetic, but then, had she stuck around, maybe Zoe wouldn't have got her claws into him. Pity she didn't target Nick Tilsley instead, and ended up at war with Gail instead of Leanne.
@carasmith549 As I pointed out Five years later Asley had a go at Ken Barlow for wanting to Aiden Critchley. What Ken was doing for Aiden Critchley was no different to what Ashley is doing for Zoe Tattershall, except that it turned out what Ken was doing was right in the end. Ken was trying to stop Aiden from being convicted for a crime he did not commit which ruined his friendship with Emily for a little while. You would think that as Emily knew Ken for 34 years she would try to understand his reasons.
Sad to think that there's women out there who have been taken for a ride much like Deirdre. How utterly devastating that must be when the realisation hits home.
I agree, its easy watching it play out on a tv screen & passing judgement saying Deirdre should have known esp when her Bloke had already lied to her Its never happened to me & i thank god it never has, ive never been in a situation where i was looking for a man of means etc I had a good career & self sufficient. I also get a feel about people who try too hard to impress & flash around wealth or pocessions Most genuinely wealthy people do not feel the need to show off They are confident in themselves & by the positions they hold in life & work need no explaining. those who have climbed the ladder of success & do advertise their wealth are very materialistic & set out to buy people, they dont have confidence in themselves so buy people esp trophy wives to show off. The odd phantacists like Deirdres man who live 2 or more separate lives as he does are thankfully few & far between. Still Deirdre must have wondered about his absences & odd working hours, his extravagances, luxuries yet hes only working for a cheap tie shop chain Didnt she question how he could afford super luxury homes, cars Furniture??? Plus putting credit cards & mortgages & deeds in her name Didnt that set alarm bells ringing? Beggers belief! Deirdre isnt stupid & deep down she must have had doubts but didnt want to face them. She too was ecstatic in opulence & the need to show off & flaunt. Its sad all round, for the deceived wives & girlfriends & worse if children are involved Plus the state of the deceiver Who in their right mind could even COPE with 2 separate families??? Cheers & thank you EHS 🇬🇧👧
@@montrayjones1947 I'd like to see a prosecution try to make that stick in court. In Deidrie's case, she agreed to marry someone she didn't know was already married, but the wedding didn't happen. She wasn't the one setting up a bigamous marriage. It's like going on trial for a crime you thought about committing, maybe even intended to, but didn't. Unless crimes were committed in the process of getting to that position, how could there be a case against you?
It's very unbelievable that Toyah could have a complete personality change in a short amount of time she has been on the street. Sarcastic, aggressive, rude and bullying to 'please Gail, can I go with Emily please' 🙄🙄
I remember an interview with Georgia Taylor, Toyah, where she said Eileen Derbyshire had so much guts. Those Red Rec scenes must have been filmed about Nov/Dec time, probably very early in the morning, freezing, windy and rainy, and who knows how many takes would’ve been required, esp if it was foggy too. Even if they had heaters and constant hot drinks and were wearing thermals, the storyline must have been a daunting prospect for Eileen. I wonder if Betty or Barbara would’ve climbed up a tree!
Wouldn't be the only bad wig ever on Corrie. For continuity reasons most of the females wore wigs but there were budgets - Julie and Barbara got the best where Ivy and Vera got the crappy ones, over the years.
They made a few set changes that didn't make sense. Remember the "Special" room at the Rover's? It would have been out on the street! There's a lot of tardis buildings on Coronation Street!!!
I dont know if this storyline ever came up but to me, the scriptwriters lost a gem of a story. Bringing back Lynda Baron as Mrs Turnbull the rich widow of buxon proportions ( the big & bonny lady who chased jack round the bedroom) full of fun & frolicks & meeting Fred Elliott in the Rovers! My goodness the thought of those two chasing each other around, laughing, guffawing, eating sublime food, feeding each other toffee covered grapes.. Lynda would have been the female Fred Elliott! Their storylines would have been hilarious! What a shame this idea never Materialised... or did it? Or did this Brian Park - producer find this kind of story line too full of fun & smiles & feel good Factor. He seems to favour fast paced drama like a rollercoaster, thick Fast & heavy, no quaint love lines Ah well! I think a Fred/Mrs Turnbull would have been a fantastic addition to Corrie regulars! Thanks EHS 🇬🇧👧
You can see how frail he was here, only lasted another year and wasn't all that old (66 at this point). A sad end to one of the street's iconic characters.
Spider is so good. A young person with genuine intentions and full of moral fibre. So rare. A great companion for the character of Emily who shares many of his characteristics.
Since Deirdres arrest & the questions & objections from the police it also makes me ask the same question, which is WHAT did Deirdres conman boyfriend Jon Lindsay get out of everything he did ?? If hed misappropriated the credit card given to Deirdre or collected The stuff she bought on the credit card, id understand But he'd gone to a great deal of trouble & planning & extreme cunning & cleverness, to set everything up but not to explain what HE would get out of it! Im thinking it was was for the sheer pleasure of looking, to Deirdre, & all her friends as Mr Big Shot! Everyone envying Her & his luxurious home, beautiful furnishings etc Ok if he had mental health problems, it may tally! But it just seems off to have performed such complicated juggling of finances & fraud for .... what exactly? Im thinking the same as the police are thinking, what would be the point of all mr lindsays planning? Ok he obtained Deirdres £5,000 Which he, explained to his wife, as a work bonus but.. despite all his elaborations hes settling for just £5,000 ? Its chicken feed Why didnt he set something up for himself before the real pilot Mr Jenkins tumbled to the fact his bank statements showed such discrepancies?? Im sure that pilot knew Jon Lindsey, knew he was looking after his house for 6 months Couldnt he have told the police about this & matching up with Deirdres statements?? Im still utterly puzzled by it all & how Deirdre ended up in jail The Fly n Tie shop assistant also knew Jon Lindsay, plus she could have placed Deirdre on New Years eve at the airport tie shop. Its a crap crap story line 🇬🇧👧 PS Deirdres solicitor is abit naff esp as 95% of Deirdres friends & others in Coronation street saw & witnessed Jon Lindsay courting Buying & giving Deirdre gifts & the house etc Plus ive noticed no one has brought up the reason WHY did lindsay do it! Not even Ken, they never once look at the whole business & ask the reason for lindsay setting everything up & what was his angle! This is whats got me puzzled! Its the obvious question There are so many witnesses to jon lindsays existance ( hes even in the local gazette with his photo & name, when Deirdre is presenting a travel prize at Sunliners travel shop! There are lots of clues & the police only need to question all the people who met Lindsay & were at the house warming party Why didnt the script writers consult some real life fraudsters & their deeds & produce a credible senario?? Cheers Again 🇬🇧👧
Lindsay bolts with the wife and kids and the cops can't find them? No record of them spending,kids going to school,wife using her bank account and how did he convince the wife to bolt if she knew nothing about his other life! What happened to the house and possessions they were living in? He had to have syphoned off loads of money from the account too not just what they accuse Dreary of!! Sounds like Walter Mitty syndrome!😆
100% correct. It's culturally inappropriate. When Operah forced Nicole Kidman to do it on aur was the most cringiest, cultural thing Oprah's ever done. Syprised she didntget Norgan Freeman to sing "Old Man River". 🙄🍻🇦🇺
Ugh fn ken Barlow, aka BogFace and his nosey, self righteous, holyer than thou attitude makes me sick. He can have his affairs, b an escort,do all sorts but brings his moral hammer down on everyone else. Smh. If I was Deidre I wdve rather gone to a hostel than stop with him smh,in her house, which I still don't know if she ever got more than the original 15grand for from Baldwin before she left with Samir.
Thanks Eve for all your hard work, 1998 was a good year for Corrie along with 1999. Although, I'm skipping through the Nicky Platt scenes as Adam Ricketts acting is wooden!!!
Nick was truly awful, wasn't he? ITV3 have just shown the early 1999 abortion storyline of Nick and Leanne, and he just comes over as pathetic and almost hysterical, but at the same time the same sort of arrogant and selfish pig his father Brian was. I detested him, too.
He was just there purely as eye candy for the girls (and some boys tbf).. couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag! Let’s not mention his singing career either eh 😉
@@carasmith549 I agree, I remember how he went over the top during those episodes around the time of his break up with Leanne, dire acting, only hired for his looks not his acting ability. Brian (Chris Quintin) was a better actor and that's saying something!
@@EveHenleySpread Oh yes, very much hired on his looks as apposed to his acting ability, bland, he wasn't my cup of tea in terms of looks, thought Chris the mechanic was much hotter. Ricketts singing career fizzled out fairly quickly!!! Not a fan of Zoe either, two poor castings during the Brian Park era. Hayleys introduction was interesting, remember the fuss at the time of a transgender character becoming a regular on Corrie and the reaction of some of the residents, thankfully, times have changed for the better.
@@murphy9039 Ooh yes, Chris Collins was very good-looking. Nick Tilsley Mk.2: yuck. If he was taken on as eye-candy, well he did not appeal to my eyes, or ears. His voice was awful too. He actually reminded me of Rupert Bear.
3:32:42 Tina Hobley slipping back into her natural South-East England accent for a few seconds here. A bit surprising, as she generally does a very good job of putting on a Manchester area accent as Samantha Failsworth.
The scriptwriters missed an opportunity - it would have been a perfect time for the ghost of Ivy to turn up in Leeann's bedroom, call her a trollop and warn her away from her precious grandson Nicky, or else....
Hahahaha, tresfeles 😂😂😂. Love it! Anybody happen to know where I could find the episodes when David P finds Ivy's attic diaries? Been wanting to watch those for a few years now. "Ooh, and that Gail's no better than she should be.." etc
@tresfeles2784 You think Leanne is a trollop. Well watch the repeats of Emmerdale and feast your eyes on Kelly Windsor. That is how her marriage with Roy went west. It was through her being a trollop and the idiot did not learn from her mistake. And a lot of females think women have got more sense than men.
From 23:25 to 46:18 Episode 4328 of Coronation Street dated Saturday January 3rd 1998. The purpose of this information is to let other viewers know which Corrie episode and when in January 1998 began and ended at certain times.
I like the Ashley character, even though he sounds like hes just been sucking on a Helium balloon However it iritates me when he pronounces hospital as hospickle & little as lickle. Kettle as Keckle Metal as Meckle Digital as digickle So wierd! Cheers 🇬🇧👧
Les Battersby does that as well, and even Rita to a lesser extent (she sometimes says 'liccle'). It was a well known feature of the accent of working class people in some parts of the Manchester area a few decades ago, though perhaps less common these days. Ashley also says 'keccle' for 'kettle' and 'environmencal' for 'environmental' lol.
I think the actor died and thet could only afford so many funerals per year. In the whole history of Corrie, the coffins were the same one from the props dept.
From 1:08:37 to 1:31:52 Episode 4330 of Coronation Street dated Wednesday January 7th 1998. The purpose of this information is to let other viewers know which Corrie episode and when in January 1998 began and ended at certain times.
If only Drearys friends knew she couldn't wait to move to London to get away from the bunch of gossips,nosy parkers,and troublemakers she considered them to be!
Between 1:35:55 and 1:36:20 Emily is being more like Spider's mother rather than his auntie. Come to think of it Emily has been that way to Spider Neugent ever since 1998 began.
Between 3:19:28 and 3:19:31 Maxine was out of order giving cheek to a man 36 years older than herself. People's elders more than 20 years are entitled to a certain amount of respect whoever the person is and what he might be like. Maxine should have been more polite and said to Fred; "I have no intention of going back with Ashley whatever the circumstances may be.
Zoe took £2000 off the Mallets for her baby, she is living for free with Ashley, she has money for fags nappys etc so please can someone tell me why she has worn the same blue top while and since she was pregnant?
Woe classics are brilliant more like day to day things instead of constant murder and violence. Its cheap writing these days. The older episodes are the best.
It's a wonder that Audrey did not say to Emily during Audrey's heavy lecture to her between 2:22:57 and 2:23:55 "What would Annie Walker say if she could see you now?" Because Annie Walker was still in Coronation Street for 4 years and 5 months after Audrey's first appearance in Coronation Street.
Deirdre no luck with men😫🥺😩 In Anyway all the way through the 90s It all started to go wrong for her in 1989 When Ken Had a affair with the crozier lady,
I want to get a huge bat and whack that policeman who was interrogating Deirdre ride on his head. He seemed like a total prick, they casted him well lol XD Omg, also is that the actress who played the lady's maid Anna in Downton Abbey. Didn't know she was a child actress, good performance here as well. Although in Downton, anyone with a Northern accent is immediately a member of the downstairs cast XD
@@seanhutchinson6722 She played Sam Tyler's aunty in Life On Mars and Myra Hindley's sister in The Moors Murders alongside Maxine Peake and Sean Harris.
1:14:40 playing the didgeridoo is not easy to master curcular breathing. Best way to learn is to squirt water out your mouth while inhaling. There's noooo way Emily could play that well first go, just NOOO way. 😂
After all these years of Deidre breaking down crying.. For a 100 times, I had a laugh.... Her deep smokey voice, ruined by smoking heavily. And eventually killing her... I am sorry for her....
That job was all Deirdre had to provide for Tracy. Deirdre doesn't care about the money but knowing that Tracy will have security when she has children of her own. A some kind of legacy that Deirdre would leave behind for Tracy and Amy when she's gone/dead.
Thank you for uploading the January 1998 Coronation Street episodes Eve Henley Spread.
Feel sad watching these earlier episodes, Anne Kirkbride was stood in front of me in the taxi cue outside the Hare and Hounds back the early 80s in Oldham on a Saturday night RIP ❤️
Great seeing Maude and Fred get on for a change
So many twists and turns with the Deirdre & Jon saga, the most gripping storyline since Alan Bradley I think. Liz was such a compassionate friend to distraught humiliated Deirdre. I remember Deirdre not wanting to get caught up in Liz’s involvement with the gangster guy Fraser in ‘97 though!
Dreary deirdre got on my nerves Ashley so soppy that story line was rubbish
@@marieince3239 Morever Five years later he had a go at Ken Barlow for being the same way with Aiden Critchley.
The Deirdre-John Lindsay storyline was absolute gold. Brilliant gripping viewing
not really. i kept wanting to slap some sense in deidre.
mental note: add ashley to my growing slap list.
It got a bit drawn out with the addition of the Sunday episode. One episode just seemed like filler, they had Deirdre coming out with trite lines to Mike and Alma like I really hope this is the beginning of the end of it all now!
Dont understand why he done it??
@@nicolemclean9028Do you speak with an upward inflection?
Katy would've been so much better with the Malletts, that poor baby never stood a chance.😢 Honestly I don't know how social services weren't called.
Except the Mallets were thick and Judy was certifiable.
It's really sad to see Alf looking so unwell.
And that he only manages another 12 months too 😥
Indeed… he was a true gent.
IT'S REALLY SAD TO SEE ALF LOOKING SO UNWELL GLORY SENGO.
😢😢😢
@@sengo1st why are you the way you are
Oh my god thank you star ⭐️ you are 💕😍
Audrey to Alf..." you've stopped those grubby little carrot munchers from being arrested"...I cracked up laughing
Ashley wake up she dosent love you
What a fantastic month for Corrie, in fact I would class the first half of 1998 the end of "classic" Corrie, with late 1998 and 1999 the beginning of "modern" Corrie. January marks the Jon Lindsay saga coming to a gripping end. At 3:09:26 when Deirdre says, "I said I didn't want legal representation...I've just changed my mind". Wow, what a line and delivered perfectly. Love these episodes, thank you.
Other than the Derdrie story line it was terrible each to there own though .
@@dementednun1175 Absolutely. The one about saving the trees was abysmal, Emily was more unbearably self-righteous than ever. The story of Nick and Leanne was silly, the same as the one involving Jack and Vera's stairs, etc. It's near the start of the era I'm most familiar with and the decline in quality is stark. And one of the dullest, most irritating characters ever appears in the form of Haley. Boring in her own right, and later intolerable as the other half of the equally insufferable Roy. I think I'd leave it here, but I want to see how the story with Deidre develops and ends.
@@dementednun1175 I do agree with you, it was the Jon-Deirdre story that was most of interest to me. I skip through the save-the-trees escapades, and also Woodentop Nick Tilsley scenes (he is awful). One of the best things about January 1998 for me, was that the episodes were a mostly Mallett-free zone, they hardly featured at all, which I really appreciated.
@@shylinh5939. The storyline involving Deirdre ends with Deirdre in prison for Jon Lindsay's crimes but is eventually released from prison after Jon Lindsay was caught and charged and imprisoned for the same crimes he had Deirdre imprisoned for. The police will catch Jon Lindsay just wait for that to come when Deirdre is released and as Deirdre leaves the prison a free woman she stands and watches Jon Lindsay be taken away to prison in police handcuffs.
@@kathleencorson Thanks for that. Poor Deidre getting a prison sentence, but at least it ended well. That must have been the start for residents of the street or people they know going to prison. There have been loads of scenes from the visitors room.
I must admit, Ashley's soppy obsession with the surly and ungrateful Zoe was as nauseating as Judy Mallett's fanatical obsession with the baby. If ever there was an ill-matched couple it was Ashley and Zoe. Why couldn't he see she was using him? As I see it, Zoe had no 'lovable' qualities at all, she was bolshy and manipulative 99% of the time, yet Ashley seemed in a daze about her. I was definitely on Maxine's side, she was right to ditch him while he was being so mawkish and pathetic, but then, had she stuck around, maybe Zoe wouldn't have got her claws into him. Pity she didn't target Nick Tilsley instead, and ended up at war with Gail instead of Leanne.
Gail would’ve had Shannon in care ! Poor Ashley, he’s a sucker for a tweety bird
i sometimes get an misogynist vibe at times.
@carasmith549 As I pointed out Five years later Asley had a go at Ken Barlow for wanting to Aiden Critchley. What Ken was doing for Aiden Critchley was no different to what Ashley is doing for Zoe Tattershall, except that it turned out what Ken was doing was right in the end. Ken was trying to stop Aiden from being convicted for a crime he did not commit which ruined his friendship with Emily for a little while. You would think that as Emily knew Ken for 34 years she would try to understand his reasons.
Sad to think that there's women out there who have been taken for a ride much like Deirdre. How utterly devastating that must be when the realisation hits home.
Brilliant actress you can really feel her pain
I'm happy to see Deidre to FINALLY WEARING A BRA ! She was getting pretty droopy the last few years.
Yes I noticed that, they were nearly down at her waist.
I agree, its easy watching it play out on a tv screen & passing judgement saying Deirdre should have known esp when her Bloke had already lied to her
Its never happened to me & i thank god it never has, ive never been in a situation where i was looking for a man of means etc
I had a good career & self sufficient.
I also get a feel about people who try too hard to impress & flash around wealth or pocessions
Most genuinely wealthy people do not feel the need to show off
They are confident in themselves & by the positions they hold in life & work need no explaining.
those who have climbed the ladder of success & do advertise their wealth are very materialistic & set out to buy people, they dont have confidence in themselves so buy people esp trophy wives to show off.
The odd phantacists like Deirdres man who live 2 or more separate lives as he does are thankfully few & far between.
Still Deirdre must have wondered about his absences & odd working hours, his extravagances, luxuries yet hes only working for a cheap tie shop chain
Didnt she question how he could afford super luxury homes, cars
Furniture???
Plus putting credit cards & mortgages & deeds in her name
Didnt that set alarm bells ringing?
Beggers belief! Deirdre isnt stupid & deep down she must have had doubts but didnt want to face them.
She too was ecstatic in opulence & the need to show off & flaunt.
Its sad all round, for the deceived wives & girlfriends & worse if children are involved
Plus the state of the deceiver
Who in their right mind could even COPE with 2 separate families???
Cheers & thank you EHS
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@@dementednun1175 She has innocent angel written across her face.
3:23:49 there’s no way on Earth a solicitor would discuss somebody else’s case in the pub in the way this Frankie does with Baldwin here.
Too right Eve. I took issue with that interrogation as well. Is intended bigamy even a crime?
@@montrayjones1947I would say it would be...an attempt to defraud possibly.
@@montrayjones1947 I'd like to see a prosecution try to make that stick in court. In Deidrie's case, she agreed to marry someone she didn't know was already married, but the wedding didn't happen. She wasn't the one setting up a bigamous marriage. It's like going on trial for a crime you thought about committing, maybe even intended to, but didn't. Unless crimes were committed in the process of getting to that position, how could there be a case against you?
Curly says he played on the red rec every day as a kid. I thought he came from Crewe?
He did! Another example of lazy writing! By 1998 the show was well on the slide.. blame Brian Park! ;-)
Poor Bryan looks so ill here.
I met him in 1990 and, yeah, he obviously wasn't well. 😢
Janice... "A've rung the skoowull" 😄
This Dez/Samantha storyline doesn't ring true to me. I've never seen a man that eager to get married and certainly not Des.
Spider has only come in and hes taking over
It's very unbelievable that Toyah could have a complete personality change in a short amount of time she has been on the street. Sarcastic, aggressive, rude and bullying to 'please Gail, can I go with Emily please' 🙄🙄
Audrey is such a nosey Rosie and Gail is following in her foot steps
No ones questioned about Jenkins house, the one he still lives in that was shown to Deidre, supposed to be Jons
I remember an interview with Georgia Taylor, Toyah, where she said Eileen Derbyshire had so much guts. Those Red Rec scenes must have been filmed about Nov/Dec time, probably very early in the morning, freezing, windy and rainy, and who knows how many takes would’ve been required, esp if it was foggy too. Even if they had heaters and constant hot drinks and were wearing thermals, the storyline must have been a daunting prospect for Eileen. I wonder if Betty or Barbara would’ve climbed up a tree!
The amount of hair Shannon/Katy has is wild - looks like a wig
Wouldn't be the only bad wig ever on Corrie. For continuity reasons most of the females wore wigs but there were budgets - Julie and Barbara got the best where Ivy and Vera got the crappy ones, over the years.
She’s adorable
That dear baby has been chesty nasal congestion since she was born. 😢
That scene of Roy with a sneeze in the cafe.. If it was today, Audrey would be like hey I'm not getting your coronavirus!
Always winter, never Christmas with Deidre.
Well said. Someone with such big glasses is so blind to so much!
The stairs were the other way around when Annie Walker had it, so the wood wouldnt have wood rot
They made a few set changes that didn't make sense. Remember the "Special" room at the Rover's? It would have been out on the street! There's a lot of tardis buildings on Coronation Street!!!
I dont know if this storyline ever came up but to me, the scriptwriters lost a gem of a story.
Bringing back Lynda Baron as Mrs Turnbull the rich widow of buxon proportions ( the big & bonny lady who chased jack round the bedroom) full of fun & frolicks & meeting Fred Elliott in the Rovers!
My goodness the thought of those two chasing each other around, laughing, guffawing, eating sublime food, feeding each other toffee covered grapes..
Lynda would have been the female Fred Elliott!
Their storylines would have been hilarious!
What a shame this idea never
Materialised... or did it?
Or did this Brian Park - producer find this kind of story line too full of fun & smiles & feel good
Factor.
He seems to favour fast paced drama like a rollercoaster, thick
Fast & heavy, no quaint love lines
Ah well! I think a Fred/Mrs Turnbull would have been a fantastic addition to Corrie regulars!
Thanks EHS
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So Vera can't get down the stairs because she's scared of heights. Yet she can climb down from a bedroom window that's higher up.
But that's a stunt double!
@staceygrove5976 Yes I'm talking about the character Vera not the actress you strange person!
@@LeviJamesRE
It's what's known as ironic humour. "Not all that strange, actuallah", as Audrey Roberts might say!
@staceygrove5976 Hmmm mmm hmmm ? 🤣
Nick is such a pretty boy and so in love with himself. Misery guts Gail is turning into a hysterical hampster!
The obsession gail has with nik is creepy
Yes and he looks like a woman.
Was he on the roids here
Adam wasn't cast for his acting ability 😉
@@nicolemclean9028gaul is creepy BPD anyway.
Gail has about as much love for Leanne Battersby as Claire Scott did for Pogo Patterson in Grange Hill.
The spider thing is boring me
It sure is! I’ve started fast forwarding every time they all come up.
@nicolasudjum8077 I don't find Spider boring. I find his views interesting. He is the male version of Kerry in Neighbours (Harold's Daughter)
Poor Alf looks Terrible
You can see how frail he was here, only lasted another year and wasn't all that old (66 at this point). A sad end to one of the street's iconic characters.
Yes, he passed away in a chair at the Platt's NYE Millennium party.😊
Rather sad that 'Mr Millennium' never actually saw the Millennium.
He was very suck. Producers offered him 3x money to come back to round his character off. I met him in 1990 and he obviously wasn't well.
Love Spider !
If took a pair of scissors to Dreary's haircut, while wearing a blindfold, it would still be an improvement.
Annie was getting through cancer. They should have given her a wig.
Spider is so good. A young person with genuine intentions and full of moral fibre. So rare. A great companion for the character of Emily who shares many of his characteristics.
He’s an idiot lazy leftie socialist
His abysmal acting makes my teeth itch.
Give Les and Gobby Janice over Spider anytime 😫🙈💨🐴
Since Deirdres arrest & the questions & objections from the police it also makes me ask the same question, which is WHAT did Deirdres conman boyfriend Jon Lindsay get out of everything he did ??
If hed misappropriated the credit card given to Deirdre or collected
The stuff she bought on the credit card, id understand
But he'd gone to a great deal of trouble & planning & extreme cunning & cleverness, to set everything up but not to explain what HE would get out of it!
Im thinking it was was for the sheer pleasure of looking, to Deirdre, & all her friends as
Mr Big Shot! Everyone envying
Her & his luxurious home, beautiful furnishings etc
Ok if he had mental health problems, it may tally!
But it just seems off to have performed such complicated juggling of finances & fraud for
.... what exactly?
Im thinking the same as the police are thinking, what would be the point of all mr lindsays planning?
Ok he obtained Deirdres £5,000
Which he, explained to his wife, as a work bonus but.. despite all his elaborations hes settling for just £5,000 ? Its chicken feed
Why didnt he set something up for himself before the real pilot
Mr Jenkins tumbled to the fact his bank statements showed such discrepancies??
Im sure that pilot knew Jon Lindsey, knew he was looking after his house for 6 months
Couldnt he have told the police about this & matching up with
Deirdres statements??
Im still utterly puzzled by it all
& how Deirdre ended up in jail
The Fly n Tie shop assistant also knew Jon Lindsay, plus she could have placed Deirdre on New Years eve at the airport tie shop.
Its a crap crap story line
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PS Deirdres solicitor is abit naff esp as 95% of Deirdres friends & others in Coronation street saw & witnessed Jon Lindsay courting
Buying & giving Deirdre gifts & the house etc
Plus ive noticed no one has brought up the reason WHY did lindsay do it!
Not even Ken, they never once look at the whole business & ask the reason for lindsay setting everything up & what was his angle!
This is whats got me puzzled!
Its the obvious question
There are so many witnesses to jon lindsays existance ( hes even in the local gazette with his photo & name, when Deirdre is presenting a travel prize at
Sunliners travel shop!
There are lots of clues & the police only need to question all the people who met Lindsay & were at the house warming party
Why didnt the script writers consult some real life fraudsters & their deeds & produce a credible senario??
Cheers Again
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I agree. And who gets a huge mortgage without having to show records of his income,job and bank accounts and I.D.😆
Lindsay bolts with the wife and kids and the cops can't find them? No record of them spending,kids going to school,wife using her bank account and how did he convince the wife to bolt if she knew nothing about his other life! What happened to the house and possessions they were living in? He had to have syphoned off loads of money from the account too not just what they accuse Dreary of!! Sounds like Walter Mitty syndrome!😆
I agree it's some sloppy writing. Even back in 1999 it wouldn't be worth risking prison time for a 5 grand fraud.
The Producer, Parks (?), was the worst in Corrie history - did so much damage to the show.
Women are not allowed to play a didgeridoo! From Australia.
😂😅🎉 they can in America 😅
100% correct. It's culturally inappropriate. When Operah forced Nicole Kidman to do it on aur was the most cringiest, cultural thing Oprah's ever done. Syprised she didntget Norgan Freeman to sing "Old Man River". 🙄🍻🇦🇺
Zoey's baby isn't even a year old yet has as much hair as a 3-year old toddler
She was born with pretty much a full head of hair, if you watch the relevant episodes.
So cute
Zoe is a bad mum she doesn't deserve her baby Shannon
What on earth does audraaaas hair look like
Please stop making Deidre "cry talk."
Gets right on my nerves. For someone with such big glasses she misses such blatant obvious things about her men!
@@philstrachan Problem is, she goes after everyone! lol
@@philstrachan hahahahaaaaaa excellent !
Does Fred have an echo in his head? He repeats everything in one sentence like Foghorn Leghorn!
John all you do is lie lie lie and more lies! Stay clear Deirdre because he is only going to hurt 😢 you!
Her glasses STILL aren't big enough to see it! 😂
Ugh fn ken Barlow, aka BogFace and his nosey, self righteous, holyer than thou attitude makes me sick. He can have his affairs, b an escort,do all sorts but brings his moral hammer down on everyone else. Smh. If I was Deidre I wdve rather gone to a hostel than stop with him smh,in her house, which I still don't know if she ever got more than the original 15grand for from Baldwin before she left with Samir.
What do you mean? Bill Roache is one of the sexiest men alive 😳
45:55 "Nothing pacific" lol, Audrey trying to win the Hilda Ogden Prize here, maybe?
Thanks Eve for all your hard work, 1998 was a good year for Corrie along with 1999. Although, I'm skipping through the Nicky Platt scenes as Adam Ricketts acting is wooden!!!
Nick was truly awful, wasn't he? ITV3 have just shown the early 1999 abortion storyline of Nick and Leanne, and he just comes over as pathetic and almost hysterical, but at the same time the same sort of arrogant and selfish pig his father Brian was. I detested him, too.
He was just there purely as eye candy for the girls (and some boys tbf).. couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag! Let’s not mention his singing career either eh 😉
@@carasmith549 I agree, I remember how he went over the top during those episodes around the time of his break up with Leanne, dire acting, only hired for his looks not his acting ability. Brian (Chris Quintin) was a better actor and that's saying something!
@@EveHenleySpread Oh yes, very much hired on his looks as apposed to his acting ability, bland, he wasn't my cup of tea in terms of looks, thought Chris the mechanic was much hotter. Ricketts singing career fizzled out fairly quickly!!! Not a fan of Zoe either, two poor castings during the Brian Park era. Hayleys introduction was interesting, remember the fuss at the time of a transgender character becoming a regular on Corrie and the reaction of some of the residents, thankfully, times have changed for the better.
@@murphy9039 Ooh yes, Chris Collins was very good-looking. Nick Tilsley Mk.2: yuck. If he was taken on as eye-candy, well he did not appeal to my eyes, or ears. His voice was awful too. He actually reminded me of Rupert Bear.
Kirkcudbright pronounced 'Kir-coo-bree' one of Scotland's many place names that is spelt differently from the pronunciation.
Being Scottish myself i did laugh at that pronunciation Kir kud bright.
3:32:42 Tina Hobley slipping back into her natural South-East England accent for a few seconds here. A bit surprising, as she generally does a very good job of putting on a Manchester area accent as Samantha Failsworth.
OMG 😆 😂what’s that on Gary’s head it looks ridiculous!
A stuffed ferret
3:53:14 Vegan Spider takes milk in his tea…
Soy milk. Emily bought it in the corner shop for him.
But drank mushroom soup possibly with milk or cream in. And wears woolen jumpers.
Spider cannot act. In fact, his efforts are cringeworthy.
The scriptwriters missed an opportunity - it would have been a perfect time for the ghost of Ivy to turn up in Leeann's bedroom, call her a trollop and warn her away from her precious grandson Nicky, or else....
Hahahaha, tresfeles 😂😂😂. Love it! Anybody happen to know where I could find the episodes when David P finds Ivy's attic diaries? Been wanting to watch those for a few years now.
"Ooh, and that Gail's no better than she should be.." etc
@tresfeles2784 You think Leanne is a trollop. Well watch the repeats of Emmerdale and feast your eyes on Kelly Windsor. That is how her marriage with Roy went west. It was through her being a trollop and the idiot did not learn from her mistake. And a lot of females think women have got more sense than men.
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From 23:25 to 46:18 Episode 4328 of Coronation Street dated Saturday January 3rd 1998. The purpose of this information is to let other viewers know which Corrie episode and when in January 1998 began and ended at certain times.
The whole thing with Deirdre was rehashed with Sally more recently felt like free the weatherfield one all over again 🤣
Fred to Ashley....do you think folk like being served by a young man with a face as long as an undertakers overcoat...... can I laugh any harder
I like the Ashley character, even though he sounds like hes just been sucking on a Helium balloon
However it iritates me when he pronounces hospital as hospickle
& little as lickle.
Kettle as Keckle
Metal as Meckle
Digital as digickle
So wierd!
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@itallia666 Perhaps the actor Stephen Arnold has a speech impediment.
Les Battersby does that as well, and even Rita to a lesser extent (she sometimes says 'liccle'). It was a well known feature of the accent of working class people in some parts of the Manchester area a few decades ago, though perhaps less common these days. Ashley also says 'keccle' for 'kettle' and 'environmencal' for 'environmental' lol.
We never see Percy Sugdon Now , yet he lives in the same block of flats as Maud Grimes , has he turned his back on his Friends on the Street
I think the actor died and thet could only afford so many funerals per year. In the whole history of Corrie, the coffins were the same one from the props dept.
5:33:25 insensitive remark Deirdre makes about throwing herself under a bus, when you think that's how Ken's mother got killed in 1961
From 1:08:37 to 1:31:52 Episode 4330 of Coronation Street dated Wednesday January 7th 1998. The purpose of this information is to let other viewers know which Corrie episode and when in January 1998 began and ended at certain times.
Don't you love Gail going apeshit over Martin and Leanne's trip to Scotland.😂😂😂😂😂
Nick*
Surely Alec, Jack and Vera have deeds they can refer to
2:28:14 Susan Cookson now in Emmerdale as Wendy Posner
I noticed that straight way
I forgot quite how effeminate Nick Tilsley was.
Vera and Jack 😂😘
Northern Humour At Its Best Vera and Jack
Liceman 😂
Les Battersby is a legend
Didgere- don't.
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If only Drearys friends knew she couldn't wait to move to London to get away from the bunch of gossips,nosy parkers,and troublemakers she considered them to be!
@howiseeit5129 Yet when Norris is in Coronation Street he get a hard time especially from Rita for being nosey.
Ashley is being a right plonker.
I just wish he spoke properly as it’s makes me cringe. Hospical, Liccle, enticled, Maxeem…..
@@claredrew8039 Maybe in real life the actor of Ashley suffers from Autism.
@@simonshreeve5580 No, it's his accent, as you've been told already.
Warning! Watch the whole month BEFORE reading the comments! Because some wise people saw it their obligation to tell readers exactly what happens! 😮😅
25 yrs old probably got wind of a few things😂
I am surprised the character Zoe’s hair and wardrobe budget didn’t bankrupt ITV.
Janice's money that's she earns at the factory goes a long way doesn't it
How much helium did they use for Ashley?
Vera jumping into the tarp...hilarious....Martins in the bar incase anything goes wrong...lol
That will mean that Spider NEUGENT was born in January 1972.
Between 1:35:55 and 1:36:20 Emily is being more like Spider's mother rather than his auntie. Come to think of it Emily has been that way to Spider Neugent ever since 1998 began.
How on earth did emily get up that tree😂
On her broomstick, she flew.
13:45 shakin' Stevens turns him around. My NAN loved Shaky!!!
Comedy gold all of it😂
2:10:10 wow. did they slap a wig on that baby?
Between 3:19:28 and 3:19:31 Maxine was out of order giving cheek to a man 36 years older than herself. People's elders more than 20 years are entitled to a certain amount of respect whoever the person is and what he might be like. Maxine should have been more polite and said to Fred; "I have no intention of going back with Ashley whatever the circumstances may be.
Martin’s pronunciation of Kirkcudbright is way off. I left Scotland in 1974 but still know how to say it properly…
Me too
Lended a bit of authenticity to the character tbh, not many know how to say those names before the internet could help them.
Martin was not from Scotland so why would he be an expert in the pronunciation of Scottish place names?
A modern day scam artist and stupid police 🤷🏻♀️
I thought oakhill was supposed to be posh?
4:55 There are actually TWO Tom Jones lookalikes in the background here!
Zoe took £2000 off the Mallets for her baby, she is living for free with Ashley, she has money for fags nappys etc so please can someone tell me why she has worn the same blue top while and since she was pregnant?
A horrible bleep🤬 her
Character 😫
The staircase storyline was hilarious. Imagine anything like that nowadays. They wouldn’t be able to resist somebody dying.
Woe classics are brilliant more like day to day things instead of constant murder and violence. Its cheap writing these days. The older episodes are the best.
Mike Baldwin = hero (again) and Ken is cool too
Ken is such a stud!
3:53:48 - Zoe orders a bowl of soup and receives a full cooked breakfast.
It's a wonder that Audrey did not say to Emily during Audrey's heavy lecture to her between 2:22:57 and 2:23:55 "What would Annie Walker say if she could see you now?" Because Annie Walker was still in Coronation Street for 4 years and 5 months after Audrey's first appearance in Coronation Street.
Deirdre no luck with men😫🥺😩 In Anyway all the way through the 90s
It all started to go wrong for her in 1989 When Ken
Had a affair with the crozier lady,
How did Deidre know to tell ken that she had lost her job, before Newbald and told her?
Why does Emily say nevew instead of nephew
she's trying to be posh
She has no knees.
I want to get a huge bat and whack that policeman who was interrogating Deirdre ride on his head. He seemed like a total prick, they casted him well lol XD
Omg, also is that the actress who played the lady's maid Anna in Downton Abbey. Didn't know she was a child actress, good performance here as well. Although in Downton, anyone with a Northern accent is immediately a member of the downstairs cast XD
Joanne Froggatt started in Coronation Street at 16. Then she appeared with Mavis in the brilliant Dinnerladies, Then she got the job in Downton Abbey.
I was wondering where I knew her from. Downton Abbey thanks
Thank you for stopping the brain wracking I’ve had KKopi! I have been trying to place her since she was in the arcade months ago
@@seanhutchinson6722 She played Sam Tyler's aunty in Life On Mars and Myra Hindley's sister in The Moors Murders alongside Maxine Peake
and Sean Harris.
@@briangatt2956 she played Sam's Mom
Where did Gary get the hat😂
Ken Shameful doesn't believe Deirdre
1:14:40 playing the didgeridoo is not easy to master curcular breathing. Best way to learn is to squirt water out your mouth while inhaling. There's noooo way Emily could play that well first go, just NOOO way. 😂
After all these years of Deidre breaking down crying.. For a 100 times, I had a laugh.... Her deep smokey voice, ruined by smoking heavily. And eventually killing her... I am sorry for her....
Didn't do much for her teeth either. I wish she'd stop baring them.
For the biggest glasses in television history, she's so blind and goes from one disaster to another. 🙄
That job was all Deirdre had to provide for Tracy. Deirdre doesn't care about the money but knowing that Tracy will have security when she has children of her own. A some kind of legacy that Deirdre would leave behind for Tracy and Amy when she's gone/dead.