2:38:54 This was when Mike blew his only real chance to be with Diedre and he hasn't got a clue that he has. Deep down he was probably more interested in taking Ken's girl who o remember had a regular spot as Cowley's secretary in The Professionals.
Wow well spotted - I knew I'd seen that actress before! I think she must have got a lot of work on big TV shows at this time, as she's a very familiar face to me (I watched a lot of telly as a kid!) I'm slightly baffled why she was cast for this, as not only can she not act (as wooden as Pinnochio), she isn't really the sexy, femme fatale type she's supposed to be!
Mike had a narrow escape… Better off without Dreary Deirdre… he could do far better… enjoy himself with a different dolly bird every few months… Deirdre was nowt but a user deep down… shelved her Tracey off to anyone who’s look after while she was swanning about….
I never understood Mrs. Walker's fondness for Fred, or Bet and Betty's affection for him. He always came across as a creep to me, short tempered, arrogant, grimy. Yet he was pretty popular with the regulars.
@@colinjennings3661 According to Coronation Street producer Bill Podmore, Fred Feast shared more than just his name with Fred Gee. He was more like the character, than even Fred Gee was - and far more uncouth! Apparently one of Fred's favourite tricks was to do a silent fart just after 'action' was called on a scene behind the bar, so that poor Bet, Betty or Annie had to endure the terrible smell and keep acting, until the scene was finished. He left the show under a cloud because he basically went without giving notice. He said he was fed up with all the big storylines the writers kept giving him, capitalizing on Fred's comedic strengths. Bill Podmore was angry that he had never mentioned it or asked them to ease up on him - he just upped and left. This left the writers with a big headache - the Rovers was the backbone of the show, and the cast members who worked there had their scripts written well in advance. Fred's sudden departure meant many weeks of scripts had to be drastically re written. Podmore was angrier still when Fred sold negative stories on his co-stars to the tabloids, rudely saying if he'd stayed in the show any longer he'd have ended up "Another Coronation Street cabbage" who could hardly deliver his lines - regarded as a sly dig at the actors who played Bert Tilsley, Uncle Albert and Stan Ogden, who all suffered ill health and had recently died. A few years later, Bill Podmore was holidaying in Jersey with his teenage children. He'd heard rumours that Fred Feast was there, so asked his kids to keep a look out for him and warn him if they saw him, as he did not want a reunion! Unfortunately he bumped into Fred on the street one day, before he could dodge him. Fred rushed over and greeted him warmly, like a long lost friend. After some polite small talk, Fred said to him: "Are you going to ask me then?" Baffled, Podmore replied: "Ask you what?" Quick as a flash, Fred said: "Ask me back on the show?" "In your dreams!" said Bill. "Fair enough" said Fred, and walked off. He did a fair amount of TV and movie work after leaving the Street, including a long running role in 'All Creatures Great and Small' and the Michael Caine movie 'Little Voice'. He also popped up as the barman in a Liz Dawn comedy video, a celebrity party based at her real home (it's on TH-cam and it's surprisingly good!) Fred Feast died of abdominal cancer on 25th June 1999, aged 69. Coincidentally his former co-star Brian Mosley, who played Alf Roberts, died on 9th February of that same year, aged 67.
God me too - was Deirdre out of her mind?! I reckon those heavy specs must have strained her brain - choosing a life with boring Ken and his flatulent Uncle Albert, over sexy Mike and his slick bachelor pad. It's a no-brainer!
Baldwin treats a woman like a lady as long as they act it, Ken is a dictator At least Baldwin has a business ( ken couldnt teach he was to busy bedding the teachers)
Reckon she should of chosen Billy Walker out of any of them...at least he was prepared to take her and Tracy to Jersey and wasn't bothered about being named in divorce like Ken was.
I totally agree..I could never see the attraction. I was thinking there must be something wrong with me lol. I guess there wasn't much to choose from. I suppose the women didn't have a great choice either to be fair.
I think that's a bit unfair, Deirdre was quite a sort in the 'seventies and early 'eighties. She had a cracking figure, lovely skin and what used to be called a 'bubbly' personality. When she first joined the show in the early 'seventies she was definitely regarded as a 'totty' character, and all the eligible men were after her! It's a shame those horrendous welder-style glasses didn't do her any favours!
After some meticulous research, consideration and watching peak Corrie [1978-81] several times I can announce the search for its greatest character is [drum roll please] a dead heat between Annie Walker and Mike Baldwin. The screen positively sizzled in their presence. Honourable mentions go to Eddie Yates. Stan Ogden and Bet Lynch
How Gail has the nerve to complain about being broke is beyond me. SHE demanded that too small house, everyone warned her and she pouted until she got her way. People basically begged her to drop the idea and predicted all the problems they would have,she insisted it wouldn’t bother her. Now she is whining and squeaking because she got exactly what she demanded. It’s beyond annoying.
02:50 😂Alf Roberts in 1981 to Mike Baldwin who first appeared in 1976 and also opened a factory in the same year "thinking of settling down again then?"...🤦🏻♂️
Because Mike had previously had a long term gf and was a dad figure to her children. They were his base in London, so he was more "settled" (despite his affairs) then than he is in these episodes, living in a hotel. He also set up home at number 5 with Bet Lynch of course, when he first joined the series.
2:27:22 Every time I see Gail's grim little face, I think, "What's wrong now?!!" And the story line will run on and on and on, culminating with her running upstairs. And Mavis gives me bad nerves.
I like Ken and Deidre together. When she died, he gave a beautiful eulogy. I also like Mike’s loyalty to Deirdre over the years. I suppose the show aimed to depict the complications of relationships. There is no instruction manual when it comes to matters of the heart.
And I think that’s exactly what this show portrayed in those days. Someone commented on a story on Coronation Street on MailOnline that times had changed, and that’s why the program was different these days. But it’s more than that. I think the old Corrie portrayed life as it was then it was hard. There was no Work, and it portrayed real people and real problems , relationship issues etc without going into rape and murder, and all of those horrible gory things that we really don’t need to see. The current coronation Street nowadays is awful. I just can’t watch it
Old Reg perving at the bird in the satin disco pants at Mikes flat warming party… Ken was having a good shufty also… I bet they did a few takes of that scene…
28 grand for one of those flats, those were the days,think they are in castlefield area of Manchester seem too remember reading about them, they were 14.5 k when built ,Mike and Gail actually purchased one at the time.
Oh yeah, I watch the 2005 ones too but not seen much of the modern ones, no character and full of pointless woke naff storylines. Saw one where they had these drag men in the Rover's for Pride month, guess that ✅
Very decent of Hilda, in a previous episode. To go visit Emily and gift her some tonic wine, after the Arnold Swain incident. Why Emily failed to change her front and back door locks after Swain left shows she trusted him far too much.
1:16:38 - Sonia, the beauty therapist, asks Ken Barlow if he's surprised that "an attractive girl like me" hasn't got a boyfriend. He doesn't look very surprised, and neither am I. Sonia's strident voice and abrasive personality would send most men - with the exception of the inveterate womanisers (take note, Mr. Baldwin) and the most desperate - running for cover. Yet another unappealing female of Corrie history with a voice to make you hit the mute button - and we don't even have to wait a full decade before hideous Kimberley Taylor arrives.
Gawd I agree, the casting was seriously 'off' with a lot of the guest characters, and Sonia was particularly ghastly. I don't know how she got work - the woman couldn't act! And she wasn't exactly the glamorous type she was supposed to be either. I bet every other actress up for the role was better than her!
Ahhhh no, this was the ‘pageboy’; trust me, I had a lovely ginger one as a child in the 70s. Quite a work of art! Joanna Lumley sported one in ‘The Avengers’ prior to mine 😊 Edited to say: ‘Purdey’ (probably wrong spelling) was her character’s name. Blimey I feel dead old.
@@neighbourhoodwitch18 Oh my goodness you are right! That jogged my memory as I also had a ginger pageboy hair cut and I think it was 1982 when I started senior school. My hair used to balloon up when it was humid/rainy and I used to crimp it to flatten it - not a good look!
54:39. Emily being snappy towards Mavis but had a very different attitude towards Rita and Deidre. The woman's a snob! Also looks down her nose at Hilda.
Awww, and how tragic that Anne Kirkbride, who was 19 years younger than Johnny Briggs, died first aged just 60. Johnny made it to 85 - and William Roache (Ken Barlow), is still going strong aged 88, again ironic when Ken and Deirdre would have meaningful conversations about the age difference between them and the 'fact' he would die first.
I find it hard to believe that everyone sat at the table with matching crockery for every meal( except Stan and Hilda, obviously)! Also, the constant buying of drinks all round was a bit unrealistic. And surely they could have put real tea, or at least coloured water, in the café teapot! So now we have Alan Bradley as Wally, having had Kevin Webster as a paperboy and Percy Sugden as a pal of Uncle Albert.
I quite like Mavis, she's alright, not the most exciting of characters but honest and sincere. I couldn't stick Deidre or Gail and Ivy, oh meddling rat bag comes to mind.
If yr still looking for it, .. - It's on the video titled - Coronation Street .. Missing Episodes 1981 (on this channel) ,.. and is the first episode on the set.
As a LONDONER and a BATTERSEA boy, Jonny Briggs was great for Britons, and Doris Speed, i think when the Queen was alive, she was laughing at Annie thinking of her own mother😁😢🆘😏 Proppa kitchen sink, never to be seen in today's WORLD 🌍🤣 The 80s, when it was sold from under us🆘😢⚖️🇬🇧 2nd edit- the London catalyst 🤑 his life at this time was bloody hard, kids a? RIP Fella🤫🙏😇🇬🇧 3rd edit- at 1: 11 20 Fread doing Kairi ok, The Rovers A?👍✌️⁉️
Mike had more fun and could have had a successful marriage and kids with Diedre, if Emily would have stopped meddling! There is one like her on every soap opera!
2:38:54 This was when Mike blew his only real chance to be with Diedre and he hasn't got a clue that he has. Deep down he was probably more interested in taking Ken's girl who o remember had a regular spot as Cowley's secretary in The Professionals.
Wow well spotted - I knew I'd seen that actress before! I think she must have got a lot of work on big TV shows at this time, as she's a very familiar face to me (I watched a lot of telly as a kid!)
I'm slightly baffled why she was cast for this, as not only can she not act (as wooden as Pinnochio), she isn't really the sexy, femme fatale type she's supposed to be!
Mike had a narrow escape… Better off without Dreary Deirdre… he could do far better… enjoy himself with a different dolly bird every few months… Deirdre was nowt but a user deep down… shelved her Tracey off to anyone who’s look after while she was swanning about….
@@josephbland3904 EXACTLY! Derdrie was awful. Self centered, boring, sanctimonious, and really did use poor Emily
It's a shame the Arnold episode is missing. From memory the acting was superb and it was truly frightening.
I agree going out with Barlow is like watching paint dry ( hes just like Albert )
These are the best Corrie days and the best I miss them so much
Pleasantly surprised by how much I’m enjoying watching these.
Hardly ever watch tv these days.
Great actors great storylines, unlike today's episodes of Coronation st.😞
Thank you from Australia 🇦🇺
I’m enjoying watching Corrie
Elsie tanner absolutely stunning lady rip pat phoinex
Bert seems like a lovely guy 🙂
Never liked Ivy though, our Bryan... them babbies... annoying
I never understood Mrs. Walker's fondness for Fred, or Bet and Betty's affection for him. He always came across as a creep to me, short tempered, arrogant, grimy. Yet he was pretty popular with the regulars.
Horrible man...as was the bloke who played him..Apparently.
@@colinjennings3661 According to Coronation Street producer Bill Podmore, Fred Feast shared more than just his name with Fred Gee. He was more like the character, than even Fred Gee was - and far more uncouth!
Apparently one of Fred's favourite tricks was to do a silent fart just after 'action' was called on a scene behind the bar, so that poor Bet, Betty or Annie had to endure the terrible smell and keep acting, until the scene was finished.
He left the show under a cloud because he basically went without giving notice. He said he was fed up with all the big storylines the writers kept giving him, capitalizing on Fred's comedic strengths. Bill Podmore was angry that he had never mentioned it or asked them to ease up on him - he just upped and left.
This left the writers with a big headache - the Rovers was the backbone of the show, and the cast members who worked there had their scripts written well in advance. Fred's sudden departure meant many weeks of scripts had to be drastically re written.
Podmore was angrier still when Fred sold negative stories on his co-stars to the tabloids, rudely saying if he'd stayed in the show any longer he'd have ended up "Another Coronation Street cabbage" who could hardly deliver his lines - regarded as a sly dig at the actors who played Bert Tilsley, Uncle Albert and Stan Ogden, who all suffered ill health and had recently died.
A few years later, Bill Podmore was holidaying in Jersey with his teenage children. He'd heard rumours that Fred Feast was there, so asked his kids to keep a look out for him and warn him if they saw him, as he did not want a reunion!
Unfortunately he bumped into Fred on the street one day, before he could dodge him. Fred rushed over and greeted him warmly, like a long lost friend. After some polite small talk, Fred said to him:
"Are you going to ask me then?" Baffled, Podmore replied:
"Ask you what?" Quick as a flash, Fred said:
"Ask me back on the show?"
"In your dreams!" said Bill.
"Fair enough" said Fred, and walked off.
He did a fair amount of TV and movie work after leaving the Street, including a long running role in 'All Creatures Great and Small' and the Michael Caine movie 'Little Voice'. He also popped up as the barman in a Liz Dawn comedy video, a celebrity party based at her real home (it's on TH-cam and it's surprisingly good!)
Fred Feast died of abdominal cancer on 25th June 1999, aged 69. Coincidentally his former co-star Brian Mosley, who played Alf Roberts, died on 9th February of that same year, aged 67.
I don't like Fred either. And Hilda and Annie are really annoying
@@glamdolly30 That was really interesting 🙂
@@emmaclarke2885 Thanks, good to know someone read my waffle, lol!
Bet to Betty: " Dressed well, Fred?"
" Betty love, I've seen better dressed wounds than Fred " 👏👏👏👏😂😂
Brilliant Bet❤
Bet Lynch - what a character
If I was Deirdre with a choice between Barlow and Baldwin, I would have picked Baldwin any day.
God me too - was Deirdre out of her mind?! I reckon those heavy specs must have strained her brain - choosing a life with boring Ken and his flatulent Uncle Albert, over sexy Mike and his slick bachelor pad. It's a no-brainer!
A very wise if obvious choice.barlow is such a smug prig.
Baldwin treats a woman like a lady as long as they act it, Ken is a dictator At least Baldwin has a business ( ken couldnt teach he was to busy bedding the teachers)
Reckon she should of chosen Billy Walker out of any of them...at least he was prepared to take her and Tracy to Jersey and wasn't bothered about being named in divorce like Ken was.
I always skip through the pompous Ken Borelow, cadaverous Uncle Albert and St.Emily sequences 😅
There’s alway’s chaos, when Annie Walker goes away.
Yeah lol. Fred Gee always up to no good.
I never understood what all the men saw in Derdrie. She wasn't exactly miss world.
I totally agree..I could never see the attraction. I was thinking there must be something wrong with me lol. I guess there wasn't much to choose from.
I suppose the women didn't have a great choice either to be fair.
‘Dreary’ Deirdre the Chain Smoker
I think that's a bit unfair, Deirdre was quite a sort in the 'seventies and early 'eighties. She had a cracking figure, lovely skin and what used to be called a 'bubbly' personality.
When she first joined the show in the early 'seventies she was definitely regarded as a 'totty' character, and all the eligible men were after her! It's a shame those horrendous welder-style glasses didn't do her any favours!
@@notonyournelly5475 perhaps it was between the sheets where derdrie beauty was to be found lol
Take the glasses away, give her a nice hair do, and she would look totally different
Vera asking if Mike wants his curtains made from denim. 😂😂😂
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After some meticulous research, consideration and watching peak Corrie [1978-81] several times I can announce the search for its greatest character is [drum roll please] a dead heat between Annie Walker and Mike Baldwin. The screen positively sizzled in their presence. Honourable mentions go to Eddie Yates. Stan Ogden and Bet Lynch
2:45:46 why is there a hat and umbrella on the G Plus logo?
It was an ident from espionage week. It ran from 1992-1998 according to Corriepedia.
How Gail has the nerve to complain about being broke is beyond me. SHE demanded that too small house, everyone warned her and she pouted until she got her way. People basically begged her to drop the idea and predicted all the problems they would have,she insisted it wouldn’t bother her. Now she is whining and squeaking because she got exactly what she demanded. It’s beyond annoying.
Yep.. Old Ferret Face got what she deserved… the squeaky voiced hysterical spoilt jumped up whingebag was a complete bore & nowt but a nag…
Nothing changed over the years😄
Gail would moan about the rope they hung her with.
I agree on the other hand living with Ivy !
How did she ever continue her career I’ll never know 🤔
02:50 😂Alf Roberts in 1981 to Mike Baldwin who first appeared in 1976 and also opened a factory in the same year "thinking of settling down again then?"...🤦🏻♂️
Because Mike had previously had a long term gf and was a dad figure to her children. They were his base in London, so he was more "settled" (despite his affairs) then than he is in these episodes, living in a hotel. He also set up home at number 5 with Bet Lynch of course, when he first joined the series.
2:27:22 Every time I see Gail's grim little face, I think, "What's wrong now?!!" And the story line will run on and on and on, culminating with her running upstairs. And Mavis gives me bad nerves.
Remember when the post used to come early in the morning 😄
Fred Gee asked for "protection" in the corner shop, I thought condoms! But I forgot it's 1981 so "protection" got him mints 🤣
I like Ken and Deidre together. When she died, he gave a beautiful eulogy. I also like Mike’s loyalty to Deirdre over the years. I suppose the show aimed to depict the complications of relationships. There is no instruction manual when it comes to matters of the heart.
couldn't stand deidre or ken I fast forward when there on .
there is...its called the ten commandments
And I think that’s exactly what this show portrayed in those days. Someone commented on a story on Coronation Street on MailOnline that times had changed, and that’s why the program was different these days. But it’s more than that. I think the old Corrie portrayed life as it was then it was hard. There was no Work, and it portrayed real people and real problems , relationship issues etc without going into rape and murder, and all of those horrible gory things that we really don’t need to see. The current coronation Street nowadays is awful. I just can’t watch it
Mike went out with Deidre a few times.
Other than Norman Bates, R. Brian has to be the biggest mummy's boy in the history of the world. Gail should have run a mile.
Better days than crap the street puts on now
Hilda's laugh is so wicked.But nice..
Her singing is mind blowing Lmao
@@cise748 she was a brilliant actress nobody to beat her
@@lindarowe8550 I am enjoying her
@@cise748like a piano being thrown down a fire escape says Bet 😂
Old Reg perving at the bird in the satin disco pants at Mikes flat warming party… Ken was having a good shufty also… I bet they did a few takes of that scene…
Arnold looks like a right creep he would give me the creeps also, thank you 🙏 for the upload i love ❤️ the old ones
28 grand for one of those flats, those were the days,think they are in castlefield area of Manchester seem too remember reading about them, they were 14.5 k when built ,Mike and Gail actually purchased one at the time.
l used to watch the old ones when l went see my grandma they were better than the ones now
Oh yeah, I watch the 2005 ones too but not seen much of the modern ones, no character and full of pointless woke naff storylines. Saw one where they had these drag men in the Rover's for Pride month, guess that ✅
Stan Ogden. Mind and body in perfect harmony. Both, clapped right out.
Apparently hilda & stan had a daughter who.was taken into care cz stan was a violent drunk, they never mention her tho
2:39:55 That's a sight you don't see every day, in fact it's rarer than a sighting of Halley's Comet - Elsie Tanner in a pair of trousers!
2:37:06 £158 for rates!!! That would be approximately 591.00 now,
Very decent of Hilda, in a previous episode. To go visit Emily and gift her some tonic wine, after the Arnold Swain incident. Why Emily failed to change her front and back door locks after Swain left shows she trusted him far too much.
Fred has a nice voice 🎶🎵🎶
“Which chair was he sat in?” Honestly, Mavis...
£28k for 'Weatherfield Quays' in 1981 sounds a stretch. And drinking spirits at lunchtime... those were the days!
1:16:38 - Sonia, the beauty therapist, asks Ken Barlow if he's surprised that "an attractive girl like me" hasn't got a boyfriend. He doesn't look very surprised, and neither am I. Sonia's strident voice and abrasive personality would send most men - with the exception of the inveterate womanisers (take note, Mr. Baldwin) and the most desperate - running for cover. Yet another unappealing female of Corrie history with a voice to make you hit the mute button - and we don't even have to wait a full decade before hideous Kimberley Taylor arrives.
Gawd I agree, the casting was seriously 'off' with a lot of the guest characters, and Sonia was particularly ghastly. I don't know how she got work - the woman couldn't act! And she wasn't exactly the glamorous type she was supposed to be either. I bet every other actress up for the role was better than her!
Brian Tilsley loves the make-up a bit to much check out how much he has caked on.
The policewoman visiting Emily 1:21:23 is ahead of her time with a Madchester Stone Roses bowl haircut!
Ahhhh no, this was the ‘pageboy’; trust me, I had a lovely ginger one as a child in the 70s. Quite a work of art! Joanna Lumley sported one in ‘The Avengers’ prior to mine 😊
Edited to say: ‘Purdey’ (probably wrong spelling) was her character’s name. Blimey I feel dead old.
@@neighbourhoodwitch18 Oh my goodness you are right! That jogged my memory as I also had a ginger pageboy hair cut and I think it was 1982 when I started senior school. My hair used to balloon up when it was humid/rainy and I used to crimp it to flatten it - not a good look!
@@neighbourhoodwitch18 Yes, I had the 'Purdey' haircut too in the late 'seventies when I was about 10! It was all the rage!
37:56 she might have a fine pair on her but this girl can’t act to save her life 😂
Show some respect there was no need to mention the girls big jellywobblers no need at all
54:39. Emily being snappy towards Mavis but had a very different attitude towards Rita and Deidre. The woman's a snob! Also looks down her nose at Hilda.
Mike saying to Deirdre about ‘in 50 years’-2031....and now they’re both dead.
Awww, and how tragic that Anne Kirkbride, who was 19 years younger than Johnny Briggs, died first aged just 60. Johnny made it to 85 - and William Roache (Ken Barlow), is still going strong aged 88, again ironic when Ken and Deirdre would have meaningful conversations about the age difference between them and the 'fact' he would die first.
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Almost all scenes have at least one dead person in them. Time deprives us if so much
Stan gone to the launderette lol
Q. What has 3 legs and eats fish & chips?
A. Don and Ivy Brennan ! 😂😂
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Looks like Arnold’s back. I wonder 💭 what he’ll be up 2 this time. Can’t be good 😌.
Just got there he's a creepy get.
I’ve seen wounds better dressed than Fred, lol, that really made me laugh
1:47:51 Listen carefully - I'm sure Ken lets slip a fart!
😂 🤣☑️
I very much doubt one of the intelagencia like Ken would do something like that
@@williamf4544 Lol! Check out the timestamp - a definite guff, no question (even intellectuals of Ken Barlow genius-level drop their guts!)
Look how he looks afterwards lol
@@keepingitrealreadyornot5374 HA!
Fred singing The Sunny Side Of The Street - he must have been an Anne Miller fan - im impressed
That's a hell of a milk jug Our Brian and Gail have at 1:56! Must hold about three pints 😂😂
There is less than zero chemistry between snazzy Mike and spexy Deirdre
Even less between speccy Deirdre and patronising, boring Ken.
The Director needs plan ahead plots. So regulars act them out - not rocket science!
What an absolutely lovely man ‘Bert Tilsey’ was. I just loved watching him. I’m completely addicted to this, I’m going to need rehab 😅😅😅😅😅😅
This is the start of Brian's selfish whinging that lasts about 10 years.
The evil Alan Bradley. Married in real life to Audrey Roberts.
Emily was silly, guy wants to kill her and himself and she says getting him arrested would be a betrayal 🙄
More like an idiot.
Emily is so boring Mavis drives me nuts with tha cringe making voice ugg .
Mr..Lewis..doesnt know who he's messing with then it come's to Mrs. Walker.. 🤨
Prefer his role in boon
He's about to find out - Annie took no crap from anyone!
Anyone no where that park is arthur was sat
I think it was Heaton park
Len was a right sleaze smooching with that young women at the house party at the end right in front of Rita
One thing about Mike Baldwin he sure knew how to throw a good house warming party
Deidre talks identically to Scary Spice. Love it.
Anne was from Oldham and had a Lancashire accent.
Mel B is from Leeds and has a Yorkshire accent.
I find it hard to believe that everyone sat at the table with matching crockery for every meal( except Stan and Hilda, obviously)! Also, the constant buying of drinks all round was a bit unrealistic. And surely they could have put real tea, or at least coloured water, in the café teapot!
So now we have Alan Bradley as Wally, having had Kevin Webster as a paperboy and Percy Sugden as a pal of Uncle Albert.
Rita always afraid someone else might be getting a £1 She could spend.
Yeah, I think people forget what a horrible character she was early on. Treated Mavis like dirt as well.
Gail is all reasonable about sharing duties with Brian, but actually she's a passive-aggressive shrew ...
Oh that made me so angry Gail not allowing poor Brian to go to that lads party in Liverpool
I’m convinced Mavis is on the spectrum the stuff she comes out with my god!
I quite like Mavis, she's alright, not the most exciting of characters but honest and sincere. I couldn't stick Deidre or Gail and Ivy, oh meddling rat bag comes to mind.
Looks wise Rita and Elsie are similar. There are a few scenes where, until the person turns around, I can't tell which one it is.
At least Fred is going after someone his own age for once lol
What is the ladies fascination with Ken?
Would love to know myself
@@sherylbarker9465 it's a strange one isn't it
@@clarea1801He’s ‘intellectual’ 😂
Big fish. Small pond 😊
Great scene with Ivy & Rita at loggerheads over Bert at 2:56 :09
Sorry but do you have the confrontation between Emily and mad Arnold?
th-cam.com/video/v1hdozRsYgI/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ProfessionalGun66
If yr still looking for it, .. - It's on the video titled - Coronation Street .. Missing Episodes 1981 (on this channel) ,.. and is the first episode on the set.
Mrs Walker was like something out of Downton
Abbey
I see ken got a proper British car
haha!
I strongly suspect that Eddie is Hilda's secret lovechild. They both have the same laugh.
It is Rita’s awful husband. He still makes me sick
Always moaning about money yet in the pub all the time..
Most of the people here are dead!
I'm distressed by how small Dierdre's umbrella is.
Deidre and Mike. This will last 5 minutes.
Mavis really is a bloody pain .
The creepy greasy Fred Feast , I remember him from All Creature’s Great and Small he was known as the “PIG MAN “
No it was the “Knacker-Man” actually.
He lived in Scarborough, his character was just the same as the actor
Rits"s wig is awful - she had a long long line of awful wigs - they say she is bald as a coot in real life
Those 2 new barmaids are terrible actresses! 😂
I think they were just brought in for eye candy
Could Deirdre not have made an effort not to look like a school marm for the party? Holy moly 😮😮😮😮
Emily says dreadful betrayal. He’s the one who betrayed her!! 😂🤣
Do people still drink that much tea ?? 😮omg 😮
Dreary can't open her mouth without mentioning Tracy ... what man would want that set-up?
As a LONDONER and a BATTERSEA boy, Jonny Briggs was great for Britons, and Doris Speed, i think when the Queen was alive, she was laughing at Annie thinking of her own mother😁😢🆘😏
Proppa kitchen sink, never to be seen in today's WORLD 🌍🤣
The 80s, when it was sold from under us🆘😢⚖️🇬🇧
2nd edit- the London catalyst 🤑 his life at this time was bloody hard, kids a? RIP Fella🤫🙏😇🇬🇧
3rd edit- at 1: 11 20 Fread doing Kairi ok, The Rovers A?👍✌️⁉️
Does Ken fart when he sits down at 1:47:50?
No, it’s a leather chair, they make that noise! 🙄
1:47 :52 - did Ken fart when he sat down 😂😂😂
There’s a lot of egg bacon beans and sausages dished up with them all
Deidre and her baby are annoying and boring. I skip those parts.
She puts the umbrella on herself but leaves Tracy in the rain.
Brava Annie!
Arnold must have been insane to Marry Emily
Emily and Mrs. Walker roll their "R's." Why?
Those two barmaids ... well, really...
If i was Gail R Brian would have to choose between the baby & i & that peroxide poisonous dwarf.
1.46.31 So Vera screws up Mike’s letter from the debt collector...
Ivy is awful to her husband.
Gail’s not much better
The Fuzz
Mike had more fun and could have had a successful marriage and kids with Diedre, if Emily would have stopped meddling! There is one like her on every soap opera!
Lovely to see lonely Mavis being made to feel attractive and wanted.