Agreed, the '70s and '80s episodes were superbly well written and acted. Today's show doesn't deserve to go out under the same name, it isn't even a pale imitation of The Street's glory years!
I watch Classic Corie so often i almost know the script word for word - I put it on when i cant be bothered having to follow the plot of a film or play or listen to anything elso too heavy - Its almost switching on and having old friends chatting away while your having your dinner or just chilling out - very relaxing and stress relieving
Snap! It's so comforting watching these classic episodes, isn't it? Instant relaxation and calm, like inviting lovely, warm friends round you've known for years. Nothing else can quite do that for me, Corrie is magic. These days I'm far more inclined to watch this on YT than put the telly on and try a new drama - they are all so formulaic, and everything is about the police/detectives and depressing crimes!
William f. this was corrie when it was corries with proper actors and proper actresses and good storylines. and two hunks in it Gordon Lewis and frank Harvey with that thick moustache what more could a guy ask for .
Best epusodes are the black and white epusodes, the silver jubilee epusode, celebrating the pubs century in 84 and the brilliant Xmas varity and Xmas pantos. Lol
My dad was a mechanic. He always said the job was far harder than people had any idea about. He used to say you'd spend half of the day on your back under a car with oli dripping all over your face. In winter you'd freeze to death and have the skin ripped of your hands after picking up frozen spanners - working in ice cold garages when the snow was coming down. No one ever wanted to shake your hands because no matter how you scrubbed up you always had black finger nails. Your knuckles would always be raw from catching them on parts of the engine from either tightening bolts up all the time or trying to remove parts from inside the engine. Having a job that involves s all that day day after day you'd think whining Gail wouldn't mind Brian have a night here and there to play squash!
I would hate the job, my son as not long since qualified as one, he's crazy passionate about cars, but his hands have took a good battering already in just a few years x
Actor Bernard Youens who played Stan was out of the show at this point in hospital (admitted in April 1984), and sadly would never return home, or to Coronation Street. Stan's final appearance on screen was on March 7th 1984. The actor rapidly deteriorated during his almost 4 months in hospital, and died there in his sleep from a heart attack at 69 on 27th August. A recording of Stan calling "Hilda!" (they must have had plenty to choose from) was played in, to indicate he was upstairs, ill in bed @1:17:13 Or did you add that. ProfessionalGun??? Stan's death was revealed in a phone call to Hilda at Alf's corner shop on 21st November 1984. In 1985, actress Jean Alexander won a prestigious Royal Television Society Award for her performance in scenes dealing with Hilda's bereavement.
Poor bugger, had to have his left leg amputated due to gangrene. I, really liked the Stan Ogden character and his infamous one liners that Hilda wasn't supposed to hear, usually.
I had it in my head that Stan died in his chair at No.13. I can remember Hilda coming in from the kitchen, seeing him and kneeling down next to him, saying "Oh Stan". How very odd that this didn't happen. I can literally see the scene playing out.
I can't bear it, 83 & 84 really are sad years for the street, and a line in the sand of old & new Corrie. I know many of the old cast are still around, but when Hilda leaves in a few years, that's really it for me, Bette's still there, but there's too many new people for me. Time moves on, I know, but nothing touches the golden old days on the cobbles.
Gordon “Bet-is that what you call wearing something more respectable?” Bet “ It’s what I wear to funerals, is this.” Gordon “ You wouldn’t wear it to mine” Bet “ I wouldn’t be at yours, cock.”
1:03:48 I forgot Beverley Callard had this bit-part role (June Dewhurst) in Corrie, before she was cast as Liz McDonald in 1989. It's amazing the transformation cosmetic surgery later had on her face - as this profile shot of her old nose reveals. I think nose jobs are probably the single most effective surgery for improving someone's looks. Bev was so much prettier with her new nose, it softened her whole look. By the late 1990s with the Corrie cash rolling in, Bev had worked hard to change Liz from her original image as a downtrodden mum-of-two, to the Street's glamour puss, with umpteen different cosmetic surgery procedures, and a strict diet and exercise regime. Funnily enough, Pat Phoenix had done similar 30 years previously - when cast as Elsie Tanner for Corrie's 1960 launch, she was a matronly size 14-16. But once she got established on the show Pat secretly slimmed down, and had two face lifts - one in the late sixties, and a second in the late 'seventies (she made no secret of the surgery among her fellow cast members - it's the reason she is seen returning home, stepping out of a taxi in huge sunglasses to hide the post-surgery bruising, in an episode from December 1979!) The effort she put in was a triumph, revealing her true beauty, and making her the Street's sex siren. Like Beverley Callard, Pat Phoenix was a woman who enjoyed her fame, and seized the opportunity it gave her to be uber-glamorous. Good on 'em I say!
I remember seeing her as Liz walking down CS in the 2000s with a short mini skirt on, I was thinking I had never seen such beautiful legs, especially at her age
Good line I read in a book, under ‘things you never hear on TV.’ It was “You know, for a small street in Manchester, there’s an incredible turnover of characters.’
Gail going downstairs to Brian & Ivy & says “Thats Nicky in his bath” then proceeds to sit down at the table for her breakfast! Brian leaves & says “Bye Nicky!” The child’s only about 2 1/2! 😮
Funny how he was such a good lad in these episodes, then got changed, Jekyll and Hyde style, into an evil villain, who would literally sell his own child!
The actress who played Linda Cheveski (Anne Cunningham) was a great choice for Elsie's daughter. She really looked a lot like Pat Phoenix, same bone structure, hair, teeth.
Yes i agree - that and the fact you often find with very glamerous women their daughters turn out rather plain with no interest in being glamerous - like Zaza Gabors daughter
@@williamf4544 Very true - funny that! If the actress Pat Phoenix (always very glam) had had a daughter, I bet that's exactly the kind of woman she'd have become, a no-frills type.
They should of let the rovers know about Alberts death onscreeen he was as apart of that pub just as the bottle of rum sitting on the cabinet waiting to be poured into his glass by mrs walker bet or Betty
They would have probably spoken to Jack Howarth's family and got a feel of what they wanted. Look at Jack Walker's death, very quiet, barely spoken about out of respect to his family. Bernard Youens who played Stan Ogden made his last appearance in March 1984 (his voice in these episodes have been added by the uploader, a nice little touch by the way ProfessionalGun 66!!), and dies in August 1984, with Stan being written out in November.
Very interesting to see how 'Coronation Street' handled the death of Albert Tatlock/actor Jack Howarth, who at this time, along with William Roache as Ken Barlow, was the last remaining original cast member. As these episodes show all too plainly - they didn't handle his death at all! It got only the briefest, most perfunctory mention, with his equally cantankerous daughter Beattie (Gabrielle Daye in one of her fleeting, regular visits since 1961), arriving to break the news (@1:17:33). Deirdre's emotional speech is the only tribute of any substance made to him - and it doesn't ring true at all. Nor does Ken's description of Uncle Albert as: "A jaunty little man who enjoyed life to the full". It's totally bogus! In fact the character was a resolutely miserable, self-pitying, pessimistic hater of humanity, entirely self-serving, and always cadging freebies (especially drinks in the Rovers), from people who could ill afford them. He's the kind of miser who in real life, no one would give the time of day - and he certainly wouldn't be mourned - or missed! According to legend, there was a lot of actor Jack Howarth in Albert Tatlock. Monday to Friday he lived like a king with his wife Betty in a grand suite at the Midland Hotel, next door to Granada Studios. The couple had a home in North Wales, and also kept a flat in London. It's said Jack bought Betty so much valuable fine jewellery, she kept it in a secret safe. Yet the actor's mean habits were legendary. The late Neville Buswell who played Ray Langton recalled that during afternoon rehearsals at Granada, at 4pm on the dot a lady wheeled in a trolley laden with tea, coffee and a generous assortment of sandwiches and freshly baked cakes for the cast. Without fail Jack was the first up for the feast - and specifically, his favourite eccles cakes - and he grabbed every last one from the plate for him and his wife to enjoy back at their hotel, stuffing them into every pocket of his suit. It was exactly the same performance, every time the trolley appeared. Unsurprisingly this habit got noticed, and it caused some amusement - and irritation - among his fellow actors. One day, Neville decided to pull a Ray Langton type trick, and teach Jack a lesson. He told others about his plan, to ensure he had an audience. The tea lady walked in at her usual time, and sure enough Jack jumped up, got to the trolley first, and did his eccles cakes grab. Neville watched from across the room, quietly biding his time till he was sure he'd allowed sufficient time for Jack to take every last eccles cake, and secrete it in every last jacket pocket. Then he bounded over to the actor like a long lost son, cried "Great to see ya Jack me old mate, how are you doing?" and grabbed him in an almighty, (eccles cake) crushing, bear hug! To Jack's dismay, he made sure to destroy every raisin-filled pastry hidden about his person! This may explain why Coronation Street Producers didn't exactly go to town on the tributes, when he died off screen and on. It was a very far-fetched exit storyline. Aside from the fact Albert and his only child Beattie didn't get on, so he was hardly likely to have had such an extended stay with her, the script had made it clear many times he was too frail for such a visit. It also beggared belief that Beattie, who never lifted a finger for her father and left it all to Ken and Deirdre (who were not even blood relatives!) would be so keen to take charge of his funeral arrangements. In real life she'd have sent him back to 'Coronation Street' for embalming before he was even cold - and ensured Ken and Deirdre paid for the undertaker and the funeral tea! Yet we're expected to believe she's suddenly possessive over her old man and desperate to organise his funeral - and it's a total mystery who these people were she planned to invite who lived locally to her. The miserable old bugger had hardly any pals in 'Coronation Street'! It's clear Corrie bosses decided viewers had no appetite for a sentimental, Uncle Albert funeral episode. I guess we should be grateful they didn't stretch credibility to breaking point, with dewy-eyed neighbours sobbing into their hankies, and swapping fond stories of the 'jaunty little man who lived life to the full'!
I've only recently started watching Corrie, but I've seen enough to think that Dierdre's and Ken's descriptions of Albert ring true for them. Ken was shown to have a close relationship with his neighbor, Albert, as far back as the first episode, and Ken was certainly a lot closer to him than Beattie was. I can also believe that Beattie took charge of the funeral. When a loved one dies, people often try to make amends for past wrongs. That's often why you see such elaborate obituaries and memorials in newspapers. It also seems in keeping with Beattie's character that she would try to take charge of this final act for her father--for purely selfish reasons. Whether Albert had close friends is an open question, though many of the people he hung out with, such as Len, Ena, and Minnie, had passed on or left. Billy Walker attended the funeral and even referred to Albert as "Uncle Albert," though I'm not clear on their relationship. I appreciate your perspective, though, and the insights into Jack Howarth's personality.
So this year they killed off Bill Webster on the Street. Debbie and Kevin went to Germany to lay him to rest. However, never acknowledged is the actor Peter Armitage died about 5 years ago. I always liked the character, he was lovable Bill.
I didn't know Peter Armitage died, shame. I read that producer Bill Podmore brought him in hoping he'd be the new Len Fairclough type character, after Peter Adamson left in disgrace for selling stories on the cast to a tabloid. Apparently Podmore signed up Peter Armitage, making it clear he had big plans for his character Bill Webster, and asking for his word that he'd be happy to stay in the show for a few years. He gladly agreed, and signed on the dotted line. But as we know, he didn't stay for long - he got itchy feet and left, with the result that the actress who played his daughter got written out. His TV son Kevin was lucky to get a reprieve (undeserved in my view), and become Hilda's lodger. Of course Bill Webster returned many years later, and was involved in a Christmas Day love triangle with Maureen Holdsworth (his wife, I think?) and Audrey Roberts - not bad for an old boy!
I would of preferred the Gordon Lewis character to be the Manager of the Rovers, I hope they install someone similar to him in the New Corrie episodes. Why I say this, is cos Lewis had a lot of comedic potential, but the reason the pub went to Bet, was due to Goodyear being the 'Pet of Podmore'. This is the actual story of Corrie insiders at the time. Corrie nowadays needs charasmatic characters, and I hope the owner of the Rovers is changed to a Lewis type. Jenny is Okish, but she is not memorable.
So nice to see Kenneth Farrington as Billy Walker and Anne Cunningham as Linda Tanner again. But what happened to Billy's eyes? He looks like he's aged 40 years.
Hahaha! She definitely would get on my nerves in real life but I think she's hilarious in small doses. It's sarky Rita that I can't stand. The way she constantly has to belittle Mavis winds me up. And Emily too annoys me so soo bad as soon as she opens her miserable mouth. I'll never understand why everyone seems to think Emily's so lovely. Grrr (I think I really needed that little rant. I've had to put up with the pair of them for years! Lol)
1:14:40 am I a barm cake or is that the same actress who played Liz Macdonald? I think her name"s Beverley Callard. She doesn't look glam enough though.
How does Hilda have time to work, clean her own flat, and cook and clean for a lodger??! And it seems to me 25 a week is not even enough for the buying and cooking of all the food the lodger eats!
David Daker who plays Gordon Lewis doesn't half look like Glynn Edwards who played barman Dave Harris in Minder and also Mr Lewis in 2 episodes of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. I thought he was playing another Mr Lewis but alas it wasn't him!
Billy Walker would be happy enough now everywhere is chockablock with elegant cocktail bars - you can see all the riffraff peeing and being sick outside them every weekend
Imagine Vera shouting at the top of her lungs and being brash exactly as the writers and directors told her?...plus I met the actress when I was a kid in the early 90's. She was a lovely person and even called me "chuck" 😂 Imagine even more people in this era being so uninformed that they thought paying a TV license was essential!? Had to look Linda up when she was in it first time around after seeing her appear here...those years haven't been kind! Hardly the man-eater type Bet is trying to portray her as to us viewers. Don't want to be rotten but bloody hell 😲
Gail talks to Brian like he's a child 🙄Brian is calling himself a playboy 🙄🤮Gail is now best pals with Ivy🙄🤮Gail took her son to playschool, did two hours work and made a wonderful pie and is calling it a hectic life🙄🤭
Grim days ahead as classic characters - Annie,Eddie.Stan.Len et al are replaced by the Troublesome Tilsleys and the Demented Duckworths.Lots of muting can only mean one thing.
And who on earth in the right mind would stack lots of bottles of bleach on the top shelf of a corner shop over all that food below?, never mind the danger aspect of it all! lol. 2hours 32 mins into the video.
I love these 1980s episodes...fall asleep to them most nights then can watch them again. Comfort telly! 👍
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70's 80's were golden ❤😊
Agreed, the '70s and '80s episodes were superbly well written and acted. Today's show doesn't deserve to go out under the same name, it isn't even a pale imitation of The Street's glory years!
That is funny, my son calls them mammy''s lullabyes
And me helps switch off I enjoy them so much
I watch Classic Corie so often i almost know the script word for word - I put it on when i cant be bothered having to follow the plot of a film or play or listen to anything elso too heavy - Its almost switching on and having old friends chatting away while your having your dinner or just chilling out - very relaxing and stress relieving
Snap! It's so comforting watching these classic episodes, isn't it? Instant relaxation and calm, like inviting lovely, warm friends round you've known for years. Nothing else can quite do that for me, Corrie is magic.
These days I'm far more inclined to watch this on YT than put the telly on and try a new drama - they are all so formulaic, and everything is about the police/detectives and depressing crimes!
William f. this was corrie when it was corries with proper actors and proper actresses and good storylines. and two hunks in it Gordon Lewis and frank Harvey with that thick moustache what more could a guy ask for .
Best epusodes are the black and white epusodes, the silver jubilee epusode, celebrating the pubs century in 84 and the brilliant Xmas varity and Xmas pantos. Lol
episodes
Exactly how I feel
My dad was a mechanic. He always said the job was far harder than people had any idea about. He used to say you'd spend half of the day on your back under a car with oli dripping all over your face. In winter you'd freeze to death and have the skin ripped of your hands after picking up frozen spanners - working in ice cold garages when the snow was coming down. No one ever wanted to shake your hands because no matter how you scrubbed up you always had black finger nails. Your knuckles would always be raw from catching them on parts of the engine from either tightening bolts up all the time or trying to remove parts from inside the engine. Having a job that involves s all that day day after day you'd think whining Gail wouldn't mind Brian have a night here and there to play squash!
Great memories.
Same with my dad❤️bless him
I would hate the job, my son as not long since qualified as one, he's crazy passionate about cars, but his hands have took a good battering already in just a few years x
Yeah Old Ferret Face Gail wax forever moaning at Our Brian… She was an ugly troll…
Oh dear and mechanics are so honest , particularly to women drivers
Alf “ I don’t want no dubious characters in my shop.”
Bet “ Don’t spread that around, Alf-you’ll lose half yer’ customers!”
😂😂😂
Love bet.
Actor Bernard Youens who played Stan was out of the show at this point in hospital (admitted in April 1984), and sadly would never return home, or to Coronation Street.
Stan's final appearance on screen was on March 7th 1984. The actor rapidly deteriorated during his almost 4 months in hospital, and died there in his sleep from a heart attack at 69 on 27th August.
A recording of Stan calling "Hilda!" (they must have had plenty to choose from) was played in, to indicate he was upstairs, ill in bed @1:17:13 Or did you add that. ProfessionalGun???
Stan's death was revealed in a phone call to Hilda at Alf's corner shop on 21st November 1984. In 1985, actress Jean Alexander won a prestigious Royal Television Society Award for her performance in scenes dealing with Hilda's bereavement.
Poor bugger, had to have his left leg amputated due to gangrene. I, really liked the Stan Ogden character and his infamous one liners that Hilda wasn't supposed to hear, usually.
I had it in my head that Stan died in his chair at No.13. I can remember Hilda coming in from the kitchen, seeing him and kneeling down next to him, saying "Oh Stan". How very odd that this didn't happen. I can literally see the scene playing out.
@@susi-emilyyou could be thinking about Jack and Vera, Vera’s death was that she died in the chair and Jack knelt down to her
@@susi-emilyyou're right about the scene but it was Jack and Vera...( oh flip...I think I watch to much corrie)😮
I can't bear it, 83 & 84 really are sad years for the street, and a line in the sand of old & new Corrie. I know many of the old cast are still around, but when Hilda leaves in a few years, that's really it for me, Bette's still there, but there's too many new people for me. Time moves on, I know, but nothing touches the golden old days on the cobbles.
Well if I’m not mistaken, in the scene at the Casino, Gary’s wife Julie is being played by Beverley Callard later Liz McDonald.
I was going to say that!! 🙂
I've just been confused by this myself x
Spot on 😂😂
Aye she is...
...so she is.
Yep
Uncle Albert was in one of my favourite films - Hobsons Choice - a small part of Tubby the cobler
Our Brian's mullet is GOLD!
Gordon “Bet-is that what you call wearing something more respectable?”
Bet “ It’s what I wear to funerals, is this.”
Gordon “ You wouldn’t wear it to mine”
Bet “ I wouldn’t be at yours, cock.”
Thanks for posting!
May 2024 watching this 40 years later 😅
I remeber it like it was yesterday - I can still smell the fresh hotpot
Gail was always a misery, wasn't she😂
Gail thinks that Brian is every woman's dream 🤭🤮
I remember Helen Worth saying in “Gail and Me” how Gail ‘can’t be anyone’s icon can she?’ 😂😂
Hard to believe she made fifty years on the show with the second highest number of appearances...fortunately I missed thirty of those years
She was a selfish twat. Always running everyone's lives and affairs.
Bloody hell Vera can you not just speak, why shout at the top of your lungs all the time. She could not be quiet if her life depended on it.
1:03:48 I forgot Beverley Callard had this bit-part role (June Dewhurst) in Corrie, before she was cast as Liz McDonald in 1989.
It's amazing the transformation cosmetic surgery later had on her face - as this profile shot of her old nose reveals. I think nose jobs are probably the single most effective surgery for improving someone's looks. Bev was so much prettier with her new nose, it softened her whole look.
By the late 1990s with the Corrie cash rolling in, Bev had worked hard to change Liz from her original image as a downtrodden mum-of-two, to the Street's glamour puss, with umpteen different cosmetic surgery procedures, and a strict diet and exercise regime.
Funnily enough, Pat Phoenix had done similar 30 years previously - when cast as Elsie Tanner for Corrie's 1960 launch, she was a matronly size 14-16. But once she got established on the show Pat secretly slimmed down, and had two face lifts - one in the late sixties, and a second in the late 'seventies (she made no secret of the surgery among her fellow cast members - it's the reason she is seen returning home, stepping out of a taxi in huge sunglasses to hide the post-surgery bruising, in an episode from December 1979!) The effort she put in was a triumph, revealing her true beauty, and making her the Street's sex siren.
Like Beverley Callard, Pat Phoenix was a woman who enjoyed her fame, and seized the opportunity it gave her to be uber-glamorous. Good on 'em I say!
Thought I recognised her!
There's one scene in 1990 were you can see her old nose
Ballina Co Mayo
I remember seeing her as Liz walking down CS in the 2000s with a short mini skirt on, I was thinking I had never seen such beautiful legs, especially at her age
@@sherylbarker9465 Agreed, she has fabulous legs. Thankfully a woman's legs don't tend to age, and can be tastefully showcased for years!
Good line I read in a book, under ‘things you never hear on TV.’ It was “You know, for a small street in Manchester, there’s an incredible turnover of characters.’
Gail going downstairs to Brian & Ivy & says “Thats Nicky in his bath” then proceeds to sit down at the table for her breakfast! Brian leaves & says “Bye Nicky!” The child’s only about 2 1/2! 😮
This was the 80s it was literally sink or swim back then
Baths were not filled up as they had to be sparing with hot water. So a couple of inches would be all he was sitting in.
A child can drown in a few inches of water
Also hate young children being given lollipops.too many children have bad teeth before 5year,s old dentists,nightmare.
natural selection lol
If you think about it Albert's blood relatives are still on the street Peter was Albert's neices son and Simon and Adam are both related to him too
Always think, Albert would have got on with maxis Derek and Roy from current corrie, yet morris Cole and Mary would have done his head in. Lol
It hit hard hearing Stan here saying HILDA HILDAAAA
That's exactly the effect I wanted.
@@professionalgun6674 Yh is it possible u upload all the fights in the era of the vids u uploaded?
@@corriearcade60 No way!
@@professionalgun6674 well u never get anywhere without trying but thx for the uploads u have done
@@corriearcade60 You're welcome.
Liz must have been playing away whilst Jim was away with army.
Was that Liz at the roulette table?woah it is
🤣 🤣
@kryzondaan1855 Catch yourself on, lol
Liz only had one affair behind Jim's back, with the Royal Marine Corp ( including the mascot ..... baaa...aah🐐).
Aye.... So it is .
I’m having a ‘double roooom’ in honour of Uncle Albert.
If Hilda could see what Terry became like later...
I f he could have stayed at her home instead of his parents, perhaps he could have been a better person.
Funny how he was such a good lad in these episodes, then got changed, Jekyll and Hyde style, into an evil villain, who would literally sell his own child!
The actress who played Linda Cheveski (Anne Cunningham) was a great choice for Elsie's daughter. She really looked a lot like Pat Phoenix, same bone structure, hair, teeth.
Yes i agree - that and the fact you often find with very glamerous women their daughters turn out rather plain with no interest in being glamerous - like Zaza Gabors daughter
@@williamf4544 Very true - funny that! If the actress Pat Phoenix (always very glam) had had a daughter, I bet that's exactly the kind of woman she'd have become, a no-frills type.
They should of let the rovers know about Alberts death onscreeen he was as apart of that pub just as the bottle of rum sitting on the cabinet waiting to be poured into his glass by mrs walker bet or Betty
I agree. I don't feel uncle Albert got the send off he deserved
So many huge losses during this period: Elsie, Len, Eddie, Mrs. Walker.....the bygone age.
They would have probably spoken to Jack Howarth's family and got a feel of what they wanted. Look at Jack Walker's death, very quiet, barely spoken about out of respect to his family. Bernard Youens who played Stan Ogden made his last appearance in March 1984 (his voice in these episodes have been added by the uploader, a nice little touch by the way ProfessionalGun 66!!), and dies in August 1984, with Stan being written out in November.
@@Guitargirrrl And now Jack, Vera, Ivy, Betty, Alf, Deirdre
( ok, they’re all actually dead-the actors-but still...)
Like they did years later with Deirdre-Liz came in and told everyone “Our friend-my best friend-died this morning.” 🥲🥲
Checked on Wikipedia how old Bet was. She was born in 1940-which makes 43 or 44 in 1984-and 80 now! Flippin’ ‘eck!
No it was1943
He was so awful to Bet, criticising her appearance so brutally.
@@bsaunders5271 who
@@corriearcade60 the bar manager,
@@bsaunders5271 Mr Harvey?
I loved the slanging matches between Vera & Hilda 😅 " midden ?! " "Yes Midden !!"
Brian was a prize twonk!
Betty “Kts probably about the baby.”
Jack, Percy and Bill “Aaaa...”
😂😂😂
Strange to see Terry being so nice
I thought that too. I thought he would have always been a bad'un, a bit like nick cotton in eastenders.
He was nice and not bad at all. His father Jack was much worse. You'll see when Terry went bad and it was a crying shame....
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Me too, i fall asleep to them.
Characters like uncle Albert were a gem.
Dierdrie looks so thin and stunninng.
Imkinda dreading the arrival of Our Debbie - cant be long now
29:14 omg I love this part! Ik the words off by heart up until it cuts to kevin and bill in rovers!
Very interesting to see how 'Coronation Street' handled the death of Albert Tatlock/actor Jack Howarth, who at this time, along with William Roache as Ken Barlow, was the last remaining original cast member.
As these episodes show all too plainly - they didn't handle his death at all! It got only the briefest, most perfunctory mention, with his equally cantankerous daughter Beattie (Gabrielle Daye in one of her fleeting, regular visits since 1961), arriving to break the news (@1:17:33).
Deirdre's emotional speech is the only tribute of any substance made to him - and it doesn't ring true at all. Nor does Ken's description of Uncle Albert as: "A jaunty little man who enjoyed life to the full". It's totally bogus!
In fact the character was a resolutely miserable, self-pitying, pessimistic hater of humanity, entirely self-serving, and always cadging freebies (especially drinks in the Rovers), from people who could ill afford them. He's the kind of miser who in real life, no one would give the time of day - and he certainly wouldn't be mourned - or missed!
According to legend, there was a lot of actor Jack Howarth in Albert Tatlock. Monday to Friday he lived like a king with his wife Betty in a grand suite at the Midland Hotel, next door to Granada Studios. The couple had a home in North Wales, and also kept a flat in London. It's said Jack bought Betty so much valuable fine jewellery, she kept it in a secret safe.
Yet the actor's mean habits were legendary. The late Neville Buswell who played Ray Langton recalled that during afternoon rehearsals at Granada, at 4pm on the dot a lady wheeled in a trolley laden with tea, coffee and a generous assortment of sandwiches and freshly baked cakes for the cast. Without fail Jack was the first up for the feast - and specifically, his favourite eccles cakes - and he grabbed every last one from the plate for him and his wife to enjoy back at their hotel, stuffing them into every pocket of his suit. It was exactly the same performance, every time the trolley appeared.
Unsurprisingly this habit got noticed, and it caused some amusement - and irritation - among his fellow actors. One day, Neville decided to pull a Ray Langton type trick, and teach Jack a lesson. He told others about his plan, to ensure he had an audience. The tea lady walked in at her usual time, and sure enough Jack jumped up, got to the trolley first, and did his eccles cakes grab. Neville watched from across the room, quietly biding his time till he was sure he'd allowed sufficient time for Jack to take every last eccles cake, and secrete it in every last jacket pocket.
Then he bounded over to the actor like a long lost son, cried "Great to see ya Jack me old mate, how are you doing?" and grabbed him in an almighty, (eccles cake) crushing, bear hug! To Jack's dismay, he made sure to destroy every raisin-filled pastry hidden about his person!
This may explain why Coronation Street Producers didn't exactly go to town on the tributes, when he died off screen and on. It was a very far-fetched exit storyline. Aside from the fact Albert and his only child Beattie didn't get on, so he was hardly likely to have had such an extended stay with her, the script had made it clear many times he was too frail for such a visit.
It also beggared belief that Beattie, who never lifted a finger for her father and left it all to Ken and Deirdre (who were not even blood relatives!) would be so keen to take charge of his funeral arrangements. In real life she'd have sent him back to 'Coronation Street' for embalming before he was even cold - and ensured Ken and Deirdre paid for the undertaker and the funeral tea! Yet we're expected to believe she's suddenly possessive over her old man and desperate to organise his funeral - and it's a total mystery who these people were she planned to invite who lived locally to her. The miserable old bugger had hardly any pals in 'Coronation Street'!
It's clear Corrie bosses decided viewers had no appetite for a sentimental, Uncle Albert funeral episode. I guess we should be grateful they didn't stretch credibility to breaking point, with dewy-eyed neighbours sobbing into their hankies, and swapping fond stories of the 'jaunty little man who lived life to the full'!
I've only recently started watching Corrie, but I've seen enough to think that Dierdre's and Ken's descriptions of Albert ring true for them. Ken was shown to have a close relationship with his neighbor, Albert, as far back as the first episode, and Ken was certainly a lot closer to him than Beattie was. I can also believe that Beattie took charge of the funeral. When a loved one dies, people often try to make amends for past wrongs. That's often why you see such elaborate obituaries and memorials in newspapers. It also seems in keeping with Beattie's character that she would try to take charge of this final act for her father--for purely selfish reasons. Whether Albert had close friends is an open question, though many of the people he hung out with, such as Len, Ena, and Minnie, had passed on or left. Billy Walker attended the funeral and even referred to Albert as "Uncle Albert," though I'm not clear on their relationship. I appreciate your perspective, though, and the insights into Jack Howarth's personality.
No reaction from Billy when he hears Bet tell Hilda Linda Tanner’s turned up at Elsie’s? Didn’t he know Linda?
Bill Webster was good looking when he first came on the show!
The best days on coronation street
There's Liz in the casino. The third actor/ actress corrie bring back in later episodes.
So this year they killed off Bill Webster on the Street. Debbie and Kevin went to Germany to lay him to rest. However, never acknowledged is the actor Peter Armitage died about 5 years ago. I always liked the character, he was lovable Bill.
I didn't know Peter Armitage died, shame. I read that producer Bill Podmore brought him in hoping he'd be the new Len Fairclough type character, after Peter Adamson left in disgrace for selling stories on the cast to a tabloid.
Apparently Podmore signed up Peter Armitage, making it clear he had big plans for his character Bill Webster, and asking for his word that he'd be happy to stay in the show for a few years. He gladly agreed, and signed on the dotted line.
But as we know, he didn't stay for long - he got itchy feet and left, with the result that the actress who played his daughter got written out. His TV son Kevin was lucky to get a reprieve (undeserved in my view), and become Hilda's lodger.
Of course Bill Webster returned many years later, and was involved in a Christmas Day love triangle with Maureen Holdsworth (his wife, I think?) and Audrey Roberts - not bad for an old boy!
I would of preferred the Gordon Lewis character to be the Manager of the Rovers, I hope they install someone similar to him in the New Corrie episodes. Why I say this, is cos Lewis had a lot of comedic potential, but the reason the pub went to Bet, was due to Goodyear being the 'Pet of Podmore'. This is the actual story of Corrie insiders at the time.
Corrie nowadays needs charasmatic characters, and I hope the owner of the Rovers is changed to a Lewis type. Jenny is Okish, but she is not memorable.
So nice to see Kenneth Farrington as Billy Walker and Anne Cunningham as Linda Tanner again. But what happened to Billy's eyes? He looks like he's aged 40 years.
Jack and Bill talking about how kids keep being born-Jack’s responsible for Terry’s birth, and Bill’s responsible for Kevin’s and Debbie’s!
Beverley Callard as the wife before she reappeared as Liz MacDonald.....and before her nose job.
Scripts now too weak and too many strong characters disappeared. I'm going back to January 1970 and starting again with Colour.
Every male on this show attacks thier plates of food like they've never been fed before!
I read comments how so many loved Vera and Jack well I can't stand Vera never did the most aggravating character her and Blanche There I said it LOL
At least Blanche was quite attractive when she was younger and started out appearing quite reasonable. Vera was always a harpy.
Hahaha! She definitely would get on my nerves in real life but I think she's hilarious in small doses.
It's sarky Rita that I can't stand. The way she constantly has to belittle Mavis winds me up.
And Emily too annoys me so soo bad as soon as she opens her miserable mouth. I'll never understand why everyone seems to think Emily's so lovely. Grrr
(I think I really needed that little rant. I've had to put up with the pair of them for years! Lol)
Only one of the poker school still alive ( really and I think in the programme) is Ken Farrington ( Billy).
‘I’ll go to Spain with them. And I won’t pull me’ little pouty face. Not once.”
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I completely agree.
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Has Oower Briyyan had a shampoo and set?
LOL. Owwer Briyyan .... makes me craaazy when Ivy says this ... lol
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Isn't that Steve McDonald's mum playing roulette
Bye Uncle Albert 😪
I think these have to be the only earrings Bet Lynch/Gilroy has ever worn that I actually kinda like 2:14:52
Why on earth they didn't keep the Billy Walker character permanently in the show following the departure of his mother beats me.
Brians mate Gary also played PC Valentine in The Bill.
Beverley Callard at 1:03:00, in the casino.
2024 and the prisons are full.... 🏴
Elsie's daughter looks older than her
Is it me or is that Jumbo from only fools and horses at the bar?
I read that they were considering keeping Linda back on the street but they didn’t feel she was working on her own.
Apparently they wanted to pair her with Bill Webster but the actors didn’t get on so she left quite quickly
Can't stand Gail! It took me 7 years of Corrie watching to say that! That high pitch moaning & carrying that kid all the time 🙄
1:14:40 am I a barm cake or is that the same actress who played Liz Macdonald? I think her name"s Beverley Callard. She doesn't look glam enough though.
Yes its her - before she got the nose job and whatever else
You’ve started rumours before, haven’t you, Emily? Phoning Ken-abroad-to tell him Val and Ray were having an affair-when they were just good friends?
Emily seriously irritates me. So does Rita but at least she can sometimes be funny
@@Assistant36never liked the Emily character
She fucked up Billy and Jasmine’s relationship too! Her guileless comments really rub me up the wrong way!
Bill Webster was an absolute snack back then. Such a great addition. He did sort of turn into a wet blanket in the noughties, which is a shame.
Hard to watch this after Albert's death stan not here
Is that Liz playing Julie???
How does Hilda have time to work, clean her own flat, and cook and clean for a lodger??! And it seems to me 25 a week is not even enough for the buying and cooking of all the food the lodger eats!
I can't believe Liz McDonald was there in disguise.
David Daker who plays Gordon Lewis doesn't half look like Glynn Edwards who played barman Dave Harris in Minder and also Mr Lewis in 2 episodes of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. I thought he was playing another Mr Lewis but alas it wasn't him!
People who complain about living in a "too quiet" house don't know how lucky they are.
Gail “As a matter of fact I got on very well with June. I could see me and her being mates for the next 30 years or more...”
Spotted Beverly Callard playing June in the casino before she was later cast as Liz McDonald
June “If an Irishman comes in asking for ‘Elizabeth’ -I’m June, remember? June-not Elizabeth!’
Could’ve sworn at the beginning Brian said “I wanted to come home-but Gary and Liz wanted a drink.” Settled-it IS Liz!
How Bet didn’t end up in pieces & dumped along the M6 is a mystery to me.
LMAO!!! Great comment!
Jack and Vera were awful at first, they become 2 of my favourites later on but not keen seeing them from the start.
Is it just me, or are Gary and June terribly annoying?
A very sleazy pair.
June was played by Beverley Callard who played Liz McDonald from the 27 October 1989 till the 17 June 2020
@@Stephen_Reid indeed!
@@elterrifico9522 the life jacket man is a bit sleazy but early Liz never gave that impression?
They're supposed to be, otherwise it wouldn't fit the storyline
I think I said something wrong all the comments on all videos just disappeared
I've noticed that too. I was just now searching for an old comment and it's gone.
Mike believes if any old sod will get deidre if Ken's out its gonna be him,he's right mad at Billy, doesn't he know he had her before him.😂😂😂😂
What's ivy got on her head?
1:36:23 😳OH MY GOD . That's Liz McDonald. Doesn't this woman ever age. She still looks as young today as she did in 1984.
Looks better - way better
Brian's pal's wife named June would return in later episodes as Liz Macdonald, married to Jim and Mother of Andy and Steve. 😀
Billy Walker would be happy enough now everywhere is chockablock with elegant cocktail bars - you can see all the riffraff peeing and being sick outside them every weekend
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Wow, Bill Webster's vile verbal outbursts are quite the thing, aren't they. Then he goes all sickly sweet and apologetic. Total jerk.
Bev Callard gets around. Her next character was Liz McDonald who turned up in 89 with teenage sons. Fast worker.
Just what have Gail and childish Brian got in common? She must be tempted to put him in the playpen, out of the way ...
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Vera vs. Hilda: Two birds of a feather.
So Jack wants to stay drinking ‘to celebrate Stan’s birthday for him, because he can’t celebrate it himself.’ Wonder what Vera’’d say...
Imagine Vera shouting at the top of her lungs and being brash exactly as the writers and directors told her?...plus I met the actress when I was a kid in the early 90's. She was a lovely person and even called me "chuck" 😂 Imagine even more people in this era being so uninformed that they thought paying a TV license was essential!? Had to look Linda up when she was in it first time around after seeing her appear here...those years haven't been kind! Hardly the man-eater type Bet is trying to portray her as to us viewers. Don't want to be rotten but bloody hell 😲
Linda a maneater!!!! she was married and pregnant when the show began....I liked Linda, couldn't stand Dennis.
@@christinefougere God no, Dennis got right on my tits!
This is where it ends for me. Last episode was boring with a bunch of kids. This one is boring with nothing going on, too!
2.11.37 Imagine if Percy. Jack and Bill had been there. “Aaaa...”
Gail talks to Brian like he's a child 🙄Brian is calling himself a playboy 🙄🤮Gail is now best pals with Ivy🙄🤮Gail took her son to playschool, did two hours work and made a wonderful pie and is calling it a hectic life🙄🤭
Grim days ahead as classic characters - Annie,Eddie.Stan.Len et al are replaced by the Troublesome Tilsleys and the Demented Duckworths.Lots of muting can only mean one thing.
Brian is thicker than the thickest of the thick ...
Grinning Gail is nearly as stupid as Brian about the gambling ... and Ivy doesn't want them to save the house deposit and get away from her.
The rewriting in death of curmudgeonly Albert as a twinkling-eyed lover of life is ridiculous...
And who on earth in the right mind would stack lots of bottles of bleach on the top shelf of a corner shop over all that food below?, never mind the danger aspect of it all! lol. 2hours 32 mins into the video.
Linda could of stayed longer
Just Bette’s luck to pick up the wrong man!! 😂🤣
Hate Ivy's gaudy teaset
Straight out of a horror movie, you will drink rubbish and insects and never see it with those mugs.😂😂😂
Looks like the apple didn't fall far from the tree with Linda. Poor ivan
Having fun makes folks miserable
Class line. Pure comedy