I remember my husband wearing the same style skin tight flared jeans like Brian Tilsley except i was banned from laundering & ironing his jeans as he took such exceptional care regarding them He washed them separately from anything else & took AGES to iron each pair so perfectly with the sharpest crease line down each leg! He had to put them on, then lie back on our bed to be able to pull up the zip, so they were skin tight! Lol I was happy to let him get on with it, also happy he was a fit bloke to suit wearing said jeans Plus his expertly ironed shirts! Ive never come across a chap who actually loved ironing clothes & was happy to iron all of our laundry! He was no cissy or fuddy duddy but loved his " gear" & liked to look smart, he was also very happy to help with housework So i was a very lucky lady We used to laugh that it should have been me that went out to work & he staying home with our daughter doing the chores We still look back at the late 1970s & early/mid 80s fashions & laugh at way we looked We have both retained our figures & can still fit into some of our favourite clothes of that time, that we kept for prosperity Including our HUGE platform boots & shoes! I dont know how the heck we actually walked in that footwear! I can even remember running for the bus in 3 or 4 inch platforms & Keeping upright! The 70s& 80s were amazing for fashions & they didnt cost an arm or leg like good clothes of today cost. It was a good time for music too Great television programmes Including the BEST of CORRIE! Cheers 🇬🇧👧
We keep talking about the 'golden age' of Corrie being 76-84 which I agree with. You can tell at this stage midway through '83 that sadly it's coming to an end. It's pretty obvious a lot of the actors are struggling with health issues, notable Bernard Youens, Jack Howarth, Doris Speed and Peter Dudley (obviously after his stroke). Can't help but feel a little sad watching it, ah well - can always wind the clock back to 1976 :-)
The golden age of real life was also coming to an end - the days when neigbours actually knew each other - the days before everyone has their face stuck to a mobile phone and need their phone to tell them how to get to the shop round the corner - the days when people were happy living a simple life
It sure does ' I was raised on this ' twice weekly ' Mondays and Wednsdays ' I recall the one way affair between Suzie and Brian ' which saw her out of the show for good ' shame she never made a return ' I sure Gail would have forgiven her eventually.
Totally. Sadly though, the world and type of characters that coronation Street was based on no longer exist. A society where people rarely went anywhere, had brutal jobs, often drank hard, were deeply socially conservative and were obsessed with their neighbours. The world is very different now, for better or for worse. It means that the whole premise that coronation Street was based in doesn't really work anymore, which is why they pad it out now with ridiculous over the top nonsense.
me too. it's taken me a couple of months to get from the 1st episode through to this one. I never followed it as a kid but it was always on in our house. Missing the UK like crazy
Thankyou so much for these uploads! How they take me back. I remember well the very 1st episode in 1960. I was 10 years old...I remember Florrie Lindley, the Barlows, christine Hardman etc! In this year 2022 I watch no more and have not done so for years. Thanx so much for these memories!
@@normasouthwood3182 I cant talk im 62 and like you young at heart - i sometimes wish i had been born 10 years earlier ( i should have been because my parent tried for years and years to have kids so i was a late surprise) but i liked the 60s and seventies because there was still a lot about from the 50s and berfore at that point - come the 80s everything started to change and not always for the better - Hope you have a Happy Christmas too and being Scottish i wish you a gid New Year and lang may yur lumb reek
Annie Walker treated Hilda (and Stan and Eddie for that matter) appallingly. She was a nasty piece of work. She seemed to forget who her customers were a d what customer service was. The people she insulted were her bread and butter. And don't get me started on Fred Gee!
It was always unbelievable that the likes of Annie Walker, Emily Bishop and Ken Barlow would be living in a Manchester backstreet at their time of lives, especially given they acted ‘above’ everyone else. Annie would have moved to Wilmslow, Emily to the Lake District and Ken to Altrincham at least!
@jstewart3517 don't be ridiculous...she was outstanding! When you're so taken in that you critisise the character then you know that the actor/actress does a really good job! RIP Anne Kirkbride..🎉
Thank you for the upload, I have always wanted to see the full episode where Elsie straightened Suzie out. THANK YOU! I cringed at Stan and Hilda's son coming over to find out about the inheritance, also using the grandson as a pawn, eek. Stan might not have tact, but I like how he deals with his greedy son.
Good comment... I hope that's the LAST we see of Suzie Birchall, Terrible 'Character' and I've NO idea why they left her in the Series so long !! - Good Riddance BIRCHALL.
So much has been said about Coronation Street's decline. At its best, it was fantastic character driven entertainment. Excellent writing and a good dose of humour. But it really was based on Tony Warren's experiences of a local community in the 1940s and 1950s. As time went on, it became less like the world outside. It still portrayed a world where people didn't go anywhere, ate nothing but fish and chips, drank heavily and frequently, and were deeply socially conservative. By this time in the 1980s it was starting to become fairly unbelievable that a community near Manchester would have no Asian or black people. There were no gay characters until much, much later. Nowadays, the society we live in doesn't fit well into the old soap opera format - it's partly why Coronation Street is so disappointing now, and why viewing figures have gone down. The Hilda Ogden and Annie Walker types that used to be so common in the 1950s and 1960s don't really exist any longer.
Victor is clearly on the autism spectrum...Derek was possibly a frustrated homosexual...and Mavis was a possible genius with an abjectly crushed self image - it was tragic, really.
The fourth and fifth episodes look odd as they were broadcast with a slight zoom in which makes it look as though ones watching with binoculars...not my fault. Uncle Albert sitting in his chair in the living room was nicely done with the writers making Ken say that he is now "indistinguishable" from his surroundings. A nice touch by the then writers to let us know they understand the show and you have no choice but to agree automatically. Best thing for me this month was Hilda saying to Stan and Eddie that they are like Siamese twins... Eddie's retort is classic.
Hilda was the essence of the street. She provided much humour but was always treated so badly. Struggled all her life for little. A husband that only ever showed love ONCE when her brother died (but still pinched money from her) and the butt of jokes. Rather a tragic character really but always with a smile and a giggle, on her face, even though she felt she was simply existing; hardworking but never getting anywhere. She's made me laugh out loud but I've also shed a tear for her at times. Jean moulded the strongest character out of all Coronation Street actors. Pure comedy & tragedy in a soap. ❤ 🎭
This is just wonderful... I love watching these and thank you for uploading them! The part where Elsie nearly chokes on her drink when she's told Suzie hasn't left yet is just brilliant! 😂
Her story arc is very interesting and she leaves the street defeated, both by the people she was running from and from herself. At the same time she made ill decisions which she always realized too late but even worse, allowed them to shape her character. The last string was too much for Elsie and Gail and her attitude after leaving Elsie's to catch a lift from a stranger showed us that she was not going to change.
@@professionalgun6674 I agree with your opinion, even in her early days she was always selfish and a bit of a loose cannon. I think she was disturbed due to her parents, her mother was weak & dominated by her father, who just wanted Susie to return to her home to skivvy for him when her mother left. Definitely a interesting character, but somewhat unlikeable and a trouble causer. She got her comeuppance more than once, but what she tried with Brian was the ‘straw that broke the camels back’ as far as Elsie and Gail were concerned.
@@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351 What about her husband tracking her down and abusing her ' she kept her marrage secret as well from Gail and Elsie ' that I feel lead to this fling with Brian not long after.
Seemingly we’ve seen the last of Len Fairclough at this point as Rita’s referring to him off screen a lot all of a sudden. Shame what happened to him (all the real life scandal.. I know he got off).. as I really liked the character!
They shouldn't have sacked Peter Adamson . If he had stayed on the programme until his death in 2002 then Rita and Len would have been married 25 years and no Alan Bradley
@@kuchikopi4631 Horrrendous and not true. Roache as plaintiff refused a cash settement from a defendant magazine. He was later charge with 2 counts of rape and 5 counts of indecent assault. One was outright dismissed. He was acquitted of all the others. Mr. John Silver is the one who should get the facts straight.
Imagine if Rita and Mavis had been talking in the shop about ‘trial marriages’ and Jack had walked in. “Y’know, me and Our Vera should’ve ‘ad a trial marriage.”
The actor who played Stan would be sadly dead in a little more than a year ' his character in about 18 months ' tho his last appearence was at least six months earlier ' Hilda would last a few more years ' after future character Kevin Webster bought no 13 ' this was I think the year of Deirdre and Mikes brief affair which nearly jepodised her fairly recent marrage to Ken.
Actually Rita, the numbers show just the opposite. People who live together before marriage actually get divorced MORE than people who choose the traditional route.
About Len Fairclough - the actor who played him, Peter Adamson, had been through that very unpleasant trial alleging he'd molested some girls, but was found innocent. The main reason he was sacked was because he was selling stories about other cast members to the press - he was very unflattering about a lot of them, describing them as "amateurs". There was an absolutely posionous atmosphere on set and the other stars of the show were furious with him. None of the rest of the cast ever contacted him again and he went on record to say that he'd twice written to Julie Goodyear (who he'd been very close to) but she hadn't replied to him. It wasn't the first time he'd been in trouble though - as far back as the 60s, Granada had given him a formal warning about his behaviour because of his heavy drinking.
One Sunday afternoon in about 1967 our family went to some kind of fair in Royton, Greater Manchester. Peter Adamson was billed as the 'star attraction' to sign autographs and meet the public, etc. We went along to the stall where he was based, but soon left as he looked incredibly fed up, and was being grumpy towards everyone who approached him.
@@staceygrove5976 I saw him in 1975, when I was a kid. He must have been in a good mood that day. I've still got his signed picture, signed "Be good, Steven!"
@@MarcoNegrisEye Apparently he gave a drunken interview some time later in which he pretty much admitted he was guilty. The trial more or less bankrupted him.
Oh! I knew that Hilda would lose her little gold mine! It happened just as I thought...but on reflection, had she got the whole business and property...she would have blown it! Poor Hilda.
Love watching the episodes however, 1983/84 there was a major transformation. Don't know if it was time moving on..or the decline of many actors and actresses..but it was a major shift.
During this period, a lot of the actors died or were sacked by new producers. Actors get comfortable in their roles and their egos don't realise they can be written out very easily.
Does anybody feel same as me?. Every scene with Hilda, Stan, Eddie was overwhelmingly interesting..but Mavis and this one and that one..including Ken and Deirdre..was..well..boring?.
Just thinking that Ken & Deirdre have one of those Victorian black & white China Dogs on tbeir sideboard & they are very collectable & the genuine ones are fetching very high prices So... The Ogdens also have a China Dog on their sideboard ( cant remember if Stan or Eddie gave it to Hilda) also worth a fair amount Thing is, A PAIR OF CHINA DOGS Are worth an absolute mint ! Much much more than one alone would fetch So the Barlows & the Ogdens should get their pooches together, sell as a pair & split the proceeds! Many people don't like the China Dog ornaments, but i do, i have always have & i inherited my great grandmother's Dog, now valued so highly especially the earlier Victoria ones which were larger than later smaller ones & therefore much more valuable Shame ive never found its twin Maybe when these episodes were made, the China Dogs werent as collectable so the script writers Didnt form a story around either the Barlows or the Ogdens finding out the potential value of said Dogs & trying to buy each others China Dog!!! Might have been fun to watch! Regards 🇬🇧👧
Nicky was always trying to get away!, Gail was holding him, and he was calling her piggy in one episode, he trapped ivy's fingers in a book, he really didn't want to act😮 Warren went onto drugs In real life.
Hilda and her second hand mini sausages left overs and sandwiches with the "corners turning up" from Mrs Lowther's party and she thinks she is showing off to the neighbours 🤣, bless her little cotton socks. Comic genius.
Victor was far too domineering for Mavis. She would have completely lost her own identity in a union with him. Docile mother's boy Derek was much more suitable. Theirs would be a mitherer's marriage made in heaven, on equal footing in levels of soppiness and terminal embarrassment. Mavis was Derek's mother replacement and muse (as he called her) rolled into one. She would only ever have been Victor's acolyte.
I, also miss Ena Sharples. 41:31 Eddie is so good to the Ogden's and vice versa. 1:04:55 Victor would be better off dating BIg Bird off of Sesame Street. Excellent writing and acting.
24.41 'Lee Marvellous' 🤣🤣 Hilda is referring to Hollywood actor Lee Marvin who, in 1979, was ordered by the California courts to pay a huge settlement to ex-partner Michelle Triola, a woman he had lived with but never married. The court decision was unprecedented as it recognised the rights of 'common law' wives. So funny that Hilda could see the parallel between Archie's ex and the Lee Marvin case!!
Fantastic acting by Jean Alexander (Hilda). She played the hard working, put upon wife so well. Yet she never married off screen. I stopped watching when The Battersbys arrived.
@@shaneobrien2257 Yes she was such a superb actress, yet a very humble person. Jean Alexander was known to be unhappy at the direction the show took in the 90’s onwards - awful characters like the Battersby’s as you say (I couldn’t stand them either!). She clearly felt honoured to have been part the Street during that ‘golden era’ of the mid 70s to the end of 84. I remember watching these episodes as a child, it was only on twice a week then, and loving the show. It captured a world that is long gone now sadly…I think nostalgia for that world is a big part of why so many of us love watching these old episodes.
Quite sad really the way people denied themselves through fear of public opinion. Thats one good thing about the collapse of morality in recent years, we no longer have yo worry about what Mrs Jones thinks of us!
It's funny seeing these characters talk about modern and old homes, when every home in the show looks ancient to me! Albert's house and Gail and Brian's house, looks entirely the same.
They look nothing alike. Gail and Brian's house is a nasty 80s new build, while Albert's house is a lovely Victorian with what would now be antique furniture.
the main reason Peter Adamson was sacked was because he was selling stories about other cast members to the press - he also was very unflattering about a lot of them, describing them as "amateurs". There was an absolutely posionous atmosphere on set and the other stars of the show were furious with him. None of the rest of the cast ever contacted him again and he went in record to say that he'd twice written to Julie Goodyear (who he'd been very close to) but she hadn't replied to him. It wasn't the first time he'd been in trouble though - as far back as the 60s, Granada had given him a formal earning about his behaviour because of his heavy drinking.
Gale calls Suzie another 'Bet Lynch' but back then what exactly defined a 'Bet Lynch' back then in Corrie? This was before my time I was a '87 baby watching 90's corrie!
Of course she thought Ken would b perfect for the advice column, he can't help but give perspective advice on everything and everyone that will listen...SMH
Binge watching in 2024. Fantastic,
I remember my husband wearing the same style skin tight flared jeans like Brian Tilsley except i was banned from laundering & ironing his jeans as he took such exceptional care regarding them
He washed them separately from anything else & took AGES to iron each pair so perfectly with the sharpest crease line down each leg!
He had to put them on, then lie back on our bed to be able to pull up the zip, so they were skin tight! Lol
I was happy to let him get on with it, also happy he was a fit bloke to suit wearing said jeans
Plus his expertly ironed shirts!
Ive never come across a chap who actually loved ironing clothes & was happy to iron all of our laundry!
He was no cissy or fuddy duddy but loved his " gear" & liked to look smart, he was also very happy to help with housework
So i was a very lucky lady
We used to laugh that it should have been me that went out to work & he staying home with our daughter doing the chores
We still look back at the late 1970s & early/mid 80s fashions
& laugh at way we looked
We have both retained our figures & can still fit into some of our favourite clothes of that time, that we kept for prosperity
Including our HUGE platform boots & shoes!
I dont know how the heck we actually walked in that footwear!
I can even remember running for the bus in 3 or 4 inch platforms &
Keeping upright!
The 70s& 80s were amazing for fashions & they didnt cost an arm or leg like good clothes of today cost.
It was a good time for music too
Great television programmes
Including the BEST of CORRIE!
Cheers
🇬🇧👧
We keep talking about the 'golden age' of Corrie being 76-84 which I agree with. You can tell at this stage midway through '83 that sadly it's coming to an end. It's pretty obvious a lot of the actors are struggling with health issues, notable Bernard Youens, Jack Howarth, Doris Speed and Peter Dudley (obviously after his stroke). Can't help but feel a little sad watching it, ah well - can always wind the clock back to 1976 :-)
Doris speed looked well for her age
The golden age of real life was also coming to an end - the days when neigbours actually knew each other - the days before everyone has their face stuck to a mobile phone and need their phone to tell them how to get to the shop round the corner - the days when people were happy living a simple life
@@tiberseptim560Globalisation
I frequently do.😊
@@robclark4507 And she lived to be ninety something.
Great watching these old episodes, knocks spots off today's Corrie.
It sure does ' I was raised on this ' twice weekly ' Mondays and Wednsdays ' I recall the one way affair between Suzie and Brian ' which saw her out of the show for good ' shame she never made a return ' I sure Gail would have forgiven her eventually.
@@paulfrost8895 Yes I agree. The Duckworths move in soon.
Totally. Sadly though, the world and type of characters that coronation Street was based on no longer exist. A society where people rarely went anywhere, had brutal jobs, often drank hard, were deeply socially conservative and were obsessed with their neighbours. The world is very different now, for better or for worse. It means that the whole premise that coronation Street was based in doesn't really work anymore, which is why they pad it out now with ridiculous over the top nonsense.
@@th8257 Very well said T H 😁
So true, i dont even watch Cornation Street anymore is so bad.
All I watch these days is these episodes ❤️the best acting ever x
me too. it's taken me a couple of months to get from the 1st episode through to this one. I never followed it as a kid but it was always on in our house. Missing the UK like crazy
Simply brilliant...the best of British culture in its golden era.. gone but not forgotten. Thank you very much for this quality viewing
Thankyou so much for these uploads! How they take me back. I remember well the very 1st episode in 1960. I was 10 years old...I remember Florrie Lindley, the Barlows, christine Hardman etc! In this year 2022 I watch no more and have not done so for years. Thanx so much for these memories!
Omg you"ll be 72 now - i say you"ll be 72 now
@@williamf4544 Yes you're right, but I'm very young at heart! Stay safe and Happy Christmas.
@@normasouthwood3182 I cant talk im 62 and like you young at heart - i sometimes wish i had been born 10 years earlier ( i should have been because my parent tried for years and years to have kids so i was a late surprise) but i liked the 60s and seventies because there was still a lot about from the 50s and berfore at that point - come the 80s everything started to change and not always for the better - Hope you have a Happy Christmas too and being Scottish i wish you a gid New Year and lang may yur lumb reek
@@williamf4544 You must have been a very welcome wee bairn! (I don't think that my lumb has ever reeked!)😁😁 Happy Christmas.
I love seeing the cats in the opening credits. Do they still have cats at the start?
Always felt sorry for Hilda. She worked hard all her life and people looked down on her like she was dirt.
Annie Walker treated Hilda (and Stan and Eddie for that matter) appallingly. She was a nasty piece of work. She seemed to forget who her customers were a d what customer service was. The people she insulted were her bread and butter. And don't get me started on Fred Gee!
It was always unbelievable that the likes of Annie Walker, Emily Bishop and Ken Barlow would be living in a Manchester backstreet at their time of lives, especially given they acted ‘above’ everyone else.
Annie would have moved to Wilmslow, Emily to the Lake District and Ken to Altrincham at least!
@@adamgregory5274annie was a good example of peoples misconcieved social status during those times. Yes, she run a pub, but look where she ran it. 🤔
I love Deidre's hair at this time. Can't believe what she did with it later in the decade. Maybe in the mid 80s it would have looked fantastic
It’s a good question. She looked great. They buggered her hair but I think health issues prematurely aged her also.
Deirdre has no acting skills with that wailing n whiskey voice
@jstewart3517 don't be ridiculous...she was outstanding! When you're so taken in that you critisise the character then you know that the actor/actress does a really good job! RIP Anne Kirkbride..🎉
Thank you for the upload, I have always wanted to see the full episode where Elsie straightened Suzie out. THANK YOU!
I cringed at Stan and Hilda's son coming over to find out about the inheritance, also using the grandson as a pawn, eek. Stan might not have tact, but I like how he deals with his greedy son.
Elsie was not a woman to cross.
Good comment... I hope that's the LAST we see of Suzie Birchall, Terrible 'Character' and I've NO idea why they left her in the Series so long !! - Good Riddance BIRCHALL.
So much has been said about Coronation Street's decline. At its best, it was fantastic character driven entertainment. Excellent writing and a good dose of humour. But it really was based on Tony Warren's experiences of a local community in the 1940s and 1950s. As time went on, it became less like the world outside. It still portrayed a world where people didn't go anywhere, ate nothing but fish and chips, drank heavily and frequently, and were deeply socially conservative. By this time in the 1980s it was starting to become fairly unbelievable that a community near Manchester would have no Asian or black people. There were no gay characters until much, much later. Nowadays, the society we live in doesn't fit well into the old soap opera format - it's partly why Coronation Street is so disappointing now, and why viewing figures have gone down. The Hilda Ogden and Annie Walker types that used to be so common in the 1950s and 1960s don't really exist any longer.
Well said 👍📺🇦🇺🎭
R.I.P. Johnny Briggs a.k.a Mike Baldwin.
Bloomin’ Victor! It’s always what he wants is what’s happening-never mind what Mavis wants or doesn’t want!
She does seem to have "a type" our Mavis
Victor is clearly on the autism spectrum...Derek was possibly a frustrated homosexual...and Mavis was a possible genius with an abjectly crushed self image - it was tragic, really.
Derek was similar, wanting his own way and manipulating Mavis in a different manner.
Victor was a bit too forceful and self absorbed for Mavis…Derek less so
The fourth and fifth episodes look odd as they were broadcast with a slight zoom in which makes it look as though ones watching with binoculars...not my fault.
Uncle Albert sitting in his chair in the living room was nicely done with the writers making Ken say that he is now "indistinguishable" from his surroundings. A nice touch by the then writers to let us know they understand the show and you have no choice but to agree automatically.
Best thing for me this month was Hilda saying to Stan and Eddie that they are like Siamese twins... Eddie's retort is classic.
Cheryl Murray (Suzi) was 70 this year.
Just let that sink in....
Depressing, isn't it?
@@tiberseptim560 I loved the whole setup with Elsie, Suzie and Gail. Great memories.
Wow! Young Suzie, 70?? I still remember having a huge crush on her when I was a schoolboy!
Thank you from Australia 🇦🇺
Love this show
♥️🇦🇺📺
Enjoyed these episodes very much, thank you for giving us the entertainment.
Truly classic Coronation St.
Brian "Suzie made a pass at me, but can we just fegerrit?" Yeah, cos that's how Gail works, Bri. Hahaha.
Bless Uncle Albert, offering to give Ken the house.
Miss those old characters ' Albert ' Stan and Hilda ' Eddie ' Alf ' eg ' most of today 's characters just can 't compete.
He wore a fake moustache the whole time.
Hilda was the essence of the street. She provided much humour but was always treated so badly. Struggled all her life for little. A husband that only ever showed love ONCE when her brother died (but still pinched money from her) and the butt of jokes. Rather a tragic character really but always with a smile and a giggle, on her face, even though she felt she was simply existing; hardworking but never getting anywhere. She's made me laugh out loud but I've also shed a tear for her at times. Jean moulded the strongest character out of all Coronation Street actors. Pure comedy & tragedy in a soap. ❤ 🎭
Classic Corrie. Mavis and Rita pure comedy gold compared to today’s rubbish.
There's no way that Hilda Ogden could have made a success of the chip shop if she'd had to rely on Stan to help her run it.
Yeah Stan the walking brewery & pie can would’ve bled the place dry….
Stan would have scoffed all the profits!
Stan would have been puffing on a ciggy while serving chips
This is just wonderful... I love watching these and thank you for uploading them!
The part where Elsie nearly chokes on her drink when she's told Suzie hasn't left yet is just brilliant! 😂
Isnt Emilys hair lovely - very classy - like that of a retired ballet dancer
Always thought the same.
Yes her hair is very elegant, a classic style . She is very dignified so it suits her personality. Retired ballet dancer ,yes exactly.
She was an attractive lady, our Emily
Yrs! So true in your description! I know retired ballet dancers today that have that style lol! 🇦🇺📺♥️
Nice one Mavis u put Fred Gee in his place!..🙌🏾🙌🏾❤❤
The Barlows really should know better than to ask Albert for a firm answer about his plans by now...
they should just wheel him out no matter what he thought ha
I don't like Gail or Brian
Thanks for posting. This is amazing!👍😊
That crate-egg, Fred Gee, who could f##k up a wet-dream, sure has a lot to say for himself.
Love it.
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Did anyone notice Brian’s high healed shoes . Its probably to make him look taller than he is.
A couple of episodes ago, he was lying on the sofa with his feet up, and I thought I'd spotted high heeled shoes.
Deirdre sometimes reminds me of Renee, especially with those glasses.
Renee is better looking.
Thank You!!!!
Susie was a piece of work wasn’t she.
Her story arc is very interesting and she leaves the street defeated, both by the people she was running from and from herself. At the same time she made ill decisions which she always realized too late but even worse, allowed them to shape her character. The last string was too much for Elsie and Gail and her attitude after leaving Elsie's to catch a lift from a stranger showed us that she was not going to change.
@@professionalgun6674 I agree with your opinion, even in her early days she was always selfish and a bit of a loose cannon. I think she was disturbed due to her parents, her mother was weak & dominated by her father, who just wanted Susie to return to her home to skivvy for him when her mother left. Definitely a interesting character, but somewhat unlikeable and a trouble causer. She got her comeuppance more than once, but what she tried with Brian was the ‘straw that broke the camels back’ as far as Elsie and Gail were concerned.
@@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351 What about her husband tracking her down and abusing her ' she kept her marrage secret as well from Gail and Elsie ' that I feel lead to this fling with Brian not long after.
@@professionalgun6674 Only lasted at most 6 months the second time around ' about 3 years the first time.
Often manipulative.
Seemingly we’ve seen the last of Len Fairclough at this point as Rita’s referring to him off screen a lot all of a sudden. Shame what happened to him (all the real life scandal.. I know he got off).. as I really liked the character!
@Long John Silver Was he hell as like, not sure about Roache.
They shouldn't have sacked Peter Adamson . If he had stayed on the programme until his death in 2002 then Rita and Len would have been married 25 years and no Alan Bradley
@Long John Silver 😟
@Long John Silver what in the world! That's horrendous!
@@kuchikopi4631 Horrrendous and not true. Roache as plaintiff refused a cash settement from a defendant magazine. He was later charge with 2 counts of rape and 5 counts of indecent assault. One was outright dismissed. He was acquitted of all the others. Mr. John Silver is the one who should get the facts straight.
Why would anyone want anything to do with Birchall?
Hateful character
She used to be good fun, but she was embittered by this time.
Not Me !!
Yes ,embittered & very insecure for sure !
Imagine if Rita and Mavis had been talking in the shop about ‘trial marriages’ and Jack had walked in. “Y’know, me and Our Vera should’ve ‘ad a trial marriage.”
thanks You are awesome.
2:25 Ivy actually gives Nicky a sip of her lager and lime!!! 😂
Fred was a bit of a wanker really wasn’t he?
His own worst enemy
100%
Fred Gee character and Fred Feast actor makes/made my skin crawl. 😣😣
Very much so. I don't think the actor was that far away from the character in real life
If gee spoke to customers like he does inmypub he's sacked.
Gail is soooooo annoying
She still is and now looks like E.T
12:53 I’m surprised Hilda didn’t say she put the woman in her Plaice lol 😂
Great episodes - sad to see Suzie go - my favourite scene was the final one between Hilda and Stan.
The actor who played Stan would be sadly dead in a little more than a year ' his character in about 18 months ' tho his last appearence was at least six months earlier ' Hilda would last a few more years ' after future character Kevin Webster bought no 13 ' this was I think the year of Deirdre and Mikes brief affair which nearly jepodised her fairly recent marrage to Ken.
Thank God terrible Suzie Birchall has GONE.... 'HOORAY'
£10 for all those flowers!!! Couldn’t even get a wee bunch for that now.
R. Brian’s shoes, some heels them lad 😂
38:28... Has Brian got Gail's shoes on?..lol..
Mike had the same ones on when he was with the florist.
Blocks like that were really old fashioned by 1983
Actually Rita, the numbers show just the opposite. People who live together before marriage actually get divorced MORE than people who choose the traditional route.
Fred Feast falling over his lines
About Len Fairclough - the actor who played him, Peter Adamson, had been through that very unpleasant trial alleging he'd molested some girls, but was found innocent. The main reason he was sacked was because he was selling stories about other cast members to the press - he was very unflattering about a lot of them, describing them as "amateurs". There was an absolutely posionous atmosphere on set and the other stars of the show were furious with him. None of the rest of the cast ever contacted him again and he went on record to say that he'd twice written to Julie Goodyear (who he'd been very close to) but she hadn't replied to him. It wasn't the first time he'd been in trouble though - as far back as the 60s, Granada had given him a formal warning about his behaviour because of his heavy drinking.
One Sunday afternoon in about 1967 our family went to some kind of fair in Royton, Greater Manchester. Peter Adamson was billed as the 'star attraction' to sign autographs and meet the public, etc. We went along to the stall where he was based, but soon left as he looked incredibly fed up, and was being grumpy towards everyone who approached him.
"found innocent" look after their own don't they? His legal defence? The same that defended Savile. I rest my case your honour 😂
@@staceygrove5976 I saw him in 1975, when I was a kid. He must have been in a good mood that day. I've still got his signed picture, signed "Be good, Steven!"
He got time off to get help and pull himself together, yet Jennifer Moss was simply fired a few years later.
@@MarcoNegrisEye Apparently he gave a drunken interview some time later in which he pretty much admitted he was guilty. The trial more or less bankrupted him.
I wonder what happened to that episode where Tracy Barlow cut the legs of her Barbie and melted her face in the fire
Oh! I knew that Hilda would lose her little gold mine! It happened just as I thought...but on reflection, had she got the whole business and property...she would have blown it! Poor Hilda.
I loved Albert everyone's favourite grandad
Not mine.🙄
I couldn't stand tatlock.
Wore a fake moustache the whole time.
Is that a young Hilda ( maybe from the 50s) on the photo behind Stan at 1.54? It’s not Irma.
That woman had no right to the chippy. She wasn't married to the man.
I'm so glad that Mavis didn't twig, that woman who referred to her as "Mrs. Pendelbury," thought she was his mother.
This bartender pisses me off
I wish they hadn't brought Suzie back if they were just gonna ruin her character.
Ms Walker such a better than thou attitude, uncle albert acts like a over bearing plank
Love watching the episodes however, 1983/84 there was a major transformation. Don't know if it was time moving on..or the decline of many actors and actresses..but it was a major shift.
During this period, a lot of the actors died or were sacked by new producers. Actors get comfortable in their roles and their egos don't realise they can be written out very easily.
Does anybody feel same as me?. Every scene with Hilda, Stan, Eddie was overwhelmingly interesting..but Mavis and this one and that one..including Ken and Deirdre..was..well..boring?.
Just thinking that Ken & Deirdre have one of those Victorian black & white China Dogs on tbeir sideboard & they are very collectable & the genuine ones are fetching very high prices
So...
The Ogdens also have a China Dog on their sideboard ( cant remember if Stan or Eddie gave it to Hilda) also worth a fair amount
Thing is, A PAIR OF CHINA DOGS
Are worth an absolute mint !
Much much more than one alone would fetch
So the Barlows & the Ogdens should get their pooches together, sell as a pair & split the proceeds!
Many people don't like the China Dog ornaments, but i do, i have always have & i inherited my great grandmother's Dog, now valued so highly especially the earlier Victoria ones which were larger than later smaller ones & therefore much more valuable
Shame ive never found its twin
Maybe when these episodes were made, the China Dogs werent as collectable so the script writers
Didnt form a story around either the Barlows or the Ogdens finding out the potential value of said Dogs & trying to buy each others China Dog!!!
Might have been fun to watch!
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We have a matching pair . From my grandmother .
The women all see older than they are suppose to be? In example- Mavis and the younger bloke
Nice to see baby Nick get an early start on pounding back the booze! 2:25:15. 🤣
Nicky was always trying to get away!, Gail was holding him, and he was calling her piggy in one episode, he trapped ivy's fingers in a book, he really didn't want to act😮 Warren went onto drugs In real life.
Hilda and her second hand mini sausages left overs and sandwiches with the "corners turning up" from Mrs Lowther's party and she thinks she is showing off to the neighbours 🤣, bless her little cotton socks. Comic genius.
Victor was far too domineering for Mavis. She would have completely lost her own identity in a union with him. Docile mother's boy Derek was much more suitable. Theirs would be a mitherer's marriage made in heaven, on equal footing in levels of soppiness and terminal embarrassment. Mavis was Derek's mother replacement and muse (as he called her) rolled into one. She would only ever have been Victor's acolyte.
I liked it when Derek's mother said Mavis was him in a tweed skirt and that neither would know what time of day it was in a roomful of clocks.
38:40 Brian’s shoes! 😮😂
450 for carpits the house only cost 600 lol. That's inflation for you x
Mavis over thinks everything.. go or don't.
I love the English grammar x
Or lack of! The northern pronouciations are interesting - like other parts of the uk don't pronounce "t"'s. 😂
Ugh Mavis is hard work
Nice one Gail tell pigsy how it is 😂
Isn't Elsie just gorgeous.😊
I, also miss Ena Sharples. 41:31 Eddie is so good to the Ogden's and vice versa. 1:04:55 Victor would be better off dating BIg Bird off of Sesame Street. Excellent writing and acting.
24.41 'Lee Marvellous' 🤣🤣 Hilda is referring to Hollywood actor Lee Marvin who, in 1979, was ordered by the California courts to pay a huge settlement to ex-partner Michelle Triola, a woman he had lived with but never married. The court decision was unprecedented as it recognised the rights of 'common law' wives. So funny that Hilda could see the parallel between Archie's ex and the Lee Marvin case!!
😂 I too love the way she often uses the wrong words. Hilarious!
@@shaneobrien2257 Totally agree. These were Coronation Street’s golden years. By the end of 1984, it would be all change and never the same again….
Fantastic acting by Jean Alexander (Hilda). She played the hard working, put upon wife so well. Yet she never married off screen. I stopped watching when The Battersbys arrived.
@@shaneobrien2257 Yes she was such a superb actress, yet a very humble person. Jean Alexander was known to be unhappy at the direction the show took in the 90’s onwards - awful characters like the Battersby’s as you say (I couldn’t stand them either!). She clearly felt honoured to have been part the Street during that ‘golden era’ of the mid 70s to the end of 84. I remember watching these episodes as a child, it was only on twice a week then, and loving the show. It captured a world that is long gone now sadly…I think nostalgia for that world is a big part of why so many of us love watching these old episodes.
😀 I also liked her in Last of the Summer Wine. And Woof, the series about a boy who changes into a dog.
Fred and Yeats argument 😂😂😂😋
Quite sad really the way people denied themselves through fear of public opinion. Thats one good thing about the collapse of morality in recent years, we no longer have yo worry about what Mrs Jones thinks of us!
True! So many people worry about keeping up with the Jones' that they don't realise they ARE the Jones!
Mavis should of moved into the cottage and lived her withering height life style but instead she married Derek
It's funny seeing these characters talk about modern and old homes, when every home in the show looks ancient to me! Albert's house and Gail and Brian's house, looks entirely the same.
They look nothing alike. Gail and Brian's house is a nasty 80s new build, while Albert's house is a lovely Victorian with what would now be antique furniture.
Love the episodes but Mavis, Rita, Len etc utterly bore me. Jack, Vera, the Ogdens, Eddie, Fred Gee, Betty, etc are magic
Mavis really makes me cringe.
I wish Pam Mitchell would do one.
38:25 surely heels like that were out by 1983!? 😂
Lol, not quite 😂Johnny Briggs wears platforms too.
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Fred Gee; who the h.ll he think he is? Fighting with customers?!?! He should be sacked!!!
That's A ring on your finger, not a fish&chip shop!
It amazes me that all these people were all alcoholics. What business, especially industrial, would allow drinking in their lunch hour?
No more Len Fairclough.
the main reason Peter Adamson was sacked was because he was selling stories about other cast members to the press - he also was very unflattering about a lot of them, describing them as "amateurs". There was an absolutely posionous atmosphere on set and the other stars of the show were furious with him. None of the rest of the cast ever contacted him again and he went in record to say that he'd twice written to Julie Goodyear (who he'd been very close to) but she hadn't replied to him. It wasn't the first time he'd been in trouble though - as far back as the 60s, Granada had given him a formal earning about his behaviour because of his heavy drinking.
@@th8257 Yes he was very stupid, if he had kept his mouth shut he could have carried on in the show for many more years.
@@th8257 I think you mean formal warning. Lol
Good. Nonce case.
Mavis gets on my every last nerve
Me too!
Gale calls Suzie another 'Bet Lynch' but back then what exactly defined a 'Bet Lynch' back then in Corrie? This was before my time I was a '87 baby watching 90's corrie!
A cheap tart
@upncmnh11
Bet wasn't exactly choosy about who she went to bed with.
Mavis beware, that luny Victor, get rid of him!!!
I remember watching Gail & Susie in black an white when Gail had the good sense not to go to London with Susie
Of course she thought Ken would b perfect for the advice column, he can't help but give perspective advice on everything and everyone that will listen...SMH
He seems to be living in a totally different world.
Fred Gee is literally a joke
But not funny.
Time Travel is real….its so unreal 40 years on your take on life the actors and its fee.. GOT VS CORRY..
England's working class heroes.
Ken speaks wife. Perhaps because he's educated, Perhaps he's just sensitive to loved ones
Did Suzi have a single redeeming feature?
Uncle Albert belongs in a home
The man was a misery and couldn't act.Sounded more like a child.
He has a home. His own home.
how clean the streets looked back than ..no migrants to be seen from an uncolanosed country in site brilliant
Something very fishy about that fish&chip shop 😅