Thank you again. I feel like a kid in a sweet shop, I'm spoilt for choice, I don't know where to start

@bevtilbrook1675

3 жыл бұрын

Love it, just like a sweet shop.

@glorysengo6289

9 ай бұрын

THANK YOU AGAIN. I FEEL LIKE A KID IN A SWEET SHOP, I’M SPOILT FOR CHOICE. I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START BROTHER GLORY SENGO.

@user-hc8sn1vs2k

7 ай бұрын

Blanche have comment I think it was the long time she left untill 1996 then 2000😮

Classic Coranation street was bloody brilliant, compared to the story line now 🎉and don’t everyone agree 🎉Annie Walker ,brought a little class to the show 🎉 RIP to all the people who have passed away from the show,that was ❤

@glamdolly30

9 ай бұрын

Yes, sad that so many of the cast are no longer with us, but what a wonderful legacy of superb performances they left for us to enjoy.

Jean Alexander always managed to steal every scene lol. Brilliant actress.

@user-kx3fq1zo6f

5 ай бұрын

Not when she was in a scene with Doris Speed she didn't!

@MarcoNegrisEye

4 ай бұрын

@@user-kx3fq1zo6f don't be daft, Annie Walker wasn't a patch on Hilda 😂

@chicagogyrl4846

Ай бұрын

The Langdon’s are the only reason I watch this, and I skip over most everything else! The Langdon’s is the reason this show survived! Every one and everything else on this show is boring and stupid!

@MarcoNegrisEye

Ай бұрын

@@chicagogyrl4846 here, I think you forgot this... 🎣 😂

I have to say, Bet Lynch is utterly magnificent. I could listen to her saucy stream of consciousness all day.

@michellefalleur960

Жыл бұрын

... She has such a brilliant delivery of her lines, no one quite like her.

@R31922

11 ай бұрын

Amen to that.

@geocasey6015

9 ай бұрын

Russell Brand of the 70s

@glamdolly30

9 ай бұрын

@@geocasey6015 What a horrible insult to the great Julie Goodyear and the superb Corrie scriptwriters!

@geocasey6015

9 ай бұрын

@@glamdolly30 I meant the hair! Apologies to Julie!

Get settled in for November 1978 and enjoy.

@pheezy1970

3 жыл бұрын

The joy you have given myself and others by uploading these ( again ,EY!) . Brings me back to a time when I was 8 and things were simple 💜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@andywright3450

2 жыл бұрын

Hey you got any more episodes too put on please

@junesymonds8340

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you ☕🍰❤

@sherylbarker9465

Жыл бұрын

Thankyou so much

Feel sorry for anybody that didn’t get to watch Coronation Street as a kid like I did right from the beginning. Thank you for these .

I was 10 years old when these episodes went out and I remember all the characters and their names. What is striking, watching as an adult, is the writing. Rita Fairclough - 'Principles are like a trapdoor, stand on them and you fall through'..... a comment made in a working class corner shop, such a gem on life. The scene where Blanche is trying to convince Dierdre to stay in her marriage was like an Alan Bennett scene, two women, sat at the kitchen table with two things between them - the ubiquitous 'gold' carriage clock, a sign of working class aspirational retirement and a ham butty on white bread without a plate, looking wilted and flat.... I almost passed over this as old TV soap rubbish - but honesly, this is just GOLD.

2.20...Eddie says let's hope she doesn't live until she is 90.. That's exactly how old she was when she died!!

Professional gun 66 you're great

@michellefalleur960

Жыл бұрын

Yes, thank you so much, these are Brilliant to have a bit of a wallow in, and go back in time, to when I was happy !

Watching November 1978, In November 2021

Ena was so lovely to Deirdre after she broke up with Ray. I love that they mellowed her character

These are fantastic when coronation street was brilliant acting and good story lines

Ena had become a much nicer person compared to the woman she was in the first episode almost 18 years previously.

@franceshaypenny8481

6 ай бұрын

She mellowed, didn't she.

Mrs Sharples would be very saddened to see what the world looks like today😢😭

@user-kx3fq1zo6f

5 ай бұрын

So would Mrs Walker and Uncle Albert.

@MarcoNegrisEye

4 ай бұрын

I'm saddened to see what the world looks like today and I wasn't even around back then 😂

Thank you for these. When you get engrossed its like youre back in 1978

@bsaunders5271

4 ай бұрын

Sometimes I wish I was.

Ray and Deirdre reunited on Anne Kirkbride's This Is Your Life - it was the highlight of the show!

@bsaunders5271

4 ай бұрын

It was great, but Anne Kirkbride later stated she was off her face on valium at the time, and couldn't feel any emotions, just numbness.

PG66 is great for uploading all of these precious videos.....

Stan and Hilda were the best,

@Lucy0809

Жыл бұрын

No worst decision to kill off Martha for these idiots-the producers even admitted this

@damiencrowley2506

Жыл бұрын

Lucy Badman most viewers would disagree as Stan and Hilda were the most popular couple and Hilda won the award for best soap character of all time .

Thank you so much for these videos. My mother was British and she passed recently. Watching these episodes makes me feel closer to her as she loved this show.

Tracy is the crabbiest baby I've ever seen. Love going back in time.

@glamdolly30

9 ай бұрын

Poor little mite was always crying for her mum - you sometimes saw her reaching out to her, behind the camera!

@franceshaypenny8481

6 ай бұрын

She's in her mid-forties now! She was a beautiful baby.

@bsaunders5271

4 ай бұрын

I hate hearing her cry, it's the cry of a little child who can see her real mum just out of camera shot and is desperate to reach her. It's just plain awful. As a mother myself I can hardly stand it.

It never really works out when you break TRUST 💔

The last few years of Coronation Street at the top of its game.

Just realised that Carol Gordon the woman that Mike offered a job too is Louisa Rix (her parents are the late actors Brian Rix & Elspet Gray) she was in Harry Enfield & Chums,Kevin & Perry Go Large (Kevin’s Mum), Brookside ( Jordaches lawyer), Colin’s Sandwich with Mel Smith & loads of other films & programs! She’s actually only 23 years old in this! 😊

@glamdolly30

9 ай бұрын

Wow great info, thanks - I knew I'd seen her before!

Don't undestand why Steve cares so much about Suzie given how badly she treats him

@shylinh5939

Жыл бұрын

Because he's a total wet fart and doesn't know when someone isn't interested, she's not even nice to him, or he likes being treated like rubbish. He's always trying to ingratiate himself with her or trying to save her, even if it's at the expense of Mike, who gave him a job and pays his wages.

@jstewart3517

Жыл бұрын

Men seems to enjoy it

@fionasteele3642

Жыл бұрын

Susie is extremely pretty ,but I don’t know why Steve Cares about her so very much , he just does .

@soniaclarkstewart

Жыл бұрын

He hoping to get lucky.

@glamdolly30

9 ай бұрын

I never thought the actress who played Suzie, Cheryl Murray, was right for the role. Suzie was supposed to be drop dead gorgeous/sexy, hence all the men going gaga over her. But she just wasn't! To be blunt, there were many prettier, more charismatic actresses around, with better figures. But more to the point, Suzie was written as a cheeky, 'naughty but nice', lovable rogue character. But Murray played Suzie as very dislikable! It was hard to warm to her. Sadly I think the actress just couldn't pull off what was required. And as often happens when an actor has settled into a role, the writers started responding to the way it's played. As a result, Suzie Birchall became a more one-dimensional, self-centred 'baddie' the longer she was in it - till finally she became so unredeemingly horrid, she had to be written out for good! Suzie betrayed her old pal Gail by trying to seduce hubby Brian, and after that Elsie finally had enough and showed her the door. Cheryl Murray cried when producer Bill Podmore called her to his office and told her he was axing Suzie. She pleaded with him to reconsider, as she'd just got a huge mortgage on a swanky house, on the strength of future earnings. But his mind was made up - and I think he was right. All Suzie had to recommend her was youth, without the charisma and sex appeal of Pat Phoenix (Elsie Tanner) she would not have aged well as a character.

The way Dierdre binned Ray was beautiful NEVER take back a fella that fucks you over……… NEVER. Elsie does herself no favours does she?

@Lucy0809

Жыл бұрын

Elsie awful actress 🙀🤮

@susandoig4192

Жыл бұрын

Ray was just after another women any woman

@marieince1479

11 ай бұрын

Was different when dreary went off with Baldwin

Pat phoenix was a fair actress, but she rushed her lines and fluffed them a lot.

@gilliangrant8764

3 жыл бұрын

I agree! She was terrible for it. Makes you wonder just how bad she really was, if the ones left in after God knows how many takes are as bad as they are...

@shylinh5939

2 жыл бұрын

I know she fluffed her lines at times, but when they were delivered rapidly, I assumed it was reflecting the character's impulsivity, the inclination to speak and act without thinking.

@williamf4544

2 жыл бұрын

I think it makes her seem more natural and realistic to be honest few of us are always word perfect all the time in real life

@thertraumatic

Жыл бұрын

Thats why we love her!

@Lucy0809

Жыл бұрын

Awful acting Winds me up 😡

The great Joe Lynch ! A great singer as well as an actor

The days when you could just up sticks an bugger of to any part of the world you felt like to live - not quite so simple now is it

@clarkpatient7950

9 ай бұрын

Especially after Brexit.

@williamf4544

9 ай бұрын

Yes thats true - messed up a lot of young folks dreams thst has - In both directions -Its them i feel sorry for in regards to Brexit@@clarkpatient7950

@pauljefferson2107

2 ай бұрын

@clarkpatient7950 It doesn't present any obstacles whatsoever to migrants, illegal immigrants and bonus asylum seekers ... ☹️ all with the blessing of the Eurocrats of the EUSSR.

@pauljefferson2107

2 ай бұрын

​@@clarkpatient7950 The EUSSR sees to it that migrants, illegal immigrants, and bogus asylum seekers have no problems in that respect ... especially when dumping them on 🇬🇧 Britain from France 🇨🇵 !

@bibakroll8999

25 күн бұрын

Oh I don’t know - I thought you could just jump into a rubber dinghy …

I started watching Coronation Street some time in the mid 80s and always was charmed by the host of characters, the mix of drama and humor. What strikes me is that, here I am, watching from a few years prior to where I started, and still find all that charm very accessable-even though I barely know the deeper plotline. Thank uou Prof -how on earth did you get all these old videos?! LOL. Well however you did-thank you so ever much!

Deirdre first said it was between Canada and Australia, and then a few days later it was between Australia and New Zealand

@Ridersonthestorm8899

9 ай бұрын

Then Holland and finally back to Weatherfield.

2:51:55 Alf Roberts looking to the left at the director for his cue to hand that extra her change!

@tonyhancock3912

3 ай бұрын

I blame the editor for that one 😁

I’m in Australia 🇦🇺 Always wanted to watch Corrie. Thank you, loving it ❤

Thank you!! I love these soaps. Makes me want to be British. Really, it does. 🙂

@Lucy0809

Жыл бұрын

It’s not Britain anymore like this we were taken over 😢

@MarcoNegrisEye

4 ай бұрын

@@Lucy0809 ain't that the truth. I never even got to experience this era which makes it worse watching how things were compared to this Orwellian 💩 hole now.

1:57 - Eddie's comment about the kippers may very well have been related to the Amoco Cadiz oil slick which had devastated fisheries in the Channel and North Sea in 1978 - it was reported that fish caught off Brittany still tasted of petrol in 1980.

Fabulous - I love it all - thank you !!!

Thank you so much for the Upload :-)

Suzie Birchall was stunning back then, gorgeous.

But Hilda /Jean lived till 90, for a few days

Oh wow they mentioned my homeland new Zealand so proud

@sherylbarker9465

Жыл бұрын

Coronation street mentions NZ quite often, always puts a smile on my face, my homeland to

Never understood Steve's continued concern for Susie and Gail, when he clearly warned them, yet they chose to carry on taking the mick out of Mike Baldwin. Their attitude to their job would have seen them fired from most places.

@carasmith549

2 жыл бұрын

Soppy Steve seems like a forerunner to soppy Ashley Peacock, who was to arrive nearly 20 years later.

@angelapay3718

Жыл бұрын

Because like most blokes he was ruled by his tallywhacker.

We knew Hilda would apologise and Deirdre would accept her apology and they’d be friends again, because we wanted it to happen and also because that’s the kind of characters they were. Even Rita softened after being such a cow to her the day before. Alright, Hilda was tactless and incurred Deirdre’s wrath, but there was no need for Rita to be so scathing. If that was a scene between today’s characters, they wouldn’t be speaking for weeks.

@shylinh5939

2 жыл бұрын

Rita was regularly rude and snide towards Hilda and scathing about her to others, about the 'the Oggies' in general. She was always a cut above them - a bit of a discount Annie Walker, She ridiculed and bullied Mavis, her so-called best friend, she was arsey towards Deidre and often Bet too. And obviously, she was full of venom when Elsie was around. though why I don't know, she's the one who ended up with Len. On second thoughts, that's enough to make anyone toxic.

@nicolataylor6011

2 жыл бұрын

Rita's horrible..dont know who she thinks she is

@williamf4544

2 жыл бұрын

Todays characters would have murdered each other and hid the bodies

@anothercomment

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, Rita should have kept out of what went on between Hilda and Deirdre, it was none of her business and not very professional for someone running a business. She must be one of the most unlikeable characters in these classic episodes of Corrie, acting all superior and the 'tough' woman. Thankfully, the character became less of a bully in her later years especially after Len dying and grew up somewhat.

@mattburke3457

2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised more people don't have a go at Hilda, she's always in everyone else's business and takes too much pleasure in the misfortunes of others

Thanks for these, I love them.😊 Hope we get to see a lot more of that DC 😂

Max Wall!! Absolutely brilliant

@joshirley2308

2 жыл бұрын

I thought I recognised him.

@derekhorne8076

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Before he moved to Kings Oak and ponced off Kath Brownlow!

@adrianmole7431

Жыл бұрын

Wally Soper didn’t like him in Crossroads either.

Deidre, Ray, and Blanche are perfect for each other. Blanche the control freak, Deidre, the coward wanting to run and hide, and Ray the selfish bastard. Perfect for each other!

@jstewart3517

Жыл бұрын

1 big happy family

@marieince1479

6 ай бұрын

Bet she didn't think about adultery when she did it to ken Barlow she always got on my nerves .

Rays mate is like boycie in only fools and horses

jack duckworth ,on 1 hour , 24 minutes.

I always fancied Betty Turpin. Right cracking bird.

@notonyournelly5475

2 жыл бұрын

yes, she was a hottie.

@ronnysimon30

2 жыл бұрын

@@notonyournelly5475 I still keep a pic of old Betty when I go drinking . The more I fancy her the less I want to drive home

Interesting fact. Stan used to model Y fronts for empire stores catalogue.

@michellefalleur960

Жыл бұрын

Well ! ... Talk about ' learn something new every day ' !!

@soniaclarkstewart

Жыл бұрын

So Stan was an underwear model! 😂😅

@gubbins1933

7 ай бұрын

Pics or it didn't happen. 📸

Len & Ray - pair of plonkers. (Len ripping into Mavis over his own shambles of a business...pretty rich.)

ugh this show is so gooooood

I remember the original broadcasts of some of these episodes,

Are we meant to feel sorry for Gail and Suzie? They were takinh liberties at work and stealing yet they seem to fell their entitled to Mike's unconditional forgiveness. Sure Mike was looking for any excuse to sack them but if anyone deserves it it's those two.

I really admired Deirdre for sticking to her word. He did the wrong thing not her. I really like them as a couple. I think it was a shame that this storyline took this turn ,but obviously the actor wanted to leave. I’m glad it showed that Deirdre wouldn’t forgive because what he did was unforgivable.

She said she was going to get her face on, but she didn’t even put on any lipstick! 🤣😂

This guy is lying right to his face, and stands there and says I’m not a liar! 😂🤣

One thing I have noticed is that the women in corrie in 1978 were a helluva lot sexier and attractive then, and Deidre even in a pinny looked gorgeous

Hilda's great. They don't make em like that anymore.

Imagine if they were still around today ( despite their age ) Stan would now be Hilda and Hilda would now be Stan ! 🤯

Deirdre get to that Olland, or you've a life with Ken Barlow waiting for you

@kevinoldham8421

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@theresapierce3934

2 жыл бұрын

A fate worse than death. Ken the most boring, self centred, drone voiced, up himself man, whoever trod the cobbles.

@bibakroll8999

2 жыл бұрын

@@theresapierce3934 And I have a feeling he was the same in real life!

@ironknobsteelworks4063

2 жыл бұрын

If I were Ken i would be buying dreary the 4 eyed fishwife a one way ticket to Holland.

@michellefalleur960

Жыл бұрын

Ha !!! .. well said !

I'm so glad I wasn't an adult back them everyone looking at deirdre as if she's the one who's done wrong for not forgiving when it was ray who couldn't keep it in his pants makes me sick

@michaelgregory8322

Жыл бұрын

Ray wasn't that bad, Deirdre put him to shame later it the show with her affairs, good character,s all the same

@glamdolly30

9 ай бұрын

Agreed, it's shocking how even Deirdre's Mum Blanche who can't bloody stand Ray, is urging her to stick with him after he cheated on her! It shows how sadly dependent women were on men back then. I seem to recall even Rita made a pious little speech about what a fool Deirdre was for throwing out a perfectly good husband. Which was prescient, since she would soon split with her own grotty hubby Len, before taking him back because she couldn't stand supporting herself as a middle aged, single woman!

Poor wee ‘Tracy’ does a lot of crying for her mummy, doesn’t she?

@cicerodiello1

Жыл бұрын

A nightmare from the day she was born.

@soniaclarkstewart

Жыл бұрын

She also caused Deidre to cry a lot 😂😂.

@jenlfpotter3870

6 ай бұрын

She doesn't cry so much in this November 1978 Corry though... but she is one heck of an emmotional annoyance.

@marieince1479

4 ай бұрын

Tracy turned out rotten to the core

“I’m not going.” 🤣😂

Brilliant Bet ❤

Poor Hilda. She brings it all on herself.

Poor Hilda, Rita needs a good slap, behaving as if shes something special.

@anothercomment

2 жыл бұрын

Rita was highly obnoxious in these classic episodes, one of the most unlikeable characters.

I'm conflicted, because it's good riddance to rotten Ray, but his departure leads us into a new phase, where we get to see Dierdre living life as a 'Single, looking to mingle'. And 'mingle' she does. Repeatedly.

@vashna3799

2 жыл бұрын

“Rotten Ray”? He was a terrific old school Jack the Lad. Stood up to Blanche when no one else did. Wasn’t a boring sod like Ken. Only had that affair because Deirdre was becoming a nagging middle aged fishwife.

@notonyournelly5475

2 жыл бұрын

@@vashna3799 I do agree.

@Lucy0809

Жыл бұрын

It’s unbelievable that he would allow Tracey to be adopted

@apollonia-ava

8 ай бұрын

Blanche !!! Young !!! Wow .. was a great actress ❤

@bsaunders5271

4 ай бұрын

​@@vashna3799oooohhh that's no excuse

I love mavis looking back at those years, she has such a kind hearted lady

@jenlfpotter3870

6 ай бұрын

But her voice alone, totally turns me off her, sounds like her windpipe's being pulped every time she speaks, or she's having her feet pulped to make her screech every syllable like that. god!

Steve is a decent loyal guy but utterly hopeless in business, he knows the shop is losing money, Gail and suzie keep leaving early, borrow gear from the shop, use the phone for endless personal calls, yet can't understand why mike wants to sack them and sell off a business that's losing money

I wish Suzie had stayed on

2:51:56. At this point, you see Alf looking for his cue to begin the scene.

Grenville from Nearest and Dearest at 3h 23

If I were Deidre I would not move. Hold your head high, who cares about the gossipers.

Did anyone notice Bill Tarmey AKA Jack Duckworth..1:23:05

I’ve never seen a bigger collar than on Elsie! 🤣😂

The last time we see Ray was in 1978 he came back in 2005 poor Neville he see Ann 😇he died in 2020

Deidria doesn't want to go 2nd thoughts

Blanche looked like a very glamarous granny.

@glamdolly30

3 жыл бұрын

Blanche was a very attractive woman in middle age. She went so thin and wizened in old age, and became quite a different character. Very waspish and very funny - but it's hard to believe it's the same woman we see in these episodes!

@shylinh5939

3 жыл бұрын

@@glamdolly30 I didn't realise she was the same woman. She's very good in these and old Blanche was excellent, so sharp, critical and funny.

@glamdolly30

3 жыл бұрын

@@shylinh5939 I agree, Maggie Jones was a very talented actress, and always totally believable as Deidre's mum. They looked increasingly like mother and daughter as the years rolled by, didn't they - even down to the glasses! After graduating from RADA in the late 1950s, Maggie Jones played several leading West End theatre roles, among them in the all-female cast of 'The Women'. Her first ever TV role in 1961 was in Coronation Street - as a policewoman! I recognised her again in a fleeting Corrie role in black and white from 1967. She played Maggie Monks, a scruffy shoplifter who got chatting to a mortified Annie Walker in a police station waiting room. Maggie advised Annie to do what she did whenever she was arrested - pretend to police she had lost her memory! (Annie was there, rather improbably, for accidentally breaking a shop window, while researching football hooliganism for herself!) Maggie took over the role of Blanche Hunt in 1974, after the suicide of actress Patricia Cutts, who played the role for just two episodes. Maggie popped in for flying visits as Blanche from 1974 - 1998, becoming a permanent cast member from 2000 to her death in 2009. She breathed life and fire into the character Blanche Hunt, making her one of the Street's best ever battleaxes. Who could forget Blanche's love-hate relationship with son-in-law Ken Barlow? Blanche had so many hilarious scenes over the years, but for me, two in particular stand out - when she hijacked her grandson Peter's Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and turned it into family therapy, and her sudden, unshakeable conviction that Ken was gay! Maggie died aged 75 in December 2009, and her screen daughter Deirdre, alias Anne Kirkbride, died just over 5 years later in January 2015, aged 60. Two very special and much-missed women and actresses - and an utterly unforgettable screen mother and daughter.

@shylinh5939

3 жыл бұрын

@@glamdolly30 Thanks for taking the time to write all this information. It's an interesting rundown on Blanche and Maggie Jones' history in Coronation Street. She and Deidrie made a good mother and daughter combination. Blanche was domineering and intrusive, but Deidrie stood up for herself, which was essential to avoid repeatedly compromising her own life and freedoms, the way Mavis did with her manipulative aunt. Blanche didn't sugarcoat anything, always upfront and direct, unsentimental, indelicate and sometimes wounding. She was also endearing and very funny. I don't remember the episode where she hijacked Peter' AA meeting, but I'd like to see it. I do remember her conviction that Ken was gay -brilliant. I loved the way she cut straight through Ken's pomposity and sense of his own rightness in everything. After years of Ken's moral and intellectual grandstanding over his less well-equipped neighbours, it was so refreshing. Blanche was in the tradition of older no-nonsense strong, opinionated matriarchs but with her own twist, avoiding stereotype. Characters like this are an important addition to soaps and one that's absent from today's CS. Maybe Rita and Audrey come the closest but neither are really in that mould.

@glamdolly30

3 жыл бұрын

@@shylinh5939 It's a real pleasure chatting with another fan of vintage Corrie. I'm fascinated by the plotting and scripting of these old episodes, which are surely some of the finest TV drama the UK's ever produced. Crucially the action is always character-driven, which is what powers it and gives it truth and authenticity. It also boasted a superb cast list back then. I gave up on modern Corrie about 10 years ago. Today it's so far from the quality drama it once was, it shouldn't be allowed to carry the Coronation Street name at all IMO! As you identified, the Street's female characters were fantastic, providing the backbone of the soap from its launch in 1960. Strong women are what made it so gripping - reflecting creator Tony Warren's own family and his formative experiences of working class Lancashire life. They might not have been able to admit it, but the women ran the show - on and off screen! As a child, Tony Warren would hide under his mother's kitchen table and eavesdrop on the women, aunties, grandmas, cousins and family friends, gossiping over pots of tea. This no doubt, is where he got his superb ear for dialogue - especially female badinage - and probably a few juicy plots too! As I mentioned, I don't watch Corrie now, but I recently caught a TV report about Maureen Lipman's character. She was clearly intended to be a battleaxe in the Blanche Hunt style, but the clips of her I saw were just a load of badly overacted, poorly written, cliched insults. Not a patch on Blanche, or any of the legendary battleaxes of old - Hilda Ogden, Ena Sharples, Annie Walker, Vera Duckworth and Ivy Tilsley among them - who graced vintage Coronation Street. Hilarious how Ken was the Street intellectual, regarded on a level with Stephen Hawking just because he went to Uni! The number of professional careers he walked into with ease (some with questionable qualifications), was ridiculous. In the Seventies his council 'job description' appeared to be clutching a clipboard and loitering in the Rovers selling raffle tickets. Did he really need a degree for that?! He also had various stints as a teacher at primary and secondary schools, and a sudden, crunching gear-change to become a taxi driver. In the 'eighties he inexplicably morphed into Weatherfield's answer to Rupert Murdoch, as editor of a free sheet that employed only one reporter! But of course Ken was drunk with power and abused it to do a hatchet job on his nemesis Mike Baldwin's new Graffitti nightclub. The newspaper's owner wasn't having that (Mike was a big buyer of advertising), and put Ken firmly back in his box! Ken's pathological pomposity was constantly asking to be pricked, and a bloody huge, razor sharp 'pin' arrived in the shape of Blanche Hunt. I loved Blanche from her earliest appearances, giving her loutish son-in-law Ray Langton a tongue lashing for refusing to change Tracy-luv's nappies. It's a miracle Deirdre persuaded so many men to marry her (Ken twice), when she came as a package-deal with the mother-in-law from hell! If you've never seen Blanche's magnificent 'Alcoholics Anonymous' takeover of 2009, you are in for a treat. Here's the link - Enjoy! XXX kzread.info/dash/bejne/i5N4t6dqmrytl8Y.html

Ray and his screaming banshee,wife,mother-in-law and tracy, he didn't stick around to see adult banshee tracy,mother-in-law blanch didn't want ray for son inlaw until she heard money contract then she want sour dearie to stick with him.😂😂😂😂

And as it happened Deidre did end up stuck on the Street forever.

@MarcoNegrisEye

4 ай бұрын

She did get to Morocco for a short while though.

If I had $1 for every time that I have heard “daft” on here! 🤣😂

The Rover has champagne all of the sudden??! 😂🤣

He’ll be making a packet of money down there??! Doing what??! 😂🤣

Not many people realise that calling someone a Berk is cockney rhyming slang - 'Berkshire Hunt .... C*nt !'

OLLAND?

Why is the pub closed at 5:30??! 😂🤣

They went through two bottles of champagne at lunch??! 😂🤣

The way they talk about how people are only out for themselves nowadays (in the 70s) maybe it was Thatcher that caused this to bleed through to even now (2023)

Continuity mistakes again, in 1974 Eddie Yeats cooked Xmas Dinner for him, Albert Tatlock, Ena Sharples and Minnie Caldwell as he had been chef in Walton Nick!

So she already got her wedding dress, then backed out! 😂 Well, this is no surprise! 😂🤣

Rita is compensation for Elsie Tanner.

So just where does this Deidre work??! I’ve never seen her anywhere but at home, at that store, or the pub! Never heard any mention of one, either! 🤣😂

Mavis deserved a medal - i cant be doing with old folk - no pleasing them

No way in the real world would Ray allow Ken to adopt Tracey

@susandoig4192

Жыл бұрын

He never came back to see his daughter through her childhood

@MarcoNegrisEye

4 ай бұрын

He wasn't exactly the doting father. He even disagreed with Deirdre getting an evening job as he would have to look after Tracey when he'd rather be down the pub.

It’s a pit Dreary didn’t leave when Ray did.

I swear these women all look 10 years older than they actually are!

Ah Mike just had to be Cock of the Walk didn’t he?

the early bet was the best tho i felt sorry when it went wrong for her she certainly could pick a bad one eddie was a criminal but he cared

Yeah, it’s gonna cost a packet to get the 3 of you down there, too! And just where is he going to work when he gets down there??! 🤣😂

This Harry was the Yankee that came to see Hilda!! 😂🤣

They should never have killed off Martha and replace with Ogdens such a big mistake