No sordid secrets. No stupid twists. No murders. Just life!!!!

@zacmumblethunder7466

22 күн бұрын

This wasn't long after Stan had been held hostage at gunpoint by the man who murdered Steve Tanner. I watched some old episodes from the 60s. I was surprised at the sensational stuff they had in it. There was even a scene where a policeman remarked on all the incidents in one street.

It was way better back then, they had real characters in the show back then, and the acting was better! The story lines in the present Coronation Street now, is all about prison, misery, affairs, and aggression! This was classic television, and was great watching! The 60s and 70s rule!

@mikehudson8884

Ай бұрын

And the colour was richer...As you say the storylines are all misery but also the scenes in the current Corrie are so dark and dimly lit...

@TheBigMidweek1889

Ай бұрын

Corrie started going downhill when Eastenders came on the scene. It's got more and more like the London soap over time, even down to the seat where people sit and feel sorry for themselves. Whether it was to compete with viewing figures who knows, but it certainly ruined it.

@sergioalmasy8722

Ай бұрын

​@@TheBigMidweek1889Actually, Cori was quite good in the Nineties. The script had a lot of humour around 1997, the characters continual banter amongst themselves was much better viewing than the violence/crime dished out by EastEnders.

@TheBigMidweek1889

Ай бұрын

@@sergioalmasy8722 Yes, I think Reg Holdsworth appeared in it around that time. His character and humour really gave it a lift.

@sergioalmasy8722

Ай бұрын

@@TheBigMidweek1889 That's right, Ken Morley was on the Street as Reg Holdsworth from October 1989 to around late 1995, with a few cameo and spin-offs appearances in the following decade. There were some hilarious storylines involving him and Curly Watts during this era!

The golden period of Coronation st..when 22million people had to wait almost a week to find out who nicked a Fiver out of Emily Bishop's purse

@Tidybitz

Ай бұрын

We only had 2 channels until 1964, 3 channels thereafter until the 80s, there were no other channels to watch so of course the viewing figures were high.

Thankyou another great episode. Sad this would be the last Christmas for Jack Walker played by the wonderful Arthur Leslie , Jack as a character I have warmed to greatly.

@SteveHarris-nv9iy

Ай бұрын

Eeee Annie love is sort of his saying isn't it.When he's trying to calm Annie down or win her over.

@user-np2nv5qc3r

Ай бұрын

I loved Stan and hilda ❤

Miss these days when story lines were good, stopped watching 2o years ago when it started going about murders and stopped being about families, or about getting married and having a family

@gill8779

Ай бұрын

Same here, stopped watching Emmerdale at the same time.

Those were the days on the cobbles!⭐️

An England that is gone now.

@jaredini

Ай бұрын

Yup when everyone worked hard, kept their homes spotless and everyone got through life the best way they could. Not like now with labels and ghettoising themselves

Pat phoenix was such a beautiful lady. I still think about her.

I'm not someone who would be considered your "typical" Coronation Street fan. But I discovered the show at about the same time period as this program.I was a lonely kid, single parent, low income, and I skipped a lot of school. Somehow, the atmosphere and "shabby" surroundings were comforting. I could relate to the characters. A lot were like me. I lived on another continent, and yet, the show was eminently relatable. Great show, wonderful cast, compelling stories. I loved cranky Mrs Sharples!!

Today's Coronation Street is a reflection of the times we live in, just like this episode from 1969 is. The country hasn't got any better, unfortunately.

Elsie Tanner does indeed look fantastic here and is wearing fashions that look at least 10 years ahead of their time

Elsie was so glamorous and Pat put her soul into the part. Ena mellowed in her old age, Violet knew exactly how to play her. They made you believe in and care for the characters. You could relate to them. Now the Street is totally alien to me.

Minnie Caldwell was one of the best characters in these older episodes.

Probably the most dramatic episode I've seen so far of these early colour ones... all in all some quite sad occurrences to see out the old and ring in the new! Solid acting though and surely it would have people gripped, wondering what 1970 would bring. As always, many thanks for uploading it.

Very interesting episode, thank you very much again! Interesting that there's no mention about it being the end of the 60s - maybe that sort of 'end of' thinking wasn't much of a big deal then. Fascinating that Hilda defends Stan so ferociously even to their daughter despite them both knowing that Irma's right about him not being keen to work - Hilda even slapping her which I thought was quite a moment. And not many regulars for Auld Lang Syne - I understand episodes were filmed much closer to transmission then so maybe the actors were on holiday - Ken, Val, Albert, Len, Maggie etc. I loved yet another example of Ena's kind and thoughtful nature under the stern facade - finding Elsie and gently ensuring she didn't see the new year in alone - marvellous. PS You may know the January and Feb 1970 episodes are already all here on KZread, but there's nothing from March and very few from April - if you have any from March on that would be so so great - thanks once more!

@michaeldoolan7864

Ай бұрын

My sentiments exactly

@Jack_Warner

Ай бұрын

New Years Day didn't become a bank holiday until 1974.

@rabbit64sj91

Ай бұрын

Ten years later, on NYE 1979, the cast did look back on the 70s, Annie Walker referring to them as the "savage seventies." I remember it by then as I was almost sixteen. 😀

Stan looks like he's trying out for Dexy's Midnight Runners 1980 era of Geno etc.

@EveEve5

Ай бұрын

Come on Stanley

@faithmapstone9982

Ай бұрын

Good ans!!​@@EveEve5

@TheGodParticle

Ай бұрын

Lol good one.

@carmenbalcomb4106

Ай бұрын

Ha ha that made me smile,cos I saw Dexy's in 1980 with the Donkey jackets.😊

Those were the days when people had respect for each

@alban1959

Ай бұрын

Like Stan Ogden

Thank you for posting this. I haven't seen many episodes from this period, so this is a treat. And, it is so different from today's show (which I have not watched in 20 years.)

No crap acting no rush to get to the adverts and the proper theme tune. Quality TV. Quality Coronation Street

I used to love Corrie Street. I even remember this broadcast on that New Year's Eve. I was half way through my second year in Grammar School. Corrie Street was far more appealing than the Latin books that I was meant to be studying over the Xmas holidays. Happy days!❤

@SashineB

Ай бұрын

I never saw it in those days, so I'm glad to see old episodes here and there. I haven't watched CS in 20 years now. I just found the way they were going with the storylines, and getting rid of older characters, etc. was disappointing.

@pauldg837

Ай бұрын

@@SashineB Like you I don't follow it anymore. It doesn't have the same wonderful characters that the old shows had. Nor the great scriptwriting that made us all watch it back in those days. Thank you for your comment.

@rabbit64sj91

Ай бұрын

I was in the first year of infants, turning six, 6 weeks later! I do remember it being on TV at home, but we had black and white until 1973. 😀

@pauldg837

Ай бұрын

@rabbit64sj91 I'll bet when you were 6 that you never thought that one day you would be 60! I know I never ever thought that I would grow old, I thought that happened only to some people. 😂 Well I guess I am one of those 'some people' as I turn 68 next month. Lol.

@rabbit64sj91

Ай бұрын

​@@pauldg837you're not wrong! I turned sixty in February, and I can hardly believe how quickly time goes by. I know it's highly unlikely I will be around in 60 years time, 2084, that's for sure, haha! 😂🤣

Fabulous. Thank you so much for putting these up.

Thank you thank you thank you!

This is when I was happy and the reason I come back to watch this. 7-30 pm Coronations streets on John

Woop-woop I've been longing for this, I could kiss you!!

Brian Mills directed many memorable episodes during the 1980s most notably the Ken/Derdrie/Mike triangle climax.

The acting was so much better and more real

When Corrie went colour, the settings became more realistic as opposed to the dark and dingy settings of the earlier seasons and locations became outdoors with more natural light.

Good old Workshy Stan and his Nicotine Fingers worrying about getting cold as a Carpark Attendant and then heading off to the Flying Horse to drown his Sorrows.

@wintersun398

Ай бұрын

Stan had died by the time I recall watching corrie as a kid in the 80's. Blimey he really was workshy. Being a carpark attendant would have meant getting off his arris and walking around.

End of the decade

@michaeldoolan7864

Ай бұрын

World was a very different place on 31st December 1969 than it was on 1st January 1960

Thank you so much! X

Hilda doesn't age at all, except gracefully, in the 80s she looks almost the same as in the 60s. Brilliant character and actress ❤

Annie Walker’s hairdo is a revelation in itself

These have been a real treat, Steve. I hope some more of 69 eventually surfaces ( the introduction of Janet Reid) and also 1970 (the exit of the Flemings).

I love these old episodes. Keep them coming!

Been awaiting this! Irma is yet to explain what was going so badly wrong. I hope you will show some more xorrie soon, its such a joy to watch these rather than read summaries which is all there was before you began uploading Steve. 🎉🎉🎉

@michaeldoolan7864

Ай бұрын

They were brilliant

@ysgol3

Ай бұрын

Hi, we never did find out directly - except that when Irma returned home in April after the tragedy she said that she and David had been arguing when it happened. It seems she didn't like Australia, wasn't really maternal and was getting fed up of David!

@dannyhardie3495

Ай бұрын

@@ysgol3 yes, it would be a common enough problem, post natal deppression, homesickness, and a marriage that doesnt stand the intensity of knowing no one else.

Has Stan Ogden varnished his head 😂

Geno! Geno! Geno! Geno!.

Í was 10 then, great to see them all again 🎬🤩 colour aas well, used to just love Mini Calledwell. In fact the first cat the family had we called her MINI😍💯 I remember she was with us when this aired.... GOD bless them all🙏 Ena was an accomplished Singer and pianist, great to see her playing 😁🥇🤩

Pat Phoenix looked better as she got older a very attractive lady

Never liked Alan Browning in Coronation Street. I know Pat Phoenix was married to him in real life, and apparently got him the job, but character of Alan Howard he portrays is a humourless git, and not Elsie's type at all.

@SteveHarris-nv9iy

Ай бұрын

I think he has more charm in these episodes when he was introduced.Than say in 72 or 73 ones.

@ysgol3

Ай бұрын

Hi, I agree, for me the problem is he's ludicrously over- intense, as if he's playing Macbeth not Alan Howard! He was a horrible man too apparently - a conceited egomaniac - made poor Pat's life a misery until the booze thankfully killed him in about 1979.

@SteveHarris-nv9iy

Ай бұрын

@@ysgol3 I do think Pat Phoenix could give as good as she got though.I don't see her been a victim in real life at all.She dated Tony Booth too,so liked her bad boys.

@ysgol3

Ай бұрын

@@SteveHarris-nv9iy Fair point, yes, though Alan Browning became a chronic alcoholic, hard even for someone like Pat. I wonder how she really felt - we'll never know now of course.

Real times,real humanity,

Minnie and Sonny-Jim were my favourite…

Elsie is the Sophia Loren of the North!

I always thought Alan was a handsome fella. 🤩✨✨✨

@juliepownall1063

Ай бұрын

Shame he was an alcoholic

Fab!

Hilda’s Christmas tree is tiny😂

IT broadcast on Wednesday 31 December New Year eve 1969

Watching Minnie Caldwell, you can see where David Renwick got his inspiration for Mrs. Worboys in "One Foot In The Grave", though I'm not sure how bad Margot Bryant's memory was at this point and adding to her air of obliviousness. Seeing Irma berate her father for being a lazy bastard is peculiar as here Bernard Youens seems so young and active - nothing like the shambling, slurring and immobile figure I remember Stan Ogden being when I was a child (Youens had a stroke in 1975 and was never the same again). They're playing this Alan Howard / Elsie Tanner plot for all they're worth here. Modern soaps would have got them together before Christmas, but I guess they're going to string everyone along for another few weeks despite it being obvious how it will turn out.

@SteveHarris-nv9iy

Ай бұрын

Margot's memory only really started to go in 1976.And not wanting to be a burden to production team retired straight away.Before that was just good acting absent minded on her part.

@SteveHarris-nv9iy

Ай бұрын

Matthew I did Skorpion Part 4 last weekend.You must not have seen yet as didn't review it.

they should really reshow the it from the first colour episode onwards, much more interesting than the 90's ones they have on.

I wonder if Margaret Thatcher modeled some of her theatrics on Annie Walker. I'm sure she must been very aware of her when working on building her image and public persona.

Wow I’m 58 and remember Hilda

I watched these from its start in 1959 in UK as a teenager. It was family viewing then. Only now do i see the humour and clever writing and wonderful acting in them, as a pensioner in Australia, by watching all the old episodes on KZread. You can see them set out year by year. I've reached 1985 from the beginning onwards and its easy watching. But I will stop at 2000 as I know Coro lost its good writers and character actors in later years. This series reflected the morality of past days and good neighbourliness, told with humour, despite post war poverty, and at age 77, I am saddened at the world we live in today. Its not improved, other than financially for many. Im grateful its accessible to all via KZread.

@robertsauvage9745

Ай бұрын

First Episode was aired on 9th December 1960

What's next now you've done 1969.? Thanks for these btw. Another one for my collection

@SteveHarris-nv9iy

Ай бұрын

I already answered this in my community page about 10 days ago.You can either check that or wait a few days to see

The last day of the swinging sixties. 30 years until the year 2000.

Bringing in 1970. year i was born.

Jeez, that was depressing

What will you post next??

😊

Cori has gentrified itself starting around 2001. Don't watch it anymore, the script writers may as well be the same writers as Emnerdale and Eastenders! There is very little difference!

Proper corra not like that crap they put on now, I can’t watch it anymore it’s that bad

@cazweston1148

Ай бұрын

These episodes were before my time, and I didn't start watching Corrie till the late 80's as a teenager. But I stopped watching about six years ago, it's not a family show any more, and full of controversial storylines.

That was so sweet of Ina at the end. Do you have the next one after this?

@corrieplattfan4847

Ай бұрын

Just search ‘Coronation Street January 1970’. Somebody has uploaded the entire month in full there.

@dianewalker4633

Ай бұрын

@@corrieplattfan4847 Thank you. Found it.

Don't mention Beastenders 😂😂😂😂😂

Why was Irma never mentioned again after 1979?

@SteveHarris-nv9iy

Ай бұрын

Well the actress quit the show in the early 70's.Leaving them having to rewrite lots of scripts.I don't know why she got sick of making it.She did though,shame as great character on it.

@andynightingale7335

Ай бұрын

@@SteveHarris-nv9iy does seem odd tho that Stan & Hilda never mentioned her again!

As the millenials would say ver relateable - whatever that is😢

No! It's not Eastern Europe !

Didnt knows the odgens had a daughter

@SteveHarris-nv9iy

Ай бұрын

You must not know their background very well then.As Irma featured a lot more than Trevor their Son ever did.

@linda-nl8ib

Ай бұрын

@@SteveHarris-nv9iy I remember her son Was a regular watching it Maybe before my time

@ysgol3

Ай бұрын

They started (incredibly!) with four kids, some in care, two quickly vanished without explanation, and the horrible Trevor appeared briefly and irregularly, with poor proud Hilda staunchly defending him (like she did Stan here) despite knowing deep down what he was like. He even left his mother after the briefest of visits after Stan (who couldn't stand him) died!

@alhilford2345

Ай бұрын

Irma is married to David Barlow, Ken's younger brother.

@alicecobb7763

Ай бұрын

Me too 🤔. Never heard mention of her at all

Ive stopped watching Corrie now . Sick of the wokeism . Watching a gay vicer constantly kissing his husband , has just finished it for me. Kids constantly telling the grown ups what to do . Biased politics its gone from bad to worse.

4 pound aweek and its took years to get to 10 50 for wages today disgusting