Much missed like before not like todays episodes. Too dark.

That’s one of the main reasons why I love these episodes. Memories of a simpler life xx

Iiii but

Oh iiiiij no

That's usually because people were more trustworthy maybe.....and landlords

Most definitely. Here in Adelaide rentals are extremely hard to come by since Covid and they’re very expensive. A rental comes up for lease and there are at least 50 people applying.

Me too and I'm still a man, I don't know how he was ever good enough for Rita 🤢

Still recall the jokes at the time of his sexual molestation charges - 'Thumbs up for Len Fairclough' 😂😂

That's Ken's MO. He is Judgemental of the way other people live their lives but does precisely what he wants, he might agonise briefly, then decides he's right as usual.

She does turn from Scottish to English later on so you can’t blame him lol 😂

Yes it was a shame she couldn't return due to her ill health, she was a brilliant actress and it was a pleasure to watch her.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

As does Elsie's

This was when the show was worth watching, it's absolute garbage now and not worthy of the name 'Coronation Street'.

Hence why we are here watching this. Funny to think I watched it on the telly all those years ago.

@@glamdolly30 but do you still watch it. it seems to me that you catch glimpse of it from time to time when you state it is total garbage. yes, I do agree whole earthly its total rubbish garage with actors who can't act and but impersonating voice accents. they should end the series altogether like neighbours was axed in Australia due to it couldn't get a tv station to air it.

Dean pipe it's the actors/actresses who can act .and the storylines that the portray that's where the problem. Lies it ran his course to me in the mid 1990s .

@@MultiKs22 I agree, I would like to see 'Coronation Street' axed, as it's no longer the quality drama it was, and in my view no longer worthy of the name! The stark difference in quality between the show it used to be, and the dross it is today, is only too clear when you watch vintage episodes like these, from its prime. I last caught an episode around 3 years ago, and was shocked at both the poor standard of acting, and the weak, cliched script. But I share your view that the rot set in by the late 'nineties - I generally date the Street's demise to the arrival of the ghastly Battersbys.

What? utter bitchiness, nastiness, vitriol, hatred, spite, loathing, jealousy & hypocrisy, then we have the charming Mr Barlow, with his reputation, his on set nickname of being called ‘cockroach’ it’s pure heaven to watch. Oh & don’t forget the evil bitter twisted thoughts of Mr Tatlock. That’s one OAP who should have lost his memory coming back from his allotment.

brotherlove the say the older the man the better he is more experienced in the bedroom department .

Actor Richard Shaw (born 19th November 1920), who played lothario trucker Dan, wasn't even attractive! If he'd been a tall, gorgeous Sean Connery type fair enough, but he was a deeply unsexy short-arse, who always looked like his enormous sheepskin coat was wearing HIM! The first two posters are absolutely right - definite shades of Sid James. And Bet and Elsie were supposed to be head over heels and fighting over this charmless, geriatric dwarf? Not remotely credible! That particular bit of disastrous casting (Dan the supposedly 'sexy, love-cheat lurry driver'), is a real bugbear of mine. Along with other casting nightmares involving gorgeous actresses in their physical prime, and embarrassingly over-the-hill actors. IMO Granada's Corrie has a history of choosing the most unappealing males as romantic leads for it's most glamorous leading ladies. They must have been male casting directors, for female casting directors would surely have cast those roles very differently! What an insult to the Street's most gorgeous sirens like Bet Lynch, Elsie Tanner and Rita Littlewood, who were forced to play love scenes with hideous old blokes like warty toad Peter Adamson, John Junkin and even Max Wall!

@@glamdolly30 Bet always got the worst. Dan Johnson was particularly repulsive in every way, but she never got together with an attractive and decent man. Des Foster, Alf's colleague on the council used her and lied to her. The policeman, who was happy to have a non-serious good time with her but was interested in Rita. And she briefly had something going with Len Fairclough and Jack Duckworth! Obviously, none of them is up to much, but Dan is by far the worst. He looks like he needs to be hosed down.

​@@glamdolly30😂😂😂😂😂🎉

later in the 90s she meets Charlie the truck driver, he was nice and treated her well but they just didn't last. Bet seems incapable of sustaining happiness, it's like she feels she doesn't deserve it@@shylinh5939

LMAO! That Bo-Peep wig was horrendous!

😂😂😂

"...gastric flu" 🤕 😂

give over you doughnut

I remember my first job in the late 80s, friday was pub dinner, I'd have 2 pints and be staggering about all afternoon, the older guys found it funny af of course. 😂 I Just realised I was only 16/17 as well ffs.

@@skapunkno1 and I'd b running to wee all afternoon 😂 But you have nice memories 🙏👍

The pubs were full at lunchtime back then, and more than a few couldn't make it back into work in the afternoon. They would usually blame lunchtime food poisoning from the pub lunch 😂 and phone in work sick before ordering the next pint.

@@manuelhung7571 😂

hard working class northerners with cast iron constitutions. would you like a biscuit?

I remember watching this as a kid and rolling around laughing that Dan Johnson was supposed to be attractive to women. Elsie scraping the bottom of the barrel!

​@@mathewdunne5771LOL

@@mathewdunne5771 A big LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣

​@@mathewdunne5771I always thought thick as a plank Len being a sex symbol was a bit of a stretch 😅

​@@mathewdunne5771 Maybe Elsie had early onset cataracts.

Dan is about as attractive as a sack of hair.

I think it represented a state of mind more than anything. A feeling of being trapped, lonely etc..that can lead you to some terrible choices.

I think they were that desperate. Only someone who's given up on life or gone insane could possibly find Dan Johnson anything other than hideous and to be avoided.

You made me smile. Thank you. 🎉

Carasmith.

would you like a biscuit treacle?

God bless her, Violet Carson was a legend.

And Granada Plus cut her final line 🤦🏻‍♂️ #slowclap

@@glamdolly30 I loved Violet Carson’s portrayal of no-nonsense Ena Sharples, she was beautifully abrupt & an expert at putting people in their place. 👏👏

@@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351 Absolutely, a superbly written character, brilliantly brought to life by the late, great Violent Carson. I think the cast of 'Coronation Street' in its glory years (1976-1984), have achieved the closest thing to immortality you can get - we're still watching them, talking about them and enjoying their performances 50 years later - and will continue to do so!

@@glamdolly30 I agree, Violet Carson was a formidable lady, and she may have been similar to her Character in real life? Coronation Street suffered after 1984, after all the big names exited the show. These episodes on KZfaq are the real halcyon days of ‘the street’ & it’s a privilege to rewatch them.

Ha! Ha! Dan is possibly the worst piece of casting ever seen. A swarthy dwarf pensioner, with a fake Cock-er-nee accent, who we are supposed to believe was such hot stuff that the Street's sex sirens Elsie and Bet both went ga-ga over him. As if! What an insult to those two great actresses (and a challenge to their acting skills), to play love scenes with that! I looked up the actor and if memory serves he was in his sixties here - so too old to be convincing as a lorry driver, least of all a lothario!

@@glamdolly30 lol 😂, I love your description of him, ‘swarthy dwarf pensioner! 🤣🤣🤣. The actor Richard Shaw was almost 60 years old at the time of these episodes. I agree, he was totally miscast, Elsie & Bet’s desperation at trying to hang on to this man was a ridiculous premise by the writers, but in 1980 people thought differently than say now. Just goes to show how amazing both Julie Goodyear & Pat Phoenix (both total legends 🤩🤩) were to convince the watching public that their characters would put up with that man. It was laughable 😂😂.

They were born on 5 April 1965, so would have turned fifteen in April 1980. 😉

@@rabbit64sj91 Two years before myself.

would you like a biscuit?

Absolutely reflection of daily life not some made up stuff taking on problems of the era Not some made up gobbledygook that has nothing with real life today

Like the adverts!

Thankfully, it totally disappears from his vocabulary after his stroke, so episodes after December 1982 until his last appearance in July 1983. Those episodes are a delight to watch. I got sick of his bloody catchphrase!

I've counted 22 times since his first utterance

LoL 😂

She would fit in much better today with her acting skills 😂

I remember when he was dancing with Elsie and he was trying to unzip her dress. She was laughingly resisting him, but I was appalled. I rely on the the posts here so I don’t know what happened after that.

Annie Walker said odious as I read odious in the comment. Snap.

He was Eddie Yates first.... always will be.

No, different actress

I can't agree with that sorry. Such a chauvinistic attitude lol

I saw him in Jim's Cafe too.....

power of youtube easy to find scenes without them. would you like a biscuit?

@@moaningpheromones obviously she didn't have them in every scene, they were her trademark the same with Nora Batty..the power of KZfaq to bring out the hard of thinking folks

I'm a business man nar, a run a fruit n veg stawwwwl darn in wawlfud

It's hard to believe you're bothered by it. It makes no sense given the context of the conversation, and there's no hatred towards people with other skin colours.

Who 's the bloke who was in Minder ' or the Sweeney?

@@paulfrost8895 Im not sure..never watched the Sweeney....