So true. The current Corrie is a woke mess of sadness and horrible writing.

I have never liked her ...too passive aggressive for me , mind you they all are that's the fun of it 😅

Aggravating. Excellent word to describe Gale/Gail.

It all got so much worse after her affair with Ian. And after she had Sarah it's like she aged about 30 years and has stayed the very same until today. Insufferable.

It would only take two seconds for a pain in the arse like that to realise no one else would be daft enough to marry her.

​@@MarcoNegrisEyeshe ended up with 5 husbands

Who lets a dog in a cafe, sticking its nose above the table top?

Because she doesn't have a chin.

@@journeybymoonlight3216 😁

Gail has been a misery since the beginning

@@marieince1479 Ain't that the truth!

Brian started as a stage musical dancer ... if you can imagine a plank of wood dancing!

I do, I thought she must have been like 10 when Vera was born, LOL. she's a nasty old bird anyway, LOL

I loved Amy

She was a great actress but in Corrie her attempts at a northern accent were crap. She keeps lapsing back into her native cockney vowels.

And Audrey is only 7 years older than Gail.

cannot stand that character, no replacement for hilda

gail has the mouth of a fish ..the producers dropped a clanger as letting school children gamble on fruit machines is against the law ,,

@@bonapolone every time Ivy says "Brian", she prefaces it with "our". She says "our Brian" so often that in my head it sounds like "R. Brian"

Funny that, cos I couldn't care less about the pair of them 😉

@@bonapolone His first name is Richard but prefers to be called by his second name

Ivy gives off so many ‘red flags’ how Don didn’t pick up on them I don’t know.

Some things never change!

@@joannesaltfleet2071 my mission is to stop whining about Gail's whinging +_+

She's a proper pain in the neck.

Does she ever do anything else?

@@youtubehatesus2651 LOL - good luck with that! :)

Brilliant 😂

Is that your kitty in the pic then?

I wish she would shut up in general.

Looks like there's no pleasing some people!

and blind

Brian has all the emotional depth of a dead dog

You gave Gail an E

A very odd storyline

Often hard to pinpoint an exact turning point but it's fair to argue that Hilda's departure at Christmas 1987 marked the start of Corrie going significantly downhill. I'd add the awful Don Brennan to your list of irritating new characters. A combination of wooden (like his leg would be in a few years time), and ridiculous over-acting.

@@kevinfowkes2327 yes! I always thought his false leg was less wooden than its owner

Agree.add to the list..Kevin, Martin,.

Mike was a valued punter. Always ordered the good scotch instead of cheap ale! Maybe that's why Alec was lenient.

I had been racking my brain wondering where I'd seen him 😮😊

I spotted her. I put a comment about it somewhere

@@bsaunders5271 Yes you did make a comment about Nicola, but not until her second short stint on the show some 4 months later when you commented in the June 1988 section.

@@TheGlassman63 ah, ok

yeah but Ken said the word bloody

I find her murderous to watch when she is doing her pathetic dithering bit.

Priscilla looks like Margaret in Brookside - the girlfriend of Anna Friel's character. This would be a few years after these 1988 Corrie episodes.

@@carasmith549 she is that actress

Nah, Lennard Pearce died at the arse end of 1984.

O.B.? (It's not something I know anything about.)

@@bibakroll8999 Outside Broadcast. Basically, all the exterior shots are now recorded on videotape, like in the studio and there's a uniform look. They stopped using film for exteriors.

@@davidbull7210 Oh, right. Thank you for taking the time to reply. :)

That’s not true, they used OB cameras for some location work right back to the beginning, sometimes blending with film. Then sometime in the 1970s union regulations meant film was used for *all* location scenes (even Eastenders on location in Venice wasn’t spared this), finally relaxing the requirement in February 1988.

@@francofan100 I'm surprised to hear that but I'll take your word for it. Had no idea that EastEnders had used film early on. Interesting.

Christopher Quinten played Brian tilsey

Not just you, she is probably the worst character ever on the Street. I have never felt compassion for her in any storyline, she's a whiney harridan and seems to have been since birth. No matter what anyone says, she is 1,000 times worse than Ivy ever was. Ivy used to cause arguments because they meant something to her, Gail just causes arguments for the sake of fighting. Horrible character.