I think you're right even more so because of just how mental she was and the complete opposite of Ivy outside of the character.

Yes i agree with you 100% So many seem to find fault with Ivy & way back when these episodes were 1st broadcast i also couldnt stand Ivy Yet 40 odd years on & rewatching these episodes i find i have a real soft spot for Ivy Shes a tiny little woman with steely determination & lives for her family & underneath her armour played exterior is a very tender heart filled with compassion & respect. She tries hard to be good & loyal & does her best to provide for her family & friends Her inquisitive nature has a tendancy to poke her nose in abit too far but she isn't malicious & only wants to get to the bottom of things & help I admire her gutsy attitude but i didnt like Don Brennan! He was too slippery & cunning & aggressive & dominated Ivy I really loved Bert Tilsley he was such a good kind gentle man to his family & community Sadly missed I thought Ivy previous chap, George? Mike Baldwin's driver Was much better suited to Ivy & only Ivys faith prevented her from marrying him as he was only divorced & not a widower. Don't know if you know but Ivys ( Lynne Perrie) brother in real life was a very well know comedian, often on tv & comedy shows called Dougie Brown In fact i think Lynne & Dougie were twins. Anyway nice to see a fellow Ivy fan Cheers 🇬🇧👧

I have to correct you there, Lynne Perrie and Duggie Brown were sister and brother but they weren’t twins.. in fact Lynne was 9 years older than Duggie.

@@EveHenleySpread Ah thank you for your correction I wasnt quite sure about Lynne & Dougie In fact i rather liked Dougie Brown & found him funny Its said that Lynne Perrie & Liz Dawn were a comedic duo touring the club circuit with Dougie Brown before they hit the big time in Corrie I wonder if Bill Tarmey, Jack Duckworth was also on the club scene? Bill is a pretty good piano man & whether he has a good voice in reality & only sings abit iffy because of Jacks character i know not. I do remember actress Violet Carson ( Ena Sharples) was a well known pianist in real life & all her scenes where she sat at the organ, was her really playing. Makes you wonder who else from the past also started out on club circuits or prior to Corrie, had hidden talents in entertainment Thanks for your info 🇬🇧👧

@@itallia666 I remember Bill Tarmey gave a very moving rendition of 'Wind Beneath My Wings' dedicated to his wife at the end of his 'This Is Your Life' episode. He had a very good voice.

I always hated gail she didnt give brian the funeral his mum wanted out of spite

@@CatServant13 It’s so much better than Corrie of 2022

@@CatServant13 Oh ok I do think it’s got better but there’s just no quality drama or character development it needs major improvement

@@CatServant13 I was like that I stopped watching a long time I’ve just started again I’ll give it a little time but it’s still not as good as the amazing older days

@@CatServant13 I do agree with you I know loads people who have stopped

Coronation Street had a cast of superbly talented actors - Lynn Perrie amongst them!

Yes, a great actress

For all her off screen troubles, Lynne was fantastic as Ivy.

@@zanducktv2398 off screen troubles?

Jean Alexander as Hilda was another one of the few actors on the street not playing an exaggerated version of themselves!

And Gail had no sympathy for her at all. Despite it being all her fault Brian was going out on his own to clubs.

Karma caught up to her when David found out Tina got aborted, Gail took a tumble downstairs by her own son

Absolutely it is Lisa (the world we live in now).. which is why folk like me prefer to be taken back to a simpler time, by watching old Coronation Street (I’m talking ‘76 onwards based on what’s currently on YT) 😉

@@EveHenleySpread Amen. Ivy had morals. With regard to her being a possessive and overbearing Mother? I don’t see what’s so abnormal about it. She wanted the best for her family. I think it was an excellent characterisation by Lynne Perrie. Until 2023, the earliest year I had watched was circa 1998/99. I have gone back to 1976 and watched them all. The nostalgia has been a fabulous experience and triggers memories of a time when we were happy with less. I thank you for the effort you have applied to uploading these time capsules. ❤️🙏

She was also completely correct from the start, even if it did drive her crazy in the future

You’re very welcome Kim! Glad you’re enjoying them! 😉

Brilliant!!! (God Save the King!)

​@@normasouthwood3182 Big ears can piss off!

You're very welcome! Glad you're enjoying it downunder - btw I'd recommend starting at 1976 as that's when it really got good! The golden era was 76-84! 😉

Coronation street looked Like Eastern Europe in that Period Very drab 🏚️ But Good gritty rep of north English working class life🎉🎉🎉

I don't see how looking at these. EastEnders was knocking it out the park for pretty much 10 years or so from 1985

@MarlonBrandosEyes I disagree tbh, EE was never the same once Julia Smith & Tony Holland had left the show, which was early '89! I suppose it all depends on what you're looking for in a programme, I like/liked the humourous side of Corrie which slowly petered out throughout the 90s!

@@EveHenleySpread I only really know those 10 years from yt videos to be fair so they could just be cherry picking the good stuff. EastEnders from that 10 year period is more relatable to me from my childhood I suppose. More gritty and dangerous than light and airy 😂

@@MarcoNegrisEye 1989 wasn't a particularly strong year for EE. I think Corrie was better in 1989 and had a very strong year. EE was stronger in 1986 and 1988 for sure though.

Amen ! She's an absolute git. I really do not understand how her, so called, brain works. Why fight to plan the funeral of a man she literally said a matter of days before that she wanted nothing to do with and did not love ?! It was definitely Ivy's right there to plan it. She wasn't even asking for much, but Gail has to carry on playing the victim all the time, the stupid wally that she is

Well he was next of kin and maybe R Brian didn't want a catholic burial.

Just watched it and entirely agree. Then when she said to Audrey it was a year ago they got married and till death do us part, when she had just told Brian she didn’t love him and wanted a divorce, I was raging . I know it’s only a tv programme, but Gail is a nasty, spiteful woman, evil.

​@londonlady227 I was waiting for Gail to say that to Ivy.... that would have got Ivy off her back, but she didn't use that one. Her and RB likely never had that conversation...

Karma got gail when martin left her for younger & richard hillman tried to kill her, pity she survived

You’re very welcome of course - I’m glad you’re enjoying the uploads (and they seem to be surviving on KZfaq at the minute touch wood). I did try to upload another soap when I started doing Eastenders from the start.. and that was immediately blocked by the BBC! I’m not sure if Channel Four would allow Brookside on here, especially as it’s now being re-run on STV. Might be worth a try to test the water though eh! 😉

@@EveHenleySpread Thanks for your reply! Yes Utube & various broadcasting companies are such meanies about allowing past soaps from being enjoyed by old fans I was never a fan of Eastenders but watched my 1st Corrie at the end of 1960 when i was 7yrs old! I was always a Corrie fan & during the past years when i worked & lived abroad, i had my friends tape Corrie & send it to me as i missed it so much. However i have missed many of the past Corries so these ones you have uploaded are sheer bliss for me as im seeing them for the first time! Lets hope the petty beaurocrats dont take down your wonderful posts! Im truely grateful to you, many people are very happy to be able to watch these marvellous golden episodes of this iconic British series Regards 🇬🇧👧

it's always been all about her and her wants/needs... self-centred woman!

At the end of the 1980’s I lost interest in Coronation Street.

I agree. It shouldn't really have mattered to Gail, she had all but finished with Brian anyway, Ivy should have got her wish in this situation.

Gail was always a selfish witch.

Agreed Gail and Brian were getting divorced anyway and Ivy was his mother and Bert was his father he should've been buried next to him

Good mind init!!! This is when coronation Street was bloody brilliant

They made sure he couldn’t come back 🎉😅

Tragic.

You think that's brutal? Wish I was brought up in the middle classes like you 😉😂

In real life Chris quinten became a real playboy😅

Ivy was a nightmare character, but so was Gail during these years. Ivy should have been allowed to bury Brian in the way she wanted to. It would have been no skin off Gail's nose.

Not sure I’d agree. Brian was a philandering hypocrite. Gail owed him nothing.

@@spartybrearly7221 he was, and he was thick as two short planks, too. Gail probably didn't owe him anything after he died, but she could have handed the funeral over to his Mother, who really DID care for Brian

@@spartybrearly7221 GAIL WAS THE CHEATER . She slept with his cousin and tried to leave Brian AND HER CHILD but the cousin didn’t want her. So I don’t know what your on about

I agree %100😊

I hate it when she talks with her mouth full

I love her, she's great fun (when she's not being spiteful)

@@bsaunders5271, sometimes she can quite nice bit more often that not she is horrible.

Its gails fault brian died she asked him for a divorce again & he stormed out & went to that club

@@nicolemclean9028 and he asked her to come out with him instead. If she’d said yes he wouldn’t have died

Totally agree with you!

I was also 4 when these episodes aired. The aftermath of Brian's murder is one of my earliest memories of Corrie.

Gail was quite right, Brian was a cheat and a liar.

@@spartybrearly7221 Gail was a cheat and a liar as well so they were well matched!

Exactly right ! Gail was an absolute git, she's so stupid. Suddenly the man she did not love and did not want anything to do with, meant so much to her after he died hence why she wanted to do the funeral in her own way telling Ivy practically to bog off. Gail always acted as if she was the victim in every situation. I thought so too that Gail may become more down to earth but obviously not. She's a selfish idiot.

Gail being cruel selfish and should not have the rights to say my husband what a B

I think it's spelt as Phyllis but it's not important. Don't want to sound pedantic but Just replying to your message. I think Bet and Alec were excellent. They are almost the glue that gels each episode

I agree with you they were excellent just like jack and Vera both couples made me giggle but more jack and Vera because she made me laugh when she would hit him and he would be scared of her lol and she also made me laugh when she was trying to seduce him them faces he would pull lol back in the 70s up till 90s it was more comical I enjoyed it more now I tend to switch off I don’t know why but sometimes I think it’s boring! Some people might not agree with me but I prefer the classics they were brilliant!

Yeah i get what you’re saying, I just felt that some of the supposed comical storylines they had them go through were at times too cringeworthy for words and weren’t necessarily amusing.. certainly NOT to me anyway. Each to their own!

I certainly don't, it's horrendous!

Chris Quentin wanted to move to America with Leeza Gibbons, so the writers got spiteful and killed him off, and in doing so, killed any chance of him returning. They chose to write the breakdown of their second marriage for dramatic tension. I reckon it worked!

An uninflated bag would have been full of more life then that lump of wood. I think the only other awful excuse for acting from a long time character is "cough cough hmmm hmmm aye aye hehehe cough" Betty big belly.

Yep, Chris Quentin was against being killed off too - but the producers insisted.

"good Life" by inner city.

Seriously? I think they’re one of the primary reasons why EastEnders was kicking the Street’s ass around this time.

@@4evernate28 Eastenders was poor in the ratings that year and Corrie was on top.

Gail's selfish phase!

I agree Gail was wrong and she no endearing qualities anymore. Ivy looks as though she's on the road to vengeance and quite right. Looking forward to the battles ahead.

Gail was way worse than Ivy. Ivy doted on Brian. Gail is one selfish b*tch.

Too right

Brian wasn't religious. It's not up Ivy but next of kin, that was Gail.

Absolutely.

lol

How do you know they weren't the wishes of Brian? A wife doesn't have to pander the parents of the deceased.

No she buts not as if she loved Brian anymore and to say "he's not Ivy's son or Brian's" when he's exactly that. She was the reason he was out of the house that night anyway this was the least she could do @@londonlady227

Well spotted. I think you are correct. Both are played by Peter Woodthorpe. A distinctive voice indeed.

Yeah that's him. 1983 Christmas Special called Happy Returns. Reg made Del think he was someone else's kid by adding a letter on the blood test letter. The last episode Lennard Pearce appeared in before his untimely death the following December. They had filmed some of Series 4 but had to redo Grandad's scenes with Uncle Albert instead. Strained Relations was quickly done to accommodate Lennard Pearce and Grandad's death and Uncle Albert's debut

@@dominewimbury2039 Good knowledge. Thanks. But I think the Christmas episode may have been called ' Thicker them Water'. The episode where their dad comes into it. I think ' Happy returns' episode may have been the episode where Delboy thinks he has a daughter with Juney.

I agree. She was a miserable character who was quick to apportion blame rather than accept her own failings. She also had a go at Alf in the Rovers for selling alcohol to her son and his friends based in pretty flimsy evidence.

She werrrrrrre just annoying forrrrrrrr bloody rrrrrrrrr's int herrrrrrrrr voice she werrrrrrrre. Although I noticed she toned it down in the last couple of months. Bet she was told how bloody annoying it was.

I think the battle between Gail and Ivy started way before Brian Tilsley was killed off sure remember when Ivy tried to stop Audrey from going round to Gail and Brian’s house for dinner I’m not saying that’s how it started I don’t know how it started but I think it started way before that as well but I do know it definitely started way before Brian Tilsley was even killed off

His killer gave a talk at Nick’s college in 1998, then he got Leanne to write to him in prison and things got a bit dangerous 😬 The episodes were screened around June I think so you’ll find them on this channel but excerpts telling the story have been uploaded separately on another channel too. Good storyline.

Sounds like the story where Ernie's murderer was back in touch with Emily. Ideas must have been short on the ground around that time.

"Good Life" by inner city

@@susanmillar3455 thank you

I know which I prefer! 😉

@@EveHenleySpread yep, neither ☺️ I just wish today’s Street had a bit more good humour and not have every character that comes in to be a psychopath or somebody with an Alterio motive

Well tbh, I wouldn’t know.. haven’t watched it properly in about 20 years BUT I have seen the odd episode of recent times. I was shocked at how dull and lifeless it was.. and so serious too! I don’t want that from Corrie, I love the humour of the late 70s/early 80s.. it was almost a sitcom! I suppose things have to move on.. but I don’t! 😉

All "council television" plus even streaming services must feed us all..."THE MESSAGE" 😂

That Carol woman calling Alan a bastard! They don’t use that word anymore on any soap these days.

Yep he’s always called up to help with funeral arrangements too - I can remember both Rita and Hilda turning to him for assistance!