Watched it all my life but not now, Elsie Tanner and all the other strong women must be spring in their graves.

Hi if I'm honest with you I stopped watching Corrie after COVID. I can't believe that even now they hardly have anyone in the Rovers. Don't the writers of today's Corrie understand that the Rovers is the main meeting place of coronation Street. That's why so many people are watching the older episodes. Same as EastEnders. A total waste of the TV licence fee. Anyway thanks to KZfaq we can always watch Corrie in its prime.

I was thinking the same.

Martins younger here than David’s now 😮

Woman. Thy worst enemy is woman! Doesn't matter that Gail has a job. She has two staff relying on her (not just Kevin). Doesn't matter that she is bring in money to the household. No, Brian had his fun an has got his son and heir who he is happy to spend time with when it suits him. Gail should be chained to the oven and the nappy bucket! Yup, I get he's building a business but actually, half that business is Gail's she gave up her home to keep that business. Yet Brian must be catered for and have everything his own way. She can't have people to look after his sick son when he wont take his fair turn, she must have his dinner in the table. He can't bring her anything back or sort out any food for her. Oh no, he is God and she is his servant!!!!! Oh yeah Gail, what a selfish, whining good for nothing ungrateful b you are!!!! Elainedoe1981 - you are even worse that Ivy!

And they sold there house to invest in the business. Gail's a selfish arse

@@joemalone9380 what?

She has been around Ivy too long🤭

she's her mothers daughter

Even Linda Elsie's daughter was badly written

HILDA’S ALWAY’S HILARIOUS 🤣. SHE ALWAY’S MAKING SARCASTIC REMARKS GLORY SENGO XXX 😘

@@glorysengo6289 Why are you shouting ?🤔

@@irenemorley75for the hard of hearing

@@cise748 I wasn't talking to you, I see you didn't have anything better to do over the New Year, grow up.🙄

I disagree. Gail's job is as important as Brian's. This story line really hits home about the difficulties families face with two working adults and competing responsibilities. There is no easy answer, but at least they had Ivy to look after Nicky part of the time.

They were terrible and boring...

exaggerated for dramatic effect. The people who could go to the pub every day were sadly the people like Bernard Youens, who paid the price, dying at just 69

THOSE WERE THE DAYS WHEN YOU HAD A HOUR FOR LUNCH AND COULD AFFORD TO GO TO THE PUB EVERYDAY GLORY SENGO.

I'm really amazed that these people spend their lunch hour at the pub drinking alcohol. I know it's dramatic license, but still. Even the pub staff drink while on duty. AA would have a field day in Weatherfield.

Mid 80s was the era of the mullet. Check out an Aussie band called Uncanny X-Men for some classic cuts 😂

mid 80s fun

MTV era.

And he looks like a candidate for 'crabs' as they said then.

I thought the same thing!!!!

I always thought it was the same sideboard until now. There is no difference 🙈

And the wallpaper was better before instead of those brown stripes...

I preferred it too but it too up too much space and they received a nice amount for it. It became theirs to do what they wanted.

I know, unbelievable 🤷‍♀️

that's why they've mostly all died of strokes and heart issues

Chips, bacon butties and booze.

Mushy peas

We don't need no steenking veggies! We have pints and crisps.

Bet could probably have paid Jack off with pints alone, but he's basically untrustworthy. No, a responsible manager would find a responsible potman.

As an American, I know Gary Glitter from "Rock and Roll Pt. 2" in 1972. I'm surprised he was still newsworthy in 1985.

Too right.

Exactly

Eastenders had just been launched on BBC 1 the month before, and Coronation Street was being criticised for being stuck in a nostalgic view of the past rather than reflecting 1980s Britain. perhaps the new characters were a panic measure to try and reinvigorate the Street.

It seems to be a feature of soap opera production. I notice when I new families comes in the there are intense story lines in centered around them. EG when the Mc Donalds first came into the show, and when the Websters first came into the show etc ...

Verbally aggressive wee alky

Or gob and a half.

she deffo has a type

She's also a hypocrite it's OK for her to have a new relationship after being widowed but a few years later when Gail does the same its wrong. In fact Ivy was seeing someone while her husband was dying in 1983

A twisted old bag was Ivy

It’s only make believe

@@alexandramassey9258 I was eluding to the character Harry clayton not the actor Johnny Leeze who portrayed him.

She really is. What I like to do is step back for a moment and remember that Thelma is throwing herself into the roll. Not many of the other actors had to really do that, only stress their own real character.

@@professionalgun6674 that’s true, most of the characters are exaggerated versions of the real life actors. Not the case with Thelma Barlow, annoying as the character can be at times. Obviously Jean Alexander was another example, she was nothing like Hilda.

My favourite character is Mavis, I know she can be dotty and in her own mind at times, but she is innocent in her own ways :s I also like Emily.

Mavis was the local freakshow!

It’s just acting and not real get a life if you think this is real please god help us with comments lake urs wow

Yeah 1 of many husbands

Yes, thanks to those women nobody mothers their own children anymore. We pay strangers who do not love them to merely make sure they stay alive every day. Then we wonder what is wrong with the world. We have generations of kids who had no loving mother around from the time they were three years old. Yay Womens lib, such freedom….punching a time clock, jumping to someone else’s demands, doing a crappy job ANYONE else can do…instead of doing the most important job in the world….raising the next generation. Nobody can replace the mother of a child but ANYONE can do the crappy jobs they go to instead. Who would you rather have when you were a child…your mother or a paid stranger???? Be honest.

Especially Derek! What an arsepiece

@@tiberseptim560 Yes but what age will she be now i wonder

At the time of playing the role of Andrea Clayton, she was 23 and is now 62.

@@theresapierce3934 Oh sorry - an easy mistake to make

I knew he wouldn't get her any chips. Poor Gail.

Gail is moaning about being a mother so…..

Women dont understand - a man has to rest his balls especially after work - its all to do with circulation

She's highly strung. The actress must be about 40 - 50 but that hairstyle and her demeanour make her look about 60 - 70.

you mean she grew up? never!

@@eatmywords you cant say ewt anymore without an idiot commenting back with a sarcastic comment can you.

@@cherylreznor181 or a humourless moron 😙

Is it you ?

@@williamf4544 the one and only 😏

I was mostly watching Benny hill by now, maybe he wrote this joke…

Think she's meaning hung in the sense that they were a bad lot rather than just died of natural causes.

SO AS FAR AS BET KNOWS, ALL HER RELATIVES HAVE BEEN HUNG, DEPORTED OR DEAD. THE ONES THAT’VE BEEN HUNG ARE DEAD , AREN’T THEY GLORY SENGO XXX 😘

? XXX 😘

Unfortunatly.

Yes, but of course women aren't allowed to age.

She has probably known worse horrors in her own life, over the years.

Agreed

I agree to

@@lindarowe8550 And me!

Nothing to do with being a "caveman" why I can't be doing with him. Simply that he's an uncharismatic bore.

And he married ET with a wig

I don't know about that but Ivy's religion forbade her from marrying a divorced man.

🤣🤣

Sounds like gloria

On a 3 hours video? Can you narrow it down!?

@@MarcoNegrisEye 2:01

@@MarcoNegrisEye I found it Alvin Stardust I won't run away

@@dementednun1175 Correct, well done...

I meant git!

Yes but she is playing a different character the whole family just lasted 12 episodes cause no one liked them. Than the Mc Donald's arrived to replace them

@@dementednun1175 Wonder what Gemma would be like if she’d had grandparents like Harry and Connie ( and an aunt like Andrea)?

Thank you for validating what i thought. Also, i did not like this family at the time.

I didn't like the Clayton's either as they didn't fit in!

@@jasbegs1258 I thought they were rubbish as well!