Anyone binge watching in 2024? These episodes are fantastic, great acting, great characters.

40+ years later, almost brought to tears watching this. It just took me back to a time when things and people were so much nicer, and the world was not as bitter and divided as it is now.

The eggs story still cracks me up 43 years later That and the foot through the ceiling are some of Hildas best moments ! When the actors were genius and the writers likewise it’s just bliss !

Thanks so much for these great episodes, you are the best channel on KZfaq! I haven't watched television since I found your channel and its a breath of fresh air watching all the classic episodes from a great era, so different from the garbage they constantly push on us nowadays. That's my weekend sorted for viewing :-)

Elsie Tanner... Just fabulous.

THANKYOU!! A thousand million times over for these uploads… I’m binge watching them everyday… It’s blissful… Waves of Nostalgia are building from within…. This is what proper telly used to be… Marvellous….

Greetings from the land of Oz, oh give over that's Australia. I am a Corrie addict who loves these early episodes. Any road watching them cannot hurt me, no danger, I'm watching more lately cause I'm poorly and need my rest.

Wow, I'm shocked that Stan's only 57 in the story - he looks at least 10 years older! I just looked up actor Bernard Youens who played him, he was born December 28 1914, so in early 1979 he was actually 64, if my maths is right. And frankly, he looks it! He died 27 August 1984 aged 69. I reckon the cigarettes are what did for him, sadly. He had a heart attack in 1972 and a stroke in '75 which badly affected his speech - that's when the writers relied on the character of Eddie Yates to ease the burden on him, initially moving him in as Stan and Hilda's lodger to reduce Stan's dialogue. With actor Geoffrey Hughes' support as Eddie, he was able to play Stan until early '84 when his health deteriorated again and another stroke marked the beginning of the end. Bernard was taken into hospital on 2nd April and died there on 27th August after suffering a heart attack. Life mirrored art, and the Street scriptwriters explained Stan's absence as him being admitted to hospital on doctor's orders, after Hilda collapsed from the strain of looking after him. The decision to kill off the character was made soon after he died, and his death was revealed in the programme on 21st November 1984. Bernard Youens was, for a time, the UK's most famous working class northern man - despite in reality hailing from genteel Hove in Sussex! Before he took the role of Stan he was well known for his velvety smooth voice as a TV continuity announcer, and he was likened to movie stars Ronald Coleman and Clark Gable for his moustachioed good looks.

Just LOVE the Elsie, Gail and Susie trio......Brings back childhood memories. I always loved it when they were on and had a storyline going.....

OMG what a fantastic start to my Friday to find the May 1979 episodes uploaded here! ProfessionalGun 66 - You are a GOD! THANK YOU & HAPPY FRIDAY! XXX

Thank you very much this brings back so many childhood memories in London.

Yes a Big Thank You for these uploads. I was 15 in 1979. Brings back so many memories

15:44 check the bloke at the bar, whose pattern on his trousers makes him look like he’s wearing a thong!! Lol 😂😂

Thank you, l am so enjoying these episodes. ❤️

Looking back now at the Brian and Gail romance, it does seem doomed from the start, and not just because of Poison Ivy's fierce disapproval. Gail has all the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old with a crush on a pop star. And Brian just comes across as a meathead - selfish, rather thick and crass. There's no discernable love there at all, and Gail is so clingy and pathetic she'd have turned most men off. I suppose the marriage might have worked had they grown-up during it, but they didn't. Gail is such a drip at this point, but having the mother-in-law from hell toughened her into the belligerent hysteric she became later on.

1:17:00 why on earth would anyone get upset with a young lad selling a bike in favour of a car? Ivy should be seeing Dr Gillespe, not Alf Roberts!

Oh, for God's sake, Gail, belt up! I can't wait for her storyline to be done. She's getting on my wick.

Gail: "Not sausages again?" Susie: "I, said upmarket" Elsie: "cocktail sausages?" 😂😂

46:30 Has anyone else noticed how often there's a strategically placed loaf of 'Sunblest' bread on a character's table - or a 'random' sighting of the 'Sunblest' delivery van out on the cobbles? I'm not sure what the rules were about product placement in the late 'seventies and early 'eighties, but Granada were definitely doing a deal with that particular brand of sliced bread!

Elsie in her efforts to cover for Gail ends up making the situation ten times worse lol. Thanks for the uploads... Corrie gold.

Thank u so much! ❤️

Brilliant-thanks a lot.

Hello Chuck - I'm feeling down. It's the 2 year anniversary of my beloved little dog's death. Any chance of the June '79 episodes? It would take my mind off my bunions! Thanks again for all your hard work & dedication, you are loved! XXX

Uncle ken,uncle ray,uncle al code word back in 60's 70's for mommies new bow 😊

2:02:22 Funny to hear Bet Lynch mention Prince Phillip, in view of his recent death. I don't suppose, even back then, they'd have been surprised to hear the Queen's husband would live to be almost 100. Life as a royal is a damn sight easier than life as a commoner up north!

Has there EVER been anything likeable about Gloomy Gail??

Classic Coronation Street is the best but this Gail and Brian storyline is mind numbing ..

Thanks for doing this. I started again at January 1977 and am working my way through but had to stop at April 1979 until this recent upload. Will you be able to finish uploading the rest of 1979? I did, last night, jump to January 1980 but I'll hang fire if I know the rest of 1979 will be available shortly. Thanks again! 😁

Ivy, the mother from hell. Poor Bert, what did he see in her.

Steve should have got a van and gone ghost hunting with his dog Scooby doo

Great to see coronation street when it was at its best no murders rapes thanks

Mavis said, "that girl's(Deidre) got something.." Rita said, " must be them goggles"...... Aha ha ha ha....

1:47:02 Ivy complains about everything. 😮😮 I don’t know 🤷‍♂️ how anybody stands her. Especially Bert.😢😢😢😢

Bert: to Brian " Because your Mothers just jealous, that's why " 👏👏👏👏

At 2:47 when Dierdre puts Tracy on the counter in the cabin the little girl is saying "Anne, Anne" to Annie Kirkbride

Corrie isn’t the same these days it’s too political and hard to watch is a shame You Can skip a few months these days and not miss much unfortunately

Cheers!

Grumpy Gail! Holy moly run Brian. Unfortunately she doesn't get any better 😮

1:51:06 R. Brian's spins on the dance floor 🤣

It's amazing how car show rooms have changed over the years

Christopher Quentin was a dancer at the beginning of his career...

I wonder why they didn't do a retake when Pat Phoenix fluffed her lines 🤔

Got a poignant story about being mithered about motorbikes. My great uncle was a trainee soldier who rode a bike to and from training away. His mother hated his bike and constantly told him to get rid of it - and one day he did. He sold it while at training and bought a pre-War Hillman for £10 (1958). He and his army mates piled in and headed for home...but the car turned over on the highway and he was the only one killed. Haunted the family...terrible.

Paul Shane is a legend.

I don’t know why they have kept Gail all these decades

R Brian's backflip. Lol

Albert Tatlock being given the entire roast chicken😭😭😭

Annie Walker really took the piss out of Fred without knowing it.

Gail true to form as she continued to be, always full of drama! She TOLD Brian to dance with Suzi because she was cheesed off she couldn't dance as well as Brian, then gets the hump when Suzi does it better than she can! I don't even like Suzi Birchall but Gail is annoying here to say the least!

Ourbrian could have had a dance troup - the male version of Pants People

Guy at the bar at 15:46 why I noticed this i don’t know why I noticed it but you would have thought the director would have noticed the half moon lol

Thank you for this I agree with Gail, I think the second dance should have been with her

When I look at Gail when she was young she reminds me of Sarah . Like mother like daughter

Miss Minnie in these episodes 😢

my grandmother and mother were from bristol it his home fantastic

I dont know why people give Brian a lot of stick i think the actor who played him was really good

Been waiting to see Jack - quick search tells it's another 6 months 'til he appears...

Tracy at bday party so off to the pub!! what a treat with fred, simpering whimpy gail and arent I lovely boy brian with his bad tempered mum and hen pecked dad!

That Gail is a pain in the .ss. Such a child!

When did they swap the position of the stairs???

i keep thinking deirdre and ken are together

Gail and Brian were so mismatched - even here. I wonder if that was the writers intention from the start?

Gail, no rhythm nation, mad at Brian because he can dance. 😂

I was 17 in May 1979 and always liked Gail, especially her antics with Susie. I didn't remember the early days with her and Brian. I didn't know that Poison Ivy was so poisonous right at the start of the relationship, they didn't really have a chance did they? Also if they weren't right for each other they would have drifted apart naturally, with Ivy's interfering they fought against her. I think Ivy made Gail eventually transform into an Ivy clone 😂

Whatever about the thoughts on mental health now,back then it was seen as major stigma

Elsie has fabulous hair

The famous Red Rec gets a mention just under 5 minutes.

People who snore always say they never snore

Billy was at this point a decent guy.l liked him then.

Like miss sharples I was in st Anne's 1979 watching the British open. Seve won

Strange bur very nice that the group that are friends in real life are all still alive Rita, Mavis, Renee, and Valerie Barlow

Could you do this for 1970

I say, does anybody know WHERE THE HELL BET IS???!!!

Susie was a horrible character and even worse was how other characters (Alf and Renee) thought it was ok poor Hilda

Ivy, nag, nag, nag, but she was right about Gail

That was an interesting comment Gail made about Emily. "If half the world were like Emily the other half would be like the tramp."

I need to slow the speed down so that I can understand these people!

why do the snotty characters in corrie always take mikey out of hilda she the best in street

giving The tilsleys excluding bert, the duckworths,, later the websters, and Derek wilton more prominent roles ruined this programme.

Crafty Ken quoting the old misogynist Schopenhauer who was quite wrong regarding the gender urges. I suspect Ken was quite aware of this fact.

Why the writers decided to plague the viewers with the Ken/Deirdre romance from hell here I’ll never know.

Backdoor Gail is funny.

Why does anyone marry anyone like poisonous Ivy?

Chris Quentin was an awful awful actor

Gail and Deirdre had hardly any shared storylines in their nearly 40 years on the show even though they were the same sex and almost the same age. I do wonder if the two actresses didn't get on with each other.

Brian proprer mammys boy

G'ddam, let Brian shake that beautiful body 😥

Suzie should so have married Steve Fisher.

What horrible neighbors these people have! If I lived with these types, I would move!!

Why does Gail always complicate things, this should of been the warning signs for Bryan not to marry her but as we no that didn't turn out good

Brians bike Red flag Gail that n Ivy

Gods gift to men GAIL

He throws the dead hen on the table!!

All of the smoking inside and around a child is hard to watch after so long since that was the norm.

Brian is the worst actor I've seen in 40 years.

OMG! R’Bryan dancing - 🤢🤮

What? Young br1tish mechanics and shop workers could buy their own houses?

Woah! That Brian was a real Mammys boy… & fancied himself waayyy too much… Steve would’ve belted him proper if it wasn’t for Ivys apron strings interrupting… And as for Gail.. what he’d ever see in old ferret face is beyond me… At least Suzy was a scorcher… A shallow jumped up character but still a real babe… And as for Ivy banging on every five minutes about “Our Brian”… no wonder he thought he was gods gift when she constantly built him up into being some kind of god like Adonis… Also loved Berts comment to his missus Ivy when says to Brian “Start crawling now and you’ll spend rest of ya life crawling… And Bert replies… “That’s right I mean look at me I’m a shining example“ about him being downtrodden and hen pecked… “Ya know what I mean…”