Love it, just like a sweet shop.

THANK YOU AGAIN. I FEEL LIKE A KID IN A SWEET SHOP, I’M SPOILT FOR CHOICE. I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START BROTHER GLORY SENGO.

Blanche have comment I think it was the long time she left untill 1996 then 2000😮

Yes, sad that so many of the cast are no longer with us, but what a wonderful legacy of superb performances they left for us to enjoy.

... She has such a brilliant delivery of her lines, no one quite like her.

Amen to that.

Russell Brand of the 70s

@@geocasey6015 What a horrible insult to the great Julie Goodyear and the superb Corrie scriptwriters!

@@glamdolly30 I meant the hair! Apologies to Julie!

Not when she was in a scene with Doris Speed she didn't!

@@user-kx3fq1zo6f don't be daft, Annie Walker wasn't a patch on Hilda 😂

The Langdon’s are the only reason I watch this, and I skip over most everything else! The Langdon’s is the reason this show survived! Every one and everything else on this show is boring and stupid!

@@chicagogyrl4846 here, I think you forgot this... 🎣 😂

The joy you have given myself and others by uploading these ( again ,EY!) . Brings me back to a time when I was 8 and things were simple 💜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Hey you got any more episodes too put on please

Thank you ☕🍰❤

Thankyou so much

Yes, thank you so much, these are Brilliant to have a bit of a wallow in, and go back in time, to when I was happy !

Sometimes I wish I was.

If only

So would Mrs Walker and Uncle Albert.

I'm saddened to see what the world looks like today and I wasn't even around back then 😂

She mellowed, didn't she.

​@@franceshaypenny8481we all mellow with age

It was great, but Anne Kirkbride later stated she was off her face on valium at the time, and couldn't feel any emotions, just numbness.

Why was she on valium?was she ill?

No worst decision to kill off Martha for these idiots-the producers even admitted this

Lucy Badman most viewers would disagree as Stan and Hilda were the most popular couple and Hilda won the award for best soap character of all time .

Because he's a total wet fart and doesn't know when someone isn't interested, she's not even nice to him, or he likes being treated like rubbish. He's always trying to ingratiate himself with her or trying to save her, even if it's at the expense of Mike, who gave him a job and pays his wages.

Men seems to enjoy it

Susie is extremely pretty ,but I don’t know why Steve Cares about her so very much , he just does .

He hoping to get lucky.

I never thought the actress who played Suzie, Cheryl Murray, was right for the role. Suzie was supposed to be drop dead gorgeous/sexy, hence all the men going gaga over her. But she just wasn't! To be blunt, there were many prettier, more charismatic actresses around, with better figures. But more to the point, Suzie was written as a cheeky, 'naughty but nice', lovable rogue character. But Murray played Suzie as very dislikable! It was hard to warm to her. Sadly I think the actress just couldn't pull off what was required. And as often happens when an actor has settled into a role, the writers started responding to the way it's played. As a result, Suzie Birchall became a more one-dimensional, self-centred 'baddie' the longer she was in it - till finally she became so unredeemingly horrid, she had to be written out for good! Suzie betrayed her old pal Gail by trying to seduce hubby Brian, and after that Elsie finally had enough and showed her the door. Cheryl Murray cried when producer Bill Podmore called her to his office and told her he was axing Suzie. She pleaded with him to reconsider, as she'd just got a huge mortgage on a swanky house, on the strength of future earnings. But his mind was made up - and I think he was right. All Suzie had to recommend her was youth, without the charisma and sex appeal of Pat Phoenix (Elsie Tanner) she would not have aged well as a character.

Poor little mite was always crying for her mum - you sometimes saw her reaching out to her, behind the camera!

She's in her mid-forties now! She was a beautiful baby.

I hate hearing her cry, it's the cry of a little child who can see her real mum just out of camera shot and is desperate to reach her. It's just plain awful. As a mother myself I can hardly stand it.

I agree! She was terrible for it. Makes you wonder just how bad she really was, if the ones left in after God knows how many takes are as bad as they are...

I know she fluffed her lines at times, but when they were delivered rapidly, I assumed it was reflecting the character's impulsivity, the inclination to speak and act without thinking.

I think it makes her seem more natural and realistic to be honest few of us are always word perfect all the time in real life

Thats why we love her!

Awful acting Winds me up 😡

Wow great info, thanks - I knew I'd seen her before!

Rita was regularly rude and snide towards Hilda and scathing about her to others, about the 'the Oggies' in general. She was always a cut above them - a bit of a discount Annie Walker, She ridiculed and bullied Mavis, her so-called best friend, she was arsey towards Deidre and often Bet too. And obviously, she was full of venom when Elsie was around. though why I don't know, she's the one who ended up with Len. On second thoughts, that's enough to make anyone toxic.

Rita's horrible..dont know who she thinks she is

Todays characters would have murdered each other and hid the bodies

I agree, Rita should have kept out of what went on between Hilda and Deirdre, it was none of her business and not very professional for someone running a business. She must be one of the most unlikeable characters in these classic episodes of Corrie, acting all superior and the 'tough' woman. Thankfully, the character became less of a bully in her later years especially after Len dying and grew up somewhat.

I'm surprised more people don't have a go at Hilda, she's always in everyone else's business and takes too much pleasure in the misfortunes of others

Especially after Brexit.

Yes thats true - messed up a lot of young folks dreams thst has - In both directions -Its them i feel sorry for in regards to Brexit@@clarkpatient7950

@clarkpatient7950 It doesn't present any obstacles whatsoever to migrants, illegal immigrants and bonus asylum seekers ... ☹️ all with the blessing of the Eurocrats of the EUSSR.

​@@clarkpatient7950 The EUSSR sees to it that migrants, illegal immigrants, and bogus asylum seekers have no problems in that respect ... especially when dumping them on 🇬🇧 Britain from France 🇨🇵 !

Oh I don’t know - I thought you could just jump into a rubber dinghy …

It’s not Britain anymore like this we were taken over 😢

@@Lucy0809 ain't that the truth. I never even got to experience this era which makes it worse watching how things were compared to this Orwellian 💩 hole now.

Elsie awful actress 🙀🤮

Ray was just after another women any woman

Was different when dreary went off with Baldwin

Then Holland and finally back to Weatherfield.

Soppy Steve seems like a forerunner to soppy Ashley Peacock, who was to arrive nearly 20 years later.

Because like most blokes he was ruled by his tallywhacker.

I blame the editor for that one 😁

Coronation street mentions NZ quite often, always puts a smile on my face, my homeland to

1 big happy family

Bet she didn't think about adultery when she did it to ken Barlow she always got on my nerves .

I thought I recognised him.

Yes! Before he moved to Kings Oak and ponced off Kath Brownlow!

Wally Soper didn’t like him in Crossroads either.

Well ! ... Talk about ' learn something new every day ' !!

So Stan was an underwear model! 😂😅

Pics or it didn't happen. 📸

yes, she was a hottie.

@@notonyournelly5475 I still keep a pic of old Betty when I go drinking . The more I fancy her the less I want to drive home

A nightmare from the day she was born.

She also caused Deidre to cry a lot 😂😂.

She doesn't cry so much in this November 1978 Corry though... but she is one heck of an emmotional annoyance.

Tracy turned out rotten to the core

Ray wasn't that bad, Deirdre put him to shame later it the show with her affairs, good character,s all the same

Agreed, it's shocking how even Deirdre's Mum Blanche who can't bloody stand Ray, is urging her to stick with him after he cheated on her! It shows how sadly dependent women were on men back then. I seem to recall even Rita made a pious little speech about what a fool Deirdre was for throwing out a perfectly good husband. Which was prescient, since she would soon split with her own grotty hubby Len, before taking him back because she couldn't stand supporting herself as a middle aged, single woman!

“Rotten Ray”? He was a terrific old school Jack the Lad. Stood up to Blanche when no one else did. Wasn’t a boring sod like Ken. Only had that affair because Deirdre was becoming a nagging middle aged fishwife.

@@vashna3799 I do agree.

It’s unbelievable that he would allow Tracey to be adopted

Blanche !!! Young !!! Wow .. was a great actress ❤

​@@vashna3799oooohhh that's no excuse

Rita was highly obnoxious in these classic episodes, one of the most unlikeable characters.

😂😂😂

A fate worse than death. Ken the most boring, self centred, drone voiced, up himself man, whoever trod the cobbles.

@@theresapierce3934 And I have a feeling he was the same in real life!

If I were Ken i would be buying dreary the 4 eyed fishwife a one way ticket to Holland.

Ha !!! .. well said !

Blanche was a very attractive woman in middle age. She went so thin and wizened in old age, and became quite a different character. Very waspish and very funny - but it's hard to believe it's the same woman we see in these episodes!

@@glamdolly30 I didn't realise she was the same woman. She's very good in these and old Blanche was excellent, so sharp, critical and funny.

@@shylinh5939 I agree, Maggie Jones was a very talented actress, and always totally believable as Deidre's mum. They looked increasingly like mother and daughter as the years rolled by, didn't they - even down to the glasses! After graduating from RADA in the late 1950s, Maggie Jones played several leading West End theatre roles, among them in the all-female cast of 'The Women'. Her first ever TV role in 1961 was in Coronation Street - as a policewoman! I recognised her again in a fleeting Corrie role in black and white from 1967. She played Maggie Monks, a scruffy shoplifter who got chatting to a mortified Annie Walker in a police station waiting room. Maggie advised Annie to do what she did whenever she was arrested - pretend to police she had lost her memory! (Annie was there, rather improbably, for accidentally breaking a shop window, while researching football hooliganism for herself!) Maggie took over the role of Blanche Hunt in 1974, after the suicide of actress Patricia Cutts, who played the role for just two episodes. Maggie popped in for flying visits as Blanche from 1974 - 1998, becoming a permanent cast member from 2000 to her death in 2009. She breathed life and fire into the character Blanche Hunt, making her one of the Street's best ever battleaxes. Who could forget Blanche's love-hate relationship with son-in-law Ken Barlow? Blanche had so many hilarious scenes over the years, but for me, two in particular stand out - when she hijacked her grandson Peter's Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and turned it into family therapy, and her sudden, unshakeable conviction that Ken was gay! Maggie died aged 75 in December 2009, and her screen daughter Deirdre, alias Anne Kirkbride, died just over 5 years later in January 2015, aged 60. Two very special and much-missed women and actresses - and an utterly unforgettable screen mother and daughter.

@@glamdolly30 Thanks for taking the time to write all this information. It's an interesting rundown on Blanche and Maggie Jones' history in Coronation Street. She and Deidrie made a good mother and daughter combination. Blanche was domineering and intrusive, but Deidrie stood up for herself, which was essential to avoid repeatedly compromising her own life and freedoms, the way Mavis did with her manipulative aunt. Blanche didn't sugarcoat anything, always upfront and direct, unsentimental, indelicate and sometimes wounding. She was also endearing and very funny. I don't remember the episode where she hijacked Peter' AA meeting, but I'd like to see it. I do remember her conviction that Ken was gay -brilliant. I loved the way she cut straight through Ken's pomposity and sense of his own rightness in everything. After years of Ken's moral and intellectual grandstanding over his less well-equipped neighbours, it was so refreshing. Blanche was in the tradition of older no-nonsense strong, opinionated matriarchs but with her own twist, avoiding stereotype. Characters like this are an important addition to soaps and one that's absent from today's CS. Maybe Rita and Audrey come the closest but neither are really in that mould.

@@shylinh5939 It's a real pleasure chatting with another fan of vintage Corrie. I'm fascinated by the plotting and scripting of these old episodes, which are surely some of the finest TV drama the UK's ever produced. Crucially the action is always character-driven, which is what powers it and gives it truth and authenticity. It also boasted a superb cast list back then. I gave up on modern Corrie about 10 years ago. Today it's so far from the quality drama it once was, it shouldn't be allowed to carry the Coronation Street name at all IMO! As you identified, the Street's female characters were fantastic, providing the backbone of the soap from its launch in 1960. Strong women are what made it so gripping - reflecting creator Tony Warren's own family and his formative experiences of working class Lancashire life. They might not have been able to admit it, but the women ran the show - on and off screen! As a child, Tony Warren would hide under his mother's kitchen table and eavesdrop on the women, aunties, grandmas, cousins and family friends, gossiping over pots of tea. This no doubt, is where he got his superb ear for dialogue - especially female badinage - and probably a few juicy plots too! As I mentioned, I don't watch Corrie now, but I recently caught a TV report about Maureen Lipman's character. She was clearly intended to be a battleaxe in the Blanche Hunt style, but the clips of her I saw were just a load of badly overacted, poorly written, cliched insults. Not a patch on Blanche, or any of the legendary battleaxes of old - Hilda Ogden, Ena Sharples, Annie Walker, Vera Duckworth and Ivy Tilsley among them - who graced vintage Coronation Street. Hilarious how Ken was the Street intellectual, regarded on a level with Stephen Hawking just because he went to Uni! The number of professional careers he walked into with ease (some with questionable qualifications), was ridiculous. In the Seventies his council 'job description' appeared to be clutching a clipboard and loitering in the Rovers selling raffle tickets. Did he really need a degree for that?! He also had various stints as a teacher at primary and secondary schools, and a sudden, crunching gear-change to become a taxi driver. In the 'eighties he inexplicably morphed into Weatherfield's answer to Rupert Murdoch, as editor of a free sheet that employed only one reporter! But of course Ken was drunk with power and abused it to do a hatchet job on his nemesis Mike Baldwin's new Graffitti nightclub. The newspaper's owner wasn't having that (Mike was a big buyer of advertising), and put Ken firmly back in his box! Ken's pathological pomposity was constantly asking to be pricked, and a bloody huge, razor sharp 'pin' arrived in the shape of Blanche Hunt. I loved Blanche from her earliest appearances, giving her loutish son-in-law Ray Langton a tongue lashing for refusing to change Tracy-luv's nappies. It's a miracle Deirdre persuaded so many men to marry her (Ken twice), when she came as a package-deal with the mother-in-law from hell! If you've never seen Blanche's magnificent 'Alcoholics Anonymous' takeover of 2009, you are in for a treat. Here's the link - Enjoy! XXX kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j8V0iKhiz7-rl5c.html

But her voice alone, totally turns me off her, sounds like her windpipe's being pulped every time she speaks, or she's having her feet pulped to make her screech every syllable like that. god!

She did get to Morocco for a short while though.

He never came back to see his daughter through her childhood

He wasn't exactly the doting father. He even disagreed with Deirdre getting an evening job as he would have to look after Tracey when he'd rather be down the pub.