Stan and Hilda were comedy gold - followed a few years later by Jack and Vera. The humour overall was legendary and IMHO is what made Corrie unmissable for so many years - and then, sadly, it all turned to sh** when the new breed of producers decided viewers needed to be "educated" instead of "entertained". I stumbled over these years of classic episodes when I was searching "British TV drama" on KZfaq and am loving/bingeing every minute. Thanks ProfessionalGun66. Much appreciated.

I was only about one year old whenever this was originally aired. I never watch Coronation Street much these days. I prefer the classic Coronation Street because there used to be so much fun and humour back in the day. I can’t help listening to some of these over and over again. Thank you for posting.

Such a shame Corrie went so far downhill in the 90s. These characters were so good, you almost felt that they were family. 27 million watched Hilda unwrap Stan's glasses after he died. How many actresses can boast the same in a soap

How elsie looks so glam all the time bless her

How wonderful it is to have found this! My uncle had a small part in a number of these episodes around the end of 1981 and early 1982. Living in Canada I didn't have the opportunity to see the show, and now I can. Thank you!

These old episodes are fantastic.

Bert is a natural hes lovely

I’m beginning to wonder where the idea of Del Boy came from when you see Mike Baldwin giving it the smooth charm on the market stall.

Bets brilliant one liners ❤

Imagine an American version of Corrie back in the day Derdrie - Lauren Bacall Ken - Cary Grant Elsie - Joan Crawford Rita - Bette Davis Bette - Mae West Mike - Frank Sinatra Audrey - Gloria Graham Hilda - Thelma Ritter Gale - Mia Farrow Emily - Olivia De Havalind Mavis - Butterfly McQueen Stan - Clarke Gable

Growing up in Canada I watched this after school. This showed me the British side of the same type of life. Still have a great affection for it. The memories. ❤❤

Stop mitherin’! Fantastic word. I use it often (from East Midlands)…. I gave my daughter a jumper today because the polo neck was mitherin’ me!🤣🤣🤣

Fred is a thoroughly unpleasant character, he gives me the heave ;-).

Poor Deirdre quits Alf's shop coz she'd being used as a dish rag and is run of her feet. Yes it was a terrible strain for her lifting a tin of beans every hour, weighing up cheese and bacon and all those other hardships endured by the shopkeeper. This is the same bollocks Rita and Mavis go on about when they say theirs a rush on, OR, the oldest one of all about being stuck at home, ALL DAY washing pots and pans, nappys and looking after the baby.

Loving these classic episodes. Thanks for uploading. Its like seeing old friends when seeing these classic characters. Loving Vera, Ivy and Audrey. Thanks again.

Deirdre forgets how many times she left Alf with Tracy .

I wish elsie would find somebody to love

Golddigger Audry, words fail me.

Does anyone else remember R Brian’s boss saying his job at the petrol place was to help ladies who couldn’t figure out how to use the self serve pumps. I know I heard him say that specifically now they are rewriting history.

Alf doesn’t seem very bothered about Audrey having had the shop open less and getting less takings!

Two or three years later, the actress (Vikki Chambers) who played the robbers attractive girlfriend, went on to play Ken Barlow's `love interest` secretary Sally Waterman. Funny how so very often actors got bit parts before landing larger roles in the show.

Alf bought a brand new car. However, it was not brand new, it was second hand, look at the reg, it was a S reg, when they filmed the m.g, it was when X reg was new! Good one.

Ivy was born upset

Len didn't pay for the cheese and Audrey didn't pay for the tights🙄I think I will do my shopping there🤭🤣

Ahh do love hilda

love Coronation Street!!!!

Len can’t even remodel his own house but he’s building an entire one! 🤣😂

Audrey was such a freeloader, thought the world owed her a living back then.

Fred, I get on with anybody That's a laugh Audrey destroys everything she touches. I wouldn't come within a mile of her. Watching that prat stick his finger in Faircloughs face like that. Not sure that would have stood in real life.

Getting a home phone would really help the Tilsleys. A better investment for them.

Yeah Elsie looked great and she was 60 then! 2 years later and she was dead!

Deidre"I gave the best years of my life to Alf Roberts and he's not getting anymore" HUH ?? She didn't even work there a full year did she?

Fred's hair is terrible...😮

I love these old episodes Alf Roberts/ Bryan Mosley was a brilliant actor

Brian is a right wooden top. I have had chest of drawers that can act better than him.

This is when Eddie ages about 40 years prematurely-playing crib with Uncle Albert.

Audrey “Are you accusing me of leading him (Alf) on, Mrs Walker?” That’s pretty much what you’ve just told her you ARE doing, Audrey!

Ivy manages to centre herself in everything. However Eddie's hair is 10 years ahead of its time... #Madchester #Ravestylee

50.50 Annie said it was 42 years since she and Jack arrived at the Rovers. And yet an episode in 1977 marked the fortieth anniversary of their tenancy.

Can you imagine Annie walker and the battersbys

1:13:32 Goes on to play Sally Waterman employed at the Weatherfield Recorder with Ken in 1983.

In the 80s, Thatcher dressed and had the same hairstyle as Elsie.

Can’t stand Fred’s stepdaughter

I wouldn't think that Alf could fit comfortably in that car...

Fred is really gross.

Audrey said they shouldn’t close the shop because someone might come in for their dinner. That never stopped her before, if she was fixing someone’s hair, or went to drink!!

“Our Brian” Like a baby. 😂🤣

Definitely think that Eddie and Mavis could have made a great couple. Eddie would have brought out the best in Mavis😊

Why do men brag they do all but can not wash a dish/ vacuum/ iron a shirt 🤔

Lazy though he is I just love Stan Ogden

How did Len manage to build his house in such a small space?

Albert to Audrey: "I suppose I'd rather look at you than the back of a bus". The old romantic fool.

1:29:12 Bertha Holmes being drunken disorderly at 66 is the greatest part of this episode 🤣🤣🤣

I can’t believe that Audrey was only 38 years old here!

haha Yeah. Stilll better storylines than now though.What the F is going on in that factory now?No workers and when they are in they aren't running up any garments.Just sitting there with a pair of knickers in their hands. Nearly as bad as the car lot in Eastenders.Two cavaliers each side of the portakabin door for 20 years supporting 3 families for a living.FKIN unbelievable lol

For the love of God oil the sewing machines! They sound like bloody chainsaws!

With her shorter hair, Rita looks a bit like Elspet Gray ( the queen in the first Blackadder series).

11:50 That man is forty years before his time.

Mrs. Walker snorts sometimes when she laughs. How cute. 51:28.

That Councillor crotchless is a right creep.

So this episode getting number 7 rebuild since 1965 wow 😳 SU garden

Surely if the other guy’s done a runner, that can only work in Brian’s favour even if he is caught and the trial does go ahead!

Mike’s patter needs some work! “Ere, ladies-‘ow about doin’ yetselves a favour and giving yer’ husbands a heart attack!” Strange favour!

Alf the Simp👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Did anyone else watch Goodnight, Mr Tom? Slight similarities with John and Len & Rita. Could it really be the same reason John prefers it at theirs than with his mum and this ‘Uncle Bill’?

Brilliant script… Annie about Hilda and gossip… it isn’t every stream that’s tainted by its source …Bet giving her just enough to want more …superbly played

Flaming is the corrie swear word of choice.

Alf says "Its nearly two years since Renee died". Well No Alf, its nearly 16 months since she died !

Fred doesn’t mince words! I understand how annoying Debbie is-but she’s Eunice’s daughter and he threatens her with the back of his hand!

i could not quite catch what the kids said to alf about got any doughnuts left over , but i pissed meself laughing

Audrey, what a mouth. When you think Corrie has enough of them already she turns up.

I think Mrs walker fancies Alf & jealous because she’s too old for him.

Hang on.... Bert hasn't said d'you know what I mean for a while now... did Peter Dudley get told to stop it...?

1:56:49 has Elsie borrowed Eric Morecombe's glasses?

Imagine Ivys face if she had walked in when Elsie had the kid in the pub

Mavis “Have you had any luck, Mr Tilsley?” Bert “ What-with Eunice’s daughter y’ mean?” Now you know Mavis didn’t mean that, Bert! 😂😂

No wonder the lad (can't remember his name) ran away. Step dad and mum were too busy thinking about themselves. No intelligence to sp3ak to the kid amd listen tonwhy he ran away make things better. The ignorance of parents is off the scale. They need to loom to themselves before pointing the finger. That Billy was a right nob head. Typical old fashioned bloke, laykng the law down and not usinf g his brain to work out a solution.

Film stock (picture) seems a bit ropey in these compared to the 1970s stuff...maybe old Lew Grade was screwing down on the Shekels.

Really funny 😂how Vera lied about not being able 2 have that job after all. 😮Jack didn’t know anything about it. 😅Looks like she conned the mug 🍵. 😮 😮😮😮

How can Len think that he can build a house in that small hole? 🤣

I wonder if Audrey was declaring her earnings, hairdressing.

If Bert would have took that job they could have bought that lot! I’m so tired of him always brooding that he’s unemployed when he had a job offered to him and turned it down!!

"There will always be markets" obviously the writers couldn't see into the future.

at 44 minutes Bert is in two scenes! He's talking to Ivy in the corner and then answers Mavis at the darts match!

Al barely fits in that tiny car! 😂🤣

Fred said he’s not moving out. No surprise.

“By ‘eck/by the ‘eck” count …..119.

Brian Tyldesley was a bonny looking man no denying that

15:23 and fast forward 34 years later, his good looking son takes over

I would have took the new job if I were Vera! She’s only working 3 days a week at Baldwin’s!

Fread and Eunice a match made in Heaven.. 😆 lol

If Ivy's workplace was any nearer it would be inside her house.

What’s a BABBY Ivy.

Omg imagine if Ourbrian had went to prison - Good looks , lovely hair , fit body , I dred to think what might have happened to him

I know how good Corrie was in those days, because just like when I watch it now, I get really irritated by the likes of Audrey, Ivy and all the other irritating characters, Audrey manipulating gullible Alf, Ivy bossing everyone around, Eunice and Fred, and the rest of them and I wanted to see what happened next, but I haven't watched it for years now, got so bored with the characters and even more disillusioned by the stupid storylines. It's comical that Audrey acted "as common as muck" when her real life background was anything but.

Why does Len want to destroy that nice bench??! If I were Rita I would keep it! You could easily put it in the yard!!

Len likes to the swimming pool.

Fred complains he’s skint and jobless, but he’s forever drinking in the Rover’s! Never see him looking for a job! And when Mavis offered , he turned her down! But then why would Mavis ask him to paint when the man she is seeing is a painter??!! 😂🤣

Where did Deirdre get a plunging apron….😂.

If Alf had more money Audrey would have married him! 😂🤣