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.
@ironknobsteelworks40632 жыл бұрын
You hit the nail on the head. The modern corrie not only tries to educate it also indoctrinates.
@actualbennett224511 ай бұрын
There was already quite a lot of Feminist dogma creeping in though bought by women and men, without question. The casual misandry and generalisations of some of the women characters was crass. Think you know Feminism? Do check out Janice Fiamengo and Karen Straughan, who have the story from its beginnings.
@J316245 ай бұрын
I couldn’t agree more! Todays media feels obligated to educate… or re-educate us all! Old Corrie was great 👍
@garethsmyth65932 жыл бұрын
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.
@jennydickson44249 ай бұрын
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
@michaelhammett90163 жыл бұрын
How elsie looks so glam all the time bless her
@johnusher762811 ай бұрын
She has always been my favourite
@user-dq6kr2gd1y10 ай бұрын
Elsie was England's Sophia Loren ...
@Self-DeportАй бұрын
@@user-dq6kr2gd1yI agree with that. She was absolutely gorgeous.
@diggythree6 ай бұрын
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!
@elterrifico95223 жыл бұрын
These old episodes are fantastic.
@cliveevans9795 Жыл бұрын
Bert is a natural hes lovely
@stormhawk3319 Жыл бұрын
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.
@dementednun1175 Жыл бұрын
His father was more del boy
@R319226 ай бұрын
Bets brilliant one liners ❤
@williamf454411 ай бұрын
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
@susi-emily8 ай бұрын
That would be perfect, although as I'm imagining a 1930s pre-code version of Corrie, I'd drop Mia Farrow as Gail and bring in Joan Blondell. I'd swap Mike from Sinatra to Humphrey Bogart, and Audrey from Gloria Graham to Tallulah Bankhead. Alf would be Spencer Tracy. I wonder who my favourite, William Powell, could play? Gloria Graham would make an excellent Audrey for the 1940s Film Noir version of Corrie, with Robert Mitchum as Mike Baldwin.
@rthompson72825 ай бұрын
No, Elsie would be Sophia Loren!
@catme804921 күн бұрын
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. ❤❤
@judithrichards7922 жыл бұрын
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!🤣🤣🤣
@H3len503 жыл бұрын
Fred is a thoroughly unpleasant character, he gives me the heave ;-).
@bsaunders52713 жыл бұрын
Agreed. No lips, either.
@2500mike3 жыл бұрын
Same
@francesgillotti13782 жыл бұрын
he thinks he is Gods gift to some and his huge round face but he was a great acter.
@jaynehinds33392 жыл бұрын
@@bsaunders5271 😂
@Velasca2 жыл бұрын
He used to burp and fart all over the place apparently. I couldn't have stood that 🤣
@professionalgun66743 жыл бұрын
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.
@davidspencer24193 жыл бұрын
lo,hit the nail on the head there mate.
@kuchikopi46163 жыл бұрын
Mavis and Deirdre even had free lodging with their job for a while, was that a common thing I wonder.
@professionalgun66743 жыл бұрын
@@kuchikopi4616 I worked in a corner shop in the early to mid 80s and the flat above went with it, but as far as it being a regular thing I don't know.
@shylinh59393 жыл бұрын
Lol, yes, but don't forget all those corned beef barms she has to make or the effort of denying the Ogdens' 'tick'. Not to mention getting Emily's order ready, it'll at least involve putting a loaf of bread, tea, sugar, eggs and tins of salmon and sliced peaches in a box. no wonder she's exhausted!
@acesigma063 жыл бұрын
Eeeh it’s like aar Brian is back from the grave and writing on the comments section on KZfaq , Or is he channeling ProfessionalGun66 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for the posts though, made an old man very happy ❤️
@MrIrrepressible Жыл бұрын
Loving these classic episodes. Thanks for uploading. Its like seeing old friends when seeing these classic characters. Loving Vera, Ivy and Audrey. Thanks again.
@kelleybunny2 жыл бұрын
Deirdre forgets how many times she left Alf with Tracy .
@paullynton-green657011 ай бұрын
Yeah and anyone else she could dump her on.
@robclark450710 ай бұрын
Do u know its not real
@kelleybunny10 ай бұрын
@@robclark4507 no ..really 😒
@fluxington6 ай бұрын
@@robclark4507 Do you have a brain injury?
@michaelhammett90163 жыл бұрын
I wish elsie would find somebody to love
@bsaunders52713 жыл бұрын
Her nature wouldn't allow her to be happy in a relationship, it isn't in her make up, she is only attracted to bad 'uns, and would be bored by someone who would treat her properly.
@williamf45442 жыл бұрын
@@bsaunders5271 Im the same
@mattburke34572 жыл бұрын
And someone to love her back properly
@londonlady1966 Жыл бұрын
She does, eventually.
@dirkdeboer70614 ай бұрын
Golddigger Audry, words fail me.
@MissMarie1377 Жыл бұрын
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.
@muk88049 ай бұрын
🤣love it that to this day, after all these years, everyone still calls R Brian "R Brian". Poison Ivy was like a broken record !!
@susi-emily8 ай бұрын
@@muk8804 It's even better when they call him "Our Brian" to his face.
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
Alf doesn’t seem very bothered about Audrey having had the shop open less and getting less takings!
@RiaLake2 жыл бұрын
Irresponsible of Alf to say the least, letting ditsy/flaky Audrey run (ruin) the business. Renee would be turning in her grave!
@bibakroll89992 жыл бұрын
He's thinking with the other head ...
@TheGlassman632 жыл бұрын
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.
@jethro196324 күн бұрын
Brian Capron, Mark Eden, Michael Le Vell and Sue Cleaver, just to name a few, appeared as other characters.
@rogerforrester2904 Жыл бұрын
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.
@jstewart35175 ай бұрын
Ivy was born upset
@irenemorley759 ай бұрын
Len didn't pay for the cheese and Audrey didn't pay for the tights🙄I think I will do my shopping there🤭🤣
@cise7489 ай бұрын
Cheese wasn’t even wrapped lol
@dianaosullivann50752 жыл бұрын
Ahh do love hilda
@carlacusanelli82065 ай бұрын
love Coronation Street!!!!
@chicagogyrl48462 ай бұрын
Len can’t even remodel his own house but he’s building an entire one! 🤣😂
@lorraineydays579 ай бұрын
Audrey was such a freeloader, thought the world owed her a living back then.
@DaveyC957 ай бұрын
She was always on her back back then...Usually with a married man!...
@2500mike3 жыл бұрын
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.
@londonlady1966 Жыл бұрын
Getting a home phone would really help the Tilsleys. A better investment for them.
@DaveyC957 ай бұрын
They've got a phone!
@lawrencejhutchinson2 жыл бұрын
Yeah Elsie looked great and she was 60 then! 2 years later and she was dead!
@dominewimbury2039 Жыл бұрын
Just under five years later she died and she was probably 58 in real life here. She died in September 1986 aged 62
@mattburke34572 жыл бұрын
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?
@BlueyKind Жыл бұрын
It was a joke - exaggeration for effect.
@BernadetteSwemmer-jz7yl5 ай бұрын
Fred's hair is terrible...😮
@TrevorThompson-nf9dp9 ай бұрын
I love these old episodes Alf Roberts/ Bryan Mosley was a brilliant actor
@H3len503 жыл бұрын
Brian is a right wooden top. I have had chest of drawers that can act better than him.
@roderickscott74292 жыл бұрын
anymore wooden and he would have a bucket of creosote tipped over him !!
@bibakroll89992 жыл бұрын
The actual Woodentops were better than him!
@williamf454411 ай бұрын
I thought he was quite good really to be honest
@lyn410811 ай бұрын
He was a professional dancer, not actor, they hired him for his bodywork 😮
@user-dq6kr2gd1y10 ай бұрын
The Brian actor was a dancer in musical theatre ... he's a right milksop.
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
This is when Eddie ages about 40 years prematurely-playing crib with Uncle Albert.
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
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!
@josephbland3904 Жыл бұрын
Tawdry Audrey was a no good piece of gold digging trash…
@louiseowusu2462 жыл бұрын
Ivy manages to centre herself in everything. However Eddie's hair is 10 years ahead of its time... #Madchester #Ravestylee
@williamf454411 ай бұрын
Are you talking about the hair on his head ?
@nandsall94924 ай бұрын
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.
@cliveevans9795 Жыл бұрын
Can you imagine Annie walker and the battersbys
@excelents Жыл бұрын
1:13:32 Goes on to play Sally Waterman employed at the Weatherfield Recorder with Ken in 1983.
@madwatermelon13169 ай бұрын
In the 80s, Thatcher dressed and had the same hairstyle as Elsie.
@jaynehinds33392 жыл бұрын
Can’t stand Fred’s stepdaughter
@Self-DeportАй бұрын
Me neither! Nor his wife. Ugh…
@LFnDC9 ай бұрын
I wouldn't think that Alf could fit comfortably in that car...
@eph2817 Жыл бұрын
Fred is really gross.
@fluxington6 ай бұрын
Fat?
@chicagogyrl48462 ай бұрын
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!!
@chicagogyrl48462 ай бұрын
“Our Brian” Like a baby. 😂🤣
@queendeirdre74362 ай бұрын
Definitely think that Eddie and Mavis could have made a great couple. Eddie would have brought out the best in Mavis😊
@Self-DeportАй бұрын
I agree. They truly liked each other.
@jstewart3517 Жыл бұрын
Why do men brag they do all but can not wash a dish/ vacuum/ iron a shirt 🤔
@williamf454411 ай бұрын
Why on earth would they do stuff like that ?
@chrissywales657510 ай бұрын
Mine can do all that. He had to when he was in the army.
@nicolataylor60113 жыл бұрын
Lazy though he is I just love Stan Ogden
@wesleypresley10003 жыл бұрын
It's hard not to.I think it's because,deep down,we all know of someone like him.
@michaelhammett90163 жыл бұрын
Me too Stan is loveable
@dr.andrewmulenga34552 жыл бұрын
He reminds me of Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances played by his Geoffrey Hughes who is Eddie
@jaclynholland-strauss70542 жыл бұрын
And he means no harm unlike others.
@francesgillotti13782 жыл бұрын
@@wesleypresley1000 he’s a lazy good for nothing just uses poor Hilda . I cannot stand him 😫
@maryseragusa90722 жыл бұрын
How did Len manage to build his house in such a small space?
@gailwilkinson8848 Жыл бұрын
It was built on where a house use to be.
@williamf4544 Жыл бұрын
Harry Hewits house - i remember the night it fell down - all the rest of the houses are the same breadth - they look broader when theyre built
@algie-t2w2 ай бұрын
Albert to Audrey: "I suppose I'd rather look at you than the back of a bus". The old romantic fool.
@acesigma063 жыл бұрын
1:29:12 Bertha Holmes being drunken disorderly at 66 is the greatest part of this episode 🤣🤣🤣
@bsaunders52713 жыл бұрын
It's a classic moment 🤣🤣
@susi-emily8 ай бұрын
And. It's Drunk "and" Disorderly.
@chicagogyrl48462 ай бұрын
I can’t believe that Audrey was only 38 years old here!
@wesleypresley10003 жыл бұрын
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
@elinebrock5660 Жыл бұрын
For the love of God oil the sewing machines! They sound like bloody chainsaws!
@soniaclarkstewart Жыл бұрын
My mother was a seamstress and she worked out of the house so I grew up hearing one but I never heard any of hers sounding like those. They sound like lawn mowers to me.
@fluxington6 ай бұрын
Any possibility they're not actually sewing but just passing material through a machine and playing a sound effect?
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
With her shorter hair, Rita looks a bit like Elspet Gray ( the queen in the first Blackadder series).
@jethro196324 күн бұрын
When she walked into the shop to get her hair done she looked like Mavis
@gearoid98352 жыл бұрын
11:50 That man is forty years before his time.
@randnsmom2 жыл бұрын
Mrs. Walker snorts sometimes when she laughs. How cute. 51:28.
@lindarowe85503 жыл бұрын
That Councillor crotchless is a right creep.
@josephbland3904 Жыл бұрын
Yep a smarmy greasy slippery snake…
@user-hc8sn1vs2k2 ай бұрын
So this episode getting number 7 rebuild since 1965 wow 😳 SU garden
@user-hc8sn1vs2k2 ай бұрын
Thanks no location I see hmm in December 1981 SU garden
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
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!
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
Mike’s patter needs some work! “Ere, ladies-‘ow about doin’ yetselves a favour and giving yer’ husbands a heart attack!” Strange favour!
@joe-vl3ndАй бұрын
Alf the Simp👍🏴
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
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’?
@bernadetteaspinall6710Ай бұрын
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
@R319226 ай бұрын
Flaming is the corrie swear word of choice.
@TheGlassman632 жыл бұрын
Alf says "Its nearly two years since Renee died". Well No Alf, its nearly 16 months since she died !
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
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!
@bsaunders52713 жыл бұрын
Fred has a dreadful temper. He is my least favourite character of all time!
@eamonnquigley2125 Жыл бұрын
debbie the buxsom blonde she should of have had more lines she was only in the show a wet minute ...
@benstevens69822 жыл бұрын
i could not quite catch what the kids said to alf about got any doughnuts left over , but i pissed meself laughing
@ara82532 ай бұрын
Audrey, what a mouth. When you think Corrie has enough of them already she turns up.
@olgagarcia57109 ай бұрын
I think Mrs walker fancies Alf & jealous because she’s too old for him.
@bsaunders52714 ай бұрын
Hang on.... Bert hasn't said d'you know what I mean for a while now... did Peter Dudley get told to stop it...?
@shaneobrien22572 күн бұрын
😀 everyone found out what Bert meant. 👍👍
@bsaunders52713 жыл бұрын
1:56:49 has Elsie borrowed Eric Morecombe's glasses?
@saxongreen782 жыл бұрын
He left 'em on the bedside table when he popped by in 1972. 😁
@bsaunders52714 ай бұрын
@@saxongreen78😅
@williamf454411 ай бұрын
Imagine Ivys face if she had walked in when Elsie had the kid in the pub
@alexanderjones95723 жыл бұрын
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! 😂😂
@ghostdemon79369 ай бұрын
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.
@saxongreen782 жыл бұрын
Film stock (picture) seems a bit ropey in these compared to the 1970s stuff...maybe old Lew Grade was screwing down on the Shekels.
@paulinecorreia5538 Жыл бұрын
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 🍵. 😮 😮😮😮
@cise7489 ай бұрын
How can Len think that he can build a house in that small hole? 🤣
@ingridogilvie366411 ай бұрын
I wonder if Audrey was declaring her earnings, hairdressing.
@chicagogyrl48462 ай бұрын
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!!
@clarea1801 Жыл бұрын
"There will always be markets" obviously the writers couldn't see into the future.
@fluxington6 ай бұрын
There's a market in my town every week.
@mathewdunne5771 Жыл бұрын
at 44 minutes Bert is in two scenes! He's talking to Ivy in the corner and then answers Mavis at the darts match!
@cise7489 ай бұрын
Yessss lol
@fluxington6 ай бұрын
Bert is at the bar, involved in the darts game with Mavis. Ivy walks in, he talks to her at the corner of the bar along from the darts game, and when Mavis asks, he comments on the score, and then continues talking to Ivy.
@chicagogyrl48462 ай бұрын
Al barely fits in that tiny car! 😂🤣
@Self-DeportАй бұрын
I noticed that, too!
@chicagogyrl48462 ай бұрын
Fred said he’s not moving out. No surprise.
@shaneobrien22572 күн бұрын
“By ‘eck/by the ‘eck” count …..119.
@nicolataylor60113 жыл бұрын
Brian Tyldesley was a bonny looking man no denying that
@bsaunders52713 жыл бұрын
His acting was a bit wooden though
@H3len503 жыл бұрын
@@bsaunders5271, like a sideboard ;-).
@H3len503 жыл бұрын
Too short for me but not bad looking. How him and chinless whiney wonder ended up together I will never know ;-).
@bsaunders52713 жыл бұрын
@@H3len50 yes it's a weird pairing, I think she was punching above her weight. He had good muscles, did Bri.
@williamf45442 жыл бұрын
He would have been a huge hit in the Aussie soaps - with his little speedos and big surf board
@acesigma062 жыл бұрын
15:23 and fast forward 34 years later, his good looking son takes over
@chicagogyrl48462 ай бұрын
I would have took the new job if I were Vera! She’s only working 3 days a week at Baldwin’s!
@joe-vl3nd2 жыл бұрын
Fread and Eunice a match made in Heaven.. 😆 lol
@ivandickson6063 Жыл бұрын
Yeah,God made them and the Devil matched them lol....tbh it would be a shame to spoil two houses with them 😂😂
@connielincoln8681 Жыл бұрын
Yea idiots
@connielincoln8681 Жыл бұрын
And Debbie useless
@fluxington6 ай бұрын
Fread rhymes with bread.
@algie-t2w2 ай бұрын
If Ivy's workplace was any nearer it would be inside her house.
@margolenney60328 ай бұрын
What’s a BABBY Ivy.
@williamf45444 ай бұрын
Omg imagine if Ourbrian had went to prison - Good looks , lovely hair , fit body , I dred to think what might have happened to him
@Self-DeportАй бұрын
LOLZ! Don’t drop the soap, Ourbrian.
@jujuoliver69592 ай бұрын
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.
@chicagogyrl48462 ай бұрын
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!!
@stephanblack4558 Жыл бұрын
Len likes to the swimming pool.
@chicagogyrl48462 ай бұрын
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??!! 😂🤣
@bernadetteaspinall6710Ай бұрын
Where did Deirdre get a plunging apron….😂.
@chicagogyrl48462 ай бұрын
If Alf had more money Audrey would have married him! 😂🤣