Yes, Mike had a heart of gold beneath the tough exterior. I loved his relationship with Hilda, he was kind to her many times, eg slipping her some cash to go on the factory outing to France, and when she 'won' him in a prize draw, and he was so kind to her on their dinner date at a posh restaurant.

@@glamdolly30 I love their relationship too & the episode where Hilda ‘wins’ Mike for the day is a classic. I enjoy reading your many comments on these episodes, please keep them coming. 😊

@@Scottfree166 What a lovely compliment, thank you - always a pleasure chatting with you here! X

@@glamdolly30 Pleasure is all mine, you always have a great point of view, and reading your comments only adds to the experience of enjoying the halcyon days of ‘the street’. 😊

@@Scottfree166 You're very kind - I'm sure my ramblings bore many to tears, but I can't help myself, lol! Passionate about vintage Corrie. Wishing you & yours a wonderful Sunday and hope to see you down the road/Street! X

I really enjoyed this storyline too, her and Stan made me laugh when she legged it over to factory and she came back and said " they"ve swallowed it Stan " xx

@@matthewa.morgan6214 Yes! Hilda's face when she sees Stan's horror, realises the serious implications of what she's done, and runs out of the house to fix it, brilliant! You just knew she'd be too late, and get inside the factory to find Vera and the girls celebrating and planning the purchase of fur coats, etc!

@@glamdolly30 I can tell you are a big corrie fan like me, who are your all time favorite characters

@@matthewa.morgan6214 Oh yes, I'm obsessed, but only with vintage Corrie, I gave up on modern Corrie around 2000, the plots were too depressing! The best years IMO were the legendary Elsie Tanner's second stint on the show, 1976-'84. Elsie has to be my all-time favourite character, I love her! But I also love Hilda (of course!), Annie Walker, Vera and Jack Duckworth, Eddie Yeates, Alf Roberts (a big, cuddly teddy bear), Mike and Alma Baldwin (shame they divorced, she was his best partner!) and Ivy's spats with Gail were always good value! How about you, who are your favourites? And do you have a favourite Corrie era?

@@glamdolly30 I will have to agree Elsie tanner was my favourite, bet lynch, alec Gilroy, Hilda and Stan, Minnie Caldwell, ena sharples, ivy tilsley, Fred gee, Mavis I don't follow corrie much these days accept if it's a storyline to do with older members,ken, Rita, Gail etc, but I can watch classic corrie over and over, I think it went down hill after bet lynch left, I would say last great big storyline was the Richard Hillman saga

Fine figure of a woman.

I think Elsie improved with age - she was always fabulous, but I far prefer the Elsie who returned for a second stint on the show in 1976, to the original, 1960s - early '70s version. It's like she left in 1973 as a girl, but returned a mature, sophisticated, knockout woman! Pat Phoenix made middle age sexy, I say God bless her for that!

Madge Hindle (Renee) said in a recent interview that she thought Pat was very beautiful

@@glamdolly30 I agree. In the earlier episodes her chin disapeared into her fat neck.

She was in the 60’s. Not so much by 1980.

Didn’t Maureen Lipman (Evelyn) once appear as a temporary manager of the Rovers?

Imagine if George had got together with (and married) Emily after it all went wrong with Arnold! It’d have been the same two actors at no 3 in the nineties-except he’d be a different character, and there’d be no Percy! Would Phyllis still have been after him, tho?

@@alexanderjones9572 Now there's a thought, Percy and Emily as a married couple - as religious as she is, I think she might have ended up divorcing him! I didn't know Maureen Lipman had been in Corrie before. Having Googled it, I found the details - she was brought in as Lillian Spencer, a relief manager at the Rovers as you said, in July 2002. Great info! I think I had given up on the show by then, which is why I didn't know! I got sick of the bad scripts and even worse acting. In my view it was 'Coronation Street' in name only by the time the ghastly Battersbys arrived in 1997. Worst soap family ever - and Les Battersby was the worst character, played by the unfunny and totally unlovable Bruce Jones. Producers obviously thought he'd be another Jack Duckworth, but they were so wrong. Jack was a bad boy but the viewers adored him. Battersby had no redeeming features at all - not helped by the fact Bruce Jones is a lousy actor. I had the misfortune to meet him once, as a TV booker - he was really playing himself on the Street, a yob, no acting was required!

Raquel was Wendy for about 2 mins Garry Mallet about the same time was Pete Jackson, Terry ran away with his wife, there’s been loads! Love these classics addictive viewing thank you♥️

@@pamib29 Ooh I didn't know the actor who later played Gary Mallet was in the show before - good catch! Yes, Sarah Lancashire's early role was a blink-and-you-miss it, couple of scenes. Her father Geoffrey Lancashire was a Corrie scriptwriter at the time, and no doubt put a word in for her!

She was, to some!

It was very cute how proud Martin was of his glamorous grannie! Loved it when he boasted to his girlfriend how she wore make up, drank gin and went out with loads of fellas, lol! Go Elsie!

@@glamdolly30😂😂

Well she was too blame

And why does she where curlers and then put a hairpiece on ?

​@@mattburke3457 it's to give the 'illusion' that she's curling her own hair, but as you know, of course, she's not !

She was a control-freak and had to micromanage every aspect of her family’s lives. She did the same to Don. Constant whinging about Brian and the glorious Tilsley family.

I thought that as well 😂

I'm sure you are right `my sweet` !

It was obviously a verbal 'tic' by the actor Peter Dudley, but I think the catchphrase added to Bert's believability! He was a lovely character who lived for his family, and adored Ivy. She never knew love like Bert's again, he was a gem of a husband who forgave her pretty much anything - even giving birth to mummy's boy R. Brian! Her second husband, horrible one-legged psycho Don Brennan wasn't a patch on him - on or off screen. Peter Dudley was so popular with cast and crew, they loyally stood by him through his trials (in both senses), whereas Geoff Hinsliff who played Don was by all accounts deeply unpopular with the cast. Lynne Perrie as his wife Ivy wrote some very uncomplimentary things about him in her autobiography, there was no love lost between them and having read it I can see why! She claimed he fancied himself as a ladies' man, was always moaning that Ivy was too old for him, and would badger the producers to write in affairs for his character Don as he felt he deserved more exciting storylines. Lynne also alleged he would pull actors' tricks to steal the limelight from her when they were playing scenes together. I just looked at his Wikipedia entry, and noticed that an unflattering line which referenced his unpopularity behind the scenes with cast and crew has been deleted! I also noticed it states he has a daughter who is a national newspaper journalist - and the article was recently edited. Call me Columbo, but I reckon his little girl may have done a bit of editing for her old dad (who is still going strong at '83-84', according to the ever accurate Wikipedia!)

Bertus maximus know what i meanus.

I can't help but laugh every time Bert says it now, I like his character a nice gentle fella x

But then she grew up

She went through a quiet, shy, cuteness stage, certainly, but baby Tracey and today's Tracey was and is, hhorrible.

​@@scottanthony6269and turned into looking like Michael Jackson

It is him .

Em it is him don’t be silly

I think there is some sort of law against it actually if i remember correctly but it seems to be ignored these day

@@williamf4544 in England? Oh, I guess I should think about that before I go quoting American law 😊

That's American law not English.

He is! Very different!

He was ahead of his time - in 2022 I find myself shoulder charging such oafs every other day.

So does the blue cups and saucers 😅

Yes we know we not stupid we are Corrie fans

I agree, Gail looked lovely. Mums-to-be should look mumsy!

Not all! My sister and cousin are not slappers thanks!

Gails never looked nice

@@glamdolly30 mums to be should look how they want to look

@@tracygrant7931 I don't like to see bare pregnancy bellies on display and I'm not alone. It's about dignity for mother and baby.

Gail is a whiner!

Gale is a trouble maker. She and Ivy are both as bad as each other.

I agree with Eddie Yates if the items are being thrown out why should the council get all the profit

I can't get over what a nervous wreck Mavis is.

@@2500mike I know, it drives me up the wall.

😂

Me too. They were my favourite characters in the show at this point. Loved Bert and was gutted about what happened to Peter Dudley.

Percy had a split personality.

Brilliant lol

What muscles?

Most probably, I've seen Ivy do it

It's 1980 soft lad 🙄

@@eyezj7412 I’m not being soft at all, it’s just that Elsie was always the open minded one, it would of made sense for ivy to have said it or Vera, I’m fully aware of the history regarding homosexuals during this time, and what I went through makes me stronger not weaker, you cretin.

haha. You can do what ya like just leave my boy alone