CoronationStreet-31st of December 1969.

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2 ай бұрын

This is a more bittersweet episode than I expected.I thought they would bow out of the 60's with a happy one but it's more arguments and the like.All done very well of course but don't expect a laugh a minute.Bet none thought when it started in 1960 it would see out the decade at all.The early part of 1970 is now readily available to see around if you want to continue these plots a bit.

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@adamhughes4442 Ай бұрын

No sordid secrets. No stupid twists. No murders. Just life!!!!

@zacmumblethunder7466 Ай бұрын

This wasn't long after Stan had been held hostage at gunpoint by the man who murdered Steve Tanner. I watched some old episodes from the 60s. I was surprised at the sensational stuff they had in it. There was even a scene where a policeman remarked on all the incidents in one street.

@MichaelHoare-bh5pg 8 күн бұрын

Coronation Street in its simpler,less complicated days when storylines were dramatic but also humourous well before the woke generation ruined it.

@tonyatwood9505 2 ай бұрын

It was way better back then, they had real characters in the show back then, and the acting was better! The story lines in the present Coronation Street now, is all about prison, misery, affairs, and aggression! This was classic television, and was great watching! The 60s and 70s rule!

@mikehudson8884 2 ай бұрын

And the colour was richer...As you say the storylines are all misery but also the scenes in the current Corrie are so dark and dimly lit...

@TheBigMidweek1889 2 ай бұрын

Corrie started going downhill when Eastenders came on the scene. It's got more and more like the London soap over time, even down to the seat where people sit and feel sorry for themselves. Whether it was to compete with viewing figures who knows, but it certainly ruined it.

@sergioalmasy8722 2 ай бұрын

@@TheBigMidweek1889Actually, Cori was quite good in the Nineties. The script had a lot of humour around 1997, the characters continual banter amongst themselves was much better viewing than the violence/crime dished out by EastEnders.

@TheBigMidweek1889 2 ай бұрын

@@sergioalmasy8722 Yes, I think Reg Holdsworth appeared in it around that time. His character and humour really gave it a lift.

@sergioalmasy8722 2 ай бұрын

@@TheBigMidweek1889 That's right, Ken Morley was on the Street as Reg Holdsworth from October 1989 to around late 1995, with a few cameo and spin-offs appearances in the following decade. There were some hilarious storylines involving him and Curly Watts during this era!

@garrywood5345 2 ай бұрын

The golden period of Coronation st..when 22million people had to wait almost a week to find out who nicked a Fiver out of Emily Bishop's purse

@Tidybitz Ай бұрын

We only had 2 channels until 1964, 3 channels thereafter until the 80s, there were no other channels to watch so of course the viewing figures were high.

@Wench64 2 ай бұрын

Miss these days when story lines were good, stopped watching 2o years ago when it started going about murders and stopped being about families, or about getting married and having a family

@gill8779 2 ай бұрын

Same here, stopped watching Emmerdale at the same time.

@alans.2735 2 ай бұрын

Thankyou another great episode. Sad this would be the last Christmas for Jack Walker played by the wonderful Arthur Leslie , Jack as a character I have warmed to greatly.

@SteveHarris-nv9iy 2 ай бұрын

Eeee Annie love is sort of his saying isn't it.When he's trying to calm Annie down or win her over.

@user-np2nv5qc3r 2 ай бұрын

I loved Stan and hilda ❤

@kw3593 12 күн бұрын

Never seen such high quality classic Corrie! This is great ❤

@faithmapstone9982 2 ай бұрын

Those were the days on the cobbles!⭐️

@TheGodParticle 2 ай бұрын

Pat phoenix was such a beautiful lady. I still think about her.

@davidcarr7436 Ай бұрын

I'm not someone who would be considered your "typical" Coronation Street fan. But I discovered the show at about the same time period as this program.I was a lonely kid, single parent, low income, and I skipped a lot of school. Somehow, the atmosphere and "shabby" surroundings were comforting. I could relate to the characters. A lot were like me. I lived on another continent, and yet, the show was eminently relatable. Great show, wonderful cast, compelling stories. I loved cranky Mrs Sharples!!

@trytellingthetruth.2068 2 ай бұрын

Today's Coronation Street is a reflection of the times we live in, just like this episode from 1969 is. The country hasn't got any better, unfortunately.

@paullynton-green6570 Күн бұрын

Mrs sharples is my favourite. Such a strong women,great actress and wonderful pianist. Corrie was never the same without her.

@LadyOfShaIott 2 ай бұрын

An England that is gone now.

@jaredini Ай бұрын

Yup when everyone worked hard, kept their homes spotless and everyone got through life the best way they could. Not like now with labels and ghettoising themselves

@IanAKAKeith 2 ай бұрын

Probably the most dramatic episode I've seen so far of these early colour ones... all in all some quite sad occurrences to see out the old and ring in the new! Solid acting though and surely it would have people gripped, wondering what 1970 would bring. As always, many thanks for uploading it.

@fannycraddock99 2 ай бұрын

Elsie was so glamorous and Pat put her soul into the part. Ena mellowed in her old age, Violet knew exactly how to play her. They made you believe in and care for the characters. You could relate to them. Now the Street is totally alien to me.

@ysgol3 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting episode, thank you very much again! Interesting that there's no mention about it being the end of the 60s - maybe that sort of 'end of' thinking wasn't much of a big deal then. Fascinating that Hilda defends Stan so ferociously even to their daughter despite them both knowing that Irma's right about him not being keen to work - Hilda even slapping her which I thought was quite a moment. And not many regulars for Auld Lang Syne - I understand episodes were filmed much closer to transmission then so maybe the actors were on holiday - Ken, Val, Albert, Len, Maggie etc. I loved yet another example of Ena's kind and thoughtful nature under the stern facade - finding Elsie and gently ensuring she didn't see the new year in alone - marvellous. PS You may know the January and Feb 1970 episodes are already all here on KZfaq, but there's nothing from March and very few from April - if you have any from March on that would be so so great - thanks once more!

@michaeldoolan7864 2 ай бұрын

My sentiments exactly

@Jack_Warner 2 ай бұрын

New Years Day didn't become a bank holiday until 1974.

@rabbit64sj91 2 ай бұрын

Ten years later, on NYE 1979, the cast did look back on the 70s, Annie Walker referring to them as the "savage seventies." I remember it by then as I was almost sixteen. 😀

@SashineB 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for posting this. I haven't seen many episodes from this period, so this is a treat. And, it is so different from today's show (which I have not watched in 20 years.)

@pauldg837 2 ай бұрын

I used to love Corrie Street. I even remember this broadcast on that New Year's Eve. I was half way through my second year in Grammar School. Corrie Street was far more appealing than the Latin books that I was meant to be studying over the Xmas holidays. Happy days!❤

@SashineB 2 ай бұрын

I never saw it in those days, so I'm glad to see old episodes here and there. I haven't watched CS in 20 years now. I just found the way they were going with the storylines, and getting rid of older characters, etc. was disappointing.

@pauldg837 2 ай бұрын

@@SashineB Like you I don't follow it anymore. It doesn't have the same wonderful characters that the old shows had. Nor the great scriptwriting that made us all watch it back in those days. Thank you for your comment.

@rabbit64sj91 2 ай бұрын

I was in the first year of infants, turning six, 6 weeks later! I do remember it being on TV at home, but we had black and white until 1973. 😀

@pauldg837 2 ай бұрын

@rabbit64sj91 I'll bet when you were 6 that you never thought that one day you would be 60! I know I never ever thought that I would grow old, I thought that happened only to some people. 😂 Well I guess I am one of those 'some people' as I turn 68 next month. Lol.

@rabbit64sj91 2 ай бұрын

@@pauldg837you're not wrong! I turned sixty in February, and I can hardly believe how quickly time goes by. I know it's highly unlikely I will be around in 60 years time, 2084, that's for sure, haha! 😂🤣

@marymcleanfarmer 2 ай бұрын

Fabulous. Thank you so much for putting these up.

@SteveHarris-nv9iy 2 ай бұрын

Stan looks like he's trying out for Dexy's Midnight Runners 1980 era of Geno etc.

@EveEve5 2 ай бұрын

Come on Stanley

@faithmapstone9982 2 ай бұрын

Good ans!!@@EveEve5

@TheGodParticle 2 ай бұрын

Lol good one.

@carmenbalcomb4106 Ай бұрын

Ha ha that made me smile,cos I saw Dexy's in 1980 with the Donkey jackets.😊

@Jack_Warner 2 ай бұрын

Minnie Caldwell was one of the best characters in these older episodes.

@hughcampbell463 2 ай бұрын

Those were the days when people had respect for each

@alban1959 Ай бұрын

Like Stan Ogden

@simonjones7727 Ай бұрын

Elsie Tanner does indeed look fantastic here and is wearing fashions that look at least 10 years ahead of their time

@Voxac100b Ай бұрын

No crap acting no rush to get to the adverts and the proper theme tune. Quality TV. Quality Coronation Street

@OliverClothesofff 2 ай бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you!

@johnnygreenshirt6215 Ай бұрын

This is when I was happy and the reason I come back to watch this. 7-30 pm Coronations streets on John

@cghaworth 2 ай бұрын

Woop-woop I've been longing for this, I could kiss you!!

@dannyhardie3495 2 ай бұрын

Been awaiting this! Irma is yet to explain what was going so badly wrong. I hope you will show some more xorrie soon, its such a joy to watch these rather than read summaries which is all there was before you began uploading Steve. 🎉🎉🎉

@michaeldoolan7864 2 ай бұрын

They were brilliant

@ysgol3 2 ай бұрын

Hi, we never did find out directly - except that when Irma returned home in April after the tragedy she said that she and David had been arguing when it happened. It seems she didn't like Australia, wasn't really maternal and was getting fed up of David!

@dannyhardie3495 2 ай бұрын

@@ysgol3 yes, it would be a common enough problem, post natal deppression, homesickness, and a marriage that doesnt stand the intensity of knowing no one else.

@Juliukas101 Ай бұрын

I love these old episodes. Keep them coming!

@MattFisher-rf8hr 23 күн бұрын

When Corrie went colour, the settings became more realistic as opposed to the dark and dingy settings of the earlier seasons and locations became outdoors with more natural light.

@1916jamesconnolly 2 ай бұрын

Good old Workshy Stan and his Nicotine Fingers worrying about getting cold as a Carpark Attendant and then heading off to the Flying Horse to drown his Sorrows.

@wintersun398 Ай бұрын

Stan had died by the time I recall watching corrie as a kid in the 80's. Blimey he really was workshy. Being a carpark attendant would have meant getting off his arris and walking around.

@shortlandstreetfan 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! X

@martinthomas5155 2 ай бұрын

These have been a real treat, Steve. I hope some more of 69 eventually surfaces ( the introduction of Janet Reid) and also 1970 (the exit of the Flemings).

@stevecharlemagne4496 2 ай бұрын

Brian Mills directed many memorable episodes during the 1980s most notably the Ken/Derdrie/Mike triangle climax.

@mrmeg01 2 ай бұрын

The acting was so much better and more real

@juliepownall1063 Ай бұрын

Pat Phoenix looked better as she got older a very attractive lady

@SimonLeicester Ай бұрын

Annie Walker’s hairdo is a revelation in itself

@michaeldoolan7864 2 ай бұрын

End of the decade

@michaeldoolan7864 2 ай бұрын

World was a very different place on 31st December 1969 than it was on 1st January 1960

@paullynton-green6570 Күн бұрын

Alan howerd really looked the part and he and the wonderful elsie made a great match.so tragic the way it all worked out.

@hollandwawasan1221 2 ай бұрын

Hilda doesn't age at all, except gracefully, in the 80s she looks almost the same as in the 60s. Brilliant character and actress ❤

@leslietravis3079 Ай бұрын

Has Stan Ogden varnished his head 😂

@Amusementnational 5 күн бұрын

When ena grabbed Elsie's hand and said 'come with auntie ena.' I actually wanted to cry I thought it was so cute

@terencebarrett2897 Ай бұрын

Real times,real humanity,

@garybrockwell2031 Ай бұрын

Í was 10 then, great to see them all again 🎬🤩 colour aas well, used to just love Mini Calledwell. In fact the first cat the family had we called her MINI😍💯 I remember she was with us when this aired.... GOD bless them all🙏 Ena was an accomplished Singer and pianist, great to see her playing 😁🥇🤩

@SteveHarris-nv9iy 2 ай бұрын

Geno! Geno! Geno! Geno!.

@rebeccahayes1007 2 ай бұрын

Never liked Alan Browning in Coronation Street. I know Pat Phoenix was married to him in real life, and apparently got him the job, but character of Alan Howard he portrays is a humourless git, and not Elsie's type at all.

@SteveHarris-nv9iy 2 ай бұрын

I think he has more charm in these episodes when he was introduced.Than say in 72 or 73 ones.

@ysgol3 2 ай бұрын

Hi, I agree, for me the problem is he's ludicrously over- intense, as if he's playing Macbeth not Alan Howard! He was a horrible man too apparently - a conceited egomaniac - made poor Pat's life a misery until the booze thankfully killed him in about 1979.

@SteveHarris-nv9iy 2 ай бұрын

@@ysgol3 I do think Pat Phoenix could give as good as she got though.I don't see her been a victim in real life at all.She dated Tony Booth too,so liked her bad boys.

@ysgol3 2 ай бұрын

@@SteveHarris-nv9iy Fair point, yes, though Alan Browning became a chronic alcoholic, hard even for someone like Pat. I wonder how she really felt - we'll never know now of course.

@eddieoi9444 2 ай бұрын

Minnie and Sonny-Jim were my favourite…

@susandoig4192 Ай бұрын

Hilda’s Christmas tree is tiny😂

@mariabrabiner7491 Күн бұрын

Top quality acting

@laurallama73 2 ай бұрын

I always thought Alan was a handsome fella. 🤩✨✨✨

@juliepownall1063 Ай бұрын

Shame he was an alcoholic

@charlottedurden2050 Ай бұрын

I watched these from its start in 1959 in UK as a teenager. It was family viewing then. Only now do i see the humour and clever writing and wonderful acting in them, as a pensioner in Australia, by watching all the old episodes on KZfaq. You can see them set out year by year. I've reached 1985 from the beginning onwards and its easy watching. But I will stop at 2000 as I know Coro lost its good writers and character actors in later years. This series reflected the morality of past days and good neighbourliness, told with humour, despite post war poverty, and at age 77, I am saddened at the world we live in today. Its not improved, other than financially for many. Im grateful its accessible to all via KZfaq.

@robertsauvage9745 Ай бұрын

First Episode was aired on 9th December 1960

@johnlarkin3821 2 ай бұрын

Elsie is the Sophia Loren of the North!

@paullynton-green6570 Күн бұрын

Elsie looks great.she's done some weight and dresses really classy.a really glamorous lady.

@brianmarshall4753 Ай бұрын

IT broadcast on Wednesday 31 December New Year eve 1969

@wcwnumber1fan 2 ай бұрын

What's next now you've done 1969.? Thanks for these btw. Another one for my collection

@SteveHarris-nv9iy 2 ай бұрын

I already answered this in my community page about 10 days ago.You can either check that or wait a few days to see

@roboi2241 Ай бұрын

I wonder if Margaret Thatcher modeled some of her theatrics on Annie Walker. I'm sure she must been very aware of her when working on building her image and public persona.

@jillrossiter8757 2 ай бұрын

Fab!

@wecandothiswarriors Ай бұрын

Wow I’m 58 and remember Hilda

@askinlad Ай бұрын

they should really reshow the it from the first colour episode onwards, much more interesting than the 90's ones they have on.

@matthewlawrenson3628 2 ай бұрын

Watching Minnie Caldwell, you can see where David Renwick got his inspiration for Mrs. Worboys in "One Foot In The Grave", though I'm not sure how bad Margot Bryant's memory was at this point and adding to her air of obliviousness. Seeing Irma berate her father for being a lazy bastard is peculiar as here Bernard Youens seems so young and active - nothing like the shambling, slurring and immobile figure I remember Stan Ogden being when I was a child (Youens had a stroke in 1975 and was never the same again). They're playing this Alan Howard / Elsie Tanner plot for all they're worth here. Modern soaps would have got them together before Christmas, but I guess they're going to string everyone along for another few weeks despite it being obvious how it will turn out.

@SteveHarris-nv9iy 2 ай бұрын

Margot's memory only really started to go in 1976.And not wanting to be a burden to production team retired straight away.Before that was just good acting absent minded on her part.

@SteveHarris-nv9iy 2 ай бұрын

Matthew I did Skorpion Part 4 last weekend.You must not have seen yet as didn't review it.

@johntomlinson6849 2 ай бұрын

What will you post next??

@tonykeggin8906 Ай бұрын

Bringing in 1970. year i was born.

@minimaxi802 2 ай бұрын

The last day of the swinging sixties. 30 years until the year 2000.

@traceydaizy Ай бұрын

Jeez, that was depressing

@chicagogyrl4846 8 күн бұрын

Why did Hilda sell the window cleaning business??! For what??!

@marieusher5785 2 ай бұрын

😊

@dianewalker4633 2 ай бұрын

That was so sweet of Ina at the end. Do you have the next one after this?

@corrieplattfan4847 2 ай бұрын

Just search ‘Coronation Street January 1970’. Somebody has uploaded the entire month in full there.

@dianewalker4633 2 ай бұрын

@@corrieplattfan4847 Thank you. Found it.

@anne40hillpiggott30 2 ай бұрын

Don't mention Beastenders 😂😂😂😂😂

@andynightingale7335 2 ай бұрын

Why was Irma never mentioned again after 1979?

@SteveHarris-nv9iy 2 ай бұрын

Well the actress quit the show in the early 70's.Leaving them having to rewrite lots of scripts.I don't know why she got sick of making it.She did though,shame as great character on it.

@andynightingale7335 2 ай бұрын

@@SteveHarris-nv9iy does seem odd tho that Stan & Hilda never mentioned her again!

@sergioalmasy8722 2 ай бұрын

Cori has gentrified itself starting around 2001. Don't watch it anymore, the script writers may as well be the same writers as Emnerdale and Eastenders! There is very little difference!

@Timemachine74 2 ай бұрын

Proper corra not like that crap they put on now, I can’t watch it anymore it’s that bad

@cazweston1148 Ай бұрын

These episodes were before my time, and I didn't start watching Corrie till the late 80's as a teenager. But I stopped watching about six years ago, it's not a family show any more, and full of controversial storylines.

@anne40hillpiggott30 2 ай бұрын

As the millenials would say ver relateable - whatever that is😢

@DuderinoDeux Ай бұрын

No! It's not Eastern Europe !

@linda-nl8ib 2 ай бұрын

Didnt knows the odgens had a daughter

@SteveHarris-nv9iy 2 ай бұрын

You must not know their background very well then.As Irma featured a lot more than Trevor their Son ever did.

@linda-nl8ib 2 ай бұрын

@@SteveHarris-nv9iy I remember her son Was a regular watching it Maybe before my time

@ysgol3 2 ай бұрын

They started (incredibly!) with four kids, some in care, two quickly vanished without explanation, and the horrible Trevor appeared briefly and irregularly, with poor proud Hilda staunchly defending him (like she did Stan here) despite knowing deep down what he was like. He even left his mother after the briefest of visits after Stan (who couldn't stand him) died!

@alhilford2345 2 ай бұрын

Irma is married to David Barlow, Ken's younger brother.

@alicecobb7763 2 ай бұрын

Me too 🤔. Never heard mention of her at all

@markmak7548 Ай бұрын

Ive stopped watching Corrie now . Sick of the wokeism . Watching a gay vicer constantly kissing his husband , has just finished it for me. Kids constantly telling the grown ups what to do . Biased politics its gone from bad to worse.