I've gone deep into the classic Street rabbit hole. As an American, I'm seeing these for the first time. Those early episodes were amazing. This wasn't so much a soap opera as it was a 30 minute weekly continuous play. Amazing acting, writing and camerawork.

There's never been better acting - by anyone, anywhere - than in this scene. RIP Corrie, as it was and was always meant to be.

What a scene. I especially liked the aftermath of the argument where they both knew they had gone too far. Superb acting.

What a star Pat Pheonix was....

pure class true to life and miles better than the show now

That shot of Ena and Elsie standing at opposite ends of the street, like two gunfighters in the old west facing off is just genius.

What a woman! She created a character worthy of Bette Davis or Gena Rowlands.

Elsie Tanner and Ena Sharples used to scare me when I was little. My parents used to watch this every night. It came on at 6.30pm. So as a result, I think I saw every episode.

Absolute Corrie classic

Wonderful acting ....fantastic work..and all done LIVE!!! x

Fantastic writing and characters.

An emphatic win by ena sharples. Deep down Elsie tanner knew that ena sharples would have hated her enough to say everything in that letter to her face and ena had the same strength of character that Elsie herself had. All of the fight in elsie disappeared after the vehemence of ena's denial. She accused ena falsely and it was telling Elsie didn't challenge her as she knew ena was right.

The Streets could use another Ena Sharples, give Tracy a run for her money.

Albert Tatlock and Ena Sharples,Annie Walker and Bill Roach as Ken Barlow and Patricia Phoenix as Elsie Tanner to Arthur lowe ,Corrie at his best & legends ❤️ R I P Kenneth Barlow the only Survivor from day one,Love the Early 1960s to the Music,Fashion and the way people looked back then❤️ ,Nowadays its not like the past times.Gotta laugh at some of the scenes from 1960 times 🤣

now thats what you call a proper argument!! no foul language just good intelligent insults! :p

streets glory days Annie walker would turn in her grave if she knew the goings on in the street and could do with another ena sharples she is sorely missed..

Awe, wish was about 'back in the Ena Sharples' era. Also never repeated the Black & White episodes 'ave they!?! Cheers for this.👍

Well said James, Elsie...now there was a paragon of womanhood. I was 6 years old when i knew i loved women, and it was all thanks to Pat Phoenix. Bless her, may she RIP.

2 dragons rearing up for a fight 🤣🤣🤣 🔥🔥🔥🔥🐲🐲

When Cs had some great characters. Black and white too.

Tony Warren was clever when he came up with the idea for Coronation Street. After the first episode aired it became a huge success and Granada Television asked him to write more episodes. Today more episodes are screened than ever before. Tony Warren has passed away but his classic creation is still loved.

Dennis Tanner’s body was gorgeous in the kitchen scenes : )

The street fight episode? Fantastic!!

This leaves Coronation Street of today standing. Not only better scrip writers but better acting from great character actors

Len,s just of to weatherfield swimming baths to give some lessons 🤣

when the street had great characters and was worth watching, sorry but its well past its prime now, which i reckon was between the early sixties till the mid 80s its just slowly gone downhill since then and i think its just about time it retired

I much prefer the old story lines with the squabbles and grudges and gossip that always came with apologies and cheers back at the Rovers than the modern story lines of gang rape and psycho killers. The Platt house got so grim that I had to switch it off after a while. These old clips are a comfort. Well done.

Ena ''Battle Axe'' Sharples / Elsie ''Hurricane'' Tanner.

Fabulous! Much better than today's rubbish script-writers, following each others' plots and introducing filth and violence every week. At least this was 'believable' !

I’m from the US, and it stuns me the word “bitch” was used on television in the early 1960s! And Dennis was a cutie then!

7:47 "poor old defenceless woman". Blanche used to say the same in the 2000s. Funny how it was the battleaxes who said this.

Dennis Tanner had a nice body back then!

and the band played on lol

you can tell the background is fake .. when arthur lowe comes around corner... he casts a massive shadow

What a battle axe lol

To think the likes of Ena, Albert and Annie were born at the end of the Victorian age, 19th century is insane. I grew up in the 70's and loved all these characters. Good old Bill is still with us, amazing.

4:44 she got the right one!

Lancashire women in full flood. Head for the hills.

it’s total RUBBISH now 😏

+Sawrraten The place at 0.40 was knocked down so it's not there anymore

ITV Classic.

Pat Phoenix is a red hot natural star

Classic!

Love it classic corrie

Look at the backdrops when they didn't have real background scenes. I believe the exterior shots were all filmed in a studio.

Hang on! People were allowed to call each other a bitch on TV back in 1960s?! lol

linda tanner just ran

why did you think coronation street was a documentary

At around 0:40, where is that door now? What part of the street is that?

Imagine those two were still arguing in the street, the ratings will go up and beat Eastenders, lol 🤪😂😈, I must say, this was fast paste of the 1960’s coronation street.

When was there a ministry church in Coronation Street? What building is there now?

Who is the foreign guy around 5:36? Is that a German accent?

Who’s the guy in pajamas?

Is that captain mainwearing arthur lowe

Burt WHO did write the letter???

Do you think Ena Sharples felt guilty at the end?

FANTASTIC SOAP / DRAMA WOW WOW WOW …. Puts todays Corrie to SHAME

Corr they liked to focus on Elsie's knockers.

Dennis is hot in those PJs.