Takes me back to sitting in my parents house, my Nana would never miss an episode! I see her sitting there in her pinney , her favourite programme! As they say, the good old days!
Utter joy to watch Violet Carson and Doris Speed - their extraordinary gift of playing a scene totally straight yet being absolutely hilarious. All nearly choked when Deirdre called her daughter “a little gold digger” - talk about being able to see the future !
Hilda gets the best lines! Pure pleasure watching archive Coronation street. I started with the first episode weeks ago and it's taken over to the extent that I've given up all my usual RU-vids. A thing I've noticed is the people leaveing the Rovers with drink still left in their glass, even Stan and Eddie who I'm sure would never do that. Hilda is my favourite character.
LOL, the days when you could simply ring up about a flat at 2.30 in the afternoon and be installed in the place that same evening, seemingly without the need to find a months rent in advance, or go through any form of reference checks. So simple back then !!!
Most definitely. Here in Adelaide rentals are extremely hard to come by since Covid and they’re very expensive. A rental comes up for lease and there are at least 50 people applying.
The beginning of the end, of some of coronation streets greatest characters, this was Ena Sharples last appearance, after being in the programme since the beginning, Violet Carson was to return,but became ill with pernicious anemia
That's Ken's MO. He is Judgemental of the way other people live their lives but does precisely what he wants, he might agonise briefly, then decides he's right as usual.
Actor Richard Shaw (born 19th November 1920), who played lothario trucker Dan, wasn't even attractive! If he'd been a tall, gorgeous Sean Connery type fair enough, but he was a deeply unsexy short-arse, who always looked like his enormous sheepskin coat was wearing HIM! The first two posters are absolutely right - definite shades of Sid James. And Bet and Elsie were supposed to be head over heels and fighting over this charmless, geriatric dwarf? Not remotely credible! That particular bit of disastrous casting (Dan the supposedly 'sexy, love-cheat lurry driver'), is a real bugbear of mine. Along with other casting nightmares involving gorgeous actresses in their physical prime, and embarrassingly over-the-hill actors. IMO Granada's Corrie has a history of choosing the most unappealing males as romantic leads for it's most glamorous leading ladies. They must have been male casting directors, for female casting directors would surely have cast those roles very differently! What an insult to the Street's most gorgeous sirens like Bet Lynch, Elsie Tanner and Rita Littlewood, who were forced to play love scenes with hideous old blokes like warty toad Peter Adamson, John Junkin and even Max Wall!
@@glamdolly30 Bet always got the worst. Dan Johnson was particularly repulsive in every way, but she never got together with an attractive and decent man. Des Foster, Alf's colleague on the council used her and lied to her. The policeman, who was happy to have a non-serious good time with her but was interested in Rita. And she briefly had something going with Len Fairclough and Jack Duckworth! Obviously, none of them is up to much, but Dan is by far the worst. He looks like he needs to be hosed down.
later in the 90s she meets Charlie the truck driver, he was nice and treated her well but they just didn't last. Bet seems incapable of sustaining happiness, it's like she feels she doesn't deserve it@@shylinh5939
What? utter bitchiness, nastiness, vitriol, hatred, spite, loathing, jealousy & hypocrisy, then we have the charming Mr Barlow, with his reputation, his on set nickname of being called ‘cockroach’ it’s pure heaven to watch. Oh & don’t forget the evil bitter twisted thoughts of Mr Tatlock. That’s one OAP who should have lost his memory coming back from his allotment.
@@glamdolly30 but do you still watch it. it seems to me that you catch glimpse of it from time to time when you state it is total garbage. yes, I do agree whole earthly its total rubbish garage with actors who can't act and but impersonating voice accents. they should end the series altogether like neighbours was axed in Australia due to it couldn't get a tv station to air it.
Dean pipe it's the actors/actresses who can act .and the storylines that the portray that's where the problem. Lies it ran his course to me in the mid 1990s .
@@MultiKs22 I agree, I would like to see 'Coronation Street' axed, as it's no longer the quality drama it was, and in my view no longer worthy of the name! The stark difference in quality between the show it used to be, and the dross it is today, is only too clear when you watch vintage episodes like these, from its prime. I last caught an episode around 3 years ago, and was shocked at both the poor standard of acting, and the weak, cliched script. But I share your view that the rot set in by the late 'nineties - I generally date the Street's demise to the arrival of the ghastly Battersbys.
I remember watching this as a kid and rolling around laughing that Dan Johnson was supposed to be attractive to women. Elsie scraping the bottom of the barrel!
I still cant understand how people could have a few pints or a double scotch at lunchtime. If i did that there would be no work after lunch, id either be full on for the day or have to go home bewildered to snooze..... 😂
I remember my first job in the late 80s, friday was pub dinner, I'd have 2 pints and be staggering about all afternoon, the older guys found it funny af of course. 😂 I Just realised I was only 16/17 as well ffs.
The pubs were full at lunchtime back then, and more than a few couldn't make it back into work in the afternoon. They would usually blame lunchtime food poisoning from the pub lunch 😂 and phone in work sick before ordering the next pint.
I was too young to watch this the first time around, so it's strange to see Peter Dean in Wetherfield instead of Albert Square. Is it just me who likes to add "Treacle" to the end of all his lines?
1:20:53 - Bet (with a sudden overdose of scary Baby Jane hair) and Vera, vying for the attentions of a wizened old Rumpelstiltskin. Dan the lorry driver was about as attractive as a gargoyle. Were they really that desperate?
I think they were that desperate. Only someone who's given up on life or gone insane could possibly find Dan Johnson anything other than hideous and to be avoided.
Ha! Ha! Dan is possibly the worst piece of casting ever seen. A swarthy dwarf pensioner, with a fake Cock-er-nee accent, who we are supposed to believe was such hot stuff that the Street's sex sirens Elsie and Bet both went ga-ga over him. As if! What an insult to those two great actresses (and a challenge to their acting skills), to play love scenes with that! I looked up the actor and if memory serves he was in his sixties here - so too old to be convincing as a lorry driver, least of all a lothario!
@@glamdolly30 lol 😂, I love your description of him, ‘swarthy dwarf pensioner! 🤣🤣🤣. The actor Richard Shaw was almost 60 years old at the time of these episodes. I agree, he was totally miscast, Elsie & Bet’s desperation at trying to hang on to this man was a ridiculous premise by the writers, but in 1980 people thought differently than say now. Just goes to show how amazing both Julie Goodyear & Pat Phoenix (both total legends 🤩🤩) were to convince the watching public that their characters would put up with that man. It was laughable 😂😂.
Bit of a continuity error in this. Susan is actually only 15, not 16. They were born in 1965 so that makes her and Peter 15 in 1980, perhaps even 14. Weren't they born in May so their 15th birthday is coming up?
Thankfully, it totally disappears from his vocabulary after his stroke, so episodes after December 1982 until his last appearance in July 1983. Those episodes are a delight to watch. I got sick of his bloody catchphrase!
@@glamdolly30 I loved Violet Carson’s portrayal of no-nonsense Ena Sharples, she was beautifully abrupt & an expert at putting people in their place. 👏👏
@@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351 Absolutely, a superbly written character, brilliantly brought to life by the late, great Violent Carson. I think the cast of 'Coronation Street' in its glory years (1976-1984), have achieved the closest thing to immortality you can get - we're still watching them, talking about them and enjoying their performances 50 years later - and will continue to do so!
@@glamdolly30 I agree, Violet Carson was a formidable lady, and she may have been similar to her Character in real life? Coronation Street suffered after 1984, after all the big names exited the show. These episodes on RU-vid are the real halcyon days of ‘the street’ & it’s a privilege to rewatch them.
Absolutely reflection of daily life not some made up stuff taking on problems of the era Not some made up gobbledygook that has nothing with real life today
The actress who plays Susan Barlow is painfully wooden. Unfortunately in a cast of such good actors it really stands out. But it must have been nerve wracking for someone so young...good on her for giving it a go.
The look on Mrs Walker and Renee's face when Bet paraded that awful Dan Johnson through the shop. So po-faced! So Bet had a bit of rough stay the night - so what? It may have been 1980, but it may as well have been 1950.
I love all the Corrie characters apart from Fred Gee, i cant help but shudder whenever he appears on screen! He plays an odious character & seems sleazy & greasy, dishonest & shifty, if that was the plan of his character, then i cant see why the writers had to put such a persona in the show! Stan & Eddie are rogues & shady characters but they are so well played by the actors they have become beloved characters! They dont make your skin crawl whenever they appear! A couple of friends say the same & cant stand Mr Gee, i think its a female 6th sense where hes concerned & find him creepy. Anyway thank you for the shows Regards 🇬🇧👧
I remember when he was dancing with Elsie and he was trying to unzip her dress. She was laughingly resisting him, but I was appalled. I rely on the the posts here so I don’t know what happened after that.
I would have phoned Dan, but I don’t know where to reach him. You don’t know where your boyfriend is, and how to get a hold of him??! If he really did have a blown tire, he would have got a room, and would have called you from it!! She doesn’t think that it’s wrong that he didn’t call her and tell her where he is, and where to call him??! How convenient for him that she has no idea where he is!! 😂🤣
@@moaningpheromones obviously she didn't have them in every scene, they were her trademark the same with Nora Batty..the power of RU-vid to bring out the hard of thinking folks
So wait a minute. Dan has a home in London, but she has never been there??! Wouldn’t she say that I want to see where you live??! He sure isn’t taking her there himself, and we know why!! 😂🤣
This was meant to be 1983 never hea4d such rubbish and I never see so many people going to a pub. These people never stop drinking how they work id beyond me,I was a teen ager in 1980 working class family .the went to a pub maybe one a week they lived in terraced houses they all had telephones central heating well we had that since 1950infact my great grandmother had it in her flat since1920. Really not sure who lived liked that as for holidays abroad we had a least two weeks a year abroad and two weeks in the uk by 1983 it was twice a year abroad for my family my grandparents where all workers in factories. My grandparents had cars and we where a two car family even in 1970s . My parents worked hard and we never went without but there was no wasting money. But these characters where so unbelievable. There values where put dated the who Ken and daughter thing was from 1950 not 1980s. And Mrs walker character was totally unbelievable even at the time. Not sure I lived in the same northwest of England. This soap opera was meant to be reality but which decade I fo not know?
It's great watching these with hindsight, I just want to warn them.. Rita leave Len and dont go back ever, Vera get rid of your son adopt him out or something, Deirdre have an affair with Baldwin now and get it over with before you get with Ken, Elsie stop smoking and drinking, Stan same and lose some weight, Renee dont get in any cars. Bert dont blow any tyres up.
Ivy and mortgage never h3ardcsuch rubbish thiscwas meant to be 1980 not 1950. Put mortgage down. No one spoke like that it was repayment . Over 25 years no ever heard of that saying about 90 p and £1 . Story line was so out of touch
