I really like the scenes with Elsie and Ena living together. Even though they had a fiery relationship in the past and clashed often you can see they had both mellowed at this point and they've developed a fondness for each other. I particularly love the scene where Elsie asks Ena why she still talks about ''the old days, the bad old days because they're gone now'' and Ena says ''although they were bad they were very sweet''
I adore the scenes with Elsie & Ena especially the ones at 19:07 and 23:00. It's so sweet hearing Missus Sharples humming "Tell Me The Old Old Story", I have that recording of hers on the LP she released. These two really had a gorgeous bond, despite the fact they never always saw eye to eye, they both had deep care and love for one another. I'd kill to have an Ena in my life, God bless them both. Pat and Vi were the best and backbones of the programme in my opinion. Love them to bits 💗
She had an amazing voice - she sang Keep The Home Fires Burning in one episode - sent shivers down the back of my neck it was so amazing - i remember her on a Sunday School type tv show i used to watch when i was a wee boy
@@londonlady227 Cool story how she clinched this role - the original writer based the character on his old piano teacher from his childhood. When they were searching for an actress to take the role on it occurred to him that his old piano teacher had been an actress in the movies many years earlier, so it dawned on him to track down the piano teacher and discuss her playing the part... and Violet Carson went for it...
These feature-length episodes are sheer bliss! Looking forward to the second half of 1981, hint, hint, lol! Thank you so much for your generosity and hard work it is much appreciated. Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. XX
In the years since Len's death, Rita has spoken of him as if he was an amazing, model husband. But watching these episodes it's clear he was a real brute. A misery and a miser. Rita was never happy with him during the marriage, and was always totally dissatisfied. Married bliss indeed.
Contraraily, I feel like she barely mentioned him. The trip to bury Dennis' asges show she never considered him the lobe of her life, they rowed because Rita was disaffected with their lot, Len was in a rut before he married Rita, which she knew of, and continued afterwards. Once he hit her, wrong of course but noone ever bats an eye to the number of times Vera beat Jack. Too often the character of Len has been overshadowed by Peter Adamson. He wasn't perfect, no human is, but he was, and probably still remains, the most honest male characterisation CS has ever had.
@@paullynton-green6570I strongly agree with you I always found Rita to be annoyingly sarcastic to friends and foe alike I never liked the charector if I'm honest ...
Thanks for these monthly instalments! Really appreciated in these lockdown times - reminiscing the 70s/80s - has been great! Keep it going please please please!! ❤❤❤
You are awesome!!! I been off work for 3 months because of my foot and you have made my time off bareable. I been watching these and loving every minute of it. You've must have spent alot of time doing this by months and I for one want to say TA VERY MUCH
We love these month-long collections so much....but, we also know they won’t last long. Thanks for posting and we will be rushing to watch them while we can! Happy New Year!
Before them went to school and did 🤔😳🤫 something that some fool said yes DARLING YOUR VERY GOOD😢🎬🧐🤑🆘⚖️⁉️🙈🙊🙉⚖️🇬🇧 Añd and other irreverent ball shit🆘🤑🧐🎬🇬🇧⚖️ when a drama gave it all and the FRECKIN kitchen sink🗣️📢💯🇬🇧😢🤫🙏 I miss, yah I miss us all. 🤩😍👁️💔👁️🤯🎭🌹🇬🇧
I don't think I've seen these episodes before. I really like the way Len doesn't refer to Mrs Walker by her title, but calls her Annie, or Annie, love. I think the only other person who only calls her Annie all the time, is Alf. Mrs. Sharples calls her Annie Walker, of course, HaHa
He was such a nasty bullfrog, Rita could've done so much better. This whole scenario though is very typical of a woman not having independence from her husband, no personal savings etc. That's the way it was, the man usually provided for the house etc. The woman was stuck especially if children were involved, they just stayed and put up with it.
Elsie and Ena, a love/hate relationship.....i think Ena looked upon Elsie as a pseudo daughter or a women that she craved to be but never had the chance, raised in a different time. She did state that, getting up early for the mill etc.
Thank you 🙏 for these episodes I’ve got many memories of watching these episodes in the 70s and 80s but nowadays i don’t watch coronation street because I prefer the oldies
The soaps are all misery and social commentary these days. The old ones had plenty of light hearted plots, fun and we're a joy to watch. They did have some very sad stories but they were not dragged out. I do love these, except for Brian & Gail 😅
The women in the factory can apparently only sew in straight lines for short bursts. And they're feeding the fabric through the machines in the wrong direction! 😂
Yes,I thought she was a frump when I was young but watching these as an old 50 plusser I'm struck by her beauty. Deardrie is so annoying that I find myself fast forwarding.Not annoying but compelling like say Ivy sometimes but dull as dishwater annoying.Emily is pretty dull too though. I don"t remember Bert Tilsley you know what mean? but what a fine character,I gather he gets written out shortly!
Len really was an obnoxious character. In love with himself, pig headed, drunkenly slobbering all over Audrey and any other available woman every chance he could get, totally disrespecting Rita and his horrible treatment of Mavis... awful character. What on earth did any women, let alone the stunning Elsie and very pretty Rita, find attractive in him?
Len was the finest actor that ever starred in the street Peter Adamson rip .he knew how to act Len put people in their places if there were being arduous with him and trying order him about. plus he was all man
Hahaha Ivy is intolerable," I've kept quiet long enough" Abt what exactly? She is never quiet about anything, and doesn't the sun shine out of R Brian's a** wow. I thought she only was that bad about him after he passed away... WOW no wonder Gail hated her so much.
Don’t really understand what Elsie’s got against going in the snug with Ena-unless it’d make her feel old! And when it was suggested she could go in Martha’s chair...😂😂
@@MrDannyDetail exactly mate haha. They've had a few 'Snug' moments have they not? And an episode later they're both sitting in the Snug! Folds very easily that Tanner 😂
Thank you very much for these. It's incredible to see how much those cretins at Granada+ edited these magnificent shows to fit their idiotic schedules. it's especially bizarre that the rubbish currently being shown on ITV3 isn't edited at all, the timing of the show is extended, so good on ITV3, it's not their fault that the show was already crap by 2001/2. I so wish that ITV3 would show full episodes from the 60s on, even from the start. THEN we'd see REAL quality TV.
Just what was the point of that storyline of Mavis and the prank caller? It just went nowhere! Was it just so Eddie could get arrested? It was never mentioned ever again!
@@marieince3239 Indeed, it was the other way round as you say, my dear. Poor Gail deserved FAR FAR BETTER than Mummy's boy R-Brian and his ghastly Mum, Poison Ivy ... and so did poor old Bert!
🎉@williamf4544 Charm, femininity, kindness,, a happy and loving disposition, a pleasant and unselfish personality ... Hulky Woodentop Mummy's Boy R-Brian was very lucky to have Gail. After all, he could have married someone like his awful old Mum 😮🙄!
Sometime you have to read between the lines with Corrie - like how that young McAlister guy got up to go to the bathroom during the night to go to the bathroom and went back into Elsies bedroom by mistake and didnt come out till breakfast time - of course they didnt film that scene they just left it to our imagination
These are so cool, and no doubt I'm in the minority here, but would love it if all the opening and closing credits were kept in... the one on the beach in the final episode was incredible! :)
A packet of 20 ciggies probably cost about 50p in 1980? I remember as a teenager in the early 1990s they cost about 2 pounds. These days it's almost 20 pounds IIRC
Am I missing something with this 'France scandal'? 'Ay up Alf, 'ere's photo of f'wimmin who were dancing with f'other folk'. Oh hold the front page. I absolutely love the Officer (who incidentally was the teacher from Teachers 20 years later and looked younger in Teachers!) and his insensitive and ignorant reaction to Mavis' nuisance caller. Purely because there is no malice in it. Purely a leg pull. How fake people are today when we all know we pretty much all on instinct would react his way also. Well, I do, but that's another story 😂
Do you mean the ‘Teachers’ that started off with Andrew (Rick Grimes of Walking Dead Fame) Lincoln in Season 1? I think you’re right, I don’t think that particular actor has _ever_ looked any older/younger 😂
@@neighbourhoodwitch18 haha aye, takes me back tae my late teens 'Teachers'. It was a bit mental how close it actually was tae being in school. See on a sidenote are you actually a witch cos I'm pagan.
At 1:18,,, oh Ken did you Ken, what wise uncle Albert was saying to you.🆘🇬🇧 Our old people less we forget 🙏 pity all they want now are young fools that don't have an ol Sage to show them wisdom 🤫😭🙏⁉️ To hear ENA &ELSE ⚖️ PAY ATTENTION LITTLE ONES💪👍 If you want to know your future look to your past🆘🇬🇧🤑😳✌️💯 peace ✌️ not war's 🙏😇🙈🙉🙊 Edit- 126:44 should have gone 3rd time lucky coz your uncle Albert was born in 1890s✌️💯😇🇬🇧
