If today's Coronation Street want to learn a thing or two about exemplary writing and acting then they need look no further than the climax of the Barlow/Baldwin love triangle, the way it was handled and acted out. The emotion was handled excellently indeed was the whole storyline. It's always great to see the superior Annie Walker pulling rank in the Rovers and having Fred face quivering in his boots. Another great and momentous upload. Thanking you.
Agreed, these vintage Street episodes are a masterclass for writers and actors. These are scripts and performances of rare brilliance - perfection, in fact. That these shows haven't dated, almost 40 years later, shows just how superb they are. What a treat to watch 3 hours back to back, thanks to the hard work, dedication and generosity of this wonderful RU-vidr - who does it all for free, I might add! An absolute superstar.
1:48:51 is where the Ken & Deirdre action really starts, if you want to rush straight to it. Millions of viewers at this time, me included, stared intensely at the box with tea in one hand and ciggi in the other to see how Deirdre and Ken would argue it all out, knowing she doesn't have a leg to stand on. My advice is to watch from the start to get the pace with Ken being turned down for the job and then finding out why (I'm boring!) Followed by Deirdre spilling the Heinz beanz on Mike so it all piles on top of each other with the front door neck choke completing the first layer before round two. I edited the main episode seemlessly on both sides so as not to disrupt the flow...have fun ❤️
Damn these take me back to a beautiful time of my life when my gran, my mum and me would grab our tea and biscuits and watch Corrie Ken/Mike/Deidre had my gran on the edge of her seat!!
Doesn't your heart just break for Hilda at the end. Hard knocks came one after the other to her with Stan being the cause of so many... yet still she loved and stood by him.
I cried when I saw Stan crumpling up those notes and crying - BTW, he should of been made to go on the Social , instead of doing his window round. He was entitled to this cos he had REAL illnesses, etc - and I loved the way Eddie took on that horrible money lender in the next episode.
02:35:18 - Uncle Albert, well, that did it for me 😢 thank you so much for posting this. I didn’t understand the gravity of this when watching it back in’t day as a 12 year old. The writing, acting and production are just perfect. That’s a sad wee scene with Deirdre in Mike’s arms where she takes her specs off (she is beautiful!), thinking that they’ve both gone, now. Thank you again 🥰 Edit: 02:59:09 Hilda! I’m away again 😢
Thanks so much, it's so great to see Classic Corrie at its absolute best, sadly not long before so many of those marvellous characters were gone forever.
A tour de force of acting by William Roache and Anne Kirkbride. There has never been a more forceful moment in Corrie. I remember watching it on the original air date.
Sad to think that the actors who played Stan Ogden and Bert Tilsley died the following year, and that Anne Kirkbride, looking gorgeous as Deirdre in these episodes, died when she was 60.
I only knew her from when she was older in Corrie, she was always good looking (except for around 1991 when they had her in that perm and specs the size of a car door), I found it quite sad to see her here looking all young and lovely, now she's dead.
Whatever Ken might have been, but cheating on a man when he is down on his luck, is beyond vile. There is no excuse for that at all, Deirdre was being selfish on her entire family and friends.
@@memoir4you The issues were merely convenient. Instant issues, just add water, for the purpose of justification. They're full of little tricks like that.
1983 was one of Coronation Street's most tumultuous years to date. After taking over as producer at the end of 1982, Mervyn Watson's first episodes were broadcast at the beginning of the year, with his predecessor Bill Podmore assuming the role of executive producer. In February, the programme screened one of its biggest storylines in the famous Ken-Deirdre-Mike love triangle. The story arose following months of debate in the writers' room over the direction of William Roache's character. Ken Barlow had recently come under fire from The Times for being "very boring", and Granada bosses had indicated that they would support him being killed off. When Roache asked for more exciting storylines, writers decided that the best way to do so was to give Ken a rival - Mike Baldwin - and show him fighting to save his marriage. As Deirdre and Mike began their affair in late 1982, producers expected that viewers would side with Ken as the injured party. However, viewers relished the will-she-won't-she aspect of the story, and frenzied tabloid speculation over whether Deirdre would stay with Ken or go with Mike marked the beginning a more sensationalised style of reporting on the soap by the media. Famously, when Deirdre made her decision to stand by Ken in Episode 2285 on 23rd February, the scoreboard at Old Trafford flashed a message "Ken and Deirdre reunited. Ken 1 - Mike 0" during a Manchester United vs. Arsenal football match
I can't stand Suzi Birchall in these latest episodes. She said to Baldwin she's grown up but that's a lie. She ponced off Fail. Flitted to Elsie's then ponded off her with her taking her lazy ways with her. She wasn't kind to Marion. Korrible and useless character. She hides behind her ego instead of being honest about why she condescemded to return to Wertherfield. That attitude is so immature and annoying. She's nothing but a user until the next best thing comes along. Weatherfield's conscience aka Emily, gronds my gears. She acts so high and mighty. She can't mind her own business. Her obsession with Tracey got her kose stuck into Deirdre's business. She gets so upset by other people's business. She needs tk get her own life.
Loved the ken deidria Mike love triangle and poor old Albert.. can feel the emotion for him.. thank you for these great long episodes just what I needed in these awful testing times of lockdown. Love Fred n bet ..how they winded each other up..love poor hilda and Stan...and how Eddie yeats played there lovable rogue lodger who you could tell how much he loved hilda..keep up the great work loving these great episodes thank you......
I liked Emily - a refreshing portrial of class and dignity - not much of it about these days and certainly none portrayed in todays soaps - A great actress who could have gone far if she hadnt dedicated herself to Coronation Street for which a lot of us are very grateful
Oh I know, so touching - that scene always brings a tear to my eye! The Mike & Deirdre affair was an inspired storyline, and a brilliant study of infidelity, and the multi-faceted fallout from it.
I'm pretty sure if Corry went back to twice a week the storylines would improve as it's on 5days a week there's too much pressure on the script writer's
I always felt sorry for Stanley Ogden. It is obvious to see him acting that he is an ill man. The writers wanted a storyline of him climbing ladders to clean windows. Ridiculous.
Thank you for this of course-so wonderful to see too! A much better series/show it was then compared to the one now then really of course alas! Well done too.
16:36 I love when Baldwin chucks interfering Emily out. Serves her right, walking around with a face like a bulldog chewing a thistle. Back off Mrs Perfect, this doesn't concern you!
Emily was meddling way to late,should've spoke up instead of encouraging deidre to marry ken who is Emily 's age mate,didn't need glasses to see she would call him old and boring,he could be deidre's father.😂😂
I've often wondered how Chris Quinton got through his audition whoever picked him for the part should've been sacked he has to be the worst actor I've ever seen
Deidre ran Ray out of the country when he cheated,and he cried! Now she cheated and cried and beg to stay and Ken kept her! Waw,everybody boundaries and morals are movable when it personal. 😂😂😂
For any younger viewers, new to old Corrie, nothing like this had ever happened before in a soap, or at the time of night, before 9pm, it was quite extraordinary, and to many shocking!
Yes he had had a stroke. Peter Dudley was an openly gay man at a time when unfortunately it was still inadvisable to be openly gay. He had had to attend court on a charge of gross indecency for allegedly meeting a man in public toilets, though he maintained the police had set him up. The strain of the court case, and in particular the fact that it failed to reach a verdict and was to be retried at a later date, was too much for Peter and he suffered a stroke. He was determined to continue in Coronation Street, despite losing thew use of his left side, and initially his speech, and they did their best to accomodate his disability by writing in an explosion in the garage in which his character was said to have been injured, but over the course of 1983 he suffered two heart attacks and a second stroke, and passed away in October 1983 aged just 48.
@@bibakroll8999They were very lucky because it was certainly that bad. If anything it got worse as the 80s went on. The Aids crisis stirred up a lot of bigotry.
I was crying 😢 myself when Ken was crying 😢 and when Deirdre says she doesn’t want to leave Ken…i remember this episode I was a teenager and sat with my mum watching it i love ❤️ the old ones of Corrie
what a actor Len was he knew his trade in side out . he wasn't going to a doormat for anyone especially Brian who was demanding his £84.88 pence for a job Brian did for him but told him he has done his favourites in the past so that makes them even in Len's book
I remember as a teenager watching the Deirdre vs Ken vs Mike episode And I remember my mum shouting at the television 📺 lol 😂 go on Ken hit Mike, I love ❤the oldies
Aweee,Ken thought lieing to deidre about having babies to get her to marry him would tie her down and cut her off at the knees,would've stopped her from running the streets, big, big mistake.😂😂😂😂
It gave the scenes a sense of claustrophobia and resembled an intimate theatre where we are the flies on the wall. It was very well directed. Think of similar scenes between Blanche and Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Ken didn't "loose" his job, he just wasn't hired for a new one, someone else was better... Can't stand his up himself attitude... Just cause u apply for something doesn't make it urs, especially in the rough job climate they were in at the time. Smh "all hail Kenneth Barlow, only He is educated and qualified enough for this job" SMH
Ken was a teacher and teachers always were pompous asses, expecting you to call them "sir" and stand up whenever they entered the room. Lording it over kids must make them feel mighty big and important. I left school 41 years ago, but I remember it well.
2:25:20 Fred refers to the Moneylender as "Sid Lomax" Yet when Stan tries to borrow from him outside his shop, and when he barges in to number 13, he is "Sid Kippax"
Can we all agree that Mike Baldwin was the most based character to ever walk those cobbles. He boffed Deirdre, and if that wasn't based enough, he ended up boffing Ken's daughter Susan!
