Coronation Street - First 3 episodes (1960) [colourised] 

The Coronation Street of days long gone never to return; precious entertainment.

Growing up watching this was an evening event. Life was both simple and complicated, and families didn't have much money, but our life was good. Thank you.

My mother and my sister could not be disturbed once the into music started! Great opportunity for myself and dad to go to the pub! No one noticed us leave!

I've never heard of Coronation Street but now I'm hooked. Looks like I've got a lot to catch up on, 64 years of episodes.

Coronation street is the best. I wasn't born until 61. I started watching it when i were 5 with my dearest mam. I use to love ❤ Ena sharples & ken barlow. How the times move on. Iife were fun in those days In 60's being a child ❤

Words cannot express how much joy your uploaded colorized episodes have brought me. Going through a period of grief and going back into time helps. You're the best!!!!!

I was born 1950 and I remember watching Corrie. I met Ena Sharples my friends uncle took us with him to work on her phone and she played the piano for us. I felt like I'd met Royalty.🥰

Same here, my Dad sitting by the fire with the newspaper 🗞️ and my Mum watching Crossroads then Corrination St. and knitting always knitting. We always had nice jumpers in our house - soon as she finished one she started on the next…

18 yrs before i was born and i cannot get enough of these old episodes so much better than todays corrie 👌👌👌👌

As soon as the music started 7.30, I was sent to bed 😅 didn't get to watch it until I was 10.

00:04:37 First appearance of actor, Bill Roache, still playing the same character 64 years later!

I was 12 when Corrie started this has been a trip back in time watching these old episodes.

There is me aged 5 at my grandma’s. watching along with her, just the music sent me back.

And the Daily Mirror's TV critic Ken Irwin having watched the first episode wrote it was " doomed to fail " 😂.

I was born in 1952 in Melbourne Australia and watching Coronation Street was a ritual at home on the old b/w tele. Simple pleasures ❣️

Today, CS is like any other soap - meandering, poorly acted, and infected by the celebrity cult. There are two reasons (at least) why this is so good. Firstly it shows a real community with strongly drawn characters in a recognisable setting. Secondly, the actors appear confident and clear about their roles, and seems have an excellent grasp of their aims. Brilliant.

Amazing to think my grandparents would all be watching this while my parents were still in the early teens, and here am i, 64 years later also watching it.....funny old world we all live in.

What a happy accident discovering this! I was born in 1951 and lived in Stockport between 1954 and 1967 before moving to Australia. This was always on when I came for a sitdown after play. Haven't seen it since the 60's but was just now able to hum the opening theme to myself before it started. My mum tried her hardest to stop me from speaking with the accent of all my friends because she thought it was too "common". Today hearing the accent is a heartwarming memory of a local culture in different time. 2/e for a packet of cigarettes!

Aged 6 at my Grandparents home . Wonderful memories of kinder times .

This is great. That first episode is incredibly well written - Toney Warren could certainly teach today's writers a thing or two about characterisation.

Oh this was a lovely visit with some very old friends. Thank you❤

I was 8 when this started, we never had TV till I was 12, it was the highlight of the evening to watch Coronation Street

I was born in 1959 in Manchester and I’ve watched Corrie all my life, I live in Western Australia now and I still follow it religiously

I am 3 months older than Corrie makes me feel old now, always watched it when i was young with my mum and Watch with Mother.

I was just short of my 9th birthday when this was first aired . Seventy two now , tempus fugit .

When I was a kid here in Canada in the 70s the housewives used to tune in on this, along with all the American soap operas. :)

Just popped up, brilliant thats my Saturday night viewing sorted ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Watching this in preference to the current 2023 episodes playing at this very moment (19.30hrs) on ITV... Spot the difference of captivation...

In the late 60's and early 70's in Brisbane, when school holidays came, I spent it at my aunt and uncles in the next Street. My aunt loved Coronation Street, and my cousin and I had to leave the house 🏡 and play in the back yard. Aunty Marjorie was a quiet woman, except if we made noise when Coronation Street was on.

Oh my gosh, what a find! Thank you!!

‘’ you and who’s Army?” Dads Army 🤣

I was born in 1969 and remember watching Corry with my parents as a kid, Corry and Cross Roads. I miss the safe, cozy 70s in front of the Black and White TV.

I was born 23 days before the first episode of Coronation Street, which was broadcast on the 8th of December 1960.

I was a 10 year old kid when this first appeared on the TV. I remember how the streets used to instantly clear when it came on the telly at 7.30. (a short while later it was the same thing with Steptoe and Son). Today they make shows that they call 'reality TV, yet they are the furthest possible thing from reality. The thing about Coronation street in its day was that it truly seemed as close to reality as TV had ever got. I believe that 'The Rover's Return' was then filmed at a real pub in Tatton Street (Ordsall). My Grandparents lived at 5 Tatton Street. They were also Salford publicans., and this all seemed so real when I first watched it. Far from a 'soapie' in those days. Or perhaps it was just the very first!

I made the mistake of watching this show through an app that labeled the episodes as Season 1. After I got hooked, it ended incomplete and while searching for the rest I realized that it was mislabeled. I am so glad that the series was preserved here- I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! There is no US soap opera that that is about the life of the working class. There was Ryan's Hope years ago but seems Americans prefer watching fantasy of the life of the very rich. Even though I watch them for years it is refreshing to watch a series that is more relatable.

Impossible to not be hooked - thank you - priceless!

11:06 😂 I remember my mother used to spit on her mascara like that!

This is blast from the past and I mean it!

Elsie looked younger as she got older

As a long time Corrie fan who worked as a tour guide on the set, I was a little apprehensive on how this would look. I’ve seen the first episode literally dozens of times, I have to say… It blew my mind seeing it in colour. Knowing what it was supposed to look like in colour and then seeing it that way for the first time left me speechless. Well done.

How wonderful to see whole episodes, only seen clips before.Brillintly written..reminds me of Alan Bennett 's writing!Saw this as a child,we loved it Lifts my spirits...v comforting

This is fabulous, thankyou. Great catching the start of the soap . Ken, Albert, Elsie n Annie Walker looking so young. Great.

I like how the episode is its own piece of storytelling and still subtly namedrops each family for the viewers and their house number within one episode.

I love how, maybe a decade later, they will find the sign in the shop that they are talking about here, about not asking for credit. Thanks so much for editing and posting.

Brilliant. Nice to see the eps how they would have looked if colour TV was around in 1960. Amazing how colourisation can work wonders.

i was five when it started......bill roache is 92 now and looks good . Lucky genes. He was 28. In the first series. Its was better times then. Simpler. , friendly, kinder . Look at now.🤢🤮🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thanks so much for posting

Me 7 at grandma's in Sunderland time fly's.

Thank you so much for adding these coloured episodes. It is a pleasure to watch them. I have currently zoned out of 2012 to come back to the beginning. I wasn't born until 69 but always had coronation street airing in black and white back then while growing up in New Zealand 😊😂

WOW, I can see young Ken living with his parents !!! And now Ken is a "wise grandad" himself.👀

I was born December the 14th when the second episode aired, mum told me she got out of bed and went downstairs to watch it, she’s 85 now and can’t stand soap operas, she never watches them. I noticed the first episode aired on the 9th of December that’s when I gave birth to my daughter 42 years later

Wow! Coronation Street!! I never saw the first few episodes. Had to go to bed early for school the next morning. Thank you for posting these.

This is priceless! Daphne Oxenford was the lady on Listen With Mother who would say ‘are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin’.. in a later episode my old school friend played a part in Gail’s cafe... Cannot believe the negative comments and moans about the colourisation! Thank you for this 😊👍

I loved Corrie....such a shame what's happened to it. Bring back the fun!!

How lovely to see this again. I could still remember the names, Ena Sharples, Minnie Caldwell, Martha Longhurst and Albert Tatlock in the snug at the Rovers Return. Also, Annie Walker, Elsie Tanner. Ken Barlow and, of course, Leonard Swindley at the Mission. I recognised most of the others but I’d forgotten their names. I was only thirteen when it first appeared on the TV but I always watched it, mainly in case there was a row between Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanner. Ena Sharples was a real character of course. We became soaked with the Manchester accent for the first time. I never went there for years although my wife once visited the Coronation Street set with some friends.

Ken supposed to do better for himself. Still there 100 years later 🤣

Ena's line about her mother's death (in ep.2) has to be one of the funniest lines of all time - ever - from C/Street.

I love this! When I watch all the many later episodes, Ken's family dynamic is only hinted at, but that's what makes the series special. Family ties that make up our personalities. Coronation Street is more than a soap opera-it's a living drama everyone on the planet could likely identify with, take into their lonely hearts, and live with. Good stuff! Thanks most kindly!

I was 6 months old when it started .

Ena Sharples used to frighten the life out of me when I was a kid.😢

Its amazing to me how everything looks like it’s from 1940s.

I watched Coronation Street from episode 1 in 1960 when I was 9 years old. It was a must through the early years until school and uni took over in the later 1960s. I returned regularly in the 80s and have been back since about 2010. it’s still compulsive viewing. Ken still there is just amazing.

How brilliant, I've always loved Corrie and still watch it now. I was born in January 1960, so I was 10 months old (roughly) when it first aired. In 1955, my hero James Dean, made a television drama and they said that it started off the 'kitchen sink' drama films. I have the episode, and I can clearly see it. I can't remember when my parents 1st let my brother (born 1958) and I start to watch Corrie? But I can't remember not watching it. I used to have a crush on Ken Barlow's brother - I remember he had a motor accident in Corrie, and lost his leg. Funny to see Ken so young. Wasn't his brother a footballer? So great to watch this, it brings back fantastic memories, of a wonderful era in Britain. It's horrible here now, isn't it.

Wonderful. I watched this as a boy and it was very very clever. Its brilliance still holds up because the characters are solid, witty and realistic. I sometimes talk about it but I’d never have imagined actually seeing it again. Thank you.

this is amazing, you've done a fantastic job. Thank you so much :))))

Ken's likeness and acting is so similar to Anthony Perkins, it's is eerie.

Impressive, Thanks for this.

i confess not watching Street at all! Except for one or two in the 90s! These first three episodes are incredible for portraying a society that probably existed! love these!!

Lovely to see all these in colour. Thank you.

finally i found it, i'm hoping i can find all the old episodes upto 1980 at least,, thank u

Thank you! 😍😍😍

Not content with the original monochrome, it's now available to view in Bisto-Vision.

No recorders back then. When my mum was working and she missed an episode I had to watch it and tell her what happened so she could keep up to date.

I tell you what I loved uncle Albert a grumpy old sod but a lovely man Inhave a very good memory

Great memories. Thank you.

I was 8. Who would have thought, from the 1st episode that 'The Street' would become a national institution and still be going strong 64 years later, or that William Roache would still be playing the same part? Admittedly I haven't watched it for many years, but rarely missed an episode in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

What wonderful character summations. Each person who appears is explained in neat conversational snippets. Brilliant writing and I remember each one with pleasure. Corrie is no longer worth watching as real life has been turned to ridiculous and sensational 'drama.'

I M really enjoying these shows on RU-vid

Made in the time when you could hear and understand every word every actor spoke. . . .

Im a 1964 baby. Thank you.💃 20/05/24 UK

Wow! Thank u I really enjoyed these! Amazing work and much appreciated 😀

I remember the first episode too. Who would've thought it would last all this time. It was an addiction that few housewives could resist. I remember a colleague from NZ who jokingly said, that New Zealand was so far behind everyone else in Coronation Street that Elsie Tanner is still a virgin. Lol

Thanks for the memories. ❤

Elsie Tanner's voice, but WOW did she change her appearance over the years!

Ironic that Ida Barlow shudders at the thought of a dangerous motorbike...and eventually it's a safe public bus that rides "over my dead body"...

I was 12,when this started,i watched it for years,but todays soaps seem to have lost their chracter,and are a carbon copy of each other so it was good to see the old one

Amazing video. Thank you

Best show on tv at that time real people

Fantastic This Still Stand's Up Well Today The Acting And The Writing 👍

When tv was good

Ah Elsie, you're ready for the knackers yard

I watched these very episodes in 1960 with my mum and my girlfriend huddled round an old 17 inch telly - takes me back to living in a country we used to call ENGLAND

I was 15 when these episodes aired, me mam who was from Liverpool loved them, I did too. Sorry about colourisation not authentic

Wow, ive never seen one episode until now. Cant wait to watch. I was born in 1965. I remember that Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother used to watch in the early days when they could, apparently they loved it.😅😊😊

21:20, Ken Barlow played by William Roach is STILL appearing on Corrie to this day as I type this on 9th June 2024! That's for longer than I've been alive (I'm 57). He's now 92 and still sprightly and sharp as a tack with delivery of his lines. Just flippin' incredible.

That’s how long I been watching Corrie it’s heard to believe that not everybody had tellys the men hated it so if football was on when Corrie was on that’s the only time I missed Corrie But it’s lovely to go down memory lane

Nice to watch these as have more of an idea of how these would have looked in real life

American here. Heard of this, but never saw it. I've got it down to .75, and it's still too fast 😂

What great joy this is to watch. This was aired on TV 6 years before I was born. It seems to me that life was much simpler and better in those days. People had a lot less yet there were a lot happier. I remember when I was young how much happier people were and how much more caring people were as well. A great life before woke and all this brittle snowflake political correctness. Is it me or is it that women were much stronger and tougher in those days? Not the drama filled nightmare crocodile tears of 21st century weak females. Bring back the tough and strong women of the 1960s. I mean it and I'm being serious here. Is it me or were women back then a lot more grown up and mature than they are today? Not to mention a lot more responsible. They were not drunk add going out causing trouble like they do today. They looked after their appearance better and their shoes a lot cleaner as well. Not the young female today or women of today that cannot be bothered to clean their shoes. It is great to see the young William Roache. It is hard to believe that he's been playing the same character for 63 years. This is some achievement in the television industry in Britain. I do believe he's the only original cast member left in the series. I agree certain comments on here this is better than the droll that we have on our screens today. Bring back the 1960s that's what I say. Pure.

Also in an eerie co-incidence, Don Hastings began a 60 Year Tenure as Dr. Bob Hughes on As The World Turns. Their Meals would be so relaxing, and happy, and zen and Nancy Hughes (played by the late Helen Wagner) said on the first Episode in 1956 "Good Morning Dear, What Would You Like For Breakfast".