Bill Podmore, producer since 1976, continued in the role for another year. His most noteworthy casting decision of 1980 was the axing of Madge Hindle's character Renee Roberts, Corner Shop proprietress and wife of Alf Roberts. Podmore was dissatisfied with Renee and Alf's "humdrum" marriage and so, in order to keep Alf, Renee was given a memorable death in a dramatic car crash in a country lane. As the quintessential English grocer, Alf would remain at the shop until 1993, with Deirdre Langton as his new assistant. Violet Carson made her final appearance as Ena Sharples in April. Carson had struggled with ill health for some time and throughout the late 1970s Ena was regularly written out, with Carson returning to the role when she was able. In Episode 1983, Ena made a low-key departure from Weatherfield - deciding she'd had quite enough of Albert Tatlock's hospitality while the builders worked on her flat, she swapped the smoky skies of Weatherfield for the sea air at her usual retreat, Lytham St Annes. She was expected to make a comeback but Carson's health worsened later in the year and she never returned to filming. The Community Centre flat, freshly rebuilt in brick on the Grape Street set, would lie empty for a year. Two actors joined the programme as short-term regulars. Arnold Swain was the owner of a pet shop who romanced Emily Bishop, marrying her in September only for Emily to then find out that he was already married. Actor George Waring wasn't aware that his character was a bigamist when he was cast. The other was Martin Cheveski, Elsie Tanner's grandson who stayed with his gran for the latter six months of the year while working as Len Fairclough's new apprentice at the yard. The character of Martin was invented purely for the storyline, contradicting earlier episodes which clearly establish the Cheveskis as having only one son, Paul. In addition to these, Suzy Paterson made three further appearances as Susan Barlow as did Sue Nicholls as Audrey Potter, who prepared to become a grandmother for the first time. Nicky Tilsley, son of Gail and Brian, was born on New Year's Eve but did not appear until 1981. In the realm of locations, Dawson's Cafe was bought over by Jim Sedgewick, who turned it into a trucker's cafe and hired Elsie Tanner as manageress. Like Joe Dawson before him, Sedgewick only appeared a few times and served mostly as the unseen landlord of Jim's Cafe. Coronation Street reached two milestones in 1980. In June, to celebrate the 2000th episode, a cast party was specially convened on the Grape Street set which was covered by the TV Times special Coronation Street 2000. Priced 60p, it featured on the cover Ena Sharples, Elsie Tanner, Ken Barlow and Albert Tatlock watching Tracy Langton struggling to blow the candles out on the 2000th commemorative cake. This was supposedly one of the last times that Violet Carson donned her costume in the character of Ena Sharples. The other milestone, the 20th anniversary on 9th December, went unmarked. (Corriepidia)
Len and Rita are brilliant as well especially Len he makes his scenes so real. that what happens in the real world for some men who live alone they shave themselves at the kitchen sink from time to time. and they usually have their ablutions there as well.
Ken Barlow lecturing his daughter on how she lives her life despite the fact he packed her and his son up to Scotland to be brought up by relatives whilst he lived the carefree bachelor life. Utter self righteous tool.
(I was born in 1995) I started RU-vid corrie at 1989 with Eve Henley Spread. I got to December 1996 and got abit bored so I decided to start at January 1980 here. It's like watching a different show. I'm so grateful for these 🎉
@user-kx3fq1zo6f hehe since writing this comment I did go back to 76 all the way through, I'm currently in 2004 now but I agree 76 to 84 were the best. Sharon G "oh hey its Rita with the meals on wheels" Rita "oh naw it's more like a treat on feet" 😂
@@Blueredlady I watched the 1964 one when Stan and Hilda bought there house. Then 1970 on is good for the Ogden’s, and the one where the girls go to Spain.
@chicagogyrl4846 yes, they bought it for just under £600 if I'm remembering correctly 😩 It was brilliant seeing them in holiday. Mavis in Spain is everything
I love Hilda, Stan, Eddie Yates and Fred Gee. I was 9 when this was originally broadcast and it is funny how differently you see the characters as an adult especially Hilda who is lovely. Hilda and Eddie have the same laugh!
00:04 2 January 1980 23:10 7 January 1980 47:27 9 January 1980 1:08:45 14 January 1980 1:31:13 16 January 1980 1:53:46 21 January 1980 2:16:44 23 January 1980 2:39:38 28 January 1980 3:02:34 30 January 1980
The cafe becomes Jim’s cafe, i love ❤️ the old ones of coronation street it takes me back because i remember my mum watching the old ones in the 70s and 80s
I often thought that Alf Roberts and Betty Turpin would have made a nice couple...very similar temperaments. Also Bert Tilsley and Mavis were gentle souls.
i hate it when you tube does this all the time shelly maybe copright issues but there is stacks of stuff on you tube i mean they dont remove the other stuff why coronation street
My sister was born this month ' on the 30th ' the final episode on this link ' think they were still behind schedule due to the ITV strike just a few months before.
I’m ver grateful to watch any episode as it’s a treat . I moved to Connecticut and I got bitten by a tick and I got Lyme and Babesious so my life has been hell for 11 years including bladder cancer , back surgery chronic fatigue syndrome etc on and on never ending so I spent many years in bed watching coronation street on my iPad . Coronation street has given me great comfort over the 11 years as I have ADHD and I can rewatch all the episodes as my my memory is bad 😻😘🥰
Rita becoming the wife from Hell with all her demands. She literally had a poxy job in a newsagent and as soon as that ring was on her finger she became Joan friggin Collins.
@@bethshields4903 Absolutely accepted and greatly appreciated, most people wouldn't bother answering back so thanks for that, dont feel bad you're a good person.
Ooooooh thank you soooo much for sharing this! As another RU-vid user has rightly said, RU-vid is taking these golden episodes down too fast! I hate to be a pain, but do you have the episodes from 1982? Honestly I would be very grateful thank you very much for these too!
It's hilarious how you see things when you're looking in the rearview. I was only 11 when this went out and was vaguely aware of it. Now, looking back, I quite fancy the 46 year old Barbara Knox 😂
Emily was a self righteous jumped up snooty old bint…Certainly not what that place needed. All she wanted to do was serve half a dozen old duffers a cream bun & a brew everyday…
Vintage Corrie is a fantastic historic record of life in Britain. It reveals some shocking truths about marriage for women and domestic abuse in the 'seventies and 'eighties.
I reckon he must have had dirt on someone, he really was and is a boring character. He could have easily been written out and nobody would have missed him.
SPOILER ALERT FOR THOSE NEWBIES Yeah she left the same year Stan died, so that's two iconic characters gone in the same year. Alongside that, Hilda was really never the same once Stan died so in a way, her legendary incandescent presence left as well. I reckon 1984 was the end of golden corrie, but mid 1990s was when it really started going downhill, and 2000s it just became another show altogether, and not in a good way. This is my opinion thouggh, and may not be the prevalent sentiment.
"Why is it the world invariably changes, and for the worse?" says Annie Walker........how right you are, almost 41 years on! 😥 She wouldn't care much for the world of 2020, that's quite certain! 😉
Though some things have definitely improved in 2021. Back then, domestic violence against women was accepted as an inevitable fact of life, listen to the dialogue in these episodes. Shocking!
Mobile phone addiction - shop attendants clearly pissed of when you dont use the self serve tills and a plaige of wooly hatted vegetarians who find getting on a bus a struggle and spend 10 minutes conversing with the bus driver trying to figure out where they are going - and dont even get me started on those who que up for ages for a cup of frigging coffee
@@glamdolly30 we didn't take everything 'literally' back in those days - you have all become so analytical and formal and cold about everything. We weren't scared of our own words back then - we we're just simple folks before correctness and cocaine culture set in over the 30 years of managing decline post Thatcher!! You all want sweepin' in to the skip these days.
The great day's of Cornation Street , Now In fairness the actors/actress are good today , But it not as good as was in the 60's ,70's , 80's and 90's. At moment it lost its magic.
@@paulfrost8895 yes same here I loved the early 80s but sadly after 83 84 they lost a lot of good characters Annie Walker Elsie Tanner Len Fairclough Stan Ogdon Albert Tatlock to name a few as you say after 85 it was never the same not for me anyway.
I think Eddie Yates girlfriend Laura later became Jim McDonald’s girlfriend and she worked in the factory, I’m sure it’s her thanks 🙏 for the upload I love ❤️ the older ones of Corrie
Lord, so would I! How that fat, warty little toad Len Fairclouh was supposed to have pulled all the Street's most glamorous women (Elsie, Bet and Rita), I shall never know. The Corrie casting directors were definitely men!
@@williamf4544 , What a sad state of affairs. Having survived a very violent relationship, seeing this fills me with sadness as so many women felt they had to "put up with it" and say nothing.
@@H3len50 Yes i agree - being serious its not what they wanted more what they were led to expect - it had lasting affects down the next generations putting some people off marraige all together (like me) - things started to change for the better in the sixties for most though no doubt not for all
@@williamf4544 , I don't disagree with you there I knew many women trapped like this. Thank goodness it did not put me off marriage. It is very sad that women and men had to just live like that. "Put up and shut up".
What I don't get is how this was only 41 years ago yet everyone sat around that table in the pub at the beginning are just conversing about wishy washy pointless crap terrified about what their wives will say like a group of mates who have no idea they'll ALL be dead 40 years later!! 🙄 It annoys the Hell out of me that ANY cast members are dead, let alone that many!!
Agree its sad ' still time takes it toll on everyone in the end ' espc like Ken 's (William Roach) statement at 3.19;56 how the government have no money for improvement of community resources ' but have it for killing people and wars eg ' a very true statement.
Awwww, poor Rita. If I was her, I'd bugger off to Blackpool and get a job in a laundrette. And, I'd take everything I brought to the marriage, with me. A suitcase.
I think the days of soap operas in general are pretty much over. The whole premise they were based on, claustrophobic little streets where nobody ever went anywhere, are pretty much gone.
Does anyone know why number 9 doesn't have a back kitchen like all the rest of the houses on the street? Their sink and cooker is basically in the living room, I've always wondered about that
Memory does serve me right. Len was all after getting Rita to stay. He went from wooing her, practically begging her not to leave and go persue her singing carrer. It's Len that became a typical couch potatoe around the house and frankly he became an arshole
I can't believe Rita asking Mavis to go and get her cabaret clothes Could you imagine if Len walked in and found Mavis there Poor thing would have a heart attack
