40+ years later, almost brought to tears watching this. It just took me back to a time when things and people were so much nicer, and the world was not as bitter and divided as it is now.
The eggs story still cracks me up 43 years later That and the foot through the ceiling are some of Hildas best moments ! When the actors were genius and the writers likewise it’s just bliss !
I just discovered this show last year here in the states through RU-vid and Britbox (crying like crazy over the Alfie and Abi story). None of our American soaps are this good. Enjoying both classic and current episodes. Hilda and Stan are big favorites of mine. The egg story was hilarious. I love the comic relief they provide in this show!
Wow, I'm shocked that Stan's only 57 in the story - he looks at least 10 years older! I just looked up actor Bernard Youens who played him, he was born December 28 1914, so in early 1979 he was actually 64, if my maths is right. And frankly, he looks it! He died 27 August 1984 aged 69. I reckon the cigarettes are what did for him, sadly. He had a heart attack in 1972 and a stroke in '75 which badly affected his speech - that's when the writers relied on the character of Eddie Yates to ease the burden on him, initially moving him in as Stan and Hilda's lodger to reduce Stan's dialogue. With actor Geoffrey Hughes' support as Eddie, he was able to play Stan until early '84 when his health deteriorated again and another stroke marked the beginning of the end. Bernard was taken into hospital on 2nd April and died there on 27th August after suffering a heart attack. Life mirrored art, and the Street scriptwriters explained Stan's absence as him being admitted to hospital on doctor's orders, after Hilda collapsed from the strain of looking after him. The decision to kill off the character was made soon after he died, and his death was revealed in the programme on 21st November 1984. Bernard Youens was, for a time, the UK's most famous working class northern man - despite in reality hailing from genteel Hove in Sussex! Before he took the role of Stan he was well known for his velvety smooth voice as a TV continuity announcer, and he was likened to movie stars Ronald Coleman and Clark Gable for his moustachioed good looks.
Thanks so much for these great episodes, you are the best channel on RU-vid! I haven't watched television since I found your channel and its a breath of fresh air watching all the classic episodes from a great era, so different from the garbage they constantly push on us nowadays. That's my weekend sorted for viewing :-)
I couldn’t agree more… Fantastic viewing… It’s a pleasure to watch these classics.. I’ve ditched regular television long ago… So glad I found these gems… Big thanks to the uploader… Bringing joy to thousands of Retro television fans…
Right up there with Dickens in quality! And getting close to half-way to Dickens in age. Very minor quibble the opening and closing credits have been chopped, but then you were supposed to tear the covers and the advertising off the partworks of Dickens in order to have them bound into volumes, too, so....
THANKYOU!! A thousand million times over for these uploads… I’m binge watching them everyday… It’s blissful… Waves of Nostalgia are building from within…. This is what proper telly used to be… Marvellous….
Greetings from the land of Oz, oh give over that's Australia. I am a Corrie addict who loves these early episodes. Any road watching them cannot hurt me, no danger, I'm watching more lately cause I'm poorly and need my rest.
Looking back now at the Brian and Gail romance, it does seem doomed from the start, and not just because of Poison Ivy's fierce disapproval. Gail has all the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old with a crush on a pop star. And Brian just comes across as a meathead - selfish, rather thick and crass. There's no discernable love there at all, and Gail is so clingy and pathetic she'd have turned most men off. I suppose the marriage might have worked had they grown-up during it, but they didn't. Gail is such a drip at this point, but having the mother-in-law from hell toughened her into the belligerent hysteric she became later on.
Spot on… perfect analogy of the situation… Yep Old Ferret face Gail’s ditzy devotion to cave man Brian was cringeworthy at times… And yes Ivy was pure Vitriol 90% of the time… She thought Our Brian was a God… And poor old Bert was the ultimate grey gravy doormat… Ivy had beaten all the spirit out’ve him..
46:30 Has anyone else noticed how often there's a strategically placed loaf of 'Sunblest' bread on a character's table - or a 'random' sighting of the 'Sunblest' delivery van out on the cobbles? I'm not sure what the rules were about product placement in the late 'seventies and early 'eighties, but Granada were definitely doing a deal with that particular brand of sliced bread!
Hello Chuck - I'm feeling down. It's the 2 year anniversary of my beloved little dog's death. Any chance of the June '79 episodes? It would take my mind off my bunions! Thanks again for all your hard work & dedication, you are loved! XXX
2:02:22 Funny to hear Bet Lynch mention Prince Phillip, in view of his recent death. I don't suppose, even back then, they'd have been surprised to hear the Queen's husband would live to be almost 100. Life as a royal is a damn sight easier than life as a commoner up north!
Thanks for doing this. I started again at January 1977 and am working my way through but had to stop at April 1979 until this recent upload. Will you be able to finish uploading the rest of 1979? I did, last night, jump to January 1980 but I'll hang fire if I know the rest of 1979 will be available shortly. Thanks again! 😁
@@bsaunders5271 Brian isn't so much creepy as in he is just SHITE! Can't act at all as wooden as hell roll on when he gets stabbed and puts us all out our misery, Ivy is awful as well!
Got a poignant story about being mithered about motorbikes. My great uncle was a trainee soldier who rode a bike to and from training away. His mother hated his bike and constantly told him to get rid of it - and one day he did. He sold it while at training and bought a pre-War Hillman for £10 (1958). He and his army mates piled in and headed for home...but the car turned over on the highway and he was the only one killed. Haunted the family...terrible.
I was 17 in May 1979 and always liked Gail, especially her antics with Susie. I didn't remember the early days with her and Brian. I didn't know that Poison Ivy was so poisonous right at the start of the relationship, they didn't really have a chance did they? Also if they weren't right for each other they would have drifted apart naturally, with Ivy's interfering they fought against her. I think Ivy made Gail eventually transform into an Ivy clone 😂
I was the same age then. I also had a poisonous future Mother In Law. 😆she picked on the wrong one with me. She missed out on grandchildren and great grandchildren. All her own doing.
LOL Good catch! I've paused it, and it's actually an optical illusion. The guy is wearing black trousers with black belt loops, and a wide tan belt going through the belt loops - which looks like flesh and gives the impression his arse is hanging out! The middle belt loop resembles a black G-string, or the crack of his arse. Good God - what am I doing with my life??!!
Gail true to form as she continued to be, always full of drama! She TOLD Brian to dance with Suzi because she was cheesed off she couldn't dance as well as Brian, then gets the hump when Suzi does it better than she can! I don't even like Suzi Birchall but Gail is annoying here to say the least!
Tracy at bday party so off to the pub!! what a treat with fred, simpering whimpy gail and arent I lovely boy brian with his bad tempered mum and hen pecked dad!
Definitely agree with that, even Gail's character went from a fun loving girl to the miserable cow she is now, I don't even bother with the soaps today.
I thought all those you mentioned were pretty dam good - for me the rot set in with the influx of rather unlikable young characters like Sharron , Jenny and Martin Patt - i dont include Sally Kevin Cury or Terry duckworth in that group as i think they done a good job too , Bet leaving the Rovers was a big blow too they never got the right landlord/lady after that and still havent - and the scripts got recidudlous too
I know what you mean. I can't bear the Websters or, Lord save us, the Claytons. Sally Seddon/ Webster is the reason I can't watch post 1986. Ivy makes me savage, but I quite liked the Duckworths, except Terry. It all went wrong for me during the big cull, when Stan, Eddie, Elsie, Len, Bert, Albert and Ena left within a relatively short time of each other. And Granada should have paid Julie Goodyear whatever she wanted in order to keep her.
@@williamf4544 oh Jenny was awful. I hated how she turned on Rita and stuck up for Alan after he flipped his lid and tried to kill her. I always thought that Gail choosing Martin after Brian was odd. How different could two blokes be...although maybe that was the attraction.
@@bsaunders5271 I got into old Coronation Street a couple of years ago and absolutely love it from the start until the early 80s. Once those characters you mentioned started to leave and the likes of Kevin, Sally, Curly, Phyllis, Percy etc replaced them I can't watch it. Even watching a character I like, Hilda, in a 1986 episode wasn't enjoyable because of the idiots around her.
Woah! That Brian was a real Mammys boy… & fancied himself waayyy too much… Steve would’ve belted him proper if it wasn’t for Ivys apron strings interrupting… And as for Gail.. what he’d ever see in old ferret face is beyond me… At least Suzy was a scorcher… A shallow jumped up character but still a real babe… And as for Ivy banging on every five minutes about “Our Brian”… no wonder he thought he was gods gift when she constantly built him up into being some kind of god like Adonis… Also loved Berts comment to his missus Ivy when says to Brian “Start crawling now and you’ll spend rest of ya life crawling… And Bert replies… “That’s right I mean look at me I’m a shining example“ about him being downtrodden and hen pecked… “Ya know what I mean…”
1:22:19 well Deidre, John Travolta: absolutely gorgeous for starters and he's a great dancer. Ah ah ah Stayin' Alive 🕺🎼🎶🎵 and our Brian is his only competition 😂😂😂
Gail and Deirdre had hardly any shared storylines in their nearly 40 years on the show even though they were the same sex and almost the same age. I do wonder if the two actresses didn't get on with each other.
