Hilda Ogden finally gets her 3 piece Suite Classic Coronation Street W/C 7th May 1982 

That's the most sensible comment I've heard in ages.

@@CAROLS9995 Thank you x

@@williamf4544 🙂

It hurts me to think back as I used to shop in the same corner shop as Jean Alexander and I don't think they are aware and I am about to demand a blue plaque. The cigarette machine was massive Automat machine in stainless steel with 2 half crown slots 200 yards on the road from Noggin Inn now disembursed due 😳 to lack of cash and good 🏍 motorcycles.

And Eddy Yates was supposed to be a shit hot 🔥 🎸 guitar player aswell.

Was Hilda an actress? Wow, I never new that!

@@Mike8981 fair comment I didn't realise my mistake 😂

@@leannebraithwaite6726 I apologise. My bad soh gets me into SO much trouble!

@@leannebraithwaite6726 And I can’t spell.

@@Mike8981 not at all I took it in fun 👍

Me too. Love watching the oldies.

Bygone days. Light comedy not soap wonderful character actors now so sadly gone

I agree, comedy with a touch of reality pathos...thank you!

Yep they were great, Mavis was the only good impression Les Dennis could do, his partner Dustin Gee was light years better and carried Les, who was never funny after Gee's death. Incidentally neither Mavis nor Vera were Tony Warren characters, both started on the show yonks after his involvement had ended. Think it's fair to say Vera was pretty much Liz Dawn playing herself, Thelma Barlow was (is) quite different to Mavis though.

Put In context in 1982 i was earning £65 a week and my rent was £19. Elec bill was 30 a quarter . So 4 quid was a big deal.

@@Mitch-Hendren yes, that's exactly what I said, I just think it was really endearing, but I know it was a big deal, that's what I said

It's always had an element of edutainment - whether it was portraying sexual harassment of women (like it did with storylines involving Bet or Deidre in the 70s), rising violent crime like it did in the the 70s and 80s (such as when Hilda was attacked), or the problems many people had in the 80s with unemployment benefits, such as when Burt Tilsley got caught doing odd jobs while claiming unemployment benefits. The difference these days is that all soaps are struggling, because the kind of world they used to depict no longer exists. So they have become increasingly far fetched.

Too true, well said. They should look at all these older episodes, and get some brilliant inspiration. It's rubbish what they churn out now.

​@@michellefalleur960the problem they're struggling with is the same with all soaps nowadays. The more time has passed, the less like reality the soaps became, because the type of world they depicted no longer existed. By the mid 1980s, coronation street was getting huge criticism for being totally unrealistic because it depicted an overly nostalgic, fuzzy depiction of working class life when the reality in the 80s was a lot grittier. Viewers turned over to EastEnders in droves at the time because it was seen as more realistically showing the 80s. You see a bit later in the 80s the storylines on coronation street getting harder - like when Hilda was attacked and hospitalised.

@@zeddeka Absolutely true, and it's arguable that Corrie was already becoming quite unrealistic in the 1960s, such was the pace of social change in that decade. By the 1970s most of the urban cobbled streets with back to back terraced houses had been bulldozed in the slum clearance programmes, and replaced by tower blocks and new estates. I don't think the premise of the whole street going down the local pub multiple times per day, working around the corner, and just waltzing into each others' houses every 5 minutes was very realistic by the 1960s and 70s either. The burning national issues of the time like miners strikes, 3 day week, mass unemployment, IRA bombing campaigns, all of them were touched on by Corrie scripts either very lightly or not at all, whereas of course they impacted on real life working people very much indeed, this is another aspect of the "nostalgic, fuzzy" criticism.

The sets were quite dated and wobbly for the 1980s. It wasn't until the 90s when the sets on corrie were more realistic

2024 baby

You can blame the crime wave that started in the 60s and went up and up until the 90s. Remember all the ram raiding that went on in the early 90s?

@@zeddeka Yes your right - having said that things are going back the way these days - here in Glasgow its a weekly occurance for me to see people running out of shops with armfulls or baskets full of goods and it seems nothing can be done about it

She had two othem, 25p each

Emily and Mavis two utter bores

That makes sense

May 1982

Haha, she would have been all over you, the actress and all 😂

They make brown sauce. Hire Purchase

You've found me out Kevin. Just loved S & H. That sounds like a guilty pleasure too lol

@@roderigodetriano a superb double act

It’s mine btw😂

mike baldwin in that leather black jacket is hot.

Percy sugden is hotter, a real studmuffin

@@Carltonwanks Stans the man in them braces by gum

Nowt wrong with woke, grandad 👴 Regional accents would've been woke back in the day. Now get a cuppa and stop mithering 😉

@@tinterlight ok Percy lad

Regional accents are the opposite of woke. Woke is about globalism and sterility. Regionalism has been going on in drama for a lot longer than 1960.

@@tinterlight nowt wrong with woke? Showing your ignorance. Unless you agree that white children and black children should be taught in different classrooms? Because that's what I've seen woke people say. Or chasing a black politician down the street wearing a monkey mask just because he has a different opinion? Cos that's what a bunch of woke protesters did recently. Or gay people like me being called homophobic slurs because we don't want to date trans men? There's NOTHING good about 'woke'

1960s, you mean 😂

To much botox some time later, duck lips , got sack

Look at Else Tanner’s hair. Nothing lank about that. And we were all slim in the 1970s, not obese like young people today.

Frank skinner

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