I have a question. In the 1960's the BBC tended to dispose of a lot of their black and white programmes. They basically destroyed the film or videotape copies, and today some programmes are completely lost. (however some have been returned from overseas and private film collectors etc). Programmes such as Doctor Who have been the worst affected. What I'm wondering is, did this happen to Corrie? Do the ITV even store the episodes for very long after the broadcast? Are any Corrie episodes missing?
It's amazing looking at Ken Barlow here with the original cast, most of which are passed away now, and he's there now in 2011 and most of the current cast weren't even born when this episode aired!
They clearly tried to make Pat Phoenix as Elsie look older in these early episode, but allowed her to be as glamorous as possible later on. She was only about 34 when cast so not old enough to be mum to Dennis and Linda , and once their characters had faded in the background Pat was able to shine as the streets first true sex symbol :)
@rix16 I just checked it out actually. she was 37 here. still, she looked far more beatuiful than this in later episode , especially those in the late 60's and early 70's
Do u know that the guy who wrote the theme was offered the choice between royalties paid for every episode or a lump sum, about 2000 quid, I think, a lot of money then. Maybe not that much but whatever, he watched the pilot and reckoned it would never catch on and took the lump sum.
Fifty years, three times a week, plus omnibus, what can you say but FAIL.
It's gripping from the start. This is what a soap should be. These little concerns...See, you already want to see who the Tanners are. And why was the teddy boy in the nick? Next it's the Barlows: this is brilliant, what great writing. I used to love Brookside but it was ridiculous, all the rapes and guns and stuff.
i can remember coronation street as a 5 yr old in 1961.i was at a frinds 5th birthday party and all the mothers were crowded round this little black"n"white tv and being told to sssssshhhhhhh..ha,ha..still love all the characters of old...not keen on todays corrie..
does anybody know that Dennis Tanner is coming back after being gone for over 40 years. its gonna be wierd looking at him as an old man when the last time we saw him he was very young
@judyrusso It looks homely to me, not dreary. I know working class Chinese families here in HK who remind me of this kind of close family living and its like being in a warm bath, their homes.
Even rich Chinese hardly use their houses, they huddle in one room to be cosy. It's nice.
@TheJuicyfruitx There's loads of clips available here on youtube, from the 70's and 80's, or could by the boxsets available in HMV with 80 episodes from 60's/70's and 80's and chance to catch up with all your favourite characters again, best money ever spent.
@BRTOMBOI Me too, 60's found bit dreary to watch, 70's and 80's were excellent, with so many characters and storylines, 90's average and modern day bit too far fetched, some of the stories.
I reckon everywhere north of Coventry should declare independence from the endless London-centric crap that dominates Britain - The North will rise again! ;-)
In the very last episode of Corrie, Ken Barlow (William Roache) wakes up in intensive care linked to a ventilater to discover that the last 50 odd years and subsequent episodes have all been in his mind --- a DREAM no less. Apparently he's supposed to have stumbled on the cobble stones when leaving the Rover's Return and on returning to the Street discovers that the cobble stones are still there and that the neighbourhood is full of strangers! Hilda etc never existed! You heard it here first...
woah! look how much Ken has changed now! hes the only original character left and has not left the street once yet! he truley is the best soap character ever! lol
@assym2006 60's weren't the best, must say, bit dreary like modern day stuff, but 70's and 80's were excellent, so many memoriable storylines and characters.
Omg I remember it well :) I was 14 and rushed to my friends house to watch it. She was the only family to have TV lol. Also saw the queens coronation on it :) this is great to see it again :) thank u
lol my grandad says he can remember coming home and seeing his mum watching this and saying this is going to be a good series, shame it only lasts 6 weeks. lol she watched it till tthe day she died.
@dimb9 Yeah it was apparantly only meant to last few weeks and now 50 years on its still going strong. Corrie has always been in my family too, my parents,grandparents and even great grandparents have always watched it, which is key to why it has lasted as long as it has, cos of the many generations of people that have followed the show over the years, not forgetting the wonderful writing and humour, that has also come with it.
@marksoutof10 I'm challenging myself into typing really fast, adding the challenge by adding caps lock, but if you don't like it, well I could care less really!
@SuperPissflaps If your comment was about X-factor I would agree with you. Hopefully X-factor won't last as long as Corrie! I somehow don't think it will.
This is the Corrie I remember loved those powerful ladies Ena Annie Elsie. Its tepid today more gritty in those days like kitchen sink dramas. The young ones think current Corrie is great they were not born. I watched from around 1967 till 1995, then stopped it was not the Corrie I remember, thanks for posting.
@gf1001 I have watched Corrie from1989 onwards and although there were some fairly great stroylines, i defintly think the heyday was the 70's and 80's with Elsie Tanner,Ena Sharples,Annie Walker,Hilda Ogden and co and will never be beaten in terms of acting and realism.
This is a real museum piece, the scenes are really long which i find better than what there doing now. I think they assume that if your'e younger you have no attention span but i prefer this pace.
Gail Might Be Annoying but Trust me she is changing the whole soap is on the way up the have gotten the Produces Phill and the Writers of Dallas and Danasaty for a few weeks to get the ball rolling have the cast has been cut the first chop was Kelly Crabtree and the Last as of this message was Janace Battersbee
The Road To Coronation Street was made by ITV Studios! It said so in the credits at the end! It was NOT a BBC production. They showed it as ITV said they had too many Corrie things going out prior to the 50th. A sad decision I fear - the programme was excellent! I hope the Queen will feature and we will have Lord Warren! and Sir William Roache!
Ye, I too watched the wonderful "Road to Coronation Street" recently which jogged my memory. But I thought Ena Sharples was in this very first episode..
Coronation Street the frist ever episode will not be the same ever again so the 50th anniversary will be in hd and so i was not born when coronation street started so i think now days is bettter then 50 years ago so i cannot wait to the live episode for its 50th show if you like or love soap go to soapspy.co.uk for all information about every soap
Happy memories.....crouched on the floor by the old coal fire in front of the telly, to watch the very first episode of what was to become a British TV icon.....Corrie....:)
Hard to believe that was 50 years ago......LOL!!!!!!!
gail has horse cheeks. im probably the only person who thinks she sucks. infact her whole family sucks. richard hillman should of killed them all xD. Ken deserves much more respect than her!
@MasamuneDate87 Think there's high percentage of people, who would agree with you there, although i don't actually mind Gail myself, yes She looks like Hamster, but as character, Helen Worth plays her really well and She's been involved in some of Corrie's most classical storyline's and yes William Roache/Ken Barlow deserves my respect too, 50 years on Britain's top Soap is just legendery in my book.
Interesting for historical value - the wife gets up mid-meal to fetch her husband a cup of tea and other little bits. I gave up on Corrie years ago - if I catch an episode now I can't believe how glamourous it all looks and over the top storylines - not at all realistic as it used to be. Back then this would have almost been like watching reality TV
@michaelleacy I agree the realism has gone, in fact, i treat it more like comedy than Soap now, just can't relate to some of these modern day characters either.
@Arrunthegreat2009 Your great grandma, she must have lived to good age then, think Corrie was only 2 years old then and now its on the verge of its 50th year, im sure she would proud, to know this great show, is still going strong, even now.
It's amazing to think that, come December, Corrie will be 50 years old!!! There's something about black and white which makes it all grim-looking and poverty ridden - how the series has changed!!!
OMG it looks so boring back then, how did people watch this? I wouldn't be able to stand watching this back then, especially if it's in Black and White!!!!!!!!!
The thing is, joey, you WOULD be able to stand watching in black and white back then, because black and white was all there was and you wouldn't have known any different! It wasn't until the late 1960s that the first colour television sets became available, and then only to the select few who could afford to have one.
50? OMG, I absolutely love Corrie. Would not miss it for the world. I still love the storyline that involved John Lindsay and then other one with Richard Hillman.
@joeytimo I must say i haven't watched Corrie as often over the last couple of months, cos think its fallen a bit, but i'll defintly tune in for the 50th later this year, according to my Sister, there's gonna be very explosive storyline, one of those, who lives and who dies, type.
Just to add to my comment. Firstly there's been closer to 3,000 hours worth of the show since 1960 but that would still make this the biggest box set in history! A better idea would be to release say 75 episodes a year like they have done with Dallas and Dynasty. Then again that would take 100 years to get to the present episodes haha!
I see the comment about a DVD Box set for Coronation Street. This would be a great idea to celebrate 50 years of the show and would probably sell very well. The only problem would be getting the box set in your house! There's been around 3,500 hours or more since 1960!
@rchris36 I've purchased the 60's 70's and 80's boxsets one by one from HMV and thought they might have gradually released the 90's and 2000's boxsets, but nothing yet.
@MeBenHalpin Time to release every episode of Coronation Street ever made on DVD. I guess building firms would make money from house extensions to accommodate the size of the box set haha!
@rchris36 Would defintly like to see few more early 90's episodes, as that's when i really started watching Corrie at quite, young age, defintly thought they would have released them as boxset, so many memorable storylines from that decade, they could put on there, for us viewers to watch over and over again.
@rchris36 I'd love to see a box set of every episode ever aired. That probably would never happen though unless Coronation Street gets axed for some reason, then a box set would come afterwards.
@soapfunclassics I know what you mean. On US Soil an Actor named Don Hastings has been playing Dr. Bob Hughes on As The World Turns since 1960 but the show will be cancelled in September after 56 Years on the Air. The Late Helen Wagner who played Nancy Hughes McCloskey beginning in 1954, she's in the Guiness Book Of World Records as well as William Roache as the longest running Soap Character in TV History.
@laminage That's legendary 50 years in the same role, he was in Waterstones at Greenhithe Kent couple of years ago, promoting his new book, seemed like very nice bloke and really down to earth too.
the tv was probably that big too.
TheAnnoyingPlum 3 weeks ago
Flamin' Nora.... Dev and Sunita work there now. The actors who play D and S weren't even born when this first episode aired.
MrsWLeach 1 month ago
I have a question. In the 1960's the BBC tended to dispose of a lot of their black and white programmes. They basically destroyed the film or videotape copies, and today some programmes are completely lost. (however some have been returned from overseas and private film collectors etc). Programmes such as Doctor Who have been the worst affected. What I'm wondering is, did this happen to Corrie? Do the ITV even store the episodes for very long after the broadcast? Are any Corrie episodes missing?
TsoLan1 1 month ago
Ken Barlow used to be gorgeous!
GlassPike 1 month ago
lol its impossible to tell the difference between outside and inside in this episode
TsoLan1 2 months ago
I am so addicted to this show. Wish I could see the show episodes from the beginning
hazeleyedwitch1 2 months ago
It's amazing looking at Ken Barlow here with the original cast, most of which are passed away now, and he's there now in 2011 and most of the current cast weren't even born when this episode aired!
jasiekel86 2 months ago
This is veryfunny
Shellbenj 3 months ago
Alan Rothwell as David Barlow was hot.
Buondelmonte123 3 months ago
I've got no money to get oop, to look for work
yippitydodah 3 months ago
One of my favourite tv shows.
Seattlecarnut 3 months ago
weres kevin webster? lol
ApriliaRacin125 4 months ago
you mean it still doesn't look like this? i have to get this tv fixed...
GameMusicCompilation 4 months ago
They clearly tried to make Pat Phoenix as Elsie look older in these early episode, but allowed her to be as glamorous as possible later on. She was only about 34 when cast so not old enough to be mum to Dennis and Linda , and once their characters had faded in the background Pat was able to shine as the streets first true sex symbol :)
rix16 4 months ago
@rix16 I just checked it out actually. she was 37 here. still, she looked far more beatuiful than this in later episode , especially those in the late 60's and early 70's
rix16 4 months ago
Come back Elsie Tanner and Ena Sharples, All is forgiven!!!!!
johnboytd 5 months ago in playlist Corry-Orrys
dennis, you must find work or you will end up on the streets ;0
TheClarkey1 6 months ago
exactly what I am doing, wish i could get the whole series
MaggieB3 7 months ago
My family moved town 11 times in 16 years. Coronation Street seemed to me the permanent home I should have had.
kevinastraw 7 months ago
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4:30 ... More Tea Father?
becky2911 8 months ago
4:30 ... More Tea Father?
becky2911 8 months ago
Do u know that the guy who wrote the theme was offered the choice between royalties paid for every episode or a lump sum, about 2000 quid, I think, a lot of money then. Maybe not that much but whatever, he watched the pilot and reckoned it would never catch on and took the lump sum.
Fifty years, three times a week, plus omnibus, what can you say but FAIL.
littleniyah 8 months ago
@littleniyah I agree but to put it in context £2000 would still buy a semi-detached house in Manchester in 1960.
freebeerfordworkers 8 months ago
@freebeerfordworkers For sure, but just think what a royalty paid thrice weekly for 50 years would come to? Several streets of semi detached
littleniyah 7 months ago
It's gripping from the start. This is what a soap should be. These little concerns...See, you already want to see who the Tanners are. And why was the teddy boy in the nick? Next it's the Barlows: this is brilliant, what great writing. I used to love Brookside but it was ridiculous, all the rapes and guns and stuff.
Here we have class war at the Barlows....great
littleniyah 8 months ago
I seen this the 1st time round and it still ISNT REAL.. you sad people
LintonGypsy 8 months ago
wow...kens pop was an asshole
jaimisbb 9 months ago
It's really changed now lol
misshellsy 9 months ago
i can remember coronation street as a 5 yr old in 1961.i was at a frinds 5th birthday party and all the mothers were crowded round this little black"n"white tv and being told to sssssshhhhhhh..ha,ha..still love all the characters of old...not keen on todays corrie..
bighezz56 9 months ago 4
Ken Barlow looks like Norman Bates here
TomBennett68 10 months ago
Hey, did they speak English in England back then?
MrGoblin60 10 months ago
@MrGoblin60 still speak like that in Manny now
littleniyah 7 months ago
ken barlow is well fit there lol not so much know still cuite lol
Pinkwan 11 months ago 2
tecnically the first spoken words are the things those girls say
matthewsomethingteen 11 months ago
wow! it's veery wierd :L its weel different xx
TheHannahthomasxx 11 months ago
brill accents...miserable back drop..true to life
john111257 1 year ago
omg this is really the very first episode of coronation street!!!! wow!!!
16pawprint 1 year ago
does anybody know that Dennis Tanner is coming back after being gone for over 40 years. its gonna be wierd looking at him as an old man when the last time we saw him he was very young
Lighteningpictures 1 year ago
I bet they never thought it last as long as 50 years. Would love to be able to travel back to then and know the next 50 years of world history.
philster61 1 year ago
@philster61 i wonder if william roche ever thought he would be playing the same character 50 years later?
TheClarkey1 6 months ago
ken barlow!!!!!!!!!!!
retardloser 1 year ago 2
@LizzieProductionsTM 9th December 1960, day im sure many devoted Corrie fans will never forget.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
Quality can be bad. If you look at repeats of Dynasty on CBS it looks more like the 1950s than 1980s.
rchris36 1 year ago
In black and white it looks even more dreary. This wouldn't get into homes and gardens that's for sure. LOL
judyrusso 1 year ago
@judyrusso It looks homely to me, not dreary. I know working class Chinese families here in HK who remind me of this kind of close family living and its like being in a warm bath, their homes.
Even rich Chinese hardly use their houses, they huddle in one room to be cosy. It's nice.
littleniyah 8 months ago
they kept the same tune the whole time :)
PigGirl97 1 year ago
This looks as if it was made in like 1920.. not 1960.. no offence.
StanpyX 1 year ago
@StanpyX that's because most television programs in the 60's were in black and white :)
Lighteningpictures 1 year ago
yes The Road to Coronation Street... amazing. I don't even watch Coronation St
FIVECATSable 1 year ago
anybody know where i can watch classic corrie online?
TheJuicyfruitx 1 year ago
@TheJuicyfruitx There's loads of clips available here on youtube, from the 70's and 80's, or could by the boxsets available in HMV with 80 episodes from 60's/70's and 80's and chance to catch up with all your favourite characters again, best money ever spent.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
I like the very classic Coronation Street
BRTOMBOI 1 year ago
@BRTOMBOI Me too, 60's found bit dreary to watch, 70's and 80's were excellent, with so many characters and storylines, 90's average and modern day bit too far fetched, some of the stories.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
I reckon everywhere north of Coventry should declare independence from the endless London-centric crap that dominates Britain - The North will rise again! ;-)
drwhatson 1 year ago
In the very last episode of Corrie, Ken Barlow (William Roache) wakes up in intensive care linked to a ventilater to discover that the last 50 odd years and subsequent episodes have all been in his mind --- a DREAM no less. Apparently he's supposed to have stumbled on the cobble stones when leaving the Rover's Return and on returning to the Street discovers that the cobble stones are still there and that the neighbourhood is full of strangers! Hilda etc never existed! You heard it here first...
stevejailbirdmatt 1 year ago
woah! look how much Ken has changed now! hes the only original character left and has not left the street once yet! he truley is the best soap character ever! lol
Lighteningpictures 1 year ago
@Lighteningpictures Yep 50 years and he's still going strong and is now the longest serving soap character in the world.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
oh my god, thats ken!! he's the only original character left!
TheShyTeds 1 year ago
@TheShyTeds Yep 50 years and still going strong.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
is it me or do those girls in the first scene mention a tram lol
blueheeler25 1 year ago
amazing it was just as bad then as it is now.
assym2006 1 year ago
@assym2006 60's weren't the best, must say, bit dreary like modern day stuff, but 70's and 80's were excellent, so many memoriable storylines and characters.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
COOOOO bloody ell!! What a bloody sods oprea!!
BoBwilderness 1 year ago
Omg I remember it well :) I was 14 and rushed to my friends house to watch it. She was the only family to have TV lol. Also saw the queens coronation on it :) this is great to see it again :) thank u
MsRosy45 1 year ago
Blimey!!! This is real classic!!!
Feisty1967 1 year ago
kkeeeeeeeeeennnnnnn keeeeennnnnnnnnnnnn keeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnn keeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnn KEN BARLOW ...
babyycakess3189 1 year ago
lol my grandad says he can remember coming home and seeing his mum watching this and saying this is going to be a good series, shame it only lasts 6 weeks. lol she watched it till tthe day she died.
dimb9 1 year ago 9
@dimb9 Yeah it was apparantly only meant to last few weeks and now 50 years on its still going strong. Corrie has always been in my family too, my parents,grandparents and even great grandparents have always watched it, which is key to why it has lasted as long as it has, cos of the many generations of people that have followed the show over the years, not forgetting the wonderful writing and humour, that has also come with it.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
Ken Barlow's mother- was she related to Mrs Doyle?
anonUK 1 year ago
50 years ago today this episode aired. Tony Warren is such a genius :)
zellyscool 1 year ago
@zellyscool Yep not bad, for 23 unemployed actor, who turned up at Granada looking for his big break.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
I Actually Never Really Liked This Only Eastenders But I Am Watching This Soo Much Because Of The Whole 'Four Funerals And A Wedding' Thing!
kingTNAlover 1 year ago
@kingTNAlover Is is really necessary to capitalise every word in a sentence?
marksoutof10 1 year ago
@marksoutof10 I'm challenging myself into typing really fast, adding the challenge by adding caps lock, but if you don't like it, well I could care less really!
Sorry, but if you don't like it, I don't care
This is about Corrie not about one's handwriting!
kingTNAlover 1 year ago
50 years today (:
SianBabes10 1 year ago
i love it i watchd this one last night on tv as its the 50th an :) xxx
123Loucee 1 year ago
@123Loucee same but i never watch it
crazyguyguy99 1 year ago
I think this episode has been digitally restored, as the transmission of it last night on ITV1 was looking very clean :)
CI5AgentSweeps 1 year ago
how the hell is this shite still on the air
SuperPissflaps 1 year ago
@SuperPissflaps If your comment was about X-factor I would agree with you. Hopefully X-factor won't last as long as Corrie! I somehow don't think it will.
houghgree2 1 year ago
Was gonna watch this on the tv now, but my mums watching eastenders >.< thanks for putting this up!
WolfgangB30 1 year ago
We get to see this again tonight last saw it in 1990 when it was shown. Thanks for sharing wonderful.
gf1001 1 year ago
50 years old this week and still going strong
coiscarraig1234 1 year ago
@coiscarraig1234 Legendary, here's to the next 50.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
This is the Corrie I remember loved those powerful ladies Ena Annie Elsie. Its tepid today more gritty in those days like kitchen sink dramas. The young ones think current Corrie is great they were not born. I watched from around 1967 till 1995, then stopped it was not the Corrie I remember, thanks for posting.
gf1001 1 year ago
@gf1001
I was interested in your comment about the show not being how you remembered it, how had it changed between '67 and '95?
IDontLiveTodayJH 1 year ago
@gf1001 I have watched Corrie from1989 onwards and although there were some fairly great stroylines, i defintly think the heyday was the 70's and 80's with Elsie Tanner,Ena Sharples,Annie Walker,Hilda Ogden and co and will never be beaten in terms of acting and realism.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
This is a real museum piece, the scenes are really long which i find better than what there doing now. I think they assume that if your'e younger you have no attention span but i prefer this pace.
sematalba 1 year ago
when i watched this ken barlow talked with a northern accent now when i watch coronation st today he talks with a posh accent.
MsFanmail 1 year ago 3
@MsFanmail Yeah i noticed that especially in the 60's episode, but from the 70's onwards, it sounds just the same as it does now the accent.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
Pmsl! Does she say "Penis" at 1:25 XD!
knwurselfjizz 1 year ago
@knwurselfjizz LOL - she says "peanuts" but it sounds like penis!
cabadejo 1 year ago
omg ive watch corrie for th elast 15 years to bad i wasent there from the begining
PokeXpertoX 1 year ago
Gail Might Be Annoying but Trust me she is changing the whole soap is on the way up the have gotten the Produces Phill and the Writers of Dallas and Danasaty for a few weeks to get the ball rolling have the cast has been cut the first chop was Kelly Crabtree and the Last as of this message was Janace Battersbee
EmoDeathStar121 1 year ago
so great to these great pieces of archive
marycigarettes 1 year ago
Aww Ken Barlow is only a boy, he's so young and fresh faced lol.
mimsy22 1 year ago
Is that Ken Barlow :O
FillionDollarSmile 1 year ago
The best tv show in the history of television
BIJMOZ 1 year ago 3
At 3:00 'Two bob gone out of my purse'. No wonder he went to prison - that's 10 bloody pence that is.
sludgefingers 1 year ago
@sludgefingers That were a lot of money in them days.
timewillprove 1 year ago
The Road To Coronation Street was made by ITV Studios! It said so in the credits at the end! It was NOT a BBC production. They showed it as ITV said they had too many Corrie things going out prior to the 50th. A sad decision I fear - the programme was excellent! I hope the Queen will feature and we will have Lord Warren! and Sir William Roache!
lincsposter 1 year ago
That little blonde girl playing with her friend at the beginning is Lyn Paul from the New Seekers.
FaerieCrone 1 year ago
Ye, I too watched the wonderful "Road to Coronation Street" recently which jogged my memory. But I thought Ena Sharples was in this very first episode..
pauline5248 1 year ago
Anyone else watching this after seeing "The Road to Coronation Street" on BBC the other night?
craftylaura 1 year ago 28
Why do we have to have tea wit hour meals? coz i like my food swilled down properly lol . Makes you proud be Northen this!
legitamatethursday 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you watched Corrie: The Road to Coronation Street
rjconnolly64 1 year ago 81
@rjconnolly64 Yes The Road to Coronation Street was Good and made by the BBC
robhingston 1 year ago
@rjconnolly64
I watched it several times on BBC iplayer. A magnificent period drama - BBC4 is very good at them. Very poetic towards the end.
Penarth1954 1 year ago
@rjconnolly64 about 5 minutes ago yes
joewarar12 1 year ago
What a pleasure to have Coronation street on our screens until today , Tony ROCKS
claudiak100 1 year ago
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In This Clip, From 8:32 To 8:39, It Was "Coronation Street" Break Video Bumper From December 9, 1960.
radiodj1520 1 year ago
In This Clip, From 0:02 To 0:24, It Was "Coronation Street" Video Open From December 9, 1960.
radiodj1520 1 year ago
has not changed in 50 years!
gastoncat 1 year ago
Coronation Street the frist ever episode will not be the same ever again so the 50th anniversary will be in hd and so i was not born when coronation street started so i think now days is bettter then 50 years ago so i cannot wait to the live episode for its 50th show if you like or love soap go to soapspy.co.uk for all information about every soap
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soapspy 1 year ago
Happy memories.....crouched on the floor by the old coal fire in front of the telly, to watch the very first episode of what was to become a British TV icon.....Corrie....:)
Hard to believe that was 50 years ago......LOL!!!!!!!
smegcolin 1 year ago
wis the 60s black and white tellys thought colour came aroon in the 50s jst shows a knew fuck awl lol
wifday 1 year ago
@wifday
colour came to british television in late 1960s :)
in america however it appeard in the late 1950s.... :)
LANBritain1 1 year ago
1:25 Did she say 'When we up penis behind the bar'?
ChemHandbook 1 year ago 2
@ChemHandbook when we hung peanuts up behind the bar hahaha silly
xXxashlingnxXx 1 year ago
@ChemHandbook ~ "PEANUTS" ....
Crkt4Eva 1 year ago
id love to live in that era.. dont like how dark it is though lol
LollieSmith 1 year ago
gail has horse cheeks. im probably the only person who thinks she sucks. infact her whole family sucks. richard hillman should of killed them all xD. Ken deserves much more respect than her!
MasamuneDate87 1 year ago
@MasamuneDate87 Think there's high percentage of people, who would agree with you there, although i don't actually mind Gail myself, yes She looks like Hamster, but as character, Helen Worth plays her really well and She's been involved in some of Corrie's most classical storyline's and yes William Roache/Ken Barlow deserves my respect too, 50 years on Britain's top Soap is just legendery in my book.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
Interesting for historical value - the wife gets up mid-meal to fetch her husband a cup of tea and other little bits. I gave up on Corrie years ago - if I catch an episode now I can't believe how glamourous it all looks and over the top storylines - not at all realistic as it used to be. Back then this would have almost been like watching reality TV
michaelleacy 1 year ago
@michaelleacy I agree the realism has gone, in fact, i treat it more like comedy than Soap now, just can't relate to some of these modern day characters either.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
My great grandma used to watch this! But she died in 1962. :(
Arrunthegreat2009 1 year ago
@Arrunthegreat2009 Your great grandma, she must have lived to good age then, think Corrie was only 2 years old then and now its on the verge of its 50th year, im sure she would proud, to know this great show, is still going strong, even now.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
It's amazing to think that, come December, Corrie will be 50 years old!!! There's something about black and white which makes it all grim-looking and poverty ridden - how the series has changed!!!
PM1970 1 year ago
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ossymos 1 year ago
Ken could have saved himself so much trouble if he had only come out early.
thebeatles10121 1 year ago
AND SO THE LEGEND BEGAN.
The theme tune still sounds the same.
xXMissMarmaladeXx 1 year ago
I'm appalled they allowed such common people on the telly back then.
killerskiss09 1 year ago
@killerskiss09 TELLY?!! What kind of ghastly slang is that?!! I think you mean 'television'. Oik!
VengaboysRbackINtown 1 year ago
@VengaboysRbackINtown yes telly..it's called irony.
killerskiss09 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this! I've always wanted to see this. I see they kept the theme tune.
OldTimeyJunk 1 year ago
Memories, this is how we lived, don't know why but we did, change was afoot!
1lordthorpe 1 year ago
wow a classic british soap opera
TheDangergirl35 1 year ago
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OMG it looks so boring back then, how did people watch this? I wouldn't be able to stand watching this back then, especially if it's in Black and White!!!!!!!!!
joeytimo 1 year ago
@joeytimo bet you wouldnt have thought that if you were around back then.
minicolster 1 year ago
The thing is, joey, you WOULD be able to stand watching in black and white back then, because black and white was all there was and you wouldn't have known any different! It wasn't until the late 1960s that the first colour television sets became available, and then only to the select few who could afford to have one.
marksoutof10 1 year ago
I remember Martha Longhurst dying in the "snug" of the Rovers. Milk Stout not finished!
TheWhitehall 1 year ago
Can't beleive this was a live episode!!. Anne Kirkbride watched this (Deirdre Barlow)
Scrabbler27 1 year ago
was it?
joeytimo 1 year ago
Ken Barlow avin a smoke, an the way he goes on at Deirdre!
JJBJJBJJBJJBJJBJJB 2 years ago
Well, it is 45 years later. LOL
FynFlyte 1 year ago
No it's 50 years later, their 50th anniversary is coming up in December!!!!!!!
joeytimo 1 year ago
50? OMG, I absolutely love Corrie. Would not miss it for the world. I still love the storyline that involved John Lindsay and then other one with Richard Hillman.
FynFlyte 1 year ago
Jon Lindsay was my best villan of all time in corrie. Love for him to come back
Scrabbler27 1 year ago
@joeytimo I must say i haven't watched Corrie as often over the last couple of months, cos think its fallen a bit, but i'll defintly tune in for the 50th later this year, according to my Sister, there's gonna be very explosive storyline, one of those, who lives and who dies, type.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
Just to add to my comment. Firstly there's been closer to 3,000 hours worth of the show since 1960 but that would still make this the biggest box set in history! A better idea would be to release say 75 episodes a year like they have done with Dallas and Dynasty. Then again that would take 100 years to get to the present episodes haha!
rchris36 2 years ago
I see the comment about a DVD Box set for Coronation Street. This would be a great idea to celebrate 50 years of the show and would probably sell very well. The only problem would be getting the box set in your house! There's been around 3,500 hours or more since 1960!
rchris36 2 years ago
@rchris36 I've purchased the 60's 70's and 80's boxsets one by one from HMV and thought they might have gradually released the 90's and 2000's boxsets, but nothing yet.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
@MeBenHalpin Time to release every episode of Coronation Street ever made on DVD. I guess building firms would make money from house extensions to accommodate the size of the box set haha!
rchris36 1 year ago
@rchris36 Would defintly like to see few more early 90's episodes, as that's when i really started watching Corrie at quite, young age, defintly thought they would have released them as boxset, so many memorable storylines from that decade, they could put on there, for us viewers to watch over and over again.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
@rchris36 I'd love to see a box set of every episode ever aired. That probably would never happen though unless Coronation Street gets axed for some reason, then a box set would come afterwards.
CliveKoopa 1 year ago
awsome!
danieljellis 2 years ago
The street looks really bleak in the opening titles, you wouldn't be surprised to find a dead body somewhere!!
mattouli 2 years ago
Creepy O.o
Nina1992 2 years ago
Infact they all sound like ther from barnsley!
strathmann2007 2 years ago
The ladie with the black hair, shes from barnsley! Up the yorkshire! :P
strathmann2007 2 years ago
Whoa Corrie is 50 years old!!!! This is the best show ever. Tony Warren did a great job coming up with the idea
ilovefilms94 2 years ago
Does every episode of the show still exist? That'd make one hell of a Complete Series DVD box set. :)
ProjectFlashlight612 2 years ago 3
Although Ken Barlow has been in the soap since it began in 1960. Gail Platt has appeared in the most episodes and she joined in 1974.
soapfunclassics 2 years ago 11
@soapfunclassics I know what you mean. On US Soil an Actor named Don Hastings has been playing Dr. Bob Hughes on As The World Turns since 1960 but the show will be cancelled in September after 56 Years on the Air. The Late Helen Wagner who played Nancy Hughes McCloskey beginning in 1954, she's in the Guiness Book Of World Records as well as William Roache as the longest running Soap Character in TV History.
laminage 1 year ago
@laminage That's legendary 50 years in the same role, he was in Waterstones at Greenhithe Kent couple of years ago, promoting his new book, seemed like very nice bloke and really down to earth too.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
@laminage That's legendary, God Bless William Roache.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
@soapfunclassics really.b The how much has ken been in it ND HOW MUCH HAS GAIL
minXpotinator2208 1 year ago
@soapfunclassics yeah but Ken kept going away didnt he always had some reason to leave the street haha
MusicalsMakeMyWorldS 1 year ago
@soapfunclassics Gail platt is also one of the most annoying characters xD
TOMMY95215 1 year ago
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timewillprove 1 year ago
@timewillprove ??
TOMMY95215 1 year ago
@TOMMY95215 I was agreeing with the Gail Platt comment.
timewillprove 1 year ago
@soapfunclassics
Get out of Wetherfield! Really?!
FullersDuck 1 year ago
whos been in coronation street the longest now? anyone still there from here?
highlife899 2 years ago
@highlife899 Just William Roache (Ken Barlow) many of the others are gone, or died in real life.
laminage 1 year ago
@highlife899 Kens been in the longest
TOMMY95215 1 year ago
Thanks for the memory.
Henk,
The Netherlands.
henk138 2 years ago 2
ohhh part 2 forgot that ty for posting xx
tisjoje 2 years ago
not a bad first episode and ken with a ciggie
tisjoje 2 years ago
it would be nice to see this episode on screens as a special episode when the show reaches 50 years.
rphr1987 2 years ago