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  • My grandmother was watching this in the 60ties. I was five years old. But i remember.

  • corro back then was way better than the rubbish that they put on now...way better..back in the days of being a young lad watching this with my grand parents..nothing but memories now sadly..time just keeps on ticking by...

  • Now I like Ena Sharples but I also like Elsie Tanner...hmmm but which is the better....there's only one way to find out................FIGHT!!!!  Go'on Ena....see you after the break!!

  • Sorry,I'm watching Corrie this last few years.My husband says he is watching it from his childhood.I would like to know from which year it's going on?

  • I've been watching Coronation Street for the past 5 yrs, but I've never watched any of the early episodes.

  • @RichardElden Whatever, you wanna be disrespectful towards dead person, then that's your look out, it wouldn't be the first time you've done it on here.

  • @RichardElden Your just sick in the head my friend, Pat was legend as simple as that and Coronation Street is so crap, that's why its been running for more than half century.

  • @RichardElden

    Did she kill someone? Did she molest a child? Did she defraud people of billions?

    What gives you the right to celebrate the death of someone you never met, just because you disliked her screen character?

  • how many years has this show been on??!!!

  • @AbabyThatWasntAbortd 50 Years, coming 51 this December

  • Looks like good tv. However I have never heard the English language spoken so fast in my entire life. Like the cadence of Spanish but with English. Very interesting 

  • Looks like good tv. However I have never heard the English language spoken so fast in my entire life. Like the cadence of Spanish but in English. Very interesting

  • @topshot2219 personally i don`t they talk fast ,the south london accent is faster but not east london

  • Young Ken lol

  • By Powell and Driver.Didn't know they wrote early Corrie.

  • Rumour has it Dennis Tanner is returning to Corrie after 43 years.

  • Ena Sharples was the fifth Beatle, and I have proof....check out my video response.

  • Terrific stuff - the real thing!

  • to good corrie ladys 

  • These early episodes are brilliant, so gritty and atmospheric, Ena Annie Elsie were characters you could believe in not like todays plastic folks. It was true to life then hard hitting and real love these classics, we shall not see this quality again for all the technical advancements Thank you to the poster of this classic.

  • @gf1001 Couldn't agree more these women were proper household names and there was defintly realism to the soap back then, just find some of the modern day stuff so hard to swallow.

  • Go to The National Television Awards website and vote to make Coronation street 2011s best soap!

  • I never knew it was that short then.

  • am i the only one who thinks that ena and elsie are really fast talkers

  • new year spoilers, John kills again, Sally catches Sophie & Sian in bed together after a couple of drinks, Leanne and Nick are at it again, Tracy Barlow returns and smooches David & Nick & Sally & Tyrone Snog Eachother.. hows that for a new year ehh?

  • @9djm20 John killing again, is Corrie losing the plot, he's already been responsible for two deaths, why make another. Sophie and Sian storyline is fairly decent, cos its built up well. Tracy's attack was good with surprising conclusion last week, but Tyrone kissing Sally was terrible move, they should have paired Tyrone with Maria again especially as their both widowers with kids and have history together, but no they go and stick her with that other creep, who will only end up hurting her.

  • The show had a much more Northern edge to it back then and strong characters

  • @Voxac100b Even the theme tune seems to have lost its 'Northernness'

  • @storebror21 Agree 100% the theme tune years ago was slower as well and sometimes they played the longer version on the closing titles esp when something tragic happened. This is a great scene with the acting first class and touching even when they dont say anything its compelling viewing masterpiece TV even in the seventies Hilda fights with Annie Walker when Hilda spat in the Rovers I was taken aback!

  • @Voxac100b Yeah have that episode on dvd from 1972, where all the regulars think Stan is peeping Tom and Hilda gives them all real piece of her mind, eventually spitting on the Rovers floor before she departs and minutes later, there's phone call saying they caught the real culprit in the act, why down at number 13, the episode ends with Hilda dresseing Stan in his best suit ready for visit from the Police.

  • @storebror21 we don`t have such a north/south divide now do we when i used to watch corrie as a kid i thought all northerners lived entirely on tea ,fish`n`chips and pints of bitter . the journo stuart maconie said he`d become a southerner when a friend asked him where he kept his sun-dried tomatoes

  • Well maybe they should start showing Corrie in the states. I'm not sure that it would be a good idea to start with episode 1 in 1960: it would take them nearly 29 years just to get to the present episodes in 2010. Even if they showed an episode each day it would still take 20 years. I guess they would just have to start with the current episodes and maybe do a historical documentary.

  • Eee, by gum, I wish they would show Corrrie here in the US. Better than just about any show they have on TV here.

    First saw in 1964. By gum how times have changed!

  • The women absolutely rule Coronation Street, they've got such strong personalities. This clip shows just how much the men are put in the shade, they stand around not knowing what to do or say to all these women around them that they don't understand.

  • What made Ina was her plucked eye-brows!

  • One of the best shows ever put on TV. I wish it would air in USA. You can have all the 'reality' rubbish on TV these days.

  • @pondoro1956 Do you not get Corrie in the US then, always figured you did.

  • good old tv not like the crap on to day we had the best years to day all that x factor and talent shows crap

  • Bloody hell!!!! How FAST do they speak???!!!! And what a contrast in acting to the half wits recruited today?!!!

  • Dat wos absolutolae fontastec

  • when did ena leave and how, she was a true ledgened

  • @Leedeesal1 She last appeared in 1980 - the actress had health problems in the 70s and reduced her role, she was already an old lady by the 60s. The actress died in 1983 but she remained a cast member - they always hoped she'd come back, however briefly.

  • @Leedeesal1 Ena Sharples last official Corrie appearance was on 2nd April 1980.

  • How many fucking "By Gums" do these cunts have to repeat????

  • Ena was SO mealymouthed...  Her and her "off-license"...

  • Oh... My.... God !

    When was this filmed 2200 bc

  • Violet and Pat... great actresses together on one show! Corrie has always ruled the waves. Scriptwriters deserve a medal!

  • I remember watching coronation st as a kid, ive started watching it again on free to air telly only trouble is the eps are from 2003 not that it matters im still enjoying it. here in australia the upto date eps are on pay tv.

  • Did everyone really talk so fast back then?

  • Corrie rules God Save Her Majesty!

  • Fantastic. 

  • 5 people seem to be suffering from a very serious offliction! Corrie rules the waves! This is stunning tv!

  • 5 people seem to be suffering from a very serious offliction! Corrie rules the waves!

  • how many times does Len say "by gum"?

  • "Well, I'll go to the back of our 'ouse!"

  • THANK YOU NAMASTE SUCH HAPPY FUNNY  DAYS

  • Wow I remember this episode Great to see it again love Jack  Walkers trod on character . Thanks for this

  • does anyboy know the name of the song ???

  • what miserable streets......nasty homes..

  • @pentogram23 I live on a street like that. Idiot!

  • @10aPenny well thats because your a loser and an IDIOT to live in a dump..

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  • @pentogram23 I'm thirteen

  • What is amazing about this is it IS the same show that we are watching now in 2010 - the people may leave but the street itself remains. Utterly brilliant - so true to life.

    However, it shows life was probably more exciting back then than now - they don't make episodes like these anymore, and I'm 17!

  • The old ones are the best!

  • Utterly superb!

  • It's hard to believe Ken Barlow was ever a young man ... but there he is.

  • Oh classic

  • Ena was never a "poor old defenceless woman",,,,,

  • @shrivel1 Just backstreet bitch really, think everybody had one like her, when they were growing up.

  • in days of old when we had communities, societies and people who communicated.

  • It is hardly surprising that this programme has lasted 50 years.

    it has always been excellently made and superbly acted.

    A true classic of british television.

  • @thekroton Think its got bit week the last couple of years, whilst back then you had better stronger characters, who you could relate too, its still great achievement though, that its nearly 50 years.

  • This was the 'Real' Coronation Street.

    Excellent scrips complemented by first class actors and scriptwriters. A time when each character has his/her own foibles and frailties - not the creaking & exhausted last of the summer wine parody it has become, churning out dozens of episodes of worthless tripe over and over because it has a sponsor!

    It should have ended long back in the 80's on a high not staggered on as it has ;-(

    .

  • haha classical corrie awesome x

  • Yes, there was a very Look Back In Anger feel to Corrie in those days. It was very much a kitchen sink drama about the working classes in Manchester.

  • double barreled rolling pins!

    brill, they don't write them like that these days Ena Sharples was a head fuck no one can deny it, even in 1960. Fustrated lack of thick cock I put it down to. Pint please Annie.

  • Ena Sharples; we loved her so in Holland!

  • Two of the Greats of Corrie Fighting!!

  • The door to the gents toilet in the Rovers Return was positioned incorrectly...it would have led to Albert Tatlock's back parlour.

  • I remember the first few episodes well. Being a southerner I was fascinated by the "ee by gums" and the "well I'll go to top of our streets". All good Lancashire dialect.

    It's only when you see these older episodes that you realise how bland and commonplace that Corrie has become. It could be located anywhere.

    Give me the "grim up north" image anyday.

  • yeh. BTW Viaduct were in wrong place them days.

    Who put viaduct there?

  • @Landulphcounter i agree i mean people in the rovers drink lager now it should be all best bitter then home for fish ,chips `n` mushy peas

  • Remember the first episode. They repeated it twice. Was only 5yrs

  • Ena Sahrples (Violet Carson) really portrays a great bit of acting here in her street battle with Elsie Tanner. Always thought of Ena as being a bit of an ol' battle-axe, but you had to love her anyway. Don't think I'd ever want to come up against her in an arguement, on or off stage. Love you Ena.

  • How many of you peops can remember the first episode they ever watched?

    I can't remember the first episode that i watched .. but i do remember being sent to bed way back in 66/67 .. so mum and dad could watch corrie ..

    I remember laying in bed and listening to the corrie tune .. and i could hear every word that was spoken .. those were happy days :) ..

  • god ken barlow as a young man! the only original cast member left??

  • I used to love a few houses away from Annie Walker, Dorris Speed . she hated us playin ouside her home lol

  • That took me back a bit. Thanks for posting.

  • I must admit I enjoy the original Coronation Street. I had a great job as pre-screener of TV show that came into the C.B.C. in Toronto and I screened many seasons of Coronation Street.

  • They don`t make real women like Ena Sharples these days...What a character hhahaha

  • huhuhuhu

  • 0:38  LOL!!

  • That brought back happy memories.

    I had such a crush on Elsie Tanner but I wasn't allowed to watch Corrie at home (my mum thought it was 'too common' !), I had to sneak off to my mates house !

    Hilarious to hear Annie Walker say "mink muff", more innocent times.

  • @AnElephantsChild your mum thought it were common where did you grow up -belgravia

  • @1960unclemort Ay - well - ermm.

    I grew up on the Wirral in Cheshire where, almost, everyone permanantly has their nose stuck in the air !

    My mum was a Geordie snob who thought she had 'bettered' herself by moving down here.

    I am a sad disapointment to her !

  • @AnElephantsChild its actually `mmm aye well` but obviously know the classic comedy `i did`nt know you cared`

  • By gum, it were good in those days, lad. I'll go to t' foot of our stairs.

  • It's great to see an episode of Coronation Street that doesn't have that irritating Sean character in it. I think he was based on Ena Sharples, without the hairnet.

  • And poor Maggie Jones (Blanche) in Corrie died today. she was a very good actress and will be missed.

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  • Every street had an Ena Sharples, an Elsie Tanner and an Albert Tatlock. Cultures and races may have changed, but personalities don't. This was 'in your face' community drama.

  • @pyglett she reninds me of my granny

  • Love some of the body language in this clip particularly Len smacking his lips on the back of his wrist "eeh thats given me eck of a thirst"and Doris Speeds "I wouldn't lower mi-self" then uses husband Jack as blamester to go outside and gawp herself-is a wonderful comic turn.But what makes it for me is that elongated pause between Len's "Let's kiss n' mek freinds...............well,--m­ek friends anyway" with the "Sally Army playin in the background is spine tingling!!!

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  • kudos

  • Ena's problem was that she was too judgmental, and she couldn't stop "Living In The Past" We've all done things that we're not proud of but we shouldn't spend eternity paying for it.

  • huhuhu

  • I watched Coronation St. since the sixties. I don't care what you think, I find the poufs offensive so I quit watching it as it made my skin crawl!

  • This episode is UNFORGETTABLE the acting is out on its own. Vi Carson and Pat pheonix BRILLIANT. This was how life really was, the writing brilliant. I have to say Coronation St now is not a patch on what it used to be. It seems bland indeferent but perhaps its the times we live in?In the 60s gritty kitchen sink dramas were Wonderful and this is one of the best examples EVER thanks for posting this classic Cat Fight.

  • thats when the programme had REAL ACTORS in it. instead of those puffs in it now . give me the old working class 60s style anyday,whos with me???

  • great comment !!! Im with you all the way ..Long Live The sixties ...Lyndloo..

  • apparently no1 including me

  • Even though I grew up in Scotland, we all gathered for Coronation St. My Mum in Canada still gets it, but not here in America.

    It was the first time play actors were not in rich mansions saying stupidity like "you bounder," but they were working class and every street had at least 3 of the characters.

    As for the Poliossss they knew us all by name and our parents and Grand parents. Please Constable take me tae the jail dunna tac me hame. As your collar was pulled to your neck

    Davce

  • I wish ONE of the American (cable, satelite, or network) would carry Coronation Street. In the states, I only can get it from a CBC station (Windsor, Ontario). Nonetheless, I find these posted classic episodes to be nostalgic for the viewers who yearn for the "yesterday". Ken Barlow looks so young in here!

  • This was in the days Coranation Street was Coranation Street the 60's 70's 80's and the early 90's was real coranation street but since the 2000's Coranation St. has become just another soap with endless storyline of him go with her, her go with him and nearly everyone commiting atultry murders and kidnapings, the only really good story in this decade has been Richard killman Hilman story

  • I agree with your comment , but as an aside, don't you think that Richard Hillman was the absolute spit of Captain Black from "Captain Scarlett" ? Da Da Da D'da Da Da Da D'da Daaah

  • "Dennis, take me home." Isn't it strange since her "House" is just right in front of her? Also, if I were Ena Sharples, I'd be so ashamed especially with everyone watching me including the children.

  • Pretty top notch stuff in this episode. The speed of the fight made it a little difficult on what they argued on.

    Still, a pretty top notch episode overall from the drama filled pen of Adele Rose.

    Wonder what other fab episodes are around!

  • my mums auntie connie woz in corrie but idont no her last name so i cant find her

  • Didn't she call 'im Sonny Jim? Aye Jed worked alongside of me in't Mission boiler room for a bit - he couldn't handle the Boilerman's Crutch an' jacked in, Minnie 'ad a cat called Bobby as went missin' - actually I knocked 'im down and killed 'im wi mi push bike on me way to work but Bobby didn't die in vain - I made a Davy Crocket hat out of him for't works do as we used to 'ave in't Furnaceworker's Arms,

  • charliemctruth

    minnies lodger was Jed Stone

  • I LOVE ENA SHARPLES, best creation in TV history, and Elsie is too!

  • I've not bin too good, bin havin a lot of trouble wi 'Boilerman's Crutch'. It's an occupational hazard due to back draught from't boiler blowin Phurnacite dust through t'button flies of me boilersuit an mixin wit sweat - it gets bloody warm stokin boilers ah can tell yer an that Phurnacite's made from cement dust an coal dust an't dust is acid. It's not easy being a boilerman but I'm an artist too. Tha wants ter see me whitewash t'boiler room shithouse wi' a 6" brush - bloody work of art I make.

  • what years this?

    cuz this episode is loads beta then the bloody crap of today

    im 15 btw:D

  • probably because it was well written (great writers started on corrie - jim rosenthal etc)

    It was well rehearsed and performed by good actors - just listen to the diction ! the speed Violet Carson goes but you can here every word.

    They showed some episodes from the 60s on BBC4 - amazing stuff

  • Fabulous!!

    Who was Minnie Caldwells lodger?

  • What I liked about Ena was she looked like she'd been hit in the face with a number 10 coke shovel......mmmmmmm!

  • I had my first wank thinking about Ena Sharples - does that make me a weirdo?

  • i suppose if you were 65 at the time - then no

  • I were 14

  • well in terms of weirdness that is right up there alongside sniffing girls bicycle saddles !

  • Bloody 'Ell lad. 'ow did you know I did that?

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  • I'm not sure of the context of your activites or the circumstances, LOL. But I'm guessing you had thing for Older women..!!

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  • you get nosey old bags like sharples in every street, Women Like that need putting in homes.

  • Humm, but it used to be called a community.

    Besides keep you business to yourself and you have nothing to worry about. I wonder what types look out for us in a neigbourhood watch ey....!

    Anyway, I'm only 39, but that was sure classic TV. Beats Eastenders any day. Too much filth today.

  • Them days you could leave yer boiler room door unlocked and t'boiler would still be there next day!

  • But if you was partial to nicking a boiler or two, the local bobbie would drag you home by the ear..!!!

  • @AlbertCromblethorme and someone serviced it for you

  • great clip thanx. where have all the ena sharples gone? imagine her being intimidated by a hoodie?

  • ahh Those wear the days..can remember

    that going off in our street lol.

  • memories .....

  • wow its so diffrent today, I really fancy that one thats gonna marry taht Steve guy

  • Hilda Ogden's smelly knickurz

  • Rarely does one find a comment so intellectual on YouTube. Many thanks for your comprehensive analysis.

  • Ich danke Ihnen! Ich bin Ihnen sehr verbunden.

    Bitte sehr.

  • WOAH they talk soo fast its AWESOME!

    they talk the same as they do nowadays nd all haha!

    this was actually rly enertaining!

    its a shame coronation street has become so crap!

    just hasnt got any strong characters anymore.....nd theres just a thousand pety plots that arent important tht just fizzle out after a month.....its glory days are behind it.

  • Eh ! That Albert Tatlock were a randy old git !!

  • Bottle of stout in the Snug please !!

  • wow did not no it was this old!

  • eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeebbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmm­mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I cannot believe Ken Barlow has been on the show for nearly 50 years.

  • @Remusloo And he still looks in great shape.

  • look at these strong women! where have all the Ena's gone? would make a good song perhaps but there is one called albert tatlock and that is class! shame len fairclough turned out to be a bit of a gary but hey

  • The song's called TV Stars, by the Skids. I hit the thumbs down by mistake.

  • i'll take ma bloody belt to whoevers takin' ma bloody belt, like i will an all as heck maate...