One of the biggest injustices for me in the whole Rita and Alan business, is that Jenny never gets a slap or gets shouted down for being such a gobby, disrespectful, brat. She shrieks at everybody. Noone ever pulls her up on it, she gets away with everything, every time, and it drives me NUTS.
I would have thought Bet would have been ideal to put her in her place. She was there when Jenny came home and bawled at Rita the night Bradley came back for the first time and terrorised her.
thank you for putting these episodes on...im born in toronto canada but visited family in dundee scotland many times over the years in the 80s and 90s and watching coronation street here in canada is the only thing i had to make me remember them and feel like i was back home. watching these episodes makes me both happy and sad lol thank you dear
I was born in Toronto too, and was taken back to England and then Scotland (Fife). What a coincidence, 6 degrees of separation and all that jazz. Intriguing
Thanks for this, Eve. I've really enjoyed it. They're good memories. I always thought the Street wasn't worth a light after Mrs Walker left in '83, but these are very entertaining - and I love the sense of the late '80s, with the fashions, the yuppie playing Mike at his own game and so on. And Vera peeling the sprouts on Christmas Day, in her lovely jumper, with a ciggie on and a tub of Vim on her kitchen windowsill. Beautiful scene.
@@sheenamcguire123 Little angry bum fluff man boy needs a steak🥮 pie and spuds to build him up he's a rum scrawny little git He's like De Niro fantastic actor is Jacko Shepherd he might end up in panto one day 🎉
Fun fact: Mark Eden/Alan Bradley appeared in every single episode from his return at the trial to his Blackpool demise. 23 episodes on the trot - that’s some going! Goes to show how huge the storyline was.
Mark Eden was a great actor, it's such a shame Corrie producers (in their wisdom) decided to turn him into a baddie who had to be killed off. He would have been a very worthy successor to Rita's previous man, Len Fairclough - in fact he'd have been a massive improvement on that toad! To me it just didn't ring true that Rita never wanted to marry Alan (a handsome, eligible man on the Weatherfield cobbles was rarer than hen's teeth), and form a family unit with his daughter Jenny who she was inexplicably so fond of. For years we were told Rita was broody and desperate to be a mother. Then along comes Alan with his ready made family, and Rita doesn't go for it but chooses to live in sin with him. It didn't ring true - she'd have snapped his hand off! Mark Eden was very likeable, and could have brought an attractive, middle aged man into the show to be a new husband for Rita. Lord knows she deserved a Prince Charming after that grotty Len Fairclough!
@@glamdolly30 when Mark Eden appeared years earlier as Elsie's love interest, I thought his performance was very much like Alan Bradley in his early days. He seemed like a cold fish both times, so I assumed Mark Eden was quite a one dimensional actor. I always wondered if the writers' about turn with Alan's character, from cold and detached to psychopathic, was because the actor's range was quite limited.
He was also in episodes where the café turned in to the café from a cake shop. In real life he was married to Gail's 'mom' until he passed away recently.
Thank you for uploading these. It must’ve took a lot of effort to put theses together ! Which is greatly appreciated! 1989-90 is a great year for corrie. I’m assuming you like coronation street yourself? Anyway massive thanks for uploading these.
You’re very welcome of course! Yes I’m a fan of the golden era of Corrie but I must admit I’m struggling with this period as it’s getting a little too modern for my liking.. the general introduction of more and more youngsters isn’t my thing. I just don’t care about what Steve McDonald gets up to lol..but I understand why they felt they HAD to modernise it. I just wanted to do carry on a little while where PG left off.. as I know there’s a demand for it. Thanks again for kind comments
@@EveHenleySpread yes, I’m not a fan of the McDonald’s family. I like characters like, Ivy (I know she was hell lol) , Alma and the Tilsley/platts family. Plus Alf I’m guessing you probably don’t like theses sort character’s or maybe I’m wrong.
Love these old episodes of Coronation Street takes me back Today's Coronation Street to Woke tryed to watch it about two years ago could not bare it Times change I Suppose Thanks for putting this era of Corrie on RUclips 👍 And the 90s one's thanks again been looking for them for ages
I did years drama school from being infent to second year at 16 years old these are amazing people script work hard I did 3 years special needs qualification passed 3 years worked for the NHS for 34 years and my aunt Sylvia was an amazing actress Vera duckworth xxxx
Oh, it's easily explained. Sally must have seen the coppers digging up the site, decided running into the Rovers screaming blue-murder, and grabbing the most gormless Burke, was what was called for, under the circumstances.
Thank you so much Eve this has really been an eye opener. When I saw originally bet was in Blackpool coming outside to try and rescue Rite. That was many decades ago I saw that. And again I thank you for the lead up to this horrible event. Oh our Jenny. She is a bissom.
You’re very welcome Morrie! It’s an iconic moment in the history of British television.. watched by over 21 million people, ITV could only dream of audiences that big these days! 😉
Hmmm interesting point! He obviously had to give back the posh car Rita bought for him i.e. the Ford Sierra Estate.. but the car he had after his prison stint? There was no mention of where it came from, looked a old banger though so perhaps it’s just about plausible that Alan had enough money for an old heap like that! 😉
Only seen clips of it before this wonderful channel showing these great episodes of Corrie at it's peak and the other channel showing the 70s early mid 80s Corrie
Ditto. So glad her psycho "father" has finally gone. What a drawn-out tedious storyline! I have loved binge watching years of classic fabulous Corrie (thank you so much ProfessionalGun 66) but sadly, I am noticing the nearer we get to the 1990s the more glimpses there are of the stupid, humourless storylines to come. Meanwhile, the humour we all love lives on through Jack and Vera and even Audrey & Alf.
Barbara Knox . . awesome actress. I've watched her through the deaths of Len and Alan. She can totally play grief--and without makeup! It takes courage and confidence and authenticity to do that.
Ken is being totally passive aggressive with Dierdre about his affair. He's always been held up as a man of deep thought and integrity within the community, but this grubby interlude with Wendy shows his fallibility. He is being an utter creep, doing his damndest to blame Dierdre for the 'distance' between them and wishy washying between staying and going. Ugh.
I think they only kept Ken for familiarity I genuinely can’t stand the sanctimonious little sh*t horrid character full of double standards ! Diedres not perfect but he denies her a child and Tracy a sibling then has one later on with Denise ! And as for Wendy crozier all I have to say to her is why ? Why why didn’t you whisk him far far away lol
@@irenemorley75 Are you not aware of your own comments spamming this channel every chance you get? You're the only one getting your manky knickers in a twists here.
@@GinaRussell-c2c 😂😂😂 It was my gran who wielded the wooden spoon and slippers in my family, she once even washed my mouth out with soap because I swore. I was around 8 then so fair enough really, 30 years later and I still watch my mouth around my elders. 🤭😄 Hope you're well, sending all the best from Edinburgh ❤
The meeting between Rita and Jenny, I could not watch, I had to FF so I don't know what happened. Good job too, I'm sure that had I watched I would be a stroke victim by now!😣😣😣
Vera had no business going through curly's paperwork and notes. He got her that job in the first place and got it back for her. They r being Aholes to him
Sorry Jenny, it’s not everyone else’s fault nobody is mourning your dad. It’s his fault.HE treated everyone so badly, you can’t blame everyone else. Put the blame where it belongs….on your dad. Like father like daughter though
@spartybrearly7221 I don’t think she ever really was, it was more a case of because her character was a singer on the street, some daft idiot said why not release an album. It was pretty awful by all accounts and was forgotten about quickly!
@@EveHenleySpreadShe should of got contact with Stock Akin Waterman with Jack as a dancer like Bez on stage with her Mr baldy patch with one rough patchy thatch
I noticed that too. That Tracy was always upstairs. Only as a baby did Deidre look after her, even then it was always Ena Sharples and Emily Then it was the whole village
Don’t know why all these years later.. I always thought , Alan yelled Rita ….when giving chase … and is now my abiding memory of doing the same on the ride at Alton Towers.. still an iconic scene .
The tram that was filmed killing Alan was number 710 was saved and is now moving to Blackpool's Tramtown Museum. The hotel where Rita stayed, The Strand, has its own blue plaque outside stating that this was the place she was dragged out by Alan and basically opposite, Alan was killed. The plaque was unveiled in 2009 by Mark Eden (Alan) and money was raised for a local charity. People still want to stay in "Rita's room"...where there is Corrie memorabilia scattered about.
I loved watching Mike Baldwin fall from the top. It reminds me of that saying Be Nice To People On Your Way Up The Ladder Because You Might Meet Them On Your Way Down.
Haven't seen the whole of December yet but Alan found the name 'Rita Fairclough' in The Strand reservation book. Shouldn't she have signed in as 'Rita Littlewood' as she believed her name to be at the time given her memory lapse?
Actually no (as you’ll discover further along).. her memory lapse appears to place her in a period when Len was still alive and she was married to him, but obviously went by Rita Littlewood as her original stage name (and obviously maiden name).
Oh, the Barlows! If she wasn't having a bit on the side, he was... Deirdre looked dreadful on Christmas Day '89. You could see her shoulder pads through her blouse and with her brillo perm she looked really odd. Funny how fashions look weird in retrospect. I never batted an eyelid at the time.
I preferred her poker straight hair of the 70s and early 80s. I always felt she looked her best during the Baldwin / Barlow tug of love, in late 82 / early 83.
@@bsaunders5271 I agree, her hair was her crowning glory and I think she was sponsored by Vosene, a medicated shampoo of blessed memory. She was very pretty at that time but after she curled her hair then permed it, it started to resemble a helmet of wire. Personally she started to look very thin as well as her voice getting very hoarse. And her glasses changing too......they weren't her prettiest days.
@@londonlady227 I couldn't agree more. As soon as they started messing about with her hair, it all went downhill. Her perm is a travesty and ages her greatly. But I always wondering if, because of 'fashion' and all that, people thought she looked fab at the time....
The Alan Bradley storyline has always been my favorite storyline.. I've always been ambivalent. I love and hate at the same time. The acting was so realistic. I felt that Jenny loved her dad unconditionally. She also loved Rita too but she was easy to manipulate. When she told her dad she's not doing Dad, it's all in your mind now... I felt it ♥️ she really wished they were both back together. She wanted things to be back to the way they were... I felt a bit emotional at that scene...and the funeral I felt emotional and when Rita said she will always love her.. I felt that with Jenny.. ambivalence.. there's a bit of both. Love and hate... I felt that too
Ken has other priorities on his agenda than telling Deidre he and Tracey met Wendy Crozier; e.g. compiling the new cryptic crossword for the Weatherfield Recorder.
1:06:09 - The attitude and conduct of that nurse in the green uniform was appalling. To begin with, starting the "what's the problem" conversation out in the corridor in front of other waiting patients! Then getting irate when someone tries to explain a delicate situation. That nurse was a total - and very loud-mouthed - disgrace. No wonder Rita bolted.
Two observations: 1. Audrey was incredibly childish and a Gold Digger. 2. It annoyed me how, only a couple of weeks earlier Mavis was having a nervous breakdown/ had to view a body in the mortuary and then there wasn’t even as much as on-screen reunion once Rita returned…
Interesting to watch this all over again. At the time I loved the Rita and Alan story, but now I see it was so overly dramatic . But because it got such good reviews and ratings they carried on with more and more dramatic storylines. In other words, the beginning of the end. I don't watch the show anymore, gave up on it years ago
Audrey acts like a duchess. She hasn't got two ha'pennies of her own to rub together, she has this really entitled attitude like everything is beneath her, but the only prestige she has, is through her husband. She has to be one of my absolute least favourite characters of all time. She makes my blood boil.
Unlucky she was in it for Years after this boring people senseless with her social climbing ways She was so ungrateful to Alf Who took her on with a child that was his and Grandchildren that were not his Decades of boredom to to go with her
One of the biggest injustices for me in the whole Rita and Alan business, is that Jenny never gets a slap or gets shouted down for being such a gobby, disrespectful, brat. She shrieks at everybody. Noone ever pulls her up on it, she gets away with everything, every time, and it drives me NUTS.
Agreed, Jenny was a right bitch, blaming Rita for the death of her psychopath of a father after she'd done more for her than he ever had.
Spot on.
I would have thought Bet would have been ideal to put her in her place. She was there when Jenny came home and bawled at Rita the night Bradley came back for the first time and terrorised her.
Pity Sharon didn't come back and give it to jenny
@@tinaquinn9042 yes!!
Alan Bradley saying “why is she doing this?, why is she ruining my life?” He was one selfish man! Thank you 🙏 for the upload
I love how Alan forces her into the car and then she just opens the door and gets out.
That was comical.
I loved Percy n co standing up to Alan especially Alf taking his hat off ready to join the aggro
Alf wasn’t scared of anyone.
Agreed. Bradley was only brave dancing with a woman
Alf was the best
Alf liked a rumble
Anyone can be tough when your build like Alf
Jack's was all mouth no trousers
Thank you for these Eve, once again.
thank you for putting these episodes on...im born in toronto canada but visited family in dundee scotland many times over the years in the 80s and 90s and watching coronation street here in canada is the only thing i had to make me remember them and feel like i was back home. watching these episodes makes me both happy and sad lol thank you dear
I was born in Toronto too, and was taken back to England and then Scotland (Fife). What a coincidence, 6 degrees of separation and all that jazz. Intriguing
That Gail has the emotional maturity of a 10 year old. That puts her a couple of years ahead of Audrey.
her mother was about 8 years older than her
Nicky must have the cleanest hands in soap world
Thanks for this, Eve. I've really enjoyed it. They're good memories. I always thought the Street wasn't worth a light after Mrs Walker left in '83, but these are very entertaining - and I love the sense of the late '80s, with the fashions, the yuppie playing Mike at his own game and so on. And Vera peeling the sprouts on Christmas Day, in her lovely jumper, with a ciggie on and a tub of Vim on her kitchen windowsill. Beautiful scene.
Gail always had Vim on her kitchen windowsill too, but it was always the Ajax scourer brand.
Yes big thank you
Thankyou so much for these episodes xx
Too bad Jenny didn’t keep her promise of never coming back to this street!
Emily always had blinders on where Ken is concerned
I think that she had a crush on him.
Secret crush
She was more Barlow's age 😅
This was the best Corrie days on the street and bring Martin back because he’s a top actor
Yes I agree with you he was good 👍 in coronation street
I loved the storyline with Katie a few years on!
He was a bit dull but a good character he's a cheese maker these days 58 yes old now
Miss Martin would have kept David in check that’s for sure
Yeah, I like him lots. Really do.
@@sheenamcguire123 Little angry bum fluff man boy needs a steak🥮 pie and spuds to build him up he's a rum scrawny little git
He's like De Niro fantastic actor is Jacko Shepherd he might end up in panto one day 🎉
Fun fact: Mark Eden/Alan Bradley appeared in every single episode from his return at the trial to his Blackpool demise. 23 episodes on the trot - that’s some going! Goes to show how huge the storyline was.
Mark Eden was a great actor, it's such a shame Corrie producers (in their wisdom) decided to turn him into a baddie who had to be killed off. He would have been a very worthy successor to Rita's previous man, Len Fairclough - in fact he'd have been a massive improvement on that toad!
To me it just didn't ring true that Rita never wanted to marry Alan (a handsome, eligible man on the Weatherfield cobbles was rarer than hen's teeth), and form a family unit with his daughter Jenny who she was inexplicably so fond of. For years we were told Rita was broody and desperate to be a mother. Then along comes Alan with his ready made family, and Rita doesn't go for it but chooses to live in sin with him. It didn't ring true - she'd have snapped his hand off!
Mark Eden was very likeable, and could have brought an attractive, middle aged man into the show to be a new husband for Rita. Lord knows she deserved a Prince Charming after that grotty Len Fairclough!
@@glamdolly30 when Mark Eden appeared years earlier as Elsie's love interest, I thought his performance was very much like Alan Bradley in his early days. He seemed like a cold fish both times, so I assumed Mark Eden was quite a one dimensional actor. I always wondered if the writers' about turn with Alan's character, from cold and detached to psychopathic, was because the actor's range was quite limited.
Mark Eden was cold. Perhaps after a while, the producers saw his potential as a heartless villain. He seemed completely bloodless.
He was also in episodes where the café turned in to the café from a cake shop. In real life he was married to Gail's 'mom' until he passed away recently.
@@michellejones2916it's funny how Gail has her mam (as she says) who's actors are only 7 years apart 😂
What a bare faced liar Ken is to Deirdre to hide his affair.after all his preaching and martyr act he did when she had one!!
Gaslighting her in his usual patronising manner
I fast forward all his scenes with that awful Crozier.
Rita did far more for Jenny and was more of a parent to her than her psychopath of a father ever did and this is how she repays her.
Sally looking at Rita like that in the street but then in later episodes uses Rita as her cash cow🙄🤭
Thank you for uploading these. It must’ve took a lot of effort to put theses together ! Which is greatly appreciated! 1989-90 is a great year for corrie. I’m assuming you like coronation street yourself? Anyway massive thanks for uploading these.
You’re very welcome of course! Yes I’m a fan of the golden era of Corrie but I must admit I’m struggling with this period as it’s getting a little too modern for my liking.. the general introduction of more and more youngsters isn’t my thing. I just don’t care about what Steve McDonald gets up to lol..but I understand why they felt they HAD to modernise it. I just wanted to do carry on a little while where PG left off.. as I know there’s a demand for it. Thanks again for kind comments
@@EveHenleySpread yes, I’m not a fan of the McDonald’s family. I like characters like, Ivy (I know she was hell lol) , Alma and the Tilsley/platts family. Plus Alf I’m guessing you probably don’t like theses sort character’s or maybe I’m wrong.
@@Tia-pk7ji yes I like all those characters.. just I’m not a fan of the general transition to younger characters like the McDonald twins..
@@EveHenleySpread In that case, maybe you could find the January 1968 episodes in which the hippies come to Coronation Street. That would be great!
Love these old episodes of Coronation Street takes me back Today's Coronation Street to Woke tryed to watch it about two years ago could not bare it
Times change I Suppose
Thanks for putting this era of Corrie on RUclips 👍
And the 90s one's thanks again been looking for them for ages
I did years drama school from being infent to second year at 16 years old these are amazing people script work hard I did 3 years special needs qualification passed 3 years worked for the NHS for 34 years and my aunt Sylvia was an amazing actress Vera duckworth xxxx
22:03 WTH is Sally doing running into the rovers grabbing Jack? Is that the best thing the writers could come up with?
Actually thought that myself recently.. I mean.. why would she go for Jack specifically? What's he got to do it? Really bizarre moment!
@@EveHenleySpread yes it was badly directed.
The one Sally should have grabbed was Alf. That made more sense.
Maybe she looked at Jack as a 'dad type'.
Oh, it's easily explained. Sally must have seen the coppers digging up the site, decided running into the Rovers screaming blue-murder, and grabbing the most gormless Burke, was what was called for, under the circumstances.
Great Christmas Scene 🌲🎄🎇🎁🎄🎊🎊🥃🍺🍻🥂🎉🎁🎀🎀🎀🪔🎄🎅🎄In The Rovers Singing
Around The Piano🎈🎋🌌🌠
Gail in another mood
Oh ken, where are you principles and marals now.
Yep.🙄
Oh how I wish Jenny was holding “me dads” hand when he ran in front of the trolley
Same here.
Nice one.
Tram's what?
@@bsaunders5271 You are vile and nasty🤮
Me too.
Thank you so much Eve this has really been an eye opener. When I saw originally bet was in Blackpool coming outside to try and rescue Rite.
That was many decades ago I saw that. And again I thank you for the lead up to this horrible event.
Oh our Jenny. She is a bissom.
You’re very welcome Morrie! It’s an iconic moment in the history of British television.. watched by over 21 million people, ITV could only dream of audiences that big these days! 😉
@@EveHenleySpread Great storyline, but where did Alan Bradley get the car he drove to Blackpool? He was flat broke and a pauper.
Hmmm interesting point! He obviously had to give back the posh car Rita bought for him i.e. the Ford Sierra Estate.. but the car he had after his prison stint? There was no mention of where it came from, looked a old banger though so perhaps it’s just about plausible that Alan had enough money for an old heap like that! 😉
Only seen clips of it before this wonderful channel showing these great episodes of Corrie at it's peak and the other channel showing the 70s early mid 80s Corrie
Vera's comment to Jack made me laugh out loud when Jack asked if he's getting half. 😂
Wow, I really couldn't care a toss about Jenny.
Nor me. Ghastly little brat.
Ditto. So glad her psycho "father" has finally gone. What a drawn-out tedious storyline! I have loved binge watching years of classic fabulous Corrie (thank you so much ProfessionalGun 66) but sadly, I am noticing the nearer we get to the 1990s the more glimpses there are of the stupid, humourless storylines to come. Meanwhile, the humour we all love lives on through Jack and Vera and even Audrey & Alf.
Me too.cant stand the girl.
Where did Alan get the motor to go to the Pool?
Frank Butcher in Walford 🎉
OMG Gail’s kids will get square eyes sitting that close to the TV! 😂
Bradley, got what was coming to him. Just leaves Jenny mouth almighty.
Barbara Knox . . awesome actress. I've watched her through the deaths of Len and Alan. She can totally play grief--and without makeup! It takes courage and confidence and authenticity to do that.
Wasn't that good of Alec to tell Alan where to find Rita? Daft bugger.
Alec was a scaredy-cat with a tongue of a serpent
Couldn't believe he did that!
The absolute nerve of Liz McDonald to refer to Mavis and Emily as plain Janes!
I've always been a Mavis fan +_+
People in glass houses in Liz’s case!
Liz is hardly Marilyn Monroe herself
@@bsaunders5271 Exactly
Said by the, goggle eyed, raggy doll.
Jack's Like A Uk Version
Of Al Bundy He's A Cad But You Can't Help But Love Him🤓🥩🍺🥃🍽️🍝🍻🍾🍺
All Gail seems to do in the cafe is butter bread and more bread. 🤣Rita to Derick... " You stay here and roast your nuts" 🤣🤣🤣
How someone never punched Vera shouting in their faces is truly his Christmas miracle.
Ken is being totally passive aggressive with Dierdre about his affair. He's always been held up as a man of deep thought and integrity within the community, but this grubby interlude with Wendy shows his fallibility. He is being an utter creep, doing his damndest to blame Dierdre for the 'distance' between them and wishy washying between staying and going. Ugh.
the term passive aggressive is a contradiction, as such it makes no sense.
@@SuperR160?
You are aggressive all over this channels🙄
I think they only kept Ken for familiarity I genuinely can’t stand the sanctimonious little sh*t horrid character full of double standards ! Diedres not perfect but he denies her a child and Tracy a sibling then has one later on with Denise ! And as for Wendy crozier all I have to say to her is why ? Why why didn’t you whisk him far far away lol
@@irenemorley75 Are you not aware of your own comments spamming this channel every chance you get? You're the only one getting your manky knickers in a twists here.
Ken smashing whiskey at 11am, having affairs. Very much the Eric Clapton of the Street
Only without the talent or the charisma.
He's just dull like smug Kev and Sally
That Jenny would have had a size 6 bootprint on her arse if she spoke to me the way she speaks to Rita, tfoh!🦵👢💥 😄
If i would have spoken to my mother like that i would have had to learn to run fast, or duck when i seen her slipper flying across the room!!
@@GinaRussell-c2c 😂😂😂 It was my gran who wielded the wooden spoon and slippers in my family, she once even washed my mouth out with soap because I swore. I was around 8 then so fair enough really, 30 years later and I still watch my mouth around my elders. 🤭😄 Hope you're well, sending all the best from Edinburgh ❤
3:14:50 Why have Jack Duckworth's glasses only got one side frame??
That squarky "hmmmm" thing Audrey does after each sentence. Does my head in.
Her whole manner of speech does my head in but perhaps it's because the actor is just pretending to be working class?
@@bibakroll8999 ohh honestleh! lol
@@lorireeve4031 😂😂
@@kevinfowkes2327 Posh enough to have a title, albeit a very minor one.
Jack. P. Shepherd said this is something Audrey has done off her own back, which they find hilarious 😂
What a handsome woman is Barbara Knox. A knockout in her forties.
She was 56 at the time of this episode, but I agree.
What a wonderful and loyal freind bet is.when its bets turn to need help rita characteristically refuses to help her.bet you are a star.
1:11:37 Audrey’s impression of Vera Duckworth 🤣
The meeting between Rita and Jenny, I could not watch, I had to FF so I don't know what happened. Good job too, I'm sure that had I watched I would be a stroke victim by now!😣😣😣
What’s with Gail slipping into the pastel leisure wear at home, but dressing in pencil skirts, blouses and heels for a days slog in the cafe?!🤔😁
Vera had no business going through curly's paperwork and notes. He got her that job in the first place and got it back for her. They r being Aholes to him
100% agree, never liked Vera what a loud mouth b....
Thanks for uploading these! Enjoyed them first time as a young’un even more so this time! How old is Rita at this point?
Around mid 50s I’d say, Barbara Knox was born in 1933 so you’d imagine her character would be similar
@@EveHenleySpread wow she actually looked decent in the 70’s episodes . And she would have been in her 40s!
Sorry Jenny, it’s not everyone else’s fault nobody is mourning your dad. It’s his fault.HE treated everyone so badly, you can’t blame everyone else. Put the blame where it belongs….on your dad.
Like father like daughter though
She was in denial and realises in the end what he was like.
Robert Prescott is relaxing on board his yacht in Marbella, sipping champers and laughing at how he got one over Mike Baldwin 😂😂😂
Although I despise con artists I loved it when Robert conned Mike.
Mike got his arse kicked there
Thank goodness for the fast forward button. This is where Cozza goes downhill for me.
Lol you think this is bad.. wait till ‘97 when the Battersbys arrive 🤪
I liked the Les Character
You’d be in a minority of one then if you did!
I liked the Battersbys
I’m takin’ yer back to Weatherfield!!!!
26:20 I’m not that stingy. You play your cards right it could be a pint. 😂
Oh god Ritas singing did my head in. I used to cringe every time.
And she was a professional singer back in the day? 😂
@spartybrearly7221 I don’t think she ever really was, it was more a case of because her character was a singer on the street, some daft idiot said why not release an album. It was pretty awful by all accounts and was forgotten about quickly!
@@EveHenleySpreadShe should of got contact with Stock Akin Waterman with Jack as a dancer like Bez on stage with her Mr baldy patch with one rough patchy thatch
Alan, Derek, Ken, Audrey, Gail and Percy. Corrie full of self centred characters
Tracey spent her life ‘upstairs’
too bad she didn't stay up there
Shame they didn't wall her in.
She was a pain in the arse years later when married to Steve
I noticed that too. That Tracy was always upstairs. Only as a baby did Deidre look after her, even then it was always Ena Sharples and Emily Then it was the whole village
@@bsaunders5271Luv that one 😂😭👍
Don’t know why all these years later.. I always thought , Alan yelled Rita ….when giving chase … and is now my abiding memory of doing the same on the ride at Alton Towers.. still an iconic scene .
Vera : “we’re gonna enjoy ourselves tonight Jack and that includes you!.. even if it kills ya!” OMG!! ..the pressure!!🤣 x
Back again haha XD I've never seen anyone dance to feed the world before
Where's the attraction in boring self-centred patronising know-it-all Ken Barlow?!
They cut Alan Bradleys last two words....
The street lost a lot of major characters and then they found one in Alan Bradley. Then they got rid of him. Such a poor move.
Ken is so entitled
And sanctimonious 😊
And a very tough scary man
Alan's death is iconic
The tram that was filmed killing Alan was number 710 was saved and is now moving to Blackpool's Tramtown Museum. The hotel where Rita stayed, The Strand, has its own blue plaque outside stating that this was the place she was dragged out by Alan and basically opposite, Alan was killed. The plaque was unveiled in 2009 by Mark Eden (Alan) and money was raised for a local charity. People still want to stay in "Rita's room"...where there is Corrie memorabilia scattered about.
Thanks for the information very interesting did not know anything about all that Mark Eden Lived until he was 92 Died in 2021 great UK Actor Rip
Married to actress who played Audrey in real life
From the late 80s until his death
Actually Mike, you don’t know a conman when you see one 😆
Just look in the mirror mike.
I loved watching Mike Baldwin fall from the top. It reminds me of that saying Be Nice To People On Your Way Up The Ladder Because You Might Meet Them On Your Way Down.
Haven't seen the whole of December yet but Alan found the name 'Rita Fairclough' in The Strand reservation book. Shouldn't she have signed in as 'Rita Littlewood' as she believed her name to be at the time given her memory lapse?
Actually no (as you’ll discover further along).. her memory lapse appears to place her in a period when Len was still alive and she was married to him, but obviously went by Rita Littlewood as her original stage name (and obviously maiden name).
Oh, the Barlows! If she wasn't having a bit on the side, he was... Deirdre looked dreadful on Christmas Day '89. You could see her shoulder pads through her blouse and with her brillo perm she looked really odd. Funny how fashions look weird in retrospect. I never batted an eyelid at the time.
I preferred her poker straight hair of the 70s and early 80s. I always felt she looked her best during the Baldwin / Barlow tug of love, in late 82 / early 83.
@@bsaunders5271 I agree, her hair was her crowning glory and I think she was sponsored by Vosene, a medicated shampoo of blessed memory. She was very pretty at that time but after she curled her hair then permed it, it started to resemble a helmet of wire. Personally she started to look very thin as well as her voice getting very hoarse. And her glasses changing too......they weren't her prettiest days.
Can't believe she was only 35 In 1989 she looked about 46 then again I look knackered now
And there begins the multitude of scenes with Deidre crying 😢
@@londonlady227 I couldn't agree more. As soon as they started messing about with her hair, it all went downhill. Her perm is a travesty and ages her greatly. But I always wondering if, because of 'fashion' and all that, people thought she looked fab at the time....
I never understood why Sally came in and shouted for Jack would have thought it would be alf seen as Kevin wasn't in the pub
Yes, I found that scene strange
Very odd.
I thought the same. Who is Jack to Sally? She works for Alf, and Alf is Rita's friend as well, so he would have been the obvious choice.
The Alan Bradley storyline has always been my favorite storyline.. I've always been ambivalent. I love and hate at the same time. The acting was so realistic. I felt that Jenny loved her dad unconditionally. She also loved Rita too but she was easy to manipulate. When she told her dad she's not doing Dad, it's all in your mind now... I felt it ♥️ she really wished they were both back together. She wanted things to be back to the way they were... I felt a bit emotional at that scene...and the funeral I felt emotional and when Rita said she will always love her.. I felt that with Jenny.. ambivalence.. there's a bit of both. Love and hate... I felt that too
It's not the only time Rita had trouble with the trams ❤
Love on a mountain top.. in background.. at Gail’s ,only one version that counts ..Robert knight.
Does Ken have nothing else to wear? His only concession to Christmas is to take off his tie.
And slinging a jumper over his shoulders on bank holidays.
Oh that awful red and grey jumper!!! I can't bear to look!
Audrey playing Gail’s mum and in real life there’s only 7 years age difference!
I know they start having kids young in some parts of the north but that's ridiculous 😅
Thank you! Wow, Liz looks so different. And hello Steve lol. Ken is such a nitwit. Pompous
I know what Deidre means. When my husband had a girlfriend, it was NOT that which bothered me, it was the deceit and the lies.
Jenny seems a lot more upset at her father's death than when her mother died in her road crash.
Daddies girl.
She's awful. Always winter never Christmas with Jenny!
Ken Barlow is horrific
Can I ask is this all December episodes and again thank u 😁☺️
It's missing one episode, RUclips wouldn't allow it
Ok that alright
@@EveHenleySpread missing episode is here
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4:32:53 Vera's face is priceless!
Why didn't Alf and Audrey just stay in the flat above the shop in the first place? Surely that would be the logical solution?
Because Audraaaaay is a jumped up nobody who became a snob, on the back of Alfaaaa, a decent hardwoking and down to earth man.
G Plus repeat was March/April 2002
Alan, suddenly he has a car!?!?
I feel no sympathy for Jenny at all.
Ken has other priorities on his agenda than telling Deidre he and Tracey met Wendy Crozier; e.g. compiling the new cryptic crossword for the Weatherfield Recorder.
“You can’t be stuck there at Christmas time, it’s gonna be dead!”
Jenny thinking what, like my dad, you mean!
“Come and stay with uzzzzzzz!”
1:06:09 - The attitude and conduct of that nurse in the green uniform was appalling. To begin with, starting the "what's the problem" conversation out in the corridor in front of other waiting patients! Then getting irate when someone tries to explain a delicate situation. That nurse was a total - and very loud-mouthed - disgrace. No wonder Rita bolted.
Yes, that was very badly written, IMO..
Mike: “Close the door when you go out will you”
As if Dawn is going to leave the front door wide open?
Two observations: 1. Audrey was incredibly childish and a Gold Digger. 2. It annoyed me how, only a couple of weeks earlier Mavis was having a nervous breakdown/ had to view a body in the mortuary and then there wasn’t even as much as on-screen reunion once Rita returned…
not a very happy Christmas for the gang this year :(
Lovely to see Gail has grown as a person.
2:43:53 hasn’t a wall just replaced the front door?!
Looks weird?
The oncoming saga of Alec and his grand daughter was so very tedious.
Tracey is having a wild Christmas
This is effn hilarious; Gayle being testy with martin, over loyalties with friends re: Jenny😂
Her jealousy was showing there big time.
I like aurderys impression of vera duckworth 1:11:31 then when she returns to coronation street her production came true
Interesting to watch this all over again. At the time I loved the Rita and Alan story, but now I see it was so overly dramatic . But because it got such good reviews and ratings they carried on with more and more dramatic storylines. In other words, the beginning of the end. I don't watch the show anymore, gave up on it years ago
Why did Sally drag Jack out of the Rovers? 🤔
Audrey acts like a duchess. She hasn't got two ha'pennies of her own to rub together, she has this really entitled attitude like everything is beneath her, but the only prestige she has, is through her husband. She has to be one of my absolute least favourite characters of all time. She makes my blood boil.
Unlucky she was in it for Years after this boring people senseless with her social climbing ways She was so ungrateful to Alf
Who took her on with a child that was his and Grandchildren that were not his Decades of boredom to to go with her
Two half pennies
Spoiler alert - And after he dies, she seems to rave about 'My Alfaaah' on a pedestal, like she had always appreciated him
25:10 Jack doing a strange whistle.