OMG! Here I am, a Kiwi, living in Hawai'i aged 76 yrs and watching these old gems takes me back to NZ way back, when that theme music would hv us running in front of the TV to catch up on the latest on Corrie St. Thank you for uploading these old gems. I can't imagine what my American friends would make of that Northern accent. Just like a foreign language! Thank you for my trip down memory lane.
@@londonlady227 She wore her own clothes this is true but they were from second hand shops. Pat Pheonix loved them....she got a real kick out of them...
Yes - and she went to a shop called The Ellite where they sold second hand good quality clothes and you could take them back on a kind of part exchange basis@@londonlady227
I started watching in the early 80s and recently started watching the late 70s episodes when all the great characters were there. As you correctly a lot were gone by 84 including Fred gee and Eddie yates
I grew up with corrie in the 90s and early 00s but I can honestly say the early years was amazing... I mean really amazing.... Honest... Mean.... Real.. True to life
I loved Minnie Cauldwell - a great character - im glad the actress who played her got the part and a bit of security in her later years - I remember seeing her in a big film years before Corrie she was dressed up at some victorian ball - just a bit part
Jean Alexander was by the far the best British actress. She was iconic not only in Corrie but Last of the Summer Wine. She was simply amazing and she is very sorely missed. She could have taught these talentless hacks today a thing or two. The argument between Ernest & Emily in 1976 'I am going out now and when I get back I want Mavis out and an apology for that last remark' Their argument today in 2024 Emily - ' Who the hell do you think you are talking too?' Mavis has moved in, hell bi**h is on the electoral roll before he blinks. Ernest arrives home - Emily and Mavis are pissed as F on white wine, blaring out Taylor Swift and his shit is outside on the street. Universal Credit have been told he's left and B is now single.
Thank you ever so much for uploading these!! I honestly appreciate it the most! Loved it when Hilda starts singing "They Didn't Believe Me" at the top of her voice whilst putting her washing up. By God, it makes me smile. Every second of these episodes. And to sadly see the last of Minnie Caldwell (incidentally my most favourite character along with Elsie and Ena) was something worthwhile. She was the cutest character in the program. And also the scene with Gail, Elsie and Hilda is hilarious at 2:25:22 especially when Hilda says "Are you trying to make a monkey out of me?" 🤣🤣 Anyway, thank you again!
@@glamdolly30 Aye you're not wrong there! Her with her tunes by Jeanette MacDonald or Gracie Fields or Anne Shelton. Honest to God you're right they would be at the top no doubt! Wish she did release something to be honest.
This was when Coronation Street had just been taken over by Bill Podmore. The show had slumped drastically in the ratings in the early 1970s, but this was the start of a magical new era.
He's insufferable here, he definitely become nicer over the years and is a better father than he was. He behaved like a dick all the women he's been with, but he's too old for all that now.
Daran little was given the job of choosing the coronation street episodes, for Granada Plus, but was told not to go to B&W, episodes, as nobody would watch them, so in the end he plumped for Elsie Howard (Tanner) return, 5th April 1976.this is also the first episode for producer Bill Podmore,who was responsible for what many would call “The Golden Age” of Coronation Street from.1976-1982
Bad move to neglect the B&W episodes, they give an aspect of the characters from the start and were fantastically dramatic and comical, especially the Jack Rosenthal scripts.
@@londonlady227 She didn't go around bragging about it, she quietly got on with it. I remember the scene in the Rovers so well, years on when that news came out.
I find that to be the case in any soap, at least here in norway, it starts out like these episodes, cozy, almost comedic, then it just goes on and on and the plots become more outlandish and it gets destroyed :(
@@olejakob9216 Yes I agree, it seems that producers always feel the need to 'up the ante' and make things more extreme and grim to keep the viewing figures up and like you say it destroys the whole original appeal of the show 😐
Yeah, i love shows like this, especially maybe the pub-scenes cause Then u can gather the cast more , but yeah as it goes on it usually gets wilder, I just started to check it out now cause I was a bit bored and thought a soap about a street ? How dramatic can that be? And these 70s episodes are still pretty un-dramatic and nice🥰
To be honest, I've never been much of a fan of soaps. Yet I find myself watching these old episodes of "Corry" just to remind myself what life was like back in 1976 when I was still in my early twenties.
I'm hooked! I wish someone could upload the very first seasons of this series. It's impossible to find (unless you want to spend over $100 (for region 1). Thanks for uploading this! It's great!
@@giraffebecky I don’t know if you’ll find this funny but, if you’re not easily offended I highly recommend Sorrynation Street. It’s a play on Corrie & ridiculously hilarious… adult content though .,,🙄
These episodes are the best!🎉 I was trying to remember who Roger Nightingale,Wendy’s husband was (more the voice than face) & remembered he played the headmaster you briefly see in Shirley Valentine. I googled to make sure & right enough it’s him real name Matthew Long. 😊
Been trying to recall Emilys maiden name & right when i was about to give up, i remembered it Miss Nugent! I recall she worked as a secretary back then for a boss played by the incomparable Arthur Lowe! Lol Emily isnt quite the push over she once was! She puts Egoist Ernest in his place! Good for her. Also dithery Mavis! She came into her own when she married Derek Wilton! Lol sweetie salesman par excellence! Hee hee He was a funny one! Just shows for every golf ball theres a golf club! My favourite will always be Elsie! She MADE Corrie! I also liked Rita & Len, in fact every one apart from bully Ivy Tinsley Stan & Hilda were so great together & sweet Eddie This is still Tremendous viewing Thank you 🇬🇧👧
IM WATCHING TGIS OLD CORRIE AND IT'S MORE ENJOYABLE THAN THE ONES NOW 2024 PROPER FANTASTIC DOWN TO EARTH STORYLINES WITH DOWN TO EARTH OLD SCHOOL ACTORS 😊 BECKY 😊❤
As much as I dislike Ken, it was OUTRAGEOUS how Elsie tried to evict him with 'a few days' notice...treated him like a waif dossing on her sofa! Couldn't even show him the decency of buying him a pint before informing him of her intentions.
The show was so entertaining back in the day, only two shows per week but the quality was so much better than it is today...Three hours per week is too much...The current show is awful. I find myself fast forwarding huge chunks of it yet one doesn't miss anything. Nondescript characters like the Baileys, Allahans, Platts, the Chesney's the Vicar, the Grimshaws....etc etc that you just don't care about or not interested in.
I’m going back to here after going from March 1982 til 1993 where I had originally started watching. I was recommended to start here. Most episodes before this appear to inconsistent.
Not exactly Hilda's finest hour! But that's part of what sets Coronation St. apart--complex characters that you can love one minute, and loathe the next.
It's odd that Ken Barlows younger brother never made further appearances in Corrie after he married Stan & Hilda Ogdens daughter Sandra!! Stan & Hilda never mention their daughter either! Plus Ken has a very standoffish attitude to Stan & Hilda considering his brother married their daughter!! I suppose way back then, viewers werent so eagle eyed & inquisitive to past story lines & their continuity as we are today! I loved the storylines back then though! It certainly was Britain's best loved soap at one time! We lived abroad alot in those early days & my uncle filmed the episodes to send us as we missed Corrie so much! No chance now! Corrie hasnt been up to much these last 20 odd years Different lifestyle back then & how we viewed & what we accepted then is a trillion miles from todays viewing & expectations! Still the best though these early ones.. triple gold! Regards 🇬🇧👧
2:53:32 The first appearance of Irene "Renee" Bradshaw (Madge Hindle). Duration 1976 to 1980. Her onscreen death (car carsh) was considered shocking after Bill Podmore decided that her and Alf's marriage wasn't working due to lack of chemistry and to elevate Alf to a more dominant character.
£40 a week dont sound much but that was the year i started work and took home £15 a week for full time work so i guess it was about right for a manager
Hang on, if Albert Tatlock's daughter Beattie is 60 in 1976 she was born in 1916. I thought Albert was in the trenches at that point... 😉 He went on about it often enough! 🤣
Apparently it was a 'toss coin' situation with Podmore-era Corrie bosses (similar to what happened in "Grange Hill" with the Zammo & Jonah characters) it was a choice to drop either Tricia or Gail when the soap was getting a complete revamp to improve ratings - it was decided to keep the Gail character to develop and drop Tricia instead .....Bill Podmore remedied the 'buddy element' and introduced the Suzie Birchall character as a replacement pal for Gail.
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OMG! Here I am, a Kiwi, living in Hawai'i aged 76 yrs and watching these old gems takes me back to NZ way back, when that theme music would hv us running in front of the TV to catch up on the latest on Corrie St. Thank you for uploading these old gems. I can't imagine what my American friends would make of that Northern accent. Just like a foreign language! Thank you for my trip down memory lane.
Hardly like a foreign language! 😂🤣
@@chicagogyrl4846 To an American a Mancunian must sound Australian!
These are brilliant, my late mum
Who I lost this year we used to watch these growing up and brings me joy and happy memories ☺️
Hugs 💛
❤
Oh me too...It triggers happy memories. I completely understand .
I'm only 13 and I enjoy watching classic Corrie, it more focusing on the older people than the people my age, tennagers it's to full of that nowadays
Thank goodness Elsie came back when she did - from then till she left were the best Corrie years - she always shone like the star that she was
Absolutely agree with you
Yes 👍
Wearing her own couture clothes when Elsie the character didn't have the rent half the time.😂
@@londonlady227 She wore her own clothes this is true but they were from second hand shops. Pat Pheonix loved them....she got a real kick out of them...
Yes - and she went to a shop called The Ellite where they sold second hand good quality clothes and you could take them back on a kind of part exchange basis@@londonlady227
I first started watching C.S. in the mid 80s, and have discovered the series was far better back in the late 60s and 70s. Thanks!!
Greetings From Florida 🐬 Thank You 🙏 So Much for Sharing 💕 I was born in the USA 🇺🇸 but my Heart ❤️ is Baptized 🇬🇧 British ✨
76 to around 83/84 was the best era of Corrie ' I espc enjoy the ones from 77-79 and 82-83.
Agree!
Absolutely 💯 from 1976 to 1984 with the cast depleted of Stan Ogden, Elsie Tanner, Len Fairclough,Annie Walker,Albert Tatlock were gone by then.
I started watching in the early 80s and recently started watching the late 70s episodes when all the great characters were there. As you correctly a lot were gone by 84 including Fred gee and Eddie yates
@@clivestuarteardley6049Elsie was not gone in 1976! She came back, so who knows what years you have been watching! 😂🤣
Hilda Ogden and Mrs. Sharples were my two faves... Such great characters played by brilliant actresses.
Yep. Hilda just got better and better.
Many years of Bet's brilliant one liners Great TV .Thanks. x
I grew up with corrie in the 90s and early 00s but I can honestly say the early years was amazing... I mean really amazing.... Honest... Mean.... Real.. True to life
Used to watch Corrie when I was a youngster in Ireland 🇮🇪 have watched it several times in last few years as I get older 😊
"Don't be so patronising ..." says Ken Barlow to Elsie, Ken Barlow (!) of all people ...
I loved Minnie Cauldwell - a great character - im glad the actress who played her got the part and a bit of security in her later years - I remember seeing her in a big film years before Corrie she was dressed up at some victorian ball - just a bit part
You little treasure! Thanks for these 76 episodes xxx
Elsie is a star in her role...my favorite character on coronation street!
Thankyou for all your efforts 👌...great memories of watching this in uk so many years ago.
God, how I adore Elsie ❤
So do I. You can't help but just look at her.
I loved Stan and Eddie ' they were real comics.
@@juliewebb1335 absolutely
@@paulfrost8895 same here. Love them.
She looks like a loose woman 😅🎉
Jean Alexander was by the far the best British actress. She was iconic not only in Corrie but Last of the Summer Wine. She was simply amazing and she is very sorely missed. She could have taught these talentless hacks today a thing or two.
The argument between Ernest & Emily in 1976
'I am going out now and when I get back I want Mavis out and an apology for that last remark'
Their argument today in 2024
Emily - ' Who the hell do you think you are talking too?'
Mavis has moved in, hell bi**h is on the electoral roll before he blinks.
Ernest arrives home - Emily and Mavis are pissed as F on white wine, blaring out Taylor Swift and his shit is outside on the street. Universal Credit have been told he's left and B is now single.
Agree re Hilda. Wonderful, wonderful. Talent central.she was.
Thank you ever so much for uploading these!! I honestly appreciate it the most! Loved it when Hilda starts singing "They Didn't Believe Me" at the top of her voice whilst putting her washing up. By God, it makes me smile. Every second of these episodes. And to sadly see the last of Minnie Caldwell (incidentally my most favourite character along with Elsie and Ena) was something worthwhile. She was the cutest character in the program. And also the scene with Gail, Elsie and Hilda is hilarious at 2:25:22 especially when Hilda says "Are you trying to make a monkey out of me?" 🤣🤣 Anyway, thank you again!
If Hilda had released an album, it would have gone to number one, no danger!
@@glamdolly30 Aye you're not wrong there! Her with her tunes by Jeanette MacDonald or Gracie Fields or Anne Shelton. Honest to God you're right they would be at the top no doubt! Wish she did release something to be honest.
Thank you for the great quality of these episodes and also for sharing the classic era of golden best of British soap drama.
Priceless - classic coronation street - real life in the 70s - brilliant writing !
Wow. Elsie is the big star! What a breath of fresh air these episodes are. Thank you so much 🙏.
Yup - biggest soap star that ever was
Worked my way through 1979 to 1989 now starting at 1976. Glad to see Ken is just as annoying and Len’s waistline is just as high 😂
love these old corries, its not worth watching now.
Mrs Tanner returns! Welcome back Elsie love!
Though she was still mrs howard at this point
thanks again for taking the time to upload these.
Yea really love this old episodes watch as much as I can luv it
This was when Coronation Street had just been taken over by Bill Podmore. The show had slumped drastically in the ratings in the early 1970s, but this was the start of a magical new era.
Ken has always been a total prat.
He truly thought he was Don Juan
He's insufferable here, he definitely become nicer over the years and is a better father than he was. He behaved like a dick all the women he's been with, but he's too old for all that now.
Ken has always had such an overly exaggerated opinion of his own education and intelligence. So patronising lol
@@PerryCJamesUK hahaha 😂😅he is so boring hahaha.🤣🤣🤣
@@francesgillotti1378 I always get the Ken type start chatting to me on trains and buses. lol
Gotta admit, Ken had it comin’. 🥴🤛🏼
Daran little was given the job of choosing the coronation street episodes, for Granada Plus, but was told not to go to B&W, episodes, as nobody would watch them, so in the end he plumped for Elsie Howard (Tanner) return, 5th April 1976.this is also the first episode for producer Bill Podmore,who was responsible for what many would call “The Golden Age” of Coronation Street from.1976-1982
Bad move to neglect the B&W episodes, they give an aspect of the characters from the start and were fantastically dramatic and comical, especially the Jack Rosenthal scripts.
She's a good girl, Hilda. She knows her own worth, enough to be the first in the Street to buy her own home.
And yet everyone looked down on her. I hate that type of reverse snobbery.
@@londonlady227 She didn't go around bragging about it, she quietly got on with it. I remember the scene in the Rovers so well, years on when that news came out.
How i miss the days before political correctness came to spoil it all . Thanks for the memories
Nice special effects with Ray putting his pants on I thought he spray painted them on most of the time.😉
Magic!
i didn't believe in magic until i found this video
Hilda is so funny
There was Much more quipping and humour generally in Corrie back then.
I find that to be the case in any soap, at least here in norway, it starts out like these episodes, cozy, almost comedic, then it just goes on and on and the plots become more outlandish and it gets destroyed :(
@@olejakob9216 Yes I agree, it seems that producers always feel the need to 'up the ante' and make things more extreme and grim to keep the viewing figures up and like you say it destroys the whole original appeal of the show 😐
Yeah, i love shows like this, especially maybe the pub-scenes cause Then u can gather the cast more , but yeah as it goes on it usually gets wilder, I just started to check it out now cause I was a bit bored and thought a soap about a street ? How dramatic can that be? And these 70s episodes are still pretty un-dramatic and nice🥰
Yes, before the PC brigade came in and deemed we all needed to be treated like total namby pambys.
oh boy you took the words out of my mouth
To be honest, I've never been much of a fan of soaps. Yet I find myself watching these old episodes of "Corry" just to remind myself what life was like back in 1976 when I was still in my early twenties.
Buggernation Street was just recently taken off RUclips. Oh how I'd love to see that series rereleased on RUclips..
I've just now realised months later the mistake I made with the numbers for the April 26th episode which should be 1594.
I love Hildas singing voice
Poor Ernie, Emily is treating him like she's just found out he's a regular visitor to fetish bars, he only had a drink after hours.
😂
I'm hooked! I wish someone could upload the very first seasons of this series. It's impossible to find (unless you want to spend over $100 (for region 1).
Thanks for uploading this! It's great!
Did you find it? The first season is here…search again, I watched it last night lol…
@@victoriadelaney1123 THANK YOU! You are GREAT! I've saved the playlist!
@@giraffebecky I don’t know if you’ll find this funny but, if you’re not easily offended I highly recommend Sorrynation Street. It’s a play on Corrie & ridiculously hilarious… adult content though .,,🙄
@@victoriadelaney1123 What!? That sounds fascinating! Where do you watch it?
@@giraffebecky here…on RUclips
Weird to think that when this was filmed my mum was pregnant with me only a few miles away from the studio.
Same here pal 👍
I was 10 years old when I remember watching these.
Love this episodes ❤ from micheál
£4.50 seemed a bit mean at first then i remembered i started work in 1976 and got a weekly wage of £15
Else Tanners house has never changed ! 😂
the soap that was originally supposed to last a mere 6 weeks. dec 60 to jan 61 and still going. Ken Barlow over 60 years in the same role.
These episodes are the best!🎉 I was trying to remember who Roger Nightingale,Wendy’s husband was (more the voice than face) & remembered he played the headmaster you briefly see in Shirley Valentine. I googled to make sure & right enough it’s him real name Matthew Long. 😊
Been trying to recall Emilys maiden name & right when i was about to give up, i remembered it
Miss Nugent!
I recall she worked as a secretary back then for a boss played by the incomparable
Arthur Lowe! Lol
Emily isnt quite the push over she once was! She puts Egoist Ernest in his place! Good for her.
Also dithery Mavis! She came into her own when she married Derek Wilton! Lol sweetie salesman par excellence! Hee hee
He was a funny one!
Just shows for every golf ball theres a golf club!
My favourite will always be Elsie!
She MADE Corrie!
I also liked Rita & Len, in fact every one apart from bully Ivy Tinsley
Stan & Hilda were so great together & sweet Eddie
This is still Tremendous viewing
Thank you
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Isn’t that Mo from the Roly Polys with the snapped knicker elastic?!
Watch Buggernation Street, it's a brilliant, filthy, voiced over spoof.
34.5p for a pint, those were the days.
IM WATCHING TGIS OLD CORRIE AND IT'S MORE ENJOYABLE THAN THE ONES NOW 2024
PROPER FANTASTIC DOWN TO EARTH STORYLINES WITH DOWN TO EARTH OLD SCHOOL ACTORS 😊
BECKY 😊❤
As much as I dislike Ken, it was OUTRAGEOUS how Elsie tried to evict him with 'a few days' notice...treated him like a waif dossing on her sofa! Couldn't even show him the decency of buying him a pint before informing him of her intentions.
I'd love to see 1971 uploaded. Especially the last scenes of Irma Ogden!
Thanks for these by the way:)
@@popmusic9313 they are up now. Not sure if you knew. They are on another channel so just do a search for them:)
This era is a special one for me as I was born in 1976
The show was so entertaining back in the day, only two shows per week but the quality was so much better than it is today...Three hours per week is too much...The current show is awful. I find myself fast forwarding huge chunks of it yet one doesn't miss anything. Nondescript characters like the Baileys, Allahans, Platts, the Chesney's the Vicar, the Grimshaws....etc etc that you just don't care about or not interested in.
Coronation Street, 1976: But how can you be optimistic about anybody unlucky enough to be born these days?
Me, born in 1976: 😭😭😭😭😭
The memories!!! Thank you ❤
Sliding doors - If it were Trisha that got that job in Syvias Seperates - it would have changed the course of Coronation Street history
The way these dames pass Len Fairclough and Ken Barlow around like they're the last ciggie.
Hilda Ogden was a popular character but who would want her as a neighbour!!!!
Me.
Elsie Tanner - the epitome of a handsome woman ...
So much better life like story lines from this era than the far fetched rubbish they do now on Corrie
Why is Gail squealing in panic in the shop about bloodied Ken, when she's already got Len in to help him?
I’m going back to here after going from March 1982 til 1993 where I had originally started watching. I was recommended to start here. Most episodes before this appear to inconsistent.
looking for the next episode - Coronation Street 1970 episode 1002 august 26, if available please
That’s my exact birthdate. I’ll look it up!
@@cicerodiello1 thank you.
Oh ive started to fast forward the Windy Nightingale bits
Ken the teacher screams at te childern and tutors ( suduces the women ) such a aggressive one so self centered ❤ the moaning mavis 😂😂
Annie on the phone - "No, not drain, brain. Superbrain".
“Neither of them are that pretty.” She got that right! 🤣😂
Best thing on box 2022
Not exactly Hilda's finest hour!
But that's part of what sets Coronation St. apart--complex characters that you can love one minute, and loathe the next.
Thornley turns up a builder at the Duckworths around 88/89. ( unintentional foresight at 2 hrs 6 mins )
My fave mavis
It's odd that Ken Barlows younger brother never made further appearances in Corrie after he married Stan & Hilda Ogdens daughter Sandra!!
Stan & Hilda never mention their daughter either!
Plus Ken has a very standoffish attitude to Stan & Hilda considering his brother married their daughter!!
I suppose way back then, viewers werent so eagle eyed & inquisitive to past story lines & their continuity as we are today!
I loved the storylines back then though!
It certainly was Britain's best loved soap at one time!
We lived abroad alot in those early days & my uncle filmed the episodes to send us as we missed Corrie so much!
No chance now!
Corrie hasnt been up to much these last 20 odd years
Different lifestyle back then & how we viewed & what we accepted then is a trillion miles from todays viewing & expectations!
Still the best though these early ones.. triple gold!
Regards
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Ken's brother died off-screen in 1970.
I’ve never seen this anywhere but Coronation Street; person knocks on house door and householder opens it and steps outside.
Elsie Tanner ... the Margaret Lockwood of the cobbles...
Wow Elsie looks stunning
2:52:10 Mrs McCluskey from Grange Hill!
And how come Stan's a die hard Utd fan, when he was a Man City fan when they won the league in 68?
2:53:32 The first appearance of Irene "Renee" Bradshaw (Madge Hindle). Duration 1976 to 1980. Her onscreen death (car carsh) was considered shocking after Bill Podmore decided that her and Alf's marriage wasn't working due to lack of chemistry and to elevate Alf to a more dominant character.
what with Emily's constant griping and Mavis' twittering dont blame Ernie for going to the stag night!
Channel No 5...😂
Mrs Conroy is the woman who says "I'd sooner starve first" in Threads (1984).
Looks like Elsie @ Hilda, has never gotten along @ 😅they never 👎 will. Some things never change.😅😅
£40 a week dont sound much but that was the year i started work and took home £15 a week for full time work so i guess it was about right for a manager
Hang on, if Albert Tatlock's daughter Beattie is 60 in 1976 she was born in 1916. I thought Albert was in the trenches at that point... 😉 He went on about it often enough! 🤣
Big Jack duckworth in the rovers behind ray at 1 44.30 sec
A 1:24:26 If you look back of Annie’s head. You can see early appearance of ‘Jack-Bill Tarmey playing darts in background and looks at camera.
Young Dirdre is expecting, Ahhhhh 🎉🎉
What on earth did Emily see in Ernest.
What on earth did ernest see in emily?? good match
He was hung like a donkey
She lived off his death for long enough after.
I didn’t know Emily was such a pill
I have no idea what Bette said when she opened the newspaper.
Never did like Rita..too full of herself and patronising!!
That makes her a very good actress, she plays the part well.
She sure does!
I never took to that Windy Nightingale character
Diedre just married Billy last year!! 🤣😂
ELSIE TANNER SIMPLY THE BEST ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
BECKY 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 XXXXXXXXX
Shame Tricia was written out. Cute little brunette who I fancied
Apparently it was a 'toss coin' situation with Podmore-era Corrie bosses (similar to what happened in "Grange Hill" with the Zammo & Jonah characters) it was a choice to drop either Tricia or Gail when the soap was getting a complete revamp to improve ratings - it was decided to keep the Gail character to develop and drop Tricia instead .....Bill Podmore remedied the 'buddy element' and introduced the Suzie Birchall character as a replacement pal for Gail.
Gail wouldn't get an acting part even in a bad school play ...
1:56:54 Joe from The Royle Family 😊