Michelle Holmes who played Tina (who’s had a successful career in film, tv and theatre since Coronation Street) remains friends with Billy Ivory who played Eddie. In fact, Michelle appeared in several projects written and created by Billy Ivory (including Common as Muck) as he’s become a very successful film & theatre writer.
Thanks for uploading these. My wee mum would be so pleased if she could see me now, she loved her Corrie. I watched it occasionally when it was on with mum but I was never an avid viewer. Started watching the 1970s episode's and got hooked......not loving these ones as much though but I might just watch it up to when Bet leaves :-).
One thing I do like about this era (apart from it almost being a masterpiece compared to the rubbish it is now).is hearing music of the time - good memories. Also, there are more scenes away from the Street, adding to the realism. With Corrie, I find the further back I go, the more I appreciate it. I think my earliest 'live' Corrie memories are Ernest B being shot, and Ray going to the Netherlands, leaving Deirdre and TracyLuv behind.
I agree with you there i.e. the further back you go, the better it is! I've found myself just casually watching 1980/81 at the weekend and marvelling at what a masterpiece it was (the drearly Tilsleys aside)! Glad we're still able to enjoy it on here for now! ;-)
Thank goodness we now know better - it’s awful to see how Deirdre expects Tracey to be hostile to Wendy and Ken just because she’s hurt, as though a father-child relationship means nothing 😢 This storyline didn’t age well. Thanks for posting these eps! ❤
@@MINATOREband Kens twins Peter and Susan too. Brought up in Glasgow, Scotland and no trace at all of a Scottish accent. Must be a twin thing I guess LOL
Is Tracy's name Tracy or Tracyluv, lol. Why do they bring in new people that you automatically dislike. I love the old episodes far better than what it is today but I couldn't stand that Steph or Des.
Ugh, I was thinking the same about new characters. Who the hell are this new couple who just landed on the street and are interjecting themselves in everything and stirring the pot?! Couldn't stand them from the off.
3 out of 4 hours of deirdre boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo! 3 hours of perfectly calm, composed, sensible Ken. I think I know which character I prefer. I also know which character I would want raising my own children if indeed, I had children and it would never, be moaning Myrtle.
Percy's telling Mavis moving Harriet to a new house could finish her off, but he moved Randy from his old place to his flat, then to Emily's House, so...
Love when Rita pretends she’s got something in her eye when she’s dying to laugh! She did it when Mavis’s budgie died too, when Mavis and Derek said about giving it a private burial, in the Rovers! Even Bet was struggling to keep a straight face 😂
@@Kay_Watermelon Oh, absolutely! Some of their exchanges were absolute gems! A favourite of mine was when Rita, about Derek, mimicked Mavis perfectly, going “Tell him I’m not in!” Then, in exactly the same tone of voice, Mavis retorted “I don’t talk like that!” 🤣
That Des and Steph. Where do you start!? His voice/accent to begin with. And her thinking she's a ride when she's actually rotten looking. The fact that Des is not bothered in the slightest at his missus openly telling him what she plans to do with Kevin because it's "a game" yet wanted to flatten Mark when he had the most innocent of attempts at her. None of this pair make sense.
Ken payed little to no attention to his own kids , but fawns over Tracy …… in my opinion , … it’s to triangulate her . No wonder Tracy , ended up a neurotic Narcissist . Horrible to everyone , braking up marriages, and only loving herself . Kin acts superior to everyone . He acted that way with his own parents when he was young . Just because he went to collage .
Neither Ken nor Wendy owns a pair of jeans. That says it all. Oh... and Ken would be perfectly happy running off to Antigua with her, without giving a second thought to the daughter he professes to love. He and Wendy certainly deserve each other.
43:42 😂 Sorry I know it shouldn’t be funny but Deirdre crying always makes me chuckle ( and at 2:37:02) 1:24:43 Thanks Bet that's nice. 2:35:14 4:17:52 Deirdre’s face tho! 😂
This was around about the time I started watching Corrie (the "Tracy's in her room listening to tapes/Deirdre's perm" era) with my mad Irish grandma, I think she thought it was a documentary. I'd ask her what she'd been up to, and she'd tell me that Steve McDonald had started a chip pan fire, or some such. Ah, great days.
And the curse of the "even" side of the street begins again. Yes a few tragedies hit the "odd" side...but we had Val Barlow's death, the factory fire that killed Fred Gee's first wife, Ernest Bishop 's death...and of course the tragedies that were to come on that side.....the budgie dying was the portent of things to come.
Percy needs to mind his own business sometimes. Gloating after poor Harriet died, might have been "just" a bird, but she was a companion to Mavis when she was alone in her flat for so long. >:( I remember my little holland lop rabbit being my flat mate when I was studying in uni. She really cheered me up during long revision sessions :) she's going on in age now, but she's very cute.
I didn't like RIta and Gail laughing at the fact Mavis was off sick because her budgie died. That was very unnecessary and really quite callous, in my opinion. Out of character for Rita, I'd have thought.
I’d prefer it if she was electrocuted in all honesty!! Lol 😂.. possibly a bit unfair on my part! She saves her best acting for that period when she was in a coma a few years later! 😉
With a mother like Dreary tis no wonder Tracyluv ended up as a murderer; I didn't realise at the time but honestly Dreary needs time in a psychiatric unit !!!
I watched coronation street on cbc as a teenager. Got married moved to a part os America where it wasn’t on. Was so excited to watch from the very start. Now I’m in 1990 and I’m very quickly losing interest. It is becoming unwatchable. Egad!
We all have different opinions but I think Deirdre was wrong telling Tracy to get out of her dad’s car just because Wendy was in the car, people move on and I think Deirdre should move on!
If this was real life there's no way I would let my daughter get involved with her dads fancy woman. Ken didn't split up and then get a girlfriend he cheated .
@@helenwebb8881 I was like Deirdre when it happened to me, But one day I thought To myself it’s not fair taking it out on my kids so they can see their father regardless if she was there or not, But I made one thing clear to my ex husband’s girlfriend at the time, I’m their mother and not you! I think in life you have to move on
She had the potential to be a great character. Sadly, as with this era in general, the writers gave her ridiculous storylines and reduced her character to an embarrassing, desperate, silly girl.
Corra was magic back then..No dull characters I never missed an episode back in the day.
Ken is insufferable. thank you for uploading xx
From a mans perspective...
Really?
I find Deirdres character appalling and selfish.
@@steffanhoffmann Ken didn't care about the children he fathered but he's all over his adopted child. Doesn't make sense.
@@steffanhoffmann Perhaps. But he could have taken Tracy out without his lady-friend to begin with.
There used to be 20 million that watched in 1989-1990 now there are 2 million
More choice on TV.
Yeah there is so much more choice now
The Ratings are Down Because it's all a load of Rubbish Now👎
Michelle Holmes who played Tina (who’s had a successful career in film, tv and theatre since Coronation Street) remains friends with Billy Ivory who played Eddie. In fact, Michelle appeared in several projects written and created by Billy Ivory (including Common as Muck) as he’s become a very successful film & theatre writer.
Miss HILDA and her singing …can’t bear Des and Steph 😫
I miss her too
this show is nothing without Hilda. I can't stand that Steph and Des.
@@bsaunders5271 You're still watching I see🤭🙄after saying you don't like it anymore and trashing every woman on the soap apart from old Hilda🙄🙄🙄
@@irenemorley75 oh the irony. Here you are trashing bsaunders AGAIN.
Same here!
Thanks Eve for letting the credits roll. It is appreciated. 😃🙏👏
Everyone that gets married on this programme gets married straight away….
This is brilliant compared to the nonsense stories of today
Gail in a mood and Tracy sulking. Oh joy!
and Don becoming more miserable, he's really a miserable sort
Thanks for uploading these. My wee mum would be so pleased if she could see me now, she loved her Corrie. I watched it occasionally when it was on with mum but I was never an avid viewer. Started watching the 1970s episode's and got hooked......not loving these ones as much though but I might just watch it up to when Bet leaves :-).
Yes I remember watching it whan a
I was growing up and living at home in the 1980
Percy was a great character
An Uncle Albert replacement…when Albert Tatlock left, Percy moved onto the street…
@@MichaelJirochVisualArtist Not actually true, they shared the screen for about a year or so!
Kevin looks as though he could be one of the Mario Brothers before he lost the mustache.
😂
🥸😆
One thing I do like about this era (apart from it almost being a masterpiece compared to the rubbish it is now).is hearing music of the time - good memories. Also, there are more scenes away from the Street, adding to the realism. With Corrie, I find the further back I go, the more I appreciate it. I think my earliest 'live' Corrie memories are Ernest B being shot, and Ray going to the Netherlands, leaving Deirdre and TracyLuv behind.
I agree with you there i.e. the further back you go, the better it is! I've found myself just casually watching 1980/81 at the weekend and marvelling at what a masterpiece it was (the drearly Tilsleys aside)! Glad we're still able to enjoy it on here for now! ;-)
@@EveHenleySpread thank you so very much for posting these. Massive appreciation!!
No matter how many times I see Traceyluv written down, it never fails to make me laugh 😂
The barnes storyline with Kevin is the first of many that led to the downfall of the street
Thank goodness we now know better - it’s awful to see how Deirdre expects Tracey to be hostile to Wendy and Ken just because she’s hurt, as though a father-child relationship means nothing 😢 This storyline didn’t age well. Thanks for posting these eps! ❤
It never cease to amaze me, why Ken or Deidre didn't ask Tracey, where in the hell she got her accent, from.
Why the twins have different accents too
Yes Tracy’s accent is so strange , nothing like her moms or dads .. even her Friends don’t speak like she does .
Dreary really is boring and that awful wiggy perm ugg.
@@MINATOREband Kens twins Peter and Susan too. Brought up in Glasgow, Scotland and no trace at all of a Scottish accent. Must be a twin thing I guess LOL
The storyline between Des, Steph and Kevin is as naff as hell. What grown man would allow another man's wife to do that.
To be fair, I always thought that mustache was ridiculous. Now, seeing him without it, I'm not sure if I'm wrong or not.
Kevin's mou was ridiculous. At times it looked like a privit hedge.
Steph is in a crap marriage so she is out to crush Kevin and Sally's, she can't stand to see someone else happy🙄
😂 Phyllis - the most Percy-stent woman ever. No matter how much he knocks her back, she never gives up
I can't believe it lasted YEARS! 😂 Her tenacity is impressive.
Is Tracy's name Tracy or Tracyluv, lol. Why do they bring in new people that you automatically dislike. I love the old episodes far better than what it is today but I couldn't stand that Steph or Des.
Ugh, I was thinking the same about new characters. Who the hell are this new couple who just landed on the street and are interjecting themselves in everything and stirring the pot?! Couldn't stand them from the off.
There’s isn’t an occasion on Coronation Street that doesn’t end in someone ugly crying in a dark room. 😭😂
The more episodes I see the more I can not stand Kens character..very self righteous even when wrong
Wrong? Wrong?? Ken is never ever wrong (well, in his own delusional mind anyway). I loathe the character.
Deidre had her chance to stay with Mike, but she went back to Ken.
Really?
I find Deirdres character appalling and selfish.
@@steffanhoffmann All characters have to be different, if they were all the same it would be very boring to watch 🙄
3 out of 4 hours of deirdre boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo! 3 hours of perfectly calm, composed, sensible Ken. I think I know which character I prefer. I also know which character I would want raising my own children if indeed, I had children and it would never, be moaning Myrtle.
Percy's telling Mavis moving Harriet to a new house could finish her off, but he moved Randy from his old place to his flat, then to Emily's House, so...
Yep and the original Randy died and Emily replaced him with a lookalike unbeknownst to Percy!
Love when Rita pretends she’s got something in her eye when she’s dying to laugh! She did it when Mavis’s budgie died too, when Mavis and Derek said about giving it a private burial, in the Rovers! Even Bet was struggling to keep a straight face 😂
I love Mavis, but Rita taking the piss out of Mavis over the years is nothing short of brilliant.
@@Kay_Watermelon Oh, absolutely! Some of their exchanges were absolute gems! A favourite of mine was when Rita, about Derek, mimicked Mavis perfectly, going “Tell him I’m not in!” Then, in exactly the same tone of voice, Mavis retorted “I don’t talk like that!” 🤣
Diedre saying she struggled raising Tracy BS!! Emily raised her
Exactly!
She spent most of her time upstairs listening to her tapes lol.
@@leejones8582 any wonder when her mum was leaving her outside pubs and landing her underneath lorries!
I dated the actress that played this Tracy in real life for just over 4 years in our 20s. Strange seeing her here.
She heck as like struggled. Everybody on the street, who could, bent over backwards to help her.
That Des and Steph. Where do you start!? His voice/accent to begin with. And her thinking she's a ride when she's actually rotten looking. The fact that Des is not bothered in the slightest at his missus openly telling him what she plans to do with Kevin because it's "a game" yet wanted to flatten Mark when he had the most innocent of attempts at her. None of this pair make sense.
Oh keven looks weird without his moustache
R.I.P Harriet 💛 and
Kev looks like Collin Farrel without his tash!
🥴😆🥸😫
2:16:26 "You better ask Wendy cos it's her house" so it's a Wendy House? 🥁
Wendy's a snooty, self-serving cow who also shares her name with a national burger chain.
@@lynnem3300 Yes snooty..... don't know why, her house was nothing to look at even back then🙄
Now now fellas we’re not licensed for knuckle 😂😂😂😂😂😂
They don’t know it yet but both Sally & Touché Turtle are in the club.
Can't stand that Steph who is with des barnes.this is when Corrie starts going down hill putting them two in.....
I haven’t thought about it before…but I think you’re right
Absolutely dreadful. Glad she’s gone.
And yet Corrie is still going strong to this day.🤪😘
I remember watching this on Granada Plus back in May 2002
Steph...spoilt fish wife
Ken payed little to no attention to his own kids , but fawns over Tracy …… in my opinion , … it’s to triangulate her . No wonder Tracy , ended up a neurotic Narcissist . Horrible to everyone , braking up marriages, and only loving herself . Kin acts superior to everyone . He acted that way with his own parents when he was young . Just because he went to collage .
When Tina cries she has a mouth like Wallace from Wallace & Gromit.
Deirdre scorned turns into Marty Feldman
😁
Her neck bulging like the Hulk...
@@londonlady227 Tortoise neck.
She's also a close-talker.
I once met her in person she actually does look like a constipated tortoise
The old lady with the purple hair was hillarious
EAEAEAEAEAEA PEEAARCAY!
Phyllis pearce
The whole Barnes story was ridiculous....and their furniture looked like deckchairs. So uncomfortable.
"Can't someone in a wheelchair just have a cup of tea"!LOL
Steph's earings look like Ginger Nut biscuits.
the more i watch derek and mavis the more they seem like Terry and June
THAT'S what I was trying to put my finger on...
@@4evernate28 Really ?🙄
I preferred the Wiltons' flat above the Rosamund Street newsagent's to that awful new house.
didn't realise how soppy this programme was back then
Des Barnes' trousers and braces combo... geez! Could those be any higher? 🤣
Spillover from the 80s yuppie era eh 😉
@@EveHenleySpread I was born in 77 and went through the waistcoat stage and lots of mixed colours in the early 90s!
Trousers are under his armpits.
Neither Ken nor Wendy owns a pair of jeans. That says it all. Oh... and Ken would be perfectly happy running off to Antigua with her, without giving a second thought to the daughter he professes to love. He and Wendy certainly deserve each other.
My heart broke for Tina 😢 x
Thankyou for these episodes xx
She broke her own heart🤔🙄
Poor Harriet!
“He’s got a lot goin’ for him has Eddy”….poor Tina I doubt anyone else can see her point of view.
Can’t stand this storyline with des ect
Steph and Des are a liability to the Street. So unpleasant but no humour,charm or personality
Ken’s got great hair.
43:42 😂 Sorry I know it shouldn’t be funny but Deirdre crying always makes me chuckle ( and at 2:37:02)
1:24:43 Thanks Bet that's nice.
2:35:14 4:17:52 Deirdre’s face tho! 😂
Brennan and Baldwin always were at loggerheads
Brannon is a total waste of space.
I reckon Baldwin would take him in a fight 👊
This was around about the time I started watching Corrie (the "Tracy's in her room listening to tapes/Deirdre's perm" era) with my mad Irish grandma, I think she thought it was a documentary. I'd ask her what she'd been up to, and she'd tell me that Steve McDonald had started a chip pan fire, or some such. Ah, great days.
😅😂 good one! ❤
And the curse of the "even" side of the street begins again. Yes a few tragedies hit the "odd" side...but we had Val Barlow's death, the factory fire that killed Fred Gee's first wife, Ernest Bishop 's death...and of course the tragedies that were to come on that side.....the budgie dying was the portent of things to come.
Tracey Locking Deirdre Out😆
Tracylove has one of those faces .
We all have one face🙄
Yeah Tracys' face perfect for a fat slap!!!
Ken thinks he is big stuff in a small town.. quite the opposite.
Tracy spoilt brat, Ken is disgusting! He should be encouraging her to be with her mother regardless anything!!
Don is getting pathetic at Baldwin all the time
He asking for a thick ear
With his cocky hobby ways🤬
Space Invaders arcade machine in the cafe
"Ultimata". 😂😂😂
Roy Barraclough was superb, just a naturally funny bloke
Geeez could Dez wear his trousers any higher!😂
I'm so fed up of Deidre
Percy needs to mind his own business sometimes. Gloating after poor Harriet died, might have been "just" a bird, but she was a companion to Mavis when she was alone in her flat for so long. >:(
I remember my little holland lop rabbit being my flat mate when I was studying in uni. She really cheered me up during long revision sessions :) she's going on in age now, but she's very cute.
Percy has only shown empathy for others in maybe a couple of times. I’d think he could have had some for a fellow bird owner.
Talk about obsessed. Just ask Mike out on a date and get it over with Brennan 😴😂
Funny!
😂😂😂
1990..The beginning of the end! All down hill from here 😒
the scenes about Harriet are absolutely hilarious
Curly in rovers, hair slicked back black coat on looked like he was in the KGB 🤣🤣🤣
I didn't like RIta and Gail laughing at the fact Mavis was off sick because her budgie died. That was very unnecessary and really quite callous, in my opinion. Out of character for Rita, I'd have thought.
Ken, an obnoxious prat.
Not his finest hour, for sure.
@@4evernate28 Does he ever have a fine hour?
@@bibakroll8999Back in February 1983.
Mark putting ketchup on spaghetti.....yuck !
Phyllis needs to learn, No means No
😂😂😂
3:56:30 Salford Precinct jobcentre!
I wish Tracyluv could get elecution lessons.
I’d prefer it if she was electrocuted in all honesty!! Lol 😂.. possibly a bit unfair on my part! She saves her best acting for that period when she was in a coma a few years later! 😉
Who does Kevin think he is Nigel Mansel?
Poor Emily !!!! 😵💫
With a mother like Dreary tis no wonder Tracyluv ended up as a murderer; I didn't realise at the time but honestly Dreary needs time in a psychiatric unit !!!
I agree. She's psychotic deidre is
The rot started to set in with Tracey about now
Tracy was played by 4 different actresses in the 1980s
Three actually, Christabel Finch, Holly Chamarette and Dawn Acton.
How did Deirdre not know the difference between them all?
Ivy looked pretty when she was all dressed up.
Lynne Perrie sounding more drunk on set every time...
Her book is Wild
Tell your guide dog that🤣🤣🤣🙄
@@londonlady227 Yes she got the boot for her drinking.
4:39:30 a very rare hysterical chuckle between Alec and Jack 😁
Des furniture looks like beach chairs
2:22:53 Kev acting like a caveman.
It's obvious the sleaze Ken and snotty Wendy isn't going to go last!
I watched coronation street on cbc as a teenager. Got married moved to a part os America where it wasn’t on. Was so excited to watch from the very start. Now I’m in 1990 and I’m very quickly losing interest. It is becoming unwatchable. Egad!
Did you not start in ‘76? That’s when the golden era truly began.
1972 to 1985 was wonderful
@@bsaunders5271 Go back there then and stop you're endless moaning /bellyaching 🙄🙄🙄
1988 to 1998 I think was a great Era Of Corrie I think it went rubbish Early 2000s, Now in 2024 it's unwatchable,
i think i speak for all of us when i say, we're now all waiting for Diedre's trip to Morocco.
Only if she promises to NOT COME BACK
that whisky voice a whining ,when she fake crys sounds like a wounded animal
No such thing as speaking for everyone🙄
Some of the scenes where Mike Baldwin and Don Brennan square up against each other.
29:55 - 31:18
1:50:32 - 1:52:02
2:31:18 - 2:32:22
Mike Ken Ivy Don & Tracy one way ticket to the moon!! ..and take Wendy with ya!!
Emily's hair style reminds me of the oopa loompas from Charlie and the chocolate factory. 😅
Ugh that tina
Why no subtitles on this one?.😔
Sorry no idea, I have no involvement in that 😒
Elma is a rude one for a business owner
...and Alma is even worse
We all have different opinions but I think Deirdre was wrong telling Tracy to get out of her dad’s car just because Wendy was in the car, people move on and I think Deirdre should move on!
If this was real life there's no way I would let my daughter get involved with her dads fancy woman. Ken didn't split up and then get a girlfriend he cheated .
@@helenwebb8881 I was like Deirdre when it happened to me, But one day I thought To myself it’s not fair taking it out on my kids so they can see their father regardless if she was there or not, But I made one thing clear to my ex husband’s girlfriend at the time, I’m their mother and not you! I think in life you have to move on
Tracey Locking Deirdre Out 😆
lol 3:13 now steve and tracy are married xxx
4:30:52 Derek, master of poetry lol
I love kev without that tash ❤
Tina just got on my nerves.
Same. I've been double speeding every scene she's in.
She doesn’t last long
She had the potential to be a great character. Sadly, as with this era in general, the writers gave her ridiculous storylines and reduced her character to an embarrassing, desperate, silly girl.
Steph Barnes character was infuriating! Could be Alma’s sister !! 🤷🏼♂️😳🤣
I hate Dea and Steph