Superb - and a big last Tango In Halifax connection. Written by Geoffrey Lancashire, father of Sarah. Produced by Peter Eckersley, husband of Anne Reid.
Anyone remember wagon driver and good looking bad boy Frank Bradley?? He was Bet Lynch's boyfriend for a while and his mate was called Judd Painter, from 1970 if I remember correctly, Corrie was magnificent in the 60s and 70s.
Coronation St has a long history of poor continuity - through out the 70’s boom microphones were always making special guess appearances. I assume they were so rushed making each episode they didn’t have time to re-shoot.
Neither do I. Corrie people from around the time (for example HV Kershaw and Bill Podmore) and afterwards have long said it was a huge mistake to kill Martha off and thereby destroy a great comedy threesome. - a stupid new producer with a 'fresh' idea, possibly the result of a bet ! In Martha's death scene Peter Adamson (Len) deliberately delayed saying 'she's dead' and then said it in a questioning not a definite way in the hope of a last minute reprieve for her. Have a look, it's on RUclips). Of course the Ogdens could have been brought in with Martha still alive !!
You might want to watch the next decade, Hilda and Stan became legends. Apparently it was to save money, paying salaries to those they felt might offer more for audiences. Martha really had not much more to offer as a character.
@@carolineg1872 LOL - not individually I grant you, but with Ena and Minnie she was peerless. They could have had Stan and Hilda too (BTW they took years to develop into the legendary characters they ended up being).
Fair enough of course if that's what you think - but the beauty of Ena, Martha and Minnie was that they could talk about absolutely anything and it was always riveting and hilarious - so they could have gone on as a sort of 'chorus' doing a running commentary about Street events until they became too old to do so (Minnie in 1976 as it happens). Allegedly the dreadful producer responsible killed her off to win a bet and left soon afterwards. Ena and Minnie, though acted brilliantly, were never ever the same afterwards.
poor old alkie actor Adamson playing Len Fairclough - he finally gets some good lines in this scene, and a meaty little speech about how he 'handles women' - to get the girl where you want her in a relationship - and messes up his lines all over the place - when he's describing the situation with English soldiers being less sexy to English girls than the Yankee Airforce - and he says "what's the good of losing the war .. if you're ... WINNING the war .. if you lose your women?!" - - and there's no time/money or whatever to do a retake ... he'd probably only make another mistake on another bit of his dialogue!! ... And of course I appreciate that no one watching back then would be playing it back to catch the hiccup - - it's only me nitpicking half a century later ... But with love. I do LOVE this series so much, and all the characters, and all the actors and their quirks, fluffs, corpsing, mind-blanks and enduring the boom mic coming into shot, windows and doors misbehaving, props not where they ought to be, costume crises and having to down all these pints and glasses of cold tea!!! - - Just brilliant - an era never to come again, personalities and plotlines to never come again, and the history of decades shown ...
Adamson wasn't the only one to flub lines. Pat Phoenix, for one, did it a number of times. (In one episode, while yelling out of a window, she calls Len "Clairfough.") They didn't like doing retakes back then; retakes were expensive, so a lot of flubs were left in. I agree with you: I love the series in spite of the flubs. The flubs even add a sense or realism.
Superb - and a big last Tango In Halifax connection.
Written by Geoffrey Lancashire, father of Sarah.
Produced by Peter Eckersley, husband of Anne Reid.
Thank you for the upload.
It looked like Dennis fainted in the phone booth after saying "Twelve POUNDS".....😂 13:00
Thanks for the uploads.,
This was the day and year I was born!!
Congrats, a month before my brother.. and Mike Tyson!
I’ve just noticed. It was 3 days after I was born. June 12th 1966. Houghton Regis (Dunstable).
Brings back memories of the Mr Whippy ice cream van in Oz 👌🙏
Omg those beastly ruffians
Just when u wish it was 20 years later, jim mcdonald would sort those hooligans out
Just noticed the name of the producer PETER ECKERSLEY I had a cousin back in the 60s wonder if he was related to me
10 /10
Love it!
Yankee screwdriver - the hammer 👌- this is what my Dad used to call a screwdriver 👌🙏💪
Coronation Street at it's finest.
Len Fairclough dancing!🤣🤣❤💯
Ken dancing!!!!😎
Does anyone know what happened with this last scene (in the next episode) with Ena, Lucille and the hooligans? We're left hanging! 😢
I would like to know aswell as all the episodes aren't here
i hope you get the 70s version - thheres plenty from 70-75 we haven't seen
I love how the guy in the bookies asked if it was his pension money. Back when people gave a shit.
Agree - all code has virtually disappeared in today’s society - sad.
Dennis Tanner reminds me of the American Eddie Haskell
Yeah I agree with you on that.
He reminds me ( to look at) of the 1985 Den Watts from EastEnders.
@@alexanderjones9572 yeah your right I agree.
I always thought he was the first gay character on Corrie. He’s very camp
Anyone remember wagon driver and good looking bad boy Frank Bradley?? He was Bet Lynch's boyfriend for a while and his mate was called Judd Painter, from 1970 if I remember correctly, Corrie was magnificent in the 60s and 70s.
Any one notice the camera man in mirror when Elsie is having a go at Dennis and his dad at 18.19
18:19, well spotted, they had lots of errors as it was all live then
Coronation St has a long history of poor continuity - through out the 70’s boom microphones were always making special guess appearances. I assume they were so rushed making each episode they didn’t have time to re-shoot.
Going 2 have a look found it 😅
damn didnt show.the scene.where ena.went to court was she found.not guilty
It might just be me, but I hate it when people drink with a mouth full of food
Me too!
Nope, you're definitely not the only one!
The background noise in the Rover's was so loud, I could barely make out what Jack and Annie were saying. I'm all for verisimilitude, but really.
Anybody know the song ken dances to?
Thankyou Tess 😀
It's 'Hold Tight' by Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich.
So who played the 2 hooligans ?
Malcolm Patton and David Cook
@@kleverkloggsDavid cook I believe was the first presenter of rainbow
@@markthompson1529 that's right, before Geoffrey Hayes.
The blond guy looks like David Hemmings, not him I know! He was in Blow Up at the time anyway
I still don’t understand why they killed Martha to make way for Hilda?! 🤷♀️
Neither do I.
Corrie people from around the time (for example HV Kershaw and Bill Podmore) and afterwards have long said it was a huge mistake to kill Martha off and thereby destroy a great comedy threesome. - a stupid new producer with a 'fresh' idea, possibly the result of a bet ! In Martha's death scene Peter Adamson (Len) deliberately delayed saying 'she's dead' and then said it in a questioning not a definite way in the hope of a last minute reprieve for her. Have a look, it's on RUclips).
Of course the Ogdens could have been brought in with Martha still alive !!
You might want to watch the next decade, Hilda and Stan became legends.
Apparently it was to save money, paying salaries to those they felt might offer more for audiences.
Martha really had not much more to offer as a character.
@@carolineg1872 LOL - not individually I grant you, but with Ena and Minnie she was peerless.
They could have had Stan and Hilda too (BTW they took years to develop into the legendary characters they ended up being).
@@ysgol3 I honestly felt that Martha and her character had run its course.
Fair enough of course if that's what you think - but the beauty of Ena, Martha and Minnie was that they could talk about absolutely anything and it was always riveting and hilarious - so they could have gone on as a sort of 'chorus' doing a running commentary about Street events until they became too old to do so (Minnie in 1976 as it happens).
Allegedly the dreadful producer responsible killed her off to win a bet and left soon afterwards.
Ena and Minnie, though acted brilliantly, were never ever the same afterwards.
poor old alkie actor Adamson playing Len Fairclough - he finally gets some good lines in this scene, and a meaty little speech about how he 'handles women' - to get the girl where you want her in a relationship - and messes up his lines all over the place - when he's describing the situation with English soldiers being less sexy to English girls than the Yankee Airforce - and he says "what's the good of losing the war .. if you're ... WINNING the war .. if you lose your women?!" - - and there's no time/money or whatever to do a retake ... he'd probably only make another mistake on another bit of his dialogue!! ... And of course I appreciate that no one watching back then would be playing it back to catch the hiccup - - it's only me nitpicking half a century later ... But with love. I do LOVE this series so much, and all the characters, and all the actors and their quirks, fluffs, corpsing, mind-blanks and enduring the boom mic coming into shot, windows and doors misbehaving, props not where they ought to be, costume crises and having to down all these pints and glasses of cold tea!!! - - Just brilliant - an era never to come again, personalities and plotlines to never come again, and the history of decades shown ...
Adamson wasn't the only one to flub lines. Pat Phoenix, for one, did it a number of times. (In one episode, while yelling out of a window, she calls Len "Clairfough.") They didn't like doing retakes back then; retakes were expensive, so a lot of flubs were left in. I agree with you: I love the series in spite of the flubs. The flubs even add a sense or realism.