sian and sophie in corrie

[nikon1968]

I wish I could just edit scenes out with certain people in, and anything with them in I would say ''no please no get them off my screen''

Not getting all 'academic' about it or anything BUT Corrie has always trod the 'stay true to your roots' line perfectly represented by Tina and the doctor's relationship and her line about 'I'm happy living in this street and working as a barmaid in the pub'.
If you have mixed-class relationships they are doomed to failure. Almost anyone who attempts to better themselves gets their comeuppance.
They have to do this firstly because they need to keep the characters in the street (otherwise it would be a completely different programme) and secondly because that was it's original idea - that it would represent the working class.

Not saying, of course, that it's a true representative of working class life, in someways it is still stuck in it's early 60s ideology. But they have stayed true to this line and that must say something about why it's still going 50 years on.

Katkitya have a look at the spoilers thread, I may have said too much already

What I dislike intensely about Corrie at the moment is how the story lines have become sudden and episodic. And how characters who are not in the main story lines vanish completely. No sense of community or continuity any more.

And I really really wish they would kill off the dreadful, dreadful, dreadful and implausible Peter/Carla storyline.

We need to see more of Roy/Hayley/Sheila, Norris/Mary, Emily, Rita (but not with Denis, please!); get Audrey back on track; and of the younger characters, Julie and her headmaster, Kirk and Tyrone (but not with Tommie).

But Muriel the working class go to college or sixth form. They even go to university. They are supposedly in a suburb of Manchester so plenty to choose from: Manchester uni, Manchester Metropolitan, Salford, University of Central Lancashire in Preston all very close but also reasonable to attend in Liverpool or Lancaster for example.

Failing that, none of them have proper apprenticeships (Tyrone and Maria possibly did once) or work at the council, or a bank, or estate agent, or a call centre or the post office or any where else an entry level job could see them earning more than minimum wage and progressing.

They have had characters with jobs off screen before: Martin Platt was a nurse and erm we didn't see Gail in the medical centre for years.

I think it's perfectly possible to do and the idea they all work in three local businesses is just silly.

KateMiddleton: you've inspired me!

Other jobs: teacher - Ken, Brian, John Stape. Local newspaper - Ken (again). Council - Deirdre. Car showroom - Sally (shagged the boss). Volunteer at the hospital - Emily. Whatsisname - undertaker. Marcus - nurse. Rosie - model. Curly's second wife and Tyrone's current girlfriend - policewoman. Curly - bin man. Curly again and Alma - Freshcos. Jack Duckworth - various, included a window cleaning, didn't it? Mad Maya - lawyer. Lloyd's ex - pole dancer. Bet's bit of rough - lorry driver. Gail's "pilot" - airport worker (Tie Rack?).

Gosh, difficult, isn't it?

ha ha Edith

I was trying to think of those who grew up on the street who haven't just gone to work in the pub or the factory. It's really difficult. The only characters with careers or professions have come in externally with the exception of Ken.

There was that family with Brookie's Sinbad as the dad who the daughter (Mel??) became a police officer for about 10 minutes before they all got axed.

Toya went to college. She was punished by her best friend sleeping with her lecturer boyfriend and generally pushed for being bright. Luckily she became a doctor (Casulty) and he has been recycled as Fizz's copper

I wasn't being sarcastic! It is difficult!

Most characters work in the factory, the pub, the wine bar, the medical centre, the Kabin/Post Office, the garage, Dev's shop, Roy's Rolls, Peter's bookie, Audrey's, or for Owen the builder. Some of those businesses have changed hands over the years (eg Peacock's), but essentially it's been the same throughout the whole life of the series, plus a smattering of self employed (Kylie the manicurist, Kirk and Maria's kennels, Jack's window cleaning).

Talking of Toyah, did Spider have a job? They went off to London to run a juice bar. I wish Spider would come back.

No I know. I was agreeing

These local businesses are also death traps.

Which ones?

I remember the factory fire in 1975.

And I know there was the recent fire - but that was psychopath-ignited (hardly the fault of the business). I can't think of another fatal work-related incidents - please remedy my ignorance!

Didn't they lose a Polish extra due to H&S breach in the factory?

Has Marcus actually ever gone to work?

Half the people I know from home up North work for the council in some shape or form so I think it would be perfectly normal for at least 25% of them working for the council and, not just Deidre. I actually donth think it represents the minorities properly, with it supossed to be in Manchester. I think Eastenders does a better job of it although I dont watch Eastenders

Off the top of my head, EdithWeston, there was the little old lady who snuffed it in the snug of the Rovers (Minnie Cauldwell??), poor Ernie Bishop who got gunned down in The Factory, the various fires, the tram crash, and All Those Bodies. And people get run over with alarming regularity just outside the premises. And murdered.

Or was it Martha someone?

I remember way back in the 70's when they thought the snug was haunted by a little old lady, she'd died years before. Don't think it was Minnie, it was someone who wore round black glasses as a pair got left in there and it freaked out Annie Walker iirc.

Thanks LRCR - How could I have forgotten Ernie Bishop!

It was Martha who died in the pub, and also Enid the cleaner in one of the upstairs bedrooms. There was the fire, and also a lorry which shed its load through the windows, injuring two.

Martha Longhurst.

I googled 'Corrie Snug Death.'

'Since 1960 there have been 91 deaths in Coronation Street.'

91 eh? Would rather see that as a percentage of characters who've passed through for it to have any real impact...

Yes, I'd need to know how many people have died who lived in or worked in a typical street since 1960, and of what.

I suspect Corrie may be a bit over-weighted in the murder department.