Classic Corrie

[Kannet]

Is anyone else watching classic Corrie on itv 3. I’m actually quite enjoying it

The guy who plays Ken's new boss is a terrible actor. Truly bad

He fits right in then

Poor Janet. And she left without a fight.

Newspaper guy was in Holby. He played a surgeon called Anton Maier.

I thought that Wendy Crozier was going to becone the new assistant but she must arrive later.

Well spotted scrabbler! I recognised him and just couldn't place him.
He was a terrible actor, and that accent - what was it supposed to be?

Percy's gift to Sally and Kev was a strange little anomaly too.

I really enjoy stepping back in time when I'm watching these old episodes. I'm starting to get quite nostalgic for the 1980s!

Couldn't they have got a younger actress to play 17 year old Fiona? The actress playing her looks around 30 and the actor playing her father looks 40.

Just catching up this morning on this weeks episodes. Mike - urrgh. Telling Gloria "he had spent money on her" - some things never change, reminds me of reports of on line dates doing the same and wanting their money back.

I wish martin would come and refurb my house in a few weeks. Kevin and Sally seem to have the electrics etc done - how did they afford it?

We all complain about unrealties in the current Corrie but I guess the old one suffered the same. I know my mum used to be constantly annoyed by how unrealistic the jeans factory was(having worked in one herself)

They eat a lot of stodge but no one is overweight (except maybe Alf and Alec).

Kevin was eating a salad barm for lunch in the Rovers a while back, so he can't be that bothered about the lack of meat in the cauli cheese they had for lunch. I recall it because I thought a salad roll was an odd choice for this character.

Julie Goodyear and Roy Bbarraclough nailed the miscarriage storyline. Brilliant, subtle acting. Making those two a couple was inspired.

I disliked Alec first time round and never noticed what a good actor he was. Funny seeing a young Gina (different actress) - back now and still causing trouble for Sally.

It's strange seeing Gail in Classic Corrie as she is quite feisty and forthright compared to the dim, simpering idiot she has turned into nowadays.

I liked the scene where Alec returned from the hospital and Gloria came in and asked about Bet and she said she was so sorry. Then they both kind of stood for a few moments before Gloria not knowing what else to do or say turned and left - seemed poignant and true to life and the writers/director had allowed that crucial pause and space that I just think wouldn't happen now.

I used to dress a lot like Fiona - happy times.

Kikashi I thought exactly the same when I watched the awkward exchange between Alec and Gloria.

Yes it did cross my mind that not so long ago Sally and Kevin were struggling to afford a sofa and chair on hire purchase, but a few months later are willing to take on a mortgage. I appreciate that Hilda's house was a good opportunity for them but i'm not sure why they couldn't have rented it off her for a few years, considering that she wasn't buying a new place.

Alec coming back from the hospital was so affecting. When he took out the tape measure and Gloria just looked at him fiddling with it, not knowing what to say, that was beautifully acted. You could feel his sadness and disappointment. And Bet when she talked about him pushing a pram. The quality of writing and acting is so incomparable. The actors didn't even need words to make us feel their emotions.

I wish Curly wouldn't shout his lines all the time whatever the situation - fun to see his parents.

Alf the racist!

All the hand wringing over Shirley and Curly "living in sin" was old fashioned for 1988. I lived with my boyfriend in a very conservative (with a small c) place as did a lot of my friends and no one batted an eyelid.

We did go with some friends to a concert in Dublin around that time and the couples had to register as Mr and Mrs at the hotel! My friend was frightened that if the hotel went on fire or was bombed that she wouldn't get identified and her mum be informed.

I agree. I was between Jenny and Tracy in age in 1988 (still am, I daresay!) and I remember couples in their twenties moving in together, and a few of my friends' divorced mums had a partner living with them, whom my friends saw as stepdads even though they were unmarried. I didn't know any couples who had babies before marriage though, that cane a decade later around my way. And I remember my friends and I thinking that 24 was the optimum age for marriage, with first baby by 26. Most of us were a bit older than that in the end.

I love the background music currently - I was falling in love with my first boyfriend in the spring of 1988, aged 15. The music reminds me of that. My parents used to record CS for me when I was out with him, I remember coming home, buzzing, and watching the Curly/Shirley scenes. I can't recall Gina or Vera's mum at all though.

Was the hand wringing not more about them being a mixed raced couple ? I was 14 nearly 15 in 1988 and couple certainly did live together but depending on where you lived mixed race couples may have been more unsual ?.

I lived with my boyfriend in 1988, i was 18 and nobody said anything about living in sin. Got married and had a baby the following year when 19. I didnt know of any mixed race couples at that time living together or otherwise.

I loved curlys parents. They where like something down a 70s sitcom

I'm pretty sure the actor playing Curly's dad also played grandad in Bread, which was absolutely huge at the time.

He did Bluths!

Shirley's Mum looked very familiar

She was blossom in Eastenders Kannet.

I wondered where I knew her from

I can’t believe the number of characters getting het up over Curly and Shirley living together, it was 1988 not 1938 fgs. My mum had had two live in boyfriends by then, I can’t remember anyone going on about her living in sin or over the brush.

Anyone know why Sue Nicholls was off for so long in 1988? Audreys been gone for weeks now!

I can't believe the shop staff would be that rude over a declined credit card.