Classic Corrie

[Kannet]

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

I hate how they are all trying to persuade the new lady, Sandra to reconcile with her physically abusive husband. Oh he has warm brown eyes - says Bet! Others like Rita tutting at the problem or not wanting to get involved. The husband beats Sandra up!

Thankfully attitudes have (mostly)changed.

It was nice to see Audrey and Alan having lunch together. In real life they'd been together for a few years before.

If you left ITV3 on after the episodes today, you'd have had the pleasure of seeing Johnny Briggs in a bit part in On The Buses.

It was well done though. He did seem likeable. Nowadays if that plot where to happen he would be an obvious bad guy and she would have been on life support and probably one of the rescuers as well.

One of my older teen kids came in the other day when Classic Corrie was on and commented how Jack Duckworth( being a bit hapless and gurning whilst serving behind the bar) was the forerunner of Steve McDonald.

I was hoping that Malcolm would be a bit more attractive than he turned out to be. Love some of Audrey's clothes (grey knitted sheath dress and scarf). Shoulder pads were great!

Emily has made a rod for her own back with her tender heart.

That Canadian accent is dire

The actor who played Malcolm Reid is Canadian!

All the more shocking then!

It's seems wrong that Malcolm is so Canadian. He must have lived there twenty odd years but surely he only moved there in his twenties or thirties.

Kannet I thought that too and Malcolm didn't understand some colloquialism that Alf used in the pub which he should have known.

Loved the youngsters Rap dancing. Yeah! Terry is back. Sneaky old Alec - still it seemed unfair that he had to walk the dog and deal with its poo rather than Bet.

I think Mavis is right - Rita does belittle her and Alan and Jenny treat her quite patronisingly as well.

Can't believe an MOT cost £66 in 1988. I paid £60 last month.

£20 for a duvet cover - again, you can get them for that price in supermarkets now.

The alcohol is very cheap though!

I think Don had work done to his car that was going to take the garage the cab company he works for uses several days to do - so he would have been off road and not earning and Brian did it there and then as Don was "family"..

The duvet did seem expensive. I remember paying £6 for a single polycotton duvet cover mid 80's in Primark (I didn't really like it - bright green and white stripes but for a student was cheap) but I do remember fancy ones (Sanderson, Laura Ashley) being around £30-50. A lot of people made their own covers and curtains back then and knitted to save money but it was starting to become cheaper to just buy things ready made especially if you were happy to buy non label/branded clothes.

Alcohol was cheap, so were cigarettes (but people still begged you to get duty free ones if going abroad). We didn't have Pret and Costa etc so a pub lunch a couple of days a week was very common - drinking at lunch time with work colleagues was fine as long as you weren't sloshed.

A drink (1/2 pint coke or cider, lager), a sandwich (toasted 5p extra) and a packet of crisps cost 75p in1985 when I worked in the student bar at uni and was very popular. By 1988 and working in London I often had wine or a couple of vodkas at lunch. It was very sociable and I remember feeling a nice calm when settling down again to work - although my boss often had 40 winks (no problem).

There was total outrage when I later worked in academia and management brought in new contracts ( 1990's) that made being drunk/impaired by alcohol on the job a "gross misconduct" issue. It really changed the culture.

I got a bit behind with these over the Easter holidays, but now I’ve finally caught up.

The feeling I got with the Sandra story and Bet and Glo’s attitude was that it was a bit of a public service thing going on. The writers made it clear in the end that there weren’t two sides to the story, which was what the other characters were suggesting and was often the feeling on DV at the time. Sandra’s husband was simply a violent bully, nothing else to it. Although I’ve never seen Corrie older than these episodes reading up on the past story lines I get the impression DV wasn’t taken seriously before Sandra, it was Stan knocking poor Hilda about and that kind of thing, almost played as comedy.

Tracyluv is now in her bedroom listening to her tapes. She will emerge in a few months (or maybe weeks with the compressed time of five weeks worth of episodes per week) looking like a completely different child... 😂

I am really disliking Don lately, feel Ivy rushed into marrying him without really knowing him, he is a gambler and a bit of a cheeky one trying to get Brian to do him cheap jobs on his car.

Don and ivy seemed an odd match

I loathe Don - always did. He's too familiar and invades personal space. Don't like his manner at all.

So Terry's back. What happened to his friend's wife he ran away with? Did I miss the story when he reappeared? TIA!

Terry just reappears and said it hasn't worked out

I'm glad Derek's back- I just love him and Mavis. When i was younger, I remember thinking that Mavis had a great life- her own flat, a job just downstairs, friends etc

Ooo Terry is horrid, not surprising given his parents though

Our Turreh has also come back with what looks like a bowl on his head. WTF did I ever fancy this man?

Our Turreh: still would.

Really want to watch but can't find when it's on.

6 am on ITV 3, 2 episodes each morning, Monday to Friday, also on ITV 3 + 1 straight after that, so you could watch them twice!
In the afternoon it’s ITV 3 again at 3::40 then repeated on ITV 3 + 1 straight after again. I usually watch the afternoon ones. Hope that helps