Classic Corrie

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

Nice article about Mark Eden. He was 60 in the recent scenes with Rita - he looked younger I think which made him about 30 years older than Dawn!
www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/former-coronation-street-star-wishes-11923918

He did work after Corrie but in bit parts and one off episodes. He was a very busy actor before Corrie though.

Wow you'd never think he was 60 then

I can't believe how much older he is than sue Nichols. They looked about the same at the time

Who is the guy who's the CID officer. Ive seen him in other things but no idea what

I think he was in The Bill, I know his face but not his name.

Oh Rita, for a smart business woman running her own shop she didn't learn a lesson after Bradley spaffed the 6k business loan on a new car and turning your back on him in mid rage when the phone was ringing... tsk tsk..
Excellent acting though especially with the Dawn Prescot storyline.
I tire of Derek Wilton & his imaginary boss, first it was the imaginary wife, now this. Bradley should have bumped him off.
Im sure Bet Lynch interviewed Mandy Jordache (Brookside) for the Barmaids job.
Loving the cafe radio playing all that nostalgia, Jenny's dimples, Rita's shoulder pads, Emily's love interest, Gail's bouncy hair, anything Bet Lynch and Martin being a good lad.
And hearing classic phrases "laddo" "listen lady!" "by eck" "eckers"
It's the best thing on TV!

ToffeeNosed you are right about Mandy Jordache. The new barmaid is the girl from Rita, Sue and Bob too isn't she? Watching Friday's episodes this morning with my coffee - a real tonic after last night's contemporary Phelan hokey. So much more tension in the Bradley story and better writing.

I do hope Jack isn't fiddling the till.

kikashi - Yes she was (my favourite film) and I think she was a barmaid in Emmerdale.
Of course Gloria was Jimmy Corkhill's wife in Brookie (another one with fantastic hair).
Proper story telling, even the mudane is interesting Percy not wanting Don Brennan to park outside Emmily's - lol and last night him threading a needle spoiling the romantic dinner!
Yes I wondered if Jack was fiddling but he was angry at MIL for thieving wondered if he was getting ill.
I stopped watching Corrie after Des Barnes died so not up to press on new story lines but loving the old re-runs.

I wonder how quickly it will catch up to today's episode if there are 2 episodes a day? I never want it to end.

I think ITV3 Corrie started from 1986? I wish it had started in the early70's. Derek Wilton was wooing Mavis in the 70's?

I too never want it to end Toffee. Love your posts! ☺

It started from January 1986, last October. The episodes now are from March 1989. I don’t have the right brain to work out when it’ll catch up with present day Corrie but I’d guess maybe in five years.

In 1989, I think at the point Alan meets the Blackpool tram, it goes from two episodes a week to three which means we’ll be catching up more slowly. At the moment it’s roughly a year every five weeks.

Is it just me or are there some new camera Angles in the episode

I wonder why they chose 1986.

I'm wondering too, Chevalier.

I thought they chose it as it was the arrival of Alan Bradley and he was such a famous character. Also the arrival of sally.

I loved that scene with Mavis, Derek and Bet, when Mavis was telling Derek he was like Cupid, with his tummy all bare! Bet’s face was a picture! And Jack getting glasses £28 all in !

There was a discussion about Classic Corrie starting in 1986 at the start of this thread. IIRC ITV said they couldn't show the earlier series as there were complex rights issues and even the old ones that are being shown have restrictions which mean they can't be put on catch up but can be recorded "live".

CoolCarrie I agree - that scene was pure Corrie gold. The casual way Rita talked about being thumped by a past lover and Sally talking about her dad knocking about her mum and the Sandra Stubbs storyline sound quite shocking now about how violence against women was accepted and rationalised by many people.

They're talking about Alma in current Corrie and when I look her up it says she's in the cafe from 1988, I've only started on the classic episodes a couple of weeks ago, have I just missed her?

Yes, she's on screen occasionally - eg a couple of weeks ago (current broadcast rate, so probably months ago when first broadcast!) she appeared and was arguing with Gail about the future direction of the business (bike sandwich delivery, with delivery girl being Gina, Sally's sister). So you've just missed that, but you haven't missed everything.

It stays intermittent IIRC, until the romance with Mike begins.

Thanks Edith!

I was just reading the Coronation Street wiki, apparently the episode after Alan tried to kill Rita had an audience of 26.93 million, corrie’s highest ever.

I liked the little scene in Alf’s shop where Ivy was shopping for the picnic. Alf told her Nicky loved salmon paste sandwiches, that’s probably not a sentence which has been uttered about any child for the last twenty years. I remember from my childhood fish paste sandwiches being something more endured than enjoyed. I’m not sure you can even still get fish paste.

Shipphams pastes are still sold in the supermarket (about 80p) although other than Fizz who made Ty have paste sandwiches when they were on an economy drive to pay off his loans a while back I'm not sure who buys them.

I recall that fish paste was incredibly salty. Luckily my mother disliked paste so we were very posh and had tinned salmon.

We still have salmon paste on sandwiches, its nice with cheese.

Is it Primula cheese with prawns? I was so jealous of my friend whose mum bought primula.

No, it’s kind half way between pate and slurry. Iirc it’s salty, gritty and fishy, and especially pungent when sat in a lunch box in a hot classroom all morning. There were all kinds of sandwich paste, various fish ones but also beef, ham and chicken.