Classic Corrie

[Kannet]

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

Got my mum onto it too. She's going to tell me which one she missed due to giving birth to me 😂

What day and time is this on?

I find the contrast between young Jenny and Fay interesting. Jenny seems so much more grown-up despite having fewer serious and dramatic storylines. Speaking of which, it's nice not to be "educated" about "issues" all the time. I'm enjoying the strong dialogue and characterisation.

Young Tracy looks a lot like current Amy.

Will Gail recall her own moment of madness in 1986 when she learns about Nicola's pregnancy I wonder? Some hope!

I love Sally's outfits.

Brilliant acting from everyone on the cast. There are no duffers in there.

Terry is hot.

Bet is an icon. As is Hilda. Brilliant writing and great actors.

It's October half-term now so the '86 Christmas eps will be on soon - yay!

groovee it’s on Monday to Friday around 2.30 I think. ITV3. Two episodes a day

@SergeantFredColon cheers, recording now set

I'm enjoying this so much. We are getting a week's worth every day because it was only on twice a week back then.

Even the street is more realistic with the factory taking one whole side of the street instead of those ridiculous houses.

The conversations are longer and more realistic and the scenes are about 5 times as long as they are now. As I said on the normal Corrie thread, the current writers should be forced to watch this.

I can't watch it as it's not on catch up

I did wonder if the writers have been watching it. Vera was terrifying and so mouthy. I did ponder if they saw it and decided to make Beth more Vera-ish as she has got a lot nastier and gobbier recently (after her "rehabilitation" over the past few years).

I'm fascinated by the prices. Emily paid 53p for a pound of tomatoes in Alf's but Brian only paid 35p for a half pint and Susan 43p for an orange juice (which was a tiny Britvic mixer) in the pub.

Teenage Jenny is great. Love, love,love Hilda - her and Kev are so sweet (Mrs.O). Bet and Gloria are being so nice to Sally. That niceness and camaraderie just doesn't exist in it anymore. Does anyone think that Gloria has come back from running away from Jenny's dad very pregnant (IRL)?

I also thought the actress currently playing Amy looks uncannily like 1986 Tracy!

Rewatching it I love Percy Sugden

The Gloria actress did have a baby boy at around that time or maybe a bit later. He ended up acting on CS as well - he played Rosie's boyfriend Craig when she was in her goth phase.

It's on right now (weekdays, from 6am) on ITV 3

I don't think Vera is remotely like Gemma. Vera has lots to say, and is mile-a-minute in a very articulate way. She's not just hobby. Indeed I think all characters have a lot more to say and are far more artilcate.

It's surprisingly good given the depths to which the programme has recently sunk. I was an avid watcher since the 70s but now I can't be bothered. I know why now!

It was proper quality drama, full of sharp comedy and well-cast characters. The casting of Terry and Jack is brilliant-they look exactly like father and son.

God knows what the oldsters like Barbara Knox are thinking.

To be fair to the current writers, it must be harder to compete with other programmes now and retain quality AND relevance.

I agree that Nigel Pivaro and William Tarmey are very similar. However, Jack was not Terry's biological father. That came out about ten years ago in a storyline that I found quite strange, because Vera wouldn't have cheated on Jack early in their relationship. I think the writers wanted a device to explain why Jack was a better father figure to Tyrone than he was to Terry, but it could have been explained easily by the fact that he was older and wiser when Tyrone came into his life.

Mmm....I'm not so sure about Vera not cheating. Things went on then as they do now but people didn't tend to acknowledge things or admit to them as much...

So I think a plot involving unfaithfulness MAY have worked. However a device involving Tyrone' s youth would have worked as well. I can't remember what happened to Tyrone's mother though? She was brilliamt-another fab comedy performance.

Vera wrote a letter to jack saying she thought terry might not be his, but jack said he knew he was As they where a similar

Enjoying these episodes so much. Have only been watching since 2000s, catching up is great.

I love the family ties, so many people related to people still in it now.

How long do you think they’ll keep showing them for? Have they ever done this before?

I liked Terry complaining what an annoying "work wife" Curly was.

It is all more calm and measured. They take a problem and explore it. Not rushing on to the next thing.Vera has been really horrible to Susan but you can feel compassion for her looking at life on the dole and the prospect of "not working again" given the economic climate at the time - which they do discuss a good bit and also as part of the reason Gail and Brian wanted to emigrate (the economy/dole/benefits/politics is never mentioned now). The characters are also quite compassionate about Gail's situation and Ivy is so measured compared to how I remember her.
Currently, for example, Robert has just come out of prison but instead of exploring how he might feel about the difficulties of his time inside, how it might affect his business (licensing etc), the impact on his state of mind. He is out and no problems, fine about prison (like Izzy) and bang straight into a big cancer storyline.

I have just started watching, or should that be re-watching! I can vaguely remember watching it then, I would have been 16. Oh what I wouldn't give for a time machine!

Seems odd to see a nineteen year old getting married.

Yes, no one has discussed Sally's age. If a current 19ish year old were to get engaged (Craig, say) there would be comments about rushing into it. Were things really that different in 1986? I can't remember. I suppose that Hilda was from the generation that married quite young so it wouldn't have been odd to her.

Has Sally had a celebration for her 50th birthday in the current series? I remember Kevin's a couple of years ago, but not hers.

I never realised that Percy and Kev were related by marriage. I also don't recall a much younger sibling of Kevin's. He or she would be 30 now.

Some terrible attitudes to women. Still, that's what it was like. I remember an elderly uncle in the 1980s saying that women shouldn't be allowed to join the police/armed forces or play at his golf club, and he had refused to let his wife learn to drive.

It's crazy how much has changed In thirty years. It really surprised me

I dont think it odd, I was married with a child at 19 in 1989. I suppose nowadays it might seem a bit young.

Quite a few people got engaged after finishing A levels and I went to a lot of weddings in the year after Uni. I was surprised Sally thought she would be a spinster if she didn't marry Kev asap - they haven't been going out that long. I knew many people who had quite long engagements - they needed to save.

The attitudes to women in it stink. Even when I watched it first time round I thought it a bit dated. In 1986 I was living with my BF as were many of my friends in quite a "backward/religious" place. We all had ambition and professional jobs and thought we were "equal" to men and expected our BF's to cook, clean etc. I did get asked at interviews about kids/wedding plans etc. It was harder to get a professional job that had training and more ongoing exams.

A few years on I do remember some people commenting they were glad that a male colleague got promoted over several women candidates as "he had a big mortgage to pay" - as if the women didn't (and this guy's wife was a very successful writer and they lived in house the rest of us could only dream of). This was a shock as I had moved to London and expected it to be more forward thinking/PC.

As far as remember, 19 was about the standard age for settling down. Most people that age had been working since 16, and fewer went on to HE. I remember feeling rather cool and grand about going to University, but my mother never forgave me for leaving my home village.

Yes, attitudes to women were shit. I was accused of "taking a job away from a man"!

DP had a mortgage at 21. You got a mortgage as soon as you could. We seemed much "older" than young adults today.