Classic Corrie

[Kannet]

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

Definitely agree about Maria. I feel exhausted just watching her!

Meant to type Mavis!

Oh the party at the builders, the music, the clothes, ooo what memories! I am around the same age as Jenny and met my husband at the end of 1987 when i was 17. i wanna go back

I loved Jenny's yellow earrings in the party scene. I had a pair in white.

Terry is indeed hot. Lucky Dulcie.

Off to google the book mentioned earlier! I've downloaded Melvin Bragg's 1995 interview with Tony Warren and some cast members too - it's on Sky Arts.

Just thought I'd mention that a lot of old episodes are on Youtube, including some of the 1986 - 7 episodes we've been discussing.

When is it back on?

Think it starts back on 2nd Jan - I've really missed it.

Me too. Its left an unexpected void

Yep, it's back on Tuesday. I was worrying that it wouldn't return! I much prefer it to current CS.

it's back today. I can wallow in nostalgia for the big hair and big jumpers again

Bet's pink dress, I had one just the same but in a shiny black material,thought I looked fab in it!

Hooray!!! I watch it early in the morning when no one else is up with my coffee - like a warm, comfy blanket. I love all the mohair cardis and jumpers - I remember knitting black and red ones for myself in my student digs whilst watching Corrie (and Dynasty etc) in the early 80's.

Loving Our Turreh. I think it's a shame that they made him such a villain in the end, he's quite a normal Jack-the-lad type in the Classic episodes.

Alf Roberts is my favourite, though. What a lovely character. Well meaning and kind without being a saccharine saint.

I would love to marry Alf. Audrey was lucky. I didn't "get" it at the time (I was a kid and I would've gone for Kev or Our Turreh) but I can see why she thought she was fortunate and why still talks of him fondly. He was a lovely stepdad too.

I also had Bet's pink dress in black! It came from the Freemans catalogue I think. My mother thought it was too old for me but reluctantly said that at 14, I could wear what I liked. So I did!

I read Bill Pidmore's remarks about Wendy Jane Walker's acting the other day. Poor woman, it sounds as if she was out of her depth. He also said that Anne Kirkbride had a photographic memory and knew her lines having read them once!

Was watching this morning and quite shocked at home Alec Gilroy kept telling Gloria how section she was and instead of telling him to feck off, she just stood and simpered. I'd forgotten how funny Percy was.

Sexy ffs not section!

and Percy yesterday talking about Dierdre; "a woman's place is in the home"

The open sexism is awful. I do remember comments like that from older family members though. My great uncle didn't think that women should be allowed to drive, join the forces, or go into the bar in his golf club. His wife was like Hilda in that she believed that married women should know how to cook and clean for their men. They both supported Mrs Thatcher though!

I noticed the golly on the jam jar in Alf's shop today. Another anachronism.

Alec is such a sleaze. Sally called Terry an MCP when he said politics was man's work. I'd forgotten how popular that term was! Ken is just horrid - no wonder Deirdre had an affair a few years before (with Mike).

I'd deliver 100 leaflets in a street of terraced houses with no gardens for £7.50! Wow Alf was really overpaying. Probably what he pays Sally for a full days work.

Bet looked fabulous (a bit like a drag queen) in her sequins and stole but have you ever seen anyone dressed like that in a restaurant?

Yeah, I thought Bet looked very glamorous in her sparkly dress!

The sexism, reminds me of my grandad, he thought women should not receive an education, no point, their place was in the home, he told his wife, my grandmother, early on in their marriage that she was NOT to ever wear trousers, only skirts, which she did for the next 40+ years!

Old Dinosaur. twat

I think lots of you are being too hard on the women and their 'reaction'
mostly they ignored such blatent sexism and many of that generation were actually very strong women who could well hold their own against MCPs.
My father in the 1960s (way before the 80s) opined that education is wasted on women but my mother and auntie both encouraged myself and my sister to go to university - and we did. Please don't assume that all of us who grew up in that era were cowed and bowbreaten by the men - we achieved equality in the 1970s - we were educated and following full time professional careers.

Corrie and the restricted life of working class women were a throwback in the 1980s.
Sorry - did not mean to preach and go OT but I find it grating that younger women assume we were still likely to be willing victims of discrimination/sexism in the 1980s.

Just watched the last week's worth of episodes all in one go. You can actually see Alfs heart attack coming a mile off.

Fabulous episodes these last couple of mornings. Audrey asking the doctor when she & Alf could resume their marital relations - Alf was very embarrassed. A huge amount of enormous blonde fluffy hair on the Street. I noticed today that the actress playing Terry's lover (with the worst hair) is giving beauty tips in this month's Prima. The actor playing her husband returned a few years later as Gary Mallett.

I’ve got into watching these, and I ended up down an Internet rabbit hole on the Corrie wiki the other night reading the character biographies.

I was quite shocked at Hilda’s. I’ve never seen an episode with Stan and Hilda always speaks fondly of him, but if the biog is to believed he was an awful man who drank heavily, physically abused Hilda and frequently cheated on her. They also had two of their four children taken into care, both of whom had disabilities. That all seems very grim for a character who at least by the 80s was essentially comic relief.

The wiki also gives the price Stan and Hilda paid for their house in the 60s. I can’t remember how much it was, but I used a site to convert it to today’s money and it worked out at around £8, 200 pounds. I don’t know what terraced houses in Manchester suburbs go for now, but I bet it’s a damn sight more than a little over eight thousand pounds.

The first two Ogden children never really featured in the show - they're like a stub which never developed. The other two do crop up (well, I remember Trevor, and Irma is frequently mentioned)

Stan had a bad past, but mellowed. And Hilda was of the 'what can't be cured must be endured' school (who didn't believe in divorce) and was pretty tough in her way.

The sexism is indeed appalling, but it was always countered by the actions of the female characters (who were strong back then - watching this shows up how flimsy they are now) either answering back, or condemning later in conversations between themselves. And those who espoused them are usually shown to be dinosaurs/ridiculous (last done well with Les Battersby, I think)

Perhaps only those of us who remember Emily, Rita and Audrey from back then still like the characters in today's version, because we see the glimmers of their former selves.