Classic Corrie part two

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Last thread is nearly full.

Why are Jack and Vera expected to pay for Lisa's funeral? Her parents are both still alive and well and earn money I assume.

They're not. Big gobbed Vera insisted on it incase people looked down on them for not paying. Makes no sense

Andys ponytail 🤔

I'm probably completely imaging it, but Neil's accent sounds different around Denise than it does around Angie

I’d completely forgotten about Mrs Grimes!

Good to see “One Cal” on the supermarket shelves. So popular back in the day.

I remember Vicky’s friend referring to Honkers. It’s one of the things that’s stuck in my mind from those days.

Is this the start of the failure of the MacDonalds’ marriage? Jim seems so resentful of Liz’s three week (!) promotion, but she’s really excited.

The water bed!

Am I right in thinking Don gets obsessed with Denise?

Yes I think he does. He is creepy AF. I actually feel so sorry for Ivy.
The water bed is so iconic. That closing shot of the white shoes!

The Don/Denise storyline was brilliantly written and acted.

Lynne Petrie claims in her (very candid!) autobiography that Geoff Hinsliff wanted his character to have a relationship with a younger cast member’s character, and made a snide remark about how he viewed himself as sexier than he was. In the end, the writers decided to go down the obsession route rather than relationship.

Perrie not Petrie

Thanks Liverbird, Yh Don is already creeping me out!

Bet is being totally unreasonable towards Liz. It's like she thinks she shouldn't be wanting better for herself by becoming a landlady

Blimey it was only a couple of weeks ago they were trying to portray Doug as some sort of sex god, he’s more like a caveman now

Am I the only one who felt really sorry for Percy when Mrs Clarke rejected him so cruelly?

She must have the emotional intelligence of a house brick if she couldn't read the signs and realise what was in Percy's heart.

It was so sad.

She was a lot nicer to him than he is to poor Phyllis !

I reckon she was trying to protect his feelings by pretending to think he was pranking.

Odd to propose to someone you’ve known for about six weeks.

If Phyllis posted on AIBU she’d be told to stop making a fool of herself.

Is that the end of the dreadful Neil? Certainly hope so.
Denise looked dreadful in that nasty dress and stupid hairdo/wig pieces It's all got a bit silly atm

I didn't like the Des/Derek war first time round and not enjoying now either.

I can't understand Angie being nice to Denise, I feel Denise is quite manipulative. Why did she accept a drink from Neil, was she hoping to make Hanif a bit jealous? I also think it's out of character for Angie to have put up with so much crap from Neil. He wasn't even attractive.

Totally agree about Neil and Denise walking into Rovers thinking she was all glam 🤔

I would have thought Neil was good looking when I was younger, you wouldn't put Neil and Denise together at all ,she has a very eclectic taste in men considering who her next bit romance is going to be with... I have said it before on this thread but Percy is the image of my Grandad,my Grandad is long dead now but he was never very happy when he was told how like Percy he was 😂,he was also a cook in the second world war,and was also full of war stories

Your poor grandad My dad looked like Alan Bradley, he wasn't best pleased when people ribbed him about that either.

I agree about Denise's next conquest, she goes from one age extreme to t'other.

Percy and Emily in the car with Bryan Ferry blasting!

Anyone else notice a very young looking Steve Halliwell (Zak Dingle in Emmerdale) as the barman in Liz McDonald's new pub The Queens?

Anna Friel has also recently been in both classic Corrie and classic Emmmerdale as a young teenager.

Fast forward to 14m20s to see a very youthful Zak

Yeah I noticed him he was also in it a while ago counting votes when Alf Roberts became Consellor, an ex of my sister's was an extra in the 90,S I don't think he ever got a big break but I have spotted him a few times in Classic Corrie it always amuses me 😂

Betty from Emmerdale (as Vivienne, a councillor friend of Alf's) was in an episode last week, Steve halliwell was also in that one.

Big man, Jim McD is a swine, so he is.

Audrey has really changed over the years, what a gossipy, sh*t stirrer and manipulator she used to be.

Don made my skin crawl first time round, same again. Run, Denise!