Classic Corrie part two

[Kannet]

Last thread is nearly full.

Ah yes Betty Eagleton! I love spotting "crossover" actors, Butch Dingle was in a single episode of Classic Corrie a while back as well, as a policeman who deals with Steve McDonald's car accident aftermath.

Also loving Emily's one-woman war against the wheel clampers.

Just how long did those fish and chip papers stay on the McDonald's table?

Seemed like about three days to me

Mike tore Doug's postcard into four pieces, but when the policeman took it is was in one piece. If Kev had taped it back together surely Mike would have said something?

I noticed that too, poor continuity.

The Butch Dingle actor also appeared briefly a couple of years ago as Craig’s father.

Is it just me or does anyone else think there was something strangely odd about the 'feel' of yesterday's (Friday) episodes?

Whether it was the writing, the directing or the editing, I don't know, but there was definitely something!!

Really, ConfCall?

Oh that is genius! Perfect casting

I like it better than today's Corrie!
Audrey was a right stirrer!

This thread is more than a year old!

Why is it so slow-moving?

Come on! Get writing!

Imagine if Maureen asked for advice about her mother on AIBU.

Actually, it’s a bit close to home for me. My grandmother was unpleasant to my aunt’s (lovely) husband because she resented him. Awful behaviour.

Flighty, lazy Audrey is still working at age 80 in current CS.

Can’t see the Denise character deserting her 15 year old son in future either.

WheresThatCatGoneNow
I've watched the last 2 episodes this morning and I agree - there was something odd about them, I thought they were very bitty & didn't flow.

Does anyone else think that Hanif looks a bit like an Asian Terry Duckworth?

Ha ha,I thought that about Hanif too!

me too! That thin ponytail (shudder).

I keep watching for signs of when Steve McD stopped acting like a normal person and started doing his gurning and baby talk (like a young Jack Duckworth).

God Vera really is horrible. Cant believe the way she (& Jack) are behaving towards Curly over her shoplifting

They tried to avoid paying Alf/Brendan and now this.

Actually, I don’t like them as a couple. I think Jack’s behaviour towards her is toxic. They’re brilliantly written and acted, but what a miserable existence in that scruffy house, with little respect on either side and infidelity to boot. I suppose that was the reality for Jacks and Veras up and down the country though.

Yeah Vera,s vile,she pushes everyone away ,I think they mellow in later years though.

I.have never understood the lay out in Jack and vera,s house why do they have a cooker and sink in the lounge ,why don't they have a kitchen like everyone else? This puzzled me for years .

I think they mellow in later years though

I think so. How they are just now isn't how I remember them

x2boys - it's more of a 'living-kitchen.

Very often the set-up in those two up, two down terraced houses if a little kitchen extension has not been built-on.

My great-auntie lived in just such a house for sixty years, and, just like Jack and Vera, never used her front room!

I suppose it makes sense, really. If money is tight, there's no point heating rooms that you don't really need to use.

There used to be lots of those terraced streets round here (l'm in Lancashire) but they all gradually disappeared in the late 1980s. Bit sad, really.

Very often, tiny kitchens (such as Kevin &Sally's or Emily's) were created by knocking through into the existing outside toilet and wash-house, and converting those spaces into a kitchen area.

I'm in Greater Manchester so not far eirher, yeah my Grandma had a terrace and they never used the front room either it was always for "best " strange though as they six kids in a crammed house and didn't use one room!It's just all the way there houses in the street seemed to have a kitchen so Jack and Vera,s house always confused me ,but it makes sense they might have built a kitchen on later .

Racquel’s french lessons with Ken coming up...

Can’t wait for the French lessons! I’m a couple of days behind.

It’s 1994 soon. Fred Elliot is imminent. I say, Fred Elliot is imminent.