Classic Corrie Thread. Now in September 2004.

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Continuing from the last thread when 2003 begins! Doesn't time fly in Classic Corrie? The last thread was started 10 months ago, and we have powered through a year and 8 months in that time (20 months.) Wonder where we will be by the end of this one? (If it does eventually come to an end?)

Karen (McDonald) has been stressing about the death of her mum - and trying to be a better person, Martin and Katie are still together, (though Katie's dad Tommy is unimpressed by it,) Kelly Crabtree has just come in, Cilla abandoned Chesney to go on holiday with Les, Sunita and Dev are together at last, and Maya is about to go on a rampage after appearing to forge Sunita's signature for something.

Also, Sean has just come in and started living with Eileen (still is I think!) Jason and Todd are still in it, and Danny Baldwin and his wife Frankie are in charge of Underworld now, with Daniel's 'Uncle Mike' taking lots more time off. Oh, and Danny's son Jamie has just arrived, followed by Frankie and Danny's son Warren...

Charlie the builder is dating Shelly the barmaid, and Sally has just recently started turning into a snob. Jack (Duckworth) was dressed as Ida Fagg posing as a woman for the bowls team, and Norris, Blanche, and Emily have been playing poker!

Roy and Hayley are still together, Ciaran the handsome Irish barman is trying to start up his own business with Penny King, Steve seems to be warming to his little daughter (baby Amy,) and at the moment, there doesn't seem to be much drama with Gail and Audrey's family, or the Barlows, or the Websters, or with Fred and Ashley. Ashley and Clare are dating, but it's still a bit up in the air.

Hope I haven't missed much out, but that covers most stuff going on right now I think. Let's see how much has changed by the end of this thread.

Whats wrong with Gail? Are we post Richard hillman, is that why she's on the anti depressants? x

I miss this corrie so badly 😢

Hillman been dead a couple of years I think. Someone has been sending Gail cards — on birthdays, Christmas etc.. signed Richard. She thinks it’s his writing. Suspected Phil the reflexologist so split with him. She’s accused Eileen of sending them, thinks everyone is talking about her ( well tbh they are) so hence the anti depressants.

Classic Corrie is so much better than present day. The humour is brilliant.

Thank you 🙂

I saw her confronting Eileen last week, to which she got a very awful response 😭

Agree - there's nothing huge going on in terms of the storylines but its far more interesting

Norris has had a fall, and the fallout is far more interesting than the recent knife crime story they did on current corrie

Soaps should be about character and day to day interactions, that's when they're best!

I agree @mumofoneAlonebutokay Tony Warren who “invented” Corrie in 1960 was inspired by the neighbourhood he’d grown up in and in particular the strong women, how everyone supported each other. He remembered the humour that sort of welded people together even when they were living in poverty. He was a really interesting man, young when he first wrote Corrie.

What an amazing achievement by him - the classic Corrie episodes really reflect that 🙌, you grow to know and love the characters

Obsessed with norris 😭😭

Feel a bit bad for this woman sleeping on Kelly and Lloyds sofa 😬

Today's episodes were so funny, the mix up with Roy thinking Vera was having a serious mental disaster, Blanche's "no, I was looking for a peppermint...", what a shame it's lost the comedic element.

Maya (Dev’s scary ex) just cropped up as Bergerac’s boss in the new series.

Where is Dev? And Sunita? Can’t remember what happened with them when they were last on but the shop hasn’t been shown for ages. No Amber either

I saw her tourist! It took me a minute to place her even though she looks the same. Vera chucking out Roy and Hayley was funny. Becky is horrible when she’s thwarted but I think she was just trying to show gratitude for the nice place to stay but doesn’t have boundaries. She grew into a fantastic very memorable character though.

Me and DH were wondering this exact same thing yesterday. I said, at the pace Corrie was shown originally, it would have been a good couple of months without them by now. They're not even mentioned by anyone.

I also don't understand why Craig and his dad don't go to see Angela. And I also agree with the previous posters saying Corrie has lost its humour. You get the odd funny moment with Tim or Steve or Sally and maybe a couple of others. But this is rare.

Coronation Street now (2020s) has turned into what Eastenders turned to in the late noughties/early 2010s, all gritty crime drama and murders and gangsters, and that's why I stopped watching it. I got sick of it. I don't want Corrie to go down that same route.

I've been with Corrie since the mid 1970s when I was a child... It's like a comfortable old blanket, or an old friend I've known since school - and I really don't want to desert it and stop watching it because I feel like it's a part of my life, like a really old friend or family member. Gets on my nerves sometimes, but I still love it and don't want to desert it.

I know it sounds daft/dramatic, but I feel let down by it these days. It really is getting on my tits now - with all the naughty boy borstal centres, and the prisons, and the crimes, and the murders, and the gangsters, and the 'hard men!' I really wish it would go back to what it was pre 2010. Just a good old fashioned soap opera, about a bunch of working class northerners, strong feisty women, daft but loveable men, cheeky teenagers defying their parents and breaking the rules, and women scrapping in the street over something daft! I know it had the odd rogue (Alan Bradley, Richard Hillman, Maya etc,) but it wasn't almost completely dominated by crime and hard men and gangsters and boys in and out of borstal.

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I love your post @SabreIsMyFave I absolutely concur. I stopped watching a few years ago when they made Nick steal from Audrey. Two of my favourite characters (I’ve been in love with Nick since his footballers wives days) who I just didn’t believe he would have behaved that way. The crazy gangsta storylines and no characters with redeeming traits just wore me down. I loved the family connections and the silliness and squabbles over family life that were relatable. It seems like they just want to be the first to do “groundbreaking” storylines but the original groundbreakers were things like the brookside lesbian kiss, or the Shelley DV storyline, things that could happen and would have repercussions in real families. How many families are getting members picked off by neighbours on a monthly basis? GO BACK TO BASICS CORRIE.

Hard agree x

Omg how evil is becky

Watching it for the first time, and to think, I was feeling bad for her yesterday

Edit - I've seen corrie on the tv growing up but haven't always followed the storylines

Agree with this

It doesn't sound daft at all, I'm the same, watched eastenders since birth (I am an eastender 🤭) and watched corrie throughout my life - the shows matter to people 😄

If I wanted a gritty crime series, I'd pop onto the iplayer 🙄

I didn’t realise how evil Becky was. Think the first time I saw her she was with Steve, working in the pub maybe and she seemed ok, quite funny too.

I've also grown up with Corrie from the 70's, DS1 was asking me, while watching Classic Corrie, when I would stop watching. I've been struggling to remember when I stopped but I know it was when it became indistinguishable from Eastenders and I just fell out of love with it.

Phelan was the nastiest villian, that's when the rot set in.

I don’t watch modern Corrie but if I catch a second of it, it seems very much like watching a tv set rather than a real place. The pub never has anyone in it and the factory doesn’t look like a factory. Everything just seems forced and weird

I agree the rot set in around Phelan time. He was an awful character and he stayed far too long (and ruined Eileen).

I'm watching Classic but am weeks behind - Mike is still alive! I loved the new Baldwins, great characters and the plotting was so good.

Modern Corrie has had all that stripped out of it, even previously good characters are let down by terrible plots. And as you say @ImNotThereAmI there is no heart or atmosphere to it, every set is sparsely populated and there are no casual interactions. And I don't think we've seen inside t'Kabin since Covid.

@SabreIsMyFave spot on!
I still record the modern episodes, if I can be bothered to watch I fast forward through loads of it.
Can you imagine a storyline with any of the current actors about an umbrella, like we saw yesterday with Rita and Emily? More likely it would be a murder weapon, a who-dunnit lasting 6 months, 38 suspects and 68 flashbacks.
I'd love another Blanche character, with her Polish hip and sharp tongue, just the right side of vicious 😜
Evelyn was close, is she coming back?

Agree and its the same with current eastenders, it very much looks and feels like a wooden set 😕

The factory is like a Tardis, compared to the old set!
I'm hooked on the Kelly/Becky story, I can't remember how it pans out.