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CLASSIC CORRIE THREAD. Now in June 2006.

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SabreIsMyFave · 26/03/2025 13:51

Well here we are, a new thread a full year (almost) after the last one. Almost 2 years have passed (in Classic Corrie) since the start of the last thread (we were at September 2004, and it's now June 2006.)

So we have Keith still in it, about to be booted out of his house, after trying to get one over on Charlie Stubbs, who bought the house Keith is living in and gave him notice to move out. (And Keith and Audrey are finished now.)

Steve's girlfriend Ronnie appears to trying to set Steve up for the hit and run that she did in a Streetcars taxi.

Lloyd - Steve's new Streetcars partner has been dating Kelly Crabtree, who has recently been set up for a theft she didn't do by street newcomer Becky. In a drunken stupor, Kelly slept with Steve!

Janice is back (much to Cilla's disgust!)

Leanne and Danny have just got engaged. (Though Danny clearly is still in love with his ex wife Frankie...) Frankie has gone off to Spain leaving Nathan (her new fella) moping around without her. Les adopting Chesney has recently been approved.

Dev's 'long lost' daughter Amber has just moved in with him in his flat. And Dev is making the house he bought for him and Sunita, nice, in the hope that she will return soon with the baby twins (Asha and Aadi.)

Poor Ashley is fighting in court to keep his own son, after the 'bio father' (Matt) turned up trying to make a claim on him FOUR years after his birth, and after FOUR years of having nothing to do with him, (he wants him now because his new wife can't have children!) Ashley's wife Claire is quite heavily pregnant.

Sean has just recently met his dad, who was very cold and had a very unwelcoming wife when he went to see him. His dad came to Coronation Street shortly after to see Sean, but bottled out very quickly and drove off before Sean could see him. Sean prays he comes back.

We still have Blanche in it, being her nosey intrusive self, and also the equally nosey and intrusive Norris. Rita got caught in Norris's wardrobe recently after he had brought a woman home who he'd met in a lonely hearts club. That only lasted 5 minutes though after Norris decided he is better off alone!

Not much going on with the Barlows at the moment, apart from Tracey using everyone she can to look after Amy so she doesn't have to! And Gail is resuming normality as much as possible, after discovering that her son David was the one sending greetings cards signed 'Richard Hillman' for the past few months. David's punishment is to work at Audrey's salon. (Must be how he started working with hair!'

Sarah and Jason are due to be married, and Sarah is super excited about it. Jason, not so much. Sally and Kevin finally accepted the relationship with their daughter Rosie and her boyfriend Craig (the goth.) After many MANY months of resistance, and Rosie becoming a goth too. Rosie and Craig have recently de-gothed themselves though!

Oh, and we recently lost long-standing character Mike Baldwin who died of a massive heart attack. (April 2006.) Sad

I'm sure I've missed bits out, but I think these are the main bits for now. Grin

Let's see where it's all at when this thread finishes!

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CorporaINobbyNobbs · 02/02/2026 17:42

Is that Eve from EE as the mountain rescue person??

CorporaINobbyNobbs · 02/02/2026 17:43

Housewife2010 · 02/02/2026 17:22

I'm fed up of Maria's moaning. She's not a good enough actress to make me care.

There was far too many scenes of her just running round screeching in the dark! Ozzie is super cute though.

CorporaINobbyNobbs · 02/02/2026 17:53

Surely Steve and Michelle would have driven up to be with Maria? It’s only up the road

eta they have just decided they are going now!

Housewife2010 · 02/02/2026 17:59

Maria's rubbish emoting is all a waste of time. Liam may be fine now, but a life of service will call soon!

JewelleryCat · 02/02/2026 18:10

I bet Maria is going to cause another argument with Liam because he said Carla

Middlemarch123 · 02/02/2026 20:12

Yes, it’s Eve, from Eastenders, via London’s burning.
TBH, I didn’t think Maria’s acting was good, but the script was. What was so much better than current Corrie was the whole thing, hanging off a cliff, finding Liam was covered in two episodes. Now, they would string it out. Also it was interspersed with humour, Blanche at the Bookies for example. It was sharper, but embedded in its northern working class roots. Now it’s like a mash up of flashbacks, too much social issues, too bloody serious. Life is hard, we want to escape from reality, we want grass roots Corrie, strong characters. A bit of humour. A bit of reality we can relate to, just go back to basics current scriptwriters. Rant over x

SabreIsMyFave · 02/02/2026 21:22

Yes, Maria was a bit annoying today! 😬

But I was screaming at the TV at the mountain rescue team. GET A SEARCH HELICOPTER!! Why did they not send a search helicopter up? We have police search helicopters up, in the dark in my county sometimes if someone is missing, or if a criminal has got away or something .... They go around with a big search light... The helicopter didn't come til they had found Liam!

If I have the timeline vaguely correct, Maria and Liam got lost/Liam fell 70-100 feet off the cliff just before dark, which in early January (which it currently is on Classic Corrie,) would have been about 4.00pm to 4.15pm. 4.30pm at the latest. (Especially given how cloudy and murky it was.)

Then Maria got back to the hotel, when......? maybe in the evening/6pm or 7pm or so....? Then they 'found' Liam at about 9 or 10 in the morning the next day.... So, like maybe 17 hours after Liam fell? I am no expert, but would someone survive all that time outside, in freezing January temperatures in the Lake District, with rain pouring down on them?! Indeed, would he have survived the fall in the first place?

Ozzy is gorgeous though! 😃

But Liam calling out for Carla! Shock

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Middlemarch123 · 02/02/2026 21:42

I also found it implausible that Maria didn’t tell them she was pregnant. Also they should have got a helicopter launched to do an air search, but all in all I am enjoying classic much more than current. And Ozzy is gorgeous I agree

thecatdidit · 02/02/2026 21:44

I recognised the mountain rescue bloke, he used to be in Casualty .

CLASSIC CORRIE THREAD. Now in June 2006.
thecatdidit · 02/02/2026 21:46

And I wondered , too why they didn't send a helicopter up, we have the helicopter searchlights several times a week it seems down here in Kent. Perhaps it wasn't a thing in 2008.

x2boys · 03/02/2026 00:13

SabreIsMyFave · 02/02/2026 21:22

Yes, Maria was a bit annoying today! 😬

But I was screaming at the TV at the mountain rescue team. GET A SEARCH HELICOPTER!! Why did they not send a search helicopter up? We have police search helicopters up, in the dark in my county sometimes if someone is missing, or if a criminal has got away or something .... They go around with a big search light... The helicopter didn't come til they had found Liam!

If I have the timeline vaguely correct, Maria and Liam got lost/Liam fell 70-100 feet off the cliff just before dark, which in early January (which it currently is on Classic Corrie,) would have been about 4.00pm to 4.15pm. 4.30pm at the latest. (Especially given how cloudy and murky it was.)

Then Maria got back to the hotel, when......? maybe in the evening/6pm or 7pm or so....? Then they 'found' Liam at about 9 or 10 in the morning the next day.... So, like maybe 17 hours after Liam fell? I am no expert, but would someone survive all that time outside, in freezing January temperatures in the Lake District, with rain pouring down on them?! Indeed, would he have survived the fall in the first place?

Ozzy is gorgeous though! 😃

But Liam calling out for Carla! Shock

He was fairly well kitted out for the weather but with that very high unrealistic fall probably not IRL im surprised he didnt have head injuries
But yeah Ozzy was cute staying with his master my dog would do the same.

Shoecamp · 03/02/2026 14:07

Yeah I can’t see how he survived that fall, and then the cold over night!

thenightsky · 03/02/2026 14:43

It was probably the labrador, Ozzy, who kept him warm all night. I've heard of that happening.

Middlemarch123 · 03/02/2026 17:41

thenightsky · 03/02/2026 14:43

It was probably the labrador, Ozzy, who kept him warm all night. I've heard of that happening.

So have I, a dog will keep you warm and stay with you, a cat will claw you to wake you up to feed it!😂

CorporaINobbyNobbs · 03/02/2026 18:59

Never found it one bit believable that Tina would go out with David!

SabreIsMyFave · 03/02/2026 19:48

CorporaINobbyNobbs · 03/02/2026 18:59

Never found it one bit believable that Tina would go out with David!

It does seem a bit of a struggle to believe, but without giving away too many spoilers, she ends up at a point in the future with someone who is nowhere close to being in her league. David looks like a male model compared to him!

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SabreIsMyFave · 03/02/2026 19:55

Shoecamp · 03/02/2026 14:07

Yeah I can’t see how he survived that fall, and then the cold over night!

It does seem weirdly unlikely. The fall looked like it was 70-100 feet. Down jagged rocks and all. I have known people die from a fall of 25-35 feet (like from balconies, and third floor flats, and the like,) so with a fall that great, it seemes unlikely that Liam would have survived.

You do have to spend belief and reality sometimes on Corrie though! Grin

(And other soaps, and other shows too sometimes!)

Also, I do agree that even though it was cold, the layers of clothes that Liam was wearing, along with Ozzy snuggling up to him, could possibly have shielded him from the cold a bt.

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CorporaINobbyNobbs · 03/02/2026 21:19

SabreIsMyFave · 03/02/2026 19:48

It does seem a bit of a struggle to believe, but without giving away too many spoilers, she ends up at a point in the future with someone who is nowhere close to being in her league. David looks like a male model compared to him!

I know who you mean. And that storyline also is very unbelievable!

SabreIsMyFave · 04/02/2026 20:28

So Liam is home now and is OK. Smile He seems to be happy to be with Maria, but why did he say Carla's name when he was drifitng in and out of conciousness? 🤔

And why is Carla being so utterly vile to Maria? I don't recall her being so nasty.

Kevin has been incarcerated! Thanks to bloody Rosie! (and Stape!) Sally said she is done with her now. Good for her!

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Shoecamp · 04/02/2026 22:40

Agree Carla is awful, really spiteful and nasty

thenightsky · 04/02/2026 22:44

Carla asking Maria why does she hate her. Carla started it by calling Maria thick and stupid and being generally a complete bitch. How did she think maria would feel.

FlibbertyGibbitt · 05/02/2026 17:25

I think Ryan’s mate Phil who’s in the wheelchair went onto star in The Inbetweeners as the student in the wheelchair at the fashion show if anyone watched it !

x2boys · 06/02/2026 09:04

SabreIsMyFave · 04/02/2026 20:28

So Liam is home now and is OK. Smile He seems to be happy to be with Maria, but why did he say Carla's name when he was drifitng in and out of conciousness? 🤔

And why is Carla being so utterly vile to Maria? I don't recall her being so nasty.

Kevin has been incarcerated! Thanks to bloody Rosie! (and Stape!) Sally said she is done with her now. Good for her!

Carla is an utter Bitch she's clearly jealous of her relationship with Liam and thats she,s pregnant with his child
She's also horrible to the Factory staff like they are beneath her its 2008 in their time employees have rights which none of the factory owners past or present seem to be aware of
Yeah Rosie needed to be told by Sally.

thecatdidit · 06/02/2026 17:29

I found Tina McIntyre's introduction to Corrie really abrupt. One minute she's in the medical centre and the next in David's bed 😂

x2boys · 06/02/2026 19:14

Oh Vera 😪😪