"Coronation Street" (1960) TV series 1960-????

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Directors:

Neil Alderton
Michael Apted

Writers:

Cyril Abraham (writer)
Jim Allen (writer)

Seasons:

1 | unknown

Release Date:

9 December 1960 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The UK's longest-running TV soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working class people in Manchester, England.

Plot Keywords:

Working Class | Soap | Manchester England | Street In Title | Soap Opera

Awards:

86 wins & 104 nominations

Cast

Helen Worth	...	Gail Platt / ... (873 episodes, 1974-2009)
Simon Gregson	...	Steve McDonald (844 episodes, 1989-2009)
William Roache	...	Ken Barlow / ... (818 episodes, 1960-2009)
Beverley Callard	...	Liz McDonald (743 episodes, 1989-2009)
Barbara Knox	...	Rita Sullivan / ... (740 episodes, 1964-2009)
Anne Kirkbride	...	Deirdre Barlow / ... (739 episodes, 1972-2009)
Sue Nicholls	...	Audrey Roberts / ... (721 episodes, 1979-2009)
Sally Whittaker	...	Sally Webster / ... (703 episodes, 1986-2009)
Michael Le Vell	...	Kevin Webster / ... (636 episodes, 1981-2009)
Eileen Derbyshire	...	Emily Bishop / ... (615 episodes, 1961-2009)
Jennie McAlpine	...	Fiz Brown (558 episodes, 2001-2009)
Antony Cotton	...	Sean Tully (546 episodes, 2003-2009)
William Tarmey	...	Jack Duckworth / ... (521 episodes, 1977-2009)
Ryan Thomas	...	Jason Grimshaw (501 episodes, 2000-2009)
Samia Smith	...	Maria Sutherland / ... (498 episodes, 2000-2009)
Sue Cleaver	...	Eileen Grimshaw (494 episodes, 2000-2009)
Jack P. Shepherd	...	David Platt (490 episodes, 2000-2009)
Elizabeth Dawn	...	Vera Duckworth / ... (455 episodes, 1972-2008)
Malcolm Hebden	...	Norris Cole / ... (429 episodes, 1974-2009)
Betty Driver	...	Betty Turpin / ... (428 episodes, 1969-2009)
Kym Marsh	...	Michelle Connor (421 episodes, 2006-2009)
Jane Danson	...	Leanne Battersby / ... (412 episodes, 1997-2009)
Vicky Entwistle	...	Janice Battersby (408 episodes, 1997-2009)
David Neilson	...	Roy Cropper (391 episodes, 1995-2009)
Maggie Jones	...	Blanche Hunt / ... (370 episodes, 1967-2009)
Johnny Briggs	...	Mike Baldwin / ... (369 episodes, 1974-2006)
Alan Halsall	...	Tyrone Dobbs (368 episodes, 1998-2009)
Tupele Dorgu	...	Kelly Crabtree (366 episodes, 2004-2009)
Jenny Platt	...	Violet Wilson (363 episodes, 2004-2008)
Katherine Kelly	...	Becky Granger (360 episodes, 2006-2009)
Steven Arnold	...	Ashley Peacock (360 episodes, 1995-2009)

Also Known As:

"Corrie" (UK) (informal title)
"Florizel Street" (UK) (working title)
"The Street" (UK) (informal title)
"Where No Bird Sings" (UK) (working title)

Runtime:

30 min (including commercials)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White (1960-1969 and 1970-1971) | Color (1969-1970 and 1971-)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (1960-1989) | Stereo (1990-)

Certification:

Australia:PG | Canada:PG | UK:PG | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

Granada Studios, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Company:

Granada Television

Trivia:

The only time the series' theme tune has been significantly rearranged for transmission was in episode 1170 in April 1972, where Emily Nugent married Ernie Bishop. Steve Race provided a jazz interpretation of Eric Spear's music, which played the episode out over a shot of Albert Tatlock and Minnie Caldwell walking down the Street from the wedding reception. Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas! (1997) (V), a video-only soap-bubble, featured a suitably transatlantic cover courtesy of Mike Stock and Matt Aitken.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the episode, 22/11/2004, (where Dev's corner shops are blown up by Maya) Dev drives his Saab to the shop which is about to be blown up, he parks the car directly outside the shop. Also parked directly outside the shop is another car. As the shop blows up, the camera changes angle to show the blast and Dev's car has somehow disappeared, just leaving the other car in shot.

Quotes:

Rita Littlewood: Did you ever run away from home?
Norris Cole: No, I most certainly did not!
Rita Littlewood: That must have been a great disappointment to your mother!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Sex, Lies & Soaps: Appearance (#1.4)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

I am, I feel

A good, appealing show - that lost its ultimate, intriguing 'superbitch' - Tracy Barlow

Those who watched this soap-opera 45+ years ago will be stunned at the tension, gay relationships (not that they are at all harmful), the catfights, the swearing and the dark, dramatic events that occur; events that are totally shocking and unexpected but that's what draws in viewers, isn't it? I know back in the 1960s/70s/early 80s it was a whole lot calmer but this is the turn of the 21st Century and - I know things shouldn't have to change so quickly - but dramatic darkness and lifelike betrayal is the main appeal as far as television is concerned. Last month saw Kate Ford leave the soap who played Coronation Street's biggest super-bitch Tracy Barlow; though I was mildly fed up at how this ultimate troublemaker was no longer to be featured in Corrie, I know she deserved it all - she was locked up in prison and this imprisonment is to go on for at least the next 15 years! 15 YEARS!!! What a long time! And by that time, baby Amy will be a teenager so, logically speaking, she won't see her own daughter's childhood! Mind you, while I don't take any pleasure in a majority of things she said and did, I do actually agree with her mean remarks and, yes, even her many manipulative tricks to an extent. Browse through each harsh quote and you'll see just how much I agree with her harshness;

ON CLAIRE PEACOCK: "Uh Claire, you are such a freak!" (She's got a point, I suppose), "See ya later, 4-eyed freak!" (Still got a point but I wouldn't have said THAT to Mrs Peacock), "Goggles" (I wouldn't have said THAT to Claire either but, for god's sake Mrs Peacock, you DO look pretty ridiculous in those horrible glasses) ON SHELLEY UNWIN: "Fat Slag", "Hippopotumus" (Definitely not; Tracy blamed Shelley for having an affair with the wicked Charlie Stubbs when it was all his fault), "you arrogant bitch" (on the same matter, NO! I stick up for poor Shelley completely) ON KAREN McDONALD: "Baron Karen" (that was in 2004 when Karen was gutted to find that she couldn't have babies and though that is a rather mean thing to say, Karen, too, was being mean at the time; a spoilt, psychotic and selfish bitch), "it would be hard showing the baby under all that lard" (again, Tracy had a right to vent her fury upon a horrible woman). It's a fantastic soap-opera that I know I'll gladly want to watch as long as it's still on the telly. It's over 40 years old, you know.