Is it a one-off episode in recognition of the big anniversary coming up?
The recent capture of a number of characters standing outside the Rovers, ready to embark on a day trip to Blackpool. All of those characters (Audrey, Gail, Rita, Kevin, Sally, Jenny) participated in the last infamous coach trip to Blackpool from the Rovers in the 80’s.
I've put this in the Britbox thread but seems equally at home here too:
About 15 classic Coronation Street episodes have gone up today including the first episode (to coincide with the 10,000th episode tonight).
Curiously the first 1977 episode ("episode 18" presumably of that year) starts with the Granada endcap (inc copyright/date) instead of the usual frontcap. Is that how it went out or has it been "reconstructed"?
Also relating to old Corrie, here's a rather nice little interview with Eric Spear tweeted earlier today...
This is Eric Spear, and he wrote the most famous British TV theme tune ever - Coronation Street. A year before he died in 1966, he gave us this interview from his home in Guernsey and explained how he composed it.
An understated Corrie tonight with possibly the biggest exit of all, but more noteworthy scrolling credits over a selection of scenes from the credits over the years. The scene with the voices in the pub was great as well.
I loved the nod to episode 1 right at the start too, when Hope and Ruby were playing in the street - it was the same rhyme being sung in both episodes.
That was undoubtedly the best episode of Coronation Street I’ve seen for a very long time. A good humour led story tonight with some great flash backs. The scene with Rita on her own in the Rovers was wonderful.
I stopped watching Corrie a few years ago, but thought I would give tonight's episode a try.
The entire premise was a trip to Blackpool, which takes about 50 minutes from Manchester (Weatherfield) along the M61 and M55. I appreciate it is fiction, but they were inexplicably travelling on B roads through countryside, and even stopped for toilet and coffee breaks. There is only so far you can stretch credulity.
Oh I loved that. So many references.Opening with the girls playing ball games, Mention of Linda Cheveski, Hayley, the cheeky reference to the original Robert Preston, Elsies red phone, Hilda, Bet, Betty, Deirdre, Alfie, Gails many dead husbands, the original credits, Alan Bradley being hit by a tram! Any more?
A delightful, spectacle-free hour focusing on the people who have been in our living rooms for sixty years.
And Claudia ought to be hung for saying Blackpool is Vegas for the poor.