Coronation Street

I liked the credits shown in this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8s1Ok3PUqw&mode=related&search=

They go along each house and list the characters. Also at the end it says next episode Friday at 7 o' clock and also a "From the North" Granada endcap!

They only used this format of credits for the first few months though.

That is unique, I like the way they did it, I guess to let people know who was at which house.

Apparently Maria knows someone with the phone number 123456.

I can't actually see it because of the size (including enlarged version).

3 questions...

1 In the title sequence, is the street bigger then than it is today, i.e. there does seem to be more townhouses and the Rovers seems twice as big as it is today???
2 What is the building adjacent to the Rovers, where the road now goes???
3 Why Friday at 7pm - I seem to remember that up until mid-1980's Coronation Street was Monday and Wednesday at 730pm?

Was that not the real street it was based on? and the building next to the pub looks like a church.

The Coronation Street in City of Salford (on which the programme is based and is now sadly flattened) was nowhere near like the one featured in that title sequence - except for all the terraced/town houses

The street you see in the closing credits there is Archie Street, the inspiration behind the look of Coronation Street. The building next to the Rovers, seemingly in the place of Rosamund Street, is the view of a vestry backing onto a church; this was meant to represent the Mission of Glad Tidings church - Ena lived in a flat (or "vestry") attached to the main hall (she was the caretaker). Of course, when a studio exterior set was constructed, the Glad Tidings Hall was positioned opposite the Corner Shop, on the site of the Kabin (though the Hall/Ena's vestry extended somewhat further than the Kabin today), with the other 3 quarters of the studio being taken up by facades of Elliston's Raincoat Factory.

From what I've heard, the transmission of the show fluttered between two times: 7:00 and 7:30pm, but I think for the most part it stuck to the latter time - where it remains today.

For around the first 6 months Coronation Street was shown at 7.00pm on Monday's and Friday's. The first episode went out live on the 9th December 1960 and the second episode was recorded as live straight after and transmitted the following Monday. This carried on with the Friday episode going out live and the Monday episode being recorded as live.

Then around Mid 1961 it was changed to Monday's and Wednesday 's at 7.30pm and remained as such until the third weekly episode was introduced in October 1989.

Did ITV Midlands take the show from the beginning?

How did a new region 'catch up' with events?

Did they make catch up progs everytime a new region joined?

No idea but I know it was networked from Mid 1961.

I just wondered about Fridays because at the time Granada was only a weekday Broadcaster whilst ABC took over broadcasting in the North West at the weekends sometime on Friday evening. Also Granada was not in any other region, unlike ABC and ATV