User blog comment:Matthew Robinson 1982/Directing Corrie in the '80s/@comment-762160-20161121190801/@comment-30491588-20161121225437

Thanks for yr comments, J. I'm glad the ancient scribblings are of interest to someone. On the absent Betty Driver being credited: my guess is that it was a contractual matter. On the furniture shop credit, I seem to remember (but may be wrong) that Hilda's shopping story, starting in eps 2204/5, extended into 2206. Granada, being as tight as a ship, probably required me to shoot all the story's shop scenes together and Charles to accept whatever I had done; this to save on the expense of the production team having to return to Salford Shopping Centre the following week. Note: so Charles Kitchen was the fierce ex-pilot ... hmmm.