Forum:List of appearances

Now that the cast lists are as complete as we can get them for the 1960s, I wondered about doing "Full list of appearances" for the characters who appeared solely in that decade or shortly into the next. In Daran Little's 40th anniversary book he includes a table for each year of the top twenty most-seen characters by number of eps, their place in the chart, their chart position for each year and a running total of episodes. He also states when a major character goes how many episodes they appeared in. Now there are a couple of errors here, for instance he states that Minnie Caldwell only appeared in two episodes in 1960 whereas she's definately in four. He then goes on to say (and I suspect his figures were not his work, to be fair, but were calculated by Granada staff over the years) that she appeared in total in 986 episodes by 1976 but for 1969 appeared in 62 episodes, added to the 607 by the end of 1968 giving a new subtotal of 651 (???) and this latter figure is used as the basis for what is added on for 1970, 1971 etc. For some characters we agree exactly with his numbers: Florrie Lindley for instance - 1960 - 2 1961 - 54 1962 - 85 1963 - 85 1964 - 58 and we then have 28 appearances in 1965 but no figure from Little for that year as 20 other characters appeared more than her. Assuming that the figure of 28 is right for her final year, we have an exact list of her appearances in Corrie. But what about Jack Walker? We're in agreement until 1964 and then are one or two out for each year until his final appearance in 1970 when Little states he was in 807 episodes but we can only account for 799. Do we still do a "full list of appearances" page even though we are probably (slightly) in error? Opinions welcome.--Jtomlin1uk 19:29, 12 July 2009 (UTC)