Talk:Coronation Street: 1960-1969 (DVD)

Just a note about something that I've known for some time but not been able to progress. It may well be that the dates of the episodes at the start of July 1964 are wrong on our site and right on the DVD's. ITV was on strike from (it seems) the start of Wednesday 1st July to 7.55pm on Wednesday 8th July. This strike was by technicians and affected not just transmissions but recording as well.

The ITN site confirms that no episodes were transmitted on either 1st or 6th July but goes on to state that two episodes were shown on both 23/9 and 28/9. Now this I find difficult to believe. There is no evidence in any contemporary newspaper that shows that Corrie was on twice on both the evenings in question and, previously, the Manchester Evening News, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, The Times etc have provided exact evidence of exactly what was shown in the 1968 and 1970 strikes where, frankly, the ITN site was wrong. In addition, the TAM viewing figure ratings in the Television Mail for the two dates in question show no figures for a second episode on each of those evenings but they also confirm nothing shown on 1st or 6th July (which is why there are no viewing figures for these dates).

As I said before, the technicians were on strike for recordings as well so Corrie was not in the studio on Friday 3rd July, thus losing two episodes (the Daily Mirror of the time also confirms this) but the ITN site and we also have the expected figure of 104 episodes made and transmitted in 1964 whereas I'm certain it should be 102 with two of them being double episodes - the trouble is that I have absolutely no idea which episodes they are!!--Jtomlin1uk 15:16, January 12, 2010 (UTC)