Coronation Street in 1990



1990 was Coronation Street's thirty-first year. Within the narrative of the programme characters both old and new started to move into the houses and other premises that were on the site of the Baldwin's Casuals factory while in real life the programme's production base was moved out of the main Granada Television studios and into a refurbished warehouse next to the outdoor set which was called Stage One. The keys were handed over in a special ceremony by Granada chairman David Plowright and actors were, for the first time, allocated permanent dressing rooms while the programme itself benefited from an exclusive studio for its use. This paved the way in 1996 for the process of rehearsal days followed by studio days being abandoned in favour of a scene-by-scene rehearse-record method of production.

157 new episodes were broadcast on ITV in 1990.

Main cast

 * Tracy Barlow - Dawn Acton
 * Derek Wilton - Peter Baldwin
 * Mavis Wilton - Thelma Barlow
 * Steph Barnes - Amelia Bullmore
 * Alec Gilroy - Roy Barraclough
 * Alma Sedgewick - Amanda Barrie
 * Mike Baldwin - Johnny Briggs
 * Liz McDonald - Beverley Callard
 * Andy McDonald - Nicholas Cochrane
 * Vera Duckworth - Elizabeth Dawn
 * Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
 * Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
 * Bet Gilroy - Julie Goodyear
 * Steve McDonald - Simon Gregson
 * Kimberley Taylor - Suzanne Hall
 * Don Brennan - Geoff Hinsliff
 * Reg Holdsworth - Ken Morley
 * Tina Fowler - Michelle Holmes
 * Curly Watts - Kevin Kennedy
 * Deirdre Barlow - Anne Kirkbride
 * Rita Fairclough - Barbara Knox
 * Jim McDonald - Charles Lawson
 * Kevin Webster - Michael Le Vell
 * Jenny Bradley - Sally Ann Matthews
 * Angie Freeman - Deborah McAndrew
 * Des Barnes - Philip Middlemiss
 * Alf Roberts - Bryan Mosley
 * Vicky Arden - Chloe Newsome
 * Audrey Roberts - Sue Nicholls
 * Ivy Brennan - Lynne Perrie
 * Ken Barlow - William Roache
 * Phyllis Pearce - Jill Summers
 * Jack Duckworth - William Tarmey
 * Percy Sugden - Bill Waddington
 * Sally Webster - Sally Whittaker
 * Martin Platt - Sean Wilson
 * Gail Tilsley - Helen Worth

Who lives where

 * No. 6 Quebec House, Weatherfield Docks - Mike Baldwin