Coronation Street in 1976



1976 was the seventeenth year of Coronation Street and the first year the show was produced by Bill Podmore, who increased the series' humourous content and under whose reign it saw some of its highest ever viewing figures after a difficult period in the early 1970s.

Original character Minnie Caldwell, played by Margot Bryant, left in 1976, but some long-term additions to the cast included Johnny Briggs as Mike Baldwin and Elizabeth Dawn as Vera Duckworth, who had first appeared in 1974. Patricia Phoenix also returned as Elsie Tanner after a two-year absence.

104 new episodes were broadcast on ITV in 1976.

Main cast

 * Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
 * Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
 * Janet Barlow - Judith Barker
 * Mavis Riley - Thelma Barlow
 * Mike Baldwin - Johnny Briggs
 * Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
 * Ray Langton - Neville Buswell
 * Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
 * Vera Duckworth - Elizabeth Dawn
 * Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
 * Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
 * Fred Gee - Fred Feast
 * Bet Lynch - Julie Goodyear
 * Ernest Bishop - Stephen Hancock
 * Renee Bradshaw - Madge Hindle
 * Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
 * Eddie Yeats - Geoffrey Hughes
 * Tricia Hopkins - Kathy Jones
 * Blanche Hunt - Maggie Jones
 * Deirdre Langton - Anne Kirkbride
 * Alf Roberts - Bryan Mosley
 * Rita Littlewood - Barbara Mullaney
 * Ivy Tilsley - Lynne Perrie
 * Elsie Howard - Patricia Phoenix
 * Ken Barlow - William Roache
 * Annie Walker - Doris Speed
 * Gail Potter - Helen Worth
 * Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens