Coronation Street in 1982



1982 was Coronation Street's twenty-third year. During the year, a new outdoor set was built for the series, which remains to this day. The opening of the new set coincided with an on-screen storyline in which Len Fairclough rebuilt house No. 7, which had collapsed in 1965.

It was also the year in which the first of the soap's serious competitors, Channel 4's Brookside, started.

104 new episodes were broadcast on ITV in 1982.

Main cast

 * Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
 * Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
 * Mavis Riley - Thelma Barlow
 * Sharon Gaskell - Tracie Bennett
 * Mike Baldwin - Johnny Briggs
 * Vera Duckworth - Elizabeth Dawn
 * Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
 * Marion Willis - Veronica Doran
 * Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
 * Bert Tilsley - Peter Dudley
 * Fred Gee - Fred Feast
 * Bet Lynch - Julie Goodyear
 * Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
 * Eddie Yeats - Geoffrey Hughes
 * Eunice Gee - Meg Johnson
 * Deirdre Barlow - Anne Kirkbride
 * Alf Roberts - Bryan Mosley
 * Rita Fairclough - Barbara Knox
 * Ida Clough - Helene Palmer
 * Ivy Tilsley - Lynne Perrie
 * Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
 * Brian Tilsley - Christopher Quinten
 * Ken Barlow - William Roache
 * Annie Walker - Doris Speed
 * Phyllis Pearce - Jill Summers
 * Jack Duckworth - William Tarmey
 * Chalkie Whitely - Teddy Turner
 * Gail Tilsley - Helen Worth
 * Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens