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Coronation Street is a British soap opera which chronicles the lives of the residents of a backstreet terrace in Weatherfield, a fictional town in the north of England. Created by Tony Warren and produced by Granada Television and then ITV plc for the country's main commercial network, it was first transmitted on 9th December 1960 and is the world's longest-running television drama series.

~ 1970 ~

For the only year in Coronation Street's history, no new regular characters were introduced, although there were returns from Kenneth Farrington as Billy Walker, Sandra Gough as Irma Barlow and Julie Goodyear as Bet Lynch. Producers hoped to bring Alan Rothwell back with Gough to keep Irma and David Barlow together, and presumably introduce their unseen son Darren, but Rothwell was busy with theatre work and turned down a new contract. Writers responded by killing David and Darren off in a car crash in Australia, thus allowing Irma to return as a free agent.

Bet Lynch returned to the fold as an old workmate of Irma's who moved into the Corner Shop flat. Originally, this was to have been a new character named Julie Ganley but this was changed when Julie Goodyear was cast in the role.

Billy's return was in the early planning stages when Arthur Leslie, who played Jack Walker, suffered a heart attack and passed away at age 70. Jack Walker's death was immediately written into the programme, but out of respect to Leslie's family, it was not exploited for dramatic purposes, with the funeral taking place off-screen in Derby and his passing being treated as an already known fact by Jack's friends in Coronation Street.

To celebrate 60 years of Coronation Street on television, we're going through the programme's entire history a year at a time. The full version of this article can be found here. Check back on 18th March for 1971!

Josie Clarke

Josie Clarke was a short-term Coronation Street resident who moved into No.5 with Don Brennan after his marriage to Ivy ended. In 1996, Josie and Don were scammed into buying MVB Motors at an inflated price by Mike Baldwin, who employed Josie as office manager at his factory Baldwin's Sportswear. When the garage went into receivership due to Don's poor business decisions, Don turned against Josie, causing her to leave him. Away from Don, Josie's life improved and as of 1997 she was married to a doctor.

Previous featured characters: Evelyn Plummer; Jacob Hay; Zoe Tattersall; Ivy Brennan; Oliver Battersby; Summer Spellman.

...that Anthony Schaeffer holds the current record of most roles in the programme with fifteen credited to date?
...that the first episode of the programme ever transmitted that did not feature any of the original cast members from 1960 was Episode 1428 (23rd September 1974)?
...that Stanley Wood, who wrote Episode 1237 (22nd November 1972), was the father of comedian Victoria Wood?
...that in Episode 1183 (17th May 1972), the character of Rita Bates gave her maiden name as "Foster" and not the later-established "Littlewood"?
...that although the character of Armistead Caldwell had died in 1935, his voice was heard in Episode 1256 (29th January 1973)?
...that the first ever repeat of an episode of Coronation Street was on Friday 10th February 1961 when strike action prevented the transmission of that night's edition and Episode 1 was shown in its place?

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Amy Wilton to Derek about Mavis Riley

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19 April — Les Battersby shows his pleasure at having contributed to Hayley Patterson's happiness

19th April 1999: On the eve of her wedding to Roy Cropper, Hayley Patterson was despondent that none of her friends seemed bothered about a hen night but she was delighted when the girls took her round to 5 Coronation Street and unveiled a party with plenty of food and drink to consume and - a special gift - a train specially made in Underworld to go with her wedding dress. Far less happy when he returned home after the party was Les Battersby who found that his house had been used as a venue for "that freak" but that was nothing compared to when Janice gleefully told him that she had sold his prized record collection to pay for the party. Les swore vengeance...