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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.
~ 1978 ~
Writers were faced with crafting an exit storyline for Ernest Bishop following a dispute with actor Stephen Hancock over the cast contract system. Hancock objected to the fact that senior members of the cast were paid for every episode, and others only for the ones they appeared in, and threatened to resign unless Granada moved to a fairer system. When producers did not oblige him, he carried out his threat. As writers could not think of a believable way to have the Bishops split up, they agreed that Ernest had to die. In January, Ernie became the first major Coronation Street character to be murdered, shot during a bungled wages snatch at Baldwin's Casuals. The storyline, in particular the depiction of Emily's grief, drew wide acclaim, and according to writer John Stevenson elevated the critical standing of Coronation Street as a whole.
Neville Buswell also left after ten years playing Ray Langton. Buswell had decided to quit acting and move abroad. Where the Langtons were concerned, Anne Kirkbride was told that Deirdre and Tracy were being written out with Ray, as writers felt there were enough young women in the cast. They changed their minds and decided to explore Deirdre's life as a single mother after Buswell pleaded for Kirkbride to keep her job. In November, Ray left the street for Holland, going alone to a country that had been supposed to a new start for the entire family following Ray's affair with waitress Janice Stubbs.
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 13th May for 1979!
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?
"She's you in a tweed skirt. Neither of you would be able to decide what time it was in a roomful of clocks."
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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...
- For more information see Episode 4597 (19th April 1999).
Coronation Street transmission patterns by country:
Australia
- New episodes: Monday-Friday & Sunday 7.15pm (UKTV)
- Current Pace: Two weeks behind UK broadcast
Canada
- New episodes: Monday to Friday 7.00pm and 12.00am - two episodes on Fridays (CBC)
- Omnibus: Sunday 8.00am
- Current Pace: Two weeks behind UK broadcast
Ireland
- New episodes: simulcast with UK (UTV Ireland and Virgin Media One)
- Weekly episodes repeated on Sunday afternoons
New Zealand
- New episodes: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9.30pm (TVNZ 1)
- Current Pace: One week behind behind UK broadcast
United States
- New episodes: Released to stream just after UK broadcast (BritBox)
- Current Pace: In line with UK schedule
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