Good grief, What's happened to Coronation street..

[nickyboy]

Have I ever mentioned I don't own a television?

 

[stephec]

Have I ever mentioned I don't own a television?

I can't believe we've got to the second page before someone said that.

 

[Dave7]

Corrie is great. That is all.

Please tell me you are not serious.

 

[gavroche]

Have I ever mentioned I don't own a television?

Well, I didn't expect that from you. How do you watch the TdF then?

 

[Julia9054]

Have I ever mentioned I don't own a television?

Thought you were working class boy made good? You should have a massive telly. I have!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Like others, i think it's shoot now. I haven't watched it since about last July. One of my favourite lines in the program, when it used to be entertaining was when Percy the WW2 veteran said to Eddie,the Jack the lad type character "I fought in Europe i'll have you know!", to which Eddie replied "Who for City or United?". Then of course Bradley Walsh's character(can't remember his name in the prog') said about his professional footballer son "If he's good enough he'll get to play for t'Accrington Stanley",in a mock northern accent.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Thought you were working class boy made good? You should have a massive telly. I have!

Fastened high on the wall no doubt. How chavvy!

 

[Julia9054]

Fastened high on the wall no doubt. How chavvy!

Nah. It's on achingly tasteful and fashionable vintage mid century sideboard. I'm muddle class!
(And i watch Eastenders!)

 

[roadrash]

oh dear

 

[midlife]

We had some of these on the wall as a kid . Sadly no Muriel lol

 

[Accy cyclist]

Then Jack Duckworth in one of his philosophical moments said "They say we're poor. How can we be poor when we have a Vauxhall Nova at the door,a loft full of pigeons and a fry up for breakfast everyday!"

 

[Julia9054]

We had some of these on the wall as a kid . Sadly no Muriel lol

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Worth £130 - £180 for original Beswick ones if you still have them

 

[midlife]

Worth £130 - £180 for original Beswick ones if you still have them

Blimey, yet another thing I should have kept from my childhood....

 

[derrick]

Hi .
The weather's pretty rubbish at the moment to go out cycling so I started to watch the omnibus Corrie..
Blimey what happened to the Corrie I used to remember. Years ago it full of humour and light hearted story lines with the likes of Jack and Vera and Stan and Hilda.
Today's episodes of a row of terrace house was about mass murderers, rape and blackmail and evil plotting. At the end ,a voice over even suggests if you've been affected by any of these issues contact blah blah blah.
Its a shame that such a once easy going program has been lowered to being so dark and depressing. Some of the scenes are not what I would call suitable for younger viewers any more (call me old fashioned ).

It went down hill when Ena Sharples left. stopped watching it soon after.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I saw 5 minutes of it in 1972. That told me all I needed to know, and I haven't watched it since.

It took all of 5 mins did it? I can beat that - 0 mins.