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

[captain nemo1701]

You missed out an explosion and the long drawn out reveal of who died and who survived.

I also forgot....A major disaster. Emmerdale did it with a crashing airplane.

 

[midlife]

And Casualty with a helicopter...

 

[TVC]

I also forgot....A major disaster. Emmerdale did it with a crashing airplane.

It was all a bit Lockerbie wasn't it.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Soaps haven't been the same since the demise of Crossroads


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZRYinzepnU

 

[BoldonLad]

And Casualty with a helicopter...

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High chance of dying either en-route or in Holby General. Pleased I don’t live there......


.... oops, got carried away there, was thinking it was real.

 

[Drago]

Casualty with the helicopter was brilliant. The crash scene involved three entirely different models of helicopter. Gerry Anderson was doing better in 1965.

 

[Freds Dad]

Didn't Corrie have a tram crash or have I dreamt it?

 

[tyred]

Did we ever find out what happened to Derek's gnomes?

 

[Saluki]

Didn't Corrie have a tram crash or have I dreamt it?

That bloke Alan or something got run over by a tram in Blackpool. He was chasing some woman, who was in Corrie, as he wanted to hurt her, I think. Couldn't swear to it. Might have dreamed it.

 

[Drago]

Alan Bradley, was chasing Rita the real life drink driver.

 

[captain nemo1701]

High chance of dying either en-route or in Holby General. Pleased I don’t live there......


.... oops, got carried away there, was thinking it was real.

Casualty used to be made here in Bristol. Always entertaining when seeing the crews out filming in town, walking/cycling past multiple times trying to get on telly. Also, used to note that an ambulance would be speeding down a road, cut to shot of injured person laid in street - often the wrong street, ambulance going in wrong direction if you know the geography of the city!. Can't do that now they went to Cardiff. A friend of mine said that for continuity, audiences think Holby (ie Bristol) is still in the same place so they try to avoid dual-language road signs in welsh & english.

Trivia: Holby City is made in London, partly at Neptune House which is part of BBC studios now. Back in 1969, it was Harlington-Straker studios, cover for SHADO defending us against aliens in Gerry Anderson's UFO. Ed Straker always pulled up outside in his (then) futuristic car with gull wing doors.

 

[stephec]

Casualty used to be made here in Bristol. Always entertaining when seeing the crews out filming in town, walking/cycling past multiple times trying to get on telly. Also, used to note that an ambulance would be speeding down a road, cut to shot of injured person laid in street - often the wrong street, ambulance going in wrong direction if you know the geography of the city!. Can't do that now they went to Cardiff. A friend of mine said that for continuity, audiences think Holby (ie Bristol) is still in the same place so they try to avoid dual-language road signs in welsh & english.

Trivia: Holby City is made in London, partly at Neptune House which is part of BBC studios now. Back in 1969, it was Harlington-Straker studios, cover for SHADO defending us against aliens in Gerry Anderson's UFO. Ed Straker always pulled up outside in his (then) futuristic car with gull wing doors.

When Mrs Stephec used to watch Casualty I seem to remember the plot always being set up along the lines of -

Man rushing round the house late for an important appointment and can't find his car keys
cut to a shot of kids playing in the street
jump back to man flying off his driveway in a ball of smoke and burning rubber
kids are now playing football in the middle of the road

I wonder what's going to happen next?

 

[captain nemo1701]

When Mrs Stephec used to watch Casualty I seem to remember the plot always being set up along the lines of -

Man rushing round the house late for an important appointment and can't find his car keys
cut to a shot of kids playing in the street
jump back to man flying off his driveway in a ball of smoke and burning rubber
kids are now playing football in the middle of the road

I wonder what's going to happen next?

Years ago, we used to play 'spot the stiff' trying to guess which, usually obnoxious character, would receive fatal injuries.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Years ago, we used to play 'spot the stiff' trying to guess which, usually obnoxious character, would receive fatal injuries.

They had a cycling club featured in an episode some years ago. One of the riders was an obnoxious prat, and he was the only one not wearing a helmet. It didn't take Sherlock Holmes to guess the rest.

 

[Jenkins]

Apparently I was in it for a while...

http://coronationstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Phil_Jennings