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Post by Nick on Mar 20, 2005 20:41:49 GMT
I found an entire episode of Coronation Street from 11 years ago in the middle of an old VHS tape I was watching this afternoon. For no particular reason, this is what was happening in Corrie 11 years ago: - Sally and Kevin had smooth, young faces. Sally had Sophie inside her. Unborn Sophie was referred to as 'Rosie Mk. II'. Rosie was blonde and didn't do much apart from making kid noises and not being a goth.
- Gail's hair was long and bushy. She left Sarah-Lou and David with Sally for the day. David had a dummy. Sarah-Lou was played by that slightly simple girl who works in a bakery now. Her appendix burst over the course of the episode. She didn't say anything; she just screamed.
- Sally and Kev were borrowing £5000 from Rita. Mavis was suspicious of the amount of time Rita was spending with them. Rita's hair was redder, and her face was less craggy. She took Rosie and David back to the Kabin with her after Sarah-Lou had gone to hospital. Mavis moaned about that, as well.
- Norris was staying with Derek and Mavis. Norris's existing hair was very dark. Mavis hated Norris and wanted him to leave, and complained to Rita about him. Mavis was fucking amazing.
- Derek and Norris went to some kind of pyramid-scheme business seminar. Derek gave the bloke who used to play the smarmy doctor in Children's Ward a cheque for £2000. Norris gave him a cheque for less than £2000. The general feeling was that this was going to turn out to be a bad idea, but the great thing about watching an episode in isolation is that you don't have to worry about the terrible things that are yet to come for the hapless bastards.
- Martin had really dark hair and an earring. He managed to look even younger by spending his screen time clutching Gail while she cried. Oh the irony, etc. Audrey looked absolutely exactly the same as she does now. She talked about Alf. We didn't see Alf. He's completely dead now.
- Reg and Maureen were running the corner shop. They had some kind of typical comedy marital discord slapstick fight behind the counter with packets of rice, or something, while Des Barnes looked on affectionately.
- Jack was semi-blackmailing Curly into giving Vera a job at BettaBuys. Curly gave in. It wasn't very interesting. Jack has aged so, so much since they changed his glasses. Vera was wearing a massive Alice band and complaining lots and lots and lots.
- Liz had an interview for a barmaid's job. She was talking to Bet. Bet called her 'Lady'. Bet talked to Maud about the idea of Emily Bishop having sex with a vicar she'd gone on holiday with. Percy Sugden was shocked. He's dead now, as well. That's what happens when you shock easily.
- Alma was in it somewhere, but not for very long.
- At the end, Gail sat and cried on Martin some more while they waited at the hospital for news about Sarah-Lou. They talked about phoning Ivy, but it finished before she turned up. BASTARDS! I really wanted to see Ivy.
ANYWAY, what happened next? Did Sarah-Lou survive? Did Kevin and Sally ever find a way of earning enough money to pay Rita back? Did Sally ever give birth to a second child? Did Liz ever do any more barmaiding? Did the residents of Coronation Street manage to get 'Noxious Norris' (yes, honestly) out of their lives forever? We'll never know! Ah well. |
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Post by passionoia on Mar 20, 2005 21:31:59 GMT
The only plotline I can remember is Emily and the vicar.
He dumped her in the end when he found out about her nervous breakdown because his dead wife or mother or someone had suffered one and he said he couldn't risk going through that again.
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Post by Cherubic on Mar 20, 2005 23:25:12 GMT
Sarah Lou survives, but another girl who was in hospital having the same operation at the same time doesn't, and as Gail and this woman bonded over their shared worry for their children she asks Gail to help her sue the hospital (by being a witness, I'm not sure how it would have worked) but Gail says no as it would get Martin the sack so the woman got very pissed off and said that you people are always in it together. Gail felt bad.
I think the pyramid scheme began the slide in Derek's eventual death.
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Post by Steven on Mar 21, 2005 12:39:09 GMT
- Sally and Kevin had smooth, young faces. Sally had Sophie inside her. Unborn Sophie was referred to as 'Rosie Mk. II'. Rosie was blonde and didn't do much apart from making kid noises and not being a goth.
- Gail's hair was long and bushy. She left Sarah-Lou and David with Sally for the day.
I thought David and Sophie were born on the same day? Or am I confusing that with something else? |
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Post by Nick on Mar 21, 2005 12:54:08 GMT
Well, David was definitely alive, and he understood the words 'Dolly Mixtures', while Sophie was definitely still inside Sally. Maybe David and Rosie were born on the same day? They must be about the same age.
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Post by Steven on Mar 22, 2005 13:10:40 GMT
Ah, perhaps that was it. I know there was a double-pregnancy somewhere, possibly culminating with a birth in the back of Don Brennan's taxi.
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Post by passionoia on Mar 22, 2005 16:52:36 GMT
Well, David was definitely alive, and he understood the words 'Dolly Mixtures', while Sophie was definitely still inside Sally. Maybe David and Rosie were born on the same day? They must be about the same age. Yeah, they were both born one New Years...I think. I knew those hours spent watching classic Corrie on Granada Plus would come in handy one of these days. |
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Post by David Hunter on Mar 22, 2005 19:13:32 GMT
There's an epsiode of Corrie from the 60s featuring Elsie Tanner this Sunday on BBC4
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Post by Adrian on Mar 23, 2005 11:55:45 GMT
What were the ads like?
We were watching an old video of Beautiful Thing last night and saw an ad for the Polaroid SpiceCam!
-A
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Post by Nick on Mar 23, 2005 12:29:23 GMT
I was a bit disappointed by the adverts. Nothing stood out as being incredibly hilariously vintage and dated. I suppose the stuff that I remember from when I was 14 does not really seem that distant or nostalgia-provoking yet. It would have been more fun ('fun') if it had been an episode from the 80s.
BUT! There was still the thrill of watching old TV channel idents.
BUT! They were ITV idents, so they were cheap and ugly and shit.
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Post by Steven on Mar 23, 2005 14:45:38 GMT
We were watching an old video of Beautiful Thing last night and saw an ad for the Polaroid SpiceCam! Tee hee. Now that's a media planner who knows his or her audience. |
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Post by JonSpice on Mar 24, 2005 18:11:36 GMT
an ad for the Polaroid SpiceCam! Could you upload it as an mpg, avi or similar, please? I'd love to see this again! |
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