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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.
19th March 1980: Elsie Tanner found herself in the unusual position of offering digs for lorry drivers in the spring of 1980 after she took on Ian McAllister for the night. The one-off arrangement went well and cheerful cockney Dan Johnson was her next customer. However this developed into something more than a landlady/lodger arrangement and Elsie thought she had another romance on her hands. What she didn't know was that Dan had a girl in every town and his roving eye soon settled on Bet Lynch. Dan made his excuses to Elsie that he was going out with an old friend for the night but when she was putting out the milk bottles at 11 Coronation Street, she saw Dan dropping Bet off at the Corner Shop flat. In an instant she collected his things and threw them at him in the street, telling him that she never wanted to see him again. The next day, her temper no calmer, she went for Bet in the Rovers...
- For more information see Episode 1979 (19th March 1980).
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?
"By gum, I've met some tight people in my time Alf Roberts, but you make a fish's bum look like t'Mersey Tunnel."
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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
United Kingdom
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