Coronation Street: 1970-1979 (DVD)

DVD box cover (2005)

Re-release cover (2011)

Coronation Street: 1970-1979 was a ten-disc DVD boxset featuring 80 Coronation Street episodes originally broadcast in the UK in the 1970s. Each disc contained eight episodes from a year between 1970 and 1979.

The set was the first of five Coronation Street DVD boxsets released by Network DVD, each focusing on a specific decade. In its original release on 25th July 2005, the boxset was comprised of ten individual DVD cases inside an outer box. These were also released separately. It was re-issued in a slimmer ten-disc case at a lower retail price on 5th September 2011.

There were no listed special features but the original studio countdown clocks, complete with the voice of the floor manager were included as easter eggs for most episodes.

Summary

From the back of the original release DVD box:

A celebration of Britain's most famous and enduring television programme, featuring 80 landmark episodes from the 1970s, this is the very best of 'Coronation Street' from the decade that established it as a staple part of British television culture.

With many episodes unseen since their original broadcast this is an opportunity to revisit old friends and re-live some classic moments including:

The marriages of Elsie Tanner and Alan Howard, Brian and Gail Tilsley, Ernie and Emily Bishop and Len and Rita Fairclough.

The 1977 Silver Jubilee Street party.

The warehouse fire and the discovery of two bodies.

Hilda Ogden's seance.

The electrocution of Valerie Barlow.

And much more.

Episodes

Main menu

(*Episode included is Granada Plus edit)

Episode menu

#	No.	Date	Disc
1	955	18th February 1970	1
2	962	16th March 1970	1
3	968	6th April 1970	1
4	980	18th May 1970	1
5	991	22nd July 1970	1
6	1030	30th November 1970	1
7	1035	16th December 1970	1
8	1036	21st December 1970	1
9	1047	27th January 1971	2
10	1069	14th April 1971	2
11	1083	2nd June 1971	2
12	1093	7th July 1971	2
13	1100	2nd August 1971	2
14	1103	11th August 1971	2
15	1116	27th September 1971	2
16	1135	1st December 1971	2
17	1171	5th April 1972	3
18	1184	22nd May 1972	3
19	1195	28th June 1972	3
20	1208	14th August 1972	3
21	1219	20th September 1972	3
22	1227	18th October 1972	3
23	1239	29th November 1972	3
24	1246	25th December 1972	3
25	1252	15th January 1973	4
26	1264	26th February 1973	4
27	1281	25th April 1973	4
28	1289	23rd May 1973	4
29	1294	11th June 1973	4
30	1301	4th July 1973	4
31	1317	29th August 1973	4
32	1321	12th September 1973	4
33	1368	25th February 1974	5
34	1375	20th March 1974	5
35	1385	24th April 1974	5
36	1398	10th June 1974	5
37	1407	10th July 1974	5
38	1430	30th September 1974	5
39	1434	14th October 1974	5
40	1449	4th December 1974	5
41	1457	6th January 1975	6
42	1461	20th January 1975	6
43	1481	31st March 1975	6
44	1510	7th July 1975	6
45	1536	6th October 1975	6
46	1547	12th November 1975	6
47	1551	24th November 1975	6
48	1554	3rd December 1975	6
49	1567	21st January 1976	7
50	1572	9th February 1976	7
51	1583	17th March 1976	7
52	1588	5th April 1976	7
53	1617	14th July 1976	7
54	1627	18th August 1976	7
55	1642	11th October 1976	7
56	1647	27th October 1976	7
57	1672	24th January 1977	8
58	1680	21st February 1977	8
59	1684	7th March 1977	8
60	1697	20th April 1977	8
61	1711	8th June 1977	8
62	1727	3rd August 1977	8
63	1749	19th October 1977	8
64	1756	14th November 1977*	8
65	1772	9th January 1978	9
66	1781	8th February 1978	9
67	1792	20th March 1978	9
68	1812	29th May 1978*	9
69	1847	27th September 1978	9
70	1851	11th October 1978	9
71	1861	15th November 1978	9
72	1867	6th December 1978	9
73	1875	8th January 1979	10
74	1892	7th March 1979	10
75	1901	9th April 1979	10
76	1903	16th April 1979	10
77	1905	23rd April 1979	10
78	1917	4th June 1979	10
79	1923	25th June 1979	10
80	1947	28th November 1979	10

Notes

• The individual release dates were:

• 1970 and 1971 - 25th July 2005
• 1972 and 1973 - 19th September 2005
• 1974 and 1975 - 7th November 2005
• 1976 and 1977 - 16th January 2006
• 1978 and 1979 - 6th March 2006

• Episode 1093 (7th July 1971) was wrongly labelled as being transmitted on 12th July 1971 on the DVD packaging and menu on the boxset's original release. The date for Episode 1672 (24th January 1977) was also incorrectly given as 14th January 1977.

See also

• Coronation Street: 1960-1969 (DVD)
• Coronation Street: 1980-1989 (DVD)
• Coronation Street: 1990-1999 (DVD)
• Coronation Street: 2000-2009 (DVD)