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Coronation Street: The 1960s is a ten-disc DVD boxset featuring 80 Coronation Street episodes originally broadcast in the 1960s. It was the third of four boxsets released by Network DVD, each featuring episodes from a specific decade of the programme.

The boxset was released on 31st July, 2006, and only in Region 2. It was re-issued in new packaging and at a lower retail price on 5th September 2011.

SummaryEdit

From the back of the DVD box:

Voted ITV's Greatest Programme in a national poll of ITV viewers in 2005, this collection of eighty episodes of CORONATION STREET spread across ten discs represents the cream of this acclaimed TV drama between 1960 and 1969.

Specially selected by Coronation Street's official historian you can now relive the trials, tribulations, joy and jubilation as encountered by the folk of Manchester's Coronation Street in the UK's most compelling soap, that has become a national institution treasure and which will forever have a place in our hearts.

Created by Tony Warren, this first decade of the nation's favourite soap proves why the programme is the UK's longest running serial and also why the programme has rightly been the winner of over forty accolates including the BAFTA award for Best Continuing Drama, multiple British Soap Awards, numerous National Television Awards, many TV Quick Awards amd various honours from the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.

ContentEdit

The boxset contains ten individual DVD cases, each containing one disc (one for each year). Due to the archive nature of the series, the episodes vary in picture and sound quality. The episodes include the original Granada idents and advert bumpers. There are no special features or subtitles.

#	No.	Date	Disc
1	1	9th December 1960	1
2	2	14th December 1960	1
3	3	16th December 1960	1
4	4	21st December 1960	1
5	5	23rd December 1960	1
6	6	28th December 1960	1
7	7	30th December 1960	1
8	8	4th January 1961	1
9	11	13th January 1961	2
10	26	13th March 1961	2
11	36	17th April 1961	2
12	78	11th September 1961	2
13	84	2nd October 1961	2
14	88	16th October 1961	2
15	95	8th November 1961	2
16	99	22nd November 1961	2
17	122	12th February 1962	3
18	129	7th March 1962	3
19	133	21st March 1962	3
20	142	23rd April 1962	3
21	156	11th June 1962	3
22	171	1st August 1962	3
23	189	3rd October 1962	3
24	212	24th December 1962	3
25	237	20th March 1963	4
26	241	3rd April 1963	4
27	243	10th April 1963	4
28	248	29th April 1963	4
29	282	26th August 1963	4
30	288	16th September 1963	4
31	299	23rd October 1963	4
32	317	25th December 1963	4
33	329	5th February 1964	5
34	357	13th May 1964	5
35	371	8th July 1964	5
36	375	15th July 1964	5
37	389	2nd September 1964	5
38	390	7th September 1964	5
39	398	5th October 1964	5
40	421	23rd December 1964	5
41	431	27th January 1965	6
42	450	5th April 1965	6
43	475	30th June 1965	6
44	492	30th August 1965	6
45	493	1st September 1965	6
46	513	10th November 1965	6
47	515	17th November 1965	6
48	521	8th December 1965	6
49	533	19th January 1966	7
50	534	24th January 1966	7
51	562	2nd May 1966	7
52	569	25th May 1966	7
53	575	15th June 1966	7
54	580	4th July 1966	7
55	595	24th August 1966	7
56	630	26th December 1966	7
57	635	16th January 1967	8
58	656	29th March 1967	8
59	667	8th May 1967	8
60	668	10th May 1967	8
61	700	30th August 1967	8
62	702	6th September 1967	8
63	726	29th November 1967	8
64	733	25th December 1967	8
65	747	12th February 1968	9
66	753	4th March 1968	9
67	778	29th May 1968	9
68	786	26th June 1968	9
69	797	7th August 1968	9
70	810	25th September 1968	9
71	829	2nd December 1968	9
72	835	23rd December 1968	9
73	845	27th January 1969	10
74	853	24th February 1969	10
75	881	2nd June 1969	10
76	886	18th June 1969	10
77	915	1st October 1969	10
78	923	29th October 1969	10
79	924	3rd November 1969	10
80	937	17th December 1969	10

NotesEdit

As only seven episodes were made in 1960 the set includes a special bonus episode from 1961 on the 1960 disc.
There are several errors in the listings on the DVD menu and packaging for the transmission dates of the episodes on the discs:

The eighth episode on the 1963 disc is incorrectly listed on the DVD packaging and menu as being transmitted on 25th October.
The third episode on the 1964 disc is listed for a week before actual broadcast, and the fifth and sixth episodes are listed for a week after broadcast.
The eighth episode on the 1967 disc is incorrectly listed on the DVD packaging and menu as being transmitted on 26th December.

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