From the Times archives: Clement Freud's review of Corrie going three times a week. I'm guessing the guy taking off his tie and doing something to a woman was Kenneth Barlow.
Previous incarnations of Weatherfield Police Station have had Greater Manchester Police branding. (The original Police station in the 60s was on Tile Street and called Tile Street Police Station).
The new station only refers to "Weatherfield Police", even on the badge logo which should say Greater Manchester Police.
Greater Manchester didn't exist before 1974, let alone the Police Force, so it could hardly have been used in the 1960s.
GMP has a very distinctive red helmet badge, which I don't think is replicated elsewhere in the UK, so there would be little chance of confusion. Simply calling it 'North West Police' would be better if they wanted to avoid any libel issues.
ISTR Hollyoaks used to use that name, or perhaps that was Scott & Bailey.
Hollyoaks tend to use "Dee Valley" for the police and hospital, which probably means nothing to most of the UK but locally at least is passable as correct.
From the Times archives: Clement Freud's review of Corrie going three times a week. I'm guessing the guy taking off his tie and doing something to a woman was Kenneth Barlow.
Always good to get a paedophile's perspective on things.
Im gripped by the ITV3 episodes of Corrie at the moment, easily the best thing im watching at the moment. Ive enjoyed them since the start (January 1986) but its easy to see why 1989 is often seen as such a great year for Corrie.
Corrie going to 3 times a week was great, but I think 3 episodes a week is where it should have stayed.
That is one of my earliest TV memories, mainly for the distress it caused me at the age of 7.
I'm guessing soon the repeats will link up with an upcoming storyline in the 2018 show which they seem to be rewriting as if the 1992 baby loss story didn't happen.
Corrie going to 3 times a week was great, but I think 3 episodes a week is where it should have stayed.
Is the pacing much different in the 1989 era - I imagine it is slower than now but pacier than earlier episodes.
Also what was the run time back then - even though on paper we have twice as much Corrie I would guess the runtimes have gone from about 26 min to 44 mins, so about a 70% increase.
The pacing's faster than it was when the repeats started, during 1989 the new producers sped up the pacing with shorter scenes and more locations in each episode.
More location work too- until around 1988 it was quite common for episodes to be entirely studio bound, sometimes 2 or 3 weeks passing between any non-studio scenes, or only having a brief location scene, now we've hit late 1989 there's quite a bit of location work in most episodes.
And we'll see the infamous episode where Alan dives head first into a slow moving tram on Monday.
Today's second episode was episode 3000 as well.
Was there much hype/promotion at the time about this Ep 3000 milestone? Did anything special happen in the episode (I’m a bit behind with the ITV3 eps)?
In a way I’m surprised they didn’t wait a few more weeks and go thrice-weekly to coincide with Ep 3000 (though that would have probably aired in December if they’d stuck to the original schedule). Or had Alan killed at the end of Ep 3000 rather than a few episodes later.