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Researcher 556780 Posted Sep 9, 2004
Oh I don't know...
I only saw it occasionally, me Dad is a big fan.
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Sep 9, 2004
thats good since I am in a state of near-total ignorance regarding it and hope to renain so 
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Sep 9, 2004
This is shameful! Coronation Street can in no way be compared to the run of the mill soap. It was started by a guy called Tony Warren who was gay and out in early 1960's Manchester. Even to this day it draws heavily on Northern theatrical and music hall traditions - currently best personified by the character of Fred Eliott (I say, currently personified by....) played by the wonderful John Savident (cinephiles may remember him from 'A Clockwork Orange').
It has some of the funniest lines on Television, short of 'The Sopranos' (My favourite ever being Norman 'Curly' Watts' "Kuala Lumpur?! You only have to say it to know its not on!" Only last week there was a wonderful episode involving a fight in the Rovers' Return pub to the soundtrack of Dierdre Rachid playing 'Amazing Grace' on the harmonica. As in The Sopranos, you had to understand several sub-plots to get the joke. Rich, multi-layered TV drama!
Plus - it was the first soap to feature a transsexual character.
(Oh ...and the guy with the glasses held together by elastoplast was Jack Duckworth).
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Researcher 556780 Posted Sep 9, 2004
Wow...
'Friad I never got into it that much, kinda feel chastened that I didn't now 
There were lots of colourful lively characters in it, that's for sure! Bet(?) of the huge blonde hair topknot thingy and christmas decoration earrings always made me smile!
*Hehe* Bc, looks like you are being corrieducated 
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Sep 9, 2004
afraid my knowledge of it will remain theoretical rather than practical 
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