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Coronation Street's stalwart cast slotted back into the programme alongside the newcomers, examining new relationships between characters of different ages and backgrounds: Eddie Yeats became the Ogdens ' lodger, Gail Potter and Suzie Birchall moved in with Elsie, Mike Baldwin ( Johnny Briggs ) arrived in 1976 as the tough factory boss, and Annie Walker reigned at the Rovers with her trio of staff Bet Lynch, Betty Turpin and Fred Gee.
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From 1999 to 2001, Jane MacNaught was Coronation Street's executive producer, and received harsh criticism from both viewers and critics.
In 2002, one of Coronation Street's best-known storylines began, which culminated in 2003.
Coronation Street's creator, Tony Warren, wrote the first 13 episodes of the programme in 1960, and continued to write for the programme intermittently until 1976.
The character is one of the longest-serving in British soap, coming third behind Ken Barlow and Emily Bishop in a 1998 survey assessing character episode appearances in Coronation Street's history.
Coronation Street's handling of transsexual issues, the uncertainty of whether her partner would accept her transsexuality and the inability of transsexual people to adopt children or marry, has been praised by transgendered groups.
In December 2011 Coronation Street's Brue Jones performed at the Centre as Captain Hook and Mr Darling in the pantomime, Peter Pan
* Coronation Street's Sue Nicholls-RTÉ Guide profile
In November 2010 she gave a rare interview on Paul O ' Grady Live on ITV1, and then in the next month appeared in a number of shows related to Coronation Street's 50th Anniversary.
A spin-off series, Bracken was launched around Pat Barry ( Gabriel Byrne ), and which featured Irish actor Niall Toibin, Mick Lally and former Coronation Street actor Joe Lynch ( who had played a lover of the Street's Elsie Tanner ).
Famous residents have included world snooker champion Alex Higgins, Lancashire cricket players Johnny Briggs and Clive Lloyd, Sarah Harding from Girls Aloud, Coronation Street's Simon Gregson, Manchester City players Paul Dickov and Derek Jeffries and 1990s band Northern Uproar.
Brooks received a National Television Award nomination in 2000 for Most Popular Newcomer but lost out to Coronation Street's Tina O ' Brien.
She is considered somewhat of an icon in soap history and regarded as one of Coronation Street's greatest ever characters.
She came third in the poll, behind EastEnders Den Watts ( 17 %) and Coronation Street's Ken Barlow ( 15 %).
The Ogdens, Hilda and her husband Stan ( Bernard Youens ) – or " the Oggies " as they were affectionately dubbed – have been hailed as one of Coronation Street's favourite couples.
It remains the highest-rated episode in Coronation Street's history.
However, in 2005, actress Jean Alexander ruled out ever returning to the role of Hilda Ogden, due to Coronation Street's overemphasis on sex and " who's sleeping with whom ".
" Alexander reportedly declined to return as Hilda as part of Coronation Street's 50th anniversary celebrations in December 2010.
Hayley Patterson is introduced in 1998, and her relationship with Roy turns out to be one of the more controversial storylines in Coronation Street's history, as it is later revealed that Hayley is a pre-op transsexual woman, originally born male.
Actor David Neilson has complimented the storyline, describing the writing as " absolutely beautiful ", and Roy and Hayley are now considered to be one of Coronation Street's " classic " couples.
Furze finished third in the competition, after being beaten for a place in the final by Emmerdale's Hayley Tamaddon and Coronation Street's Antony Cotton.
In February 2007, it was reported that Leanne would become Coronation Street's first ever prostitute following Danson's on-screen return from maternity leave.
( ISBN 189892600X ), the D-Day memories of Coronation Street's Bill Waddington published in 1994.
This was the show that included his most famous impression, as Coronation Street's Vera Duckworth in two-handers with Mavis Riley ( played by Les Dennis ).
She was generally well received by critics, described as a national institution and one of Coronation Street's best loved characters, an old-fashioned spinster.
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It attracts the highest audiences for any drama on Irish television, beating stalwart British imports such as Coronation Street, Emmerdale and EastEnders in the ratings.
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In 2005, Charles joined the principal cast of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running TV soap opera, playing philandering taxicab driver, Lloyd Mullaney.
" Roache was the only remaining member of the original cast until Dennis Tanner ( Philip Lowrie ) returned on 12 May 2011, and is currently the longest-serving actor in Coronation Street and in British and global soap overall.
Coronation Street and its characters often rely heavily on archetypes, with the characterisation of some of its current cast based loosely on past characters.
The cast included several actors who went on to wider fame, including Alan Browning ( later seen in Coronation Street ), Maggie Fitzgibbon, Judy Geeson, Jenny Agutter and Wendy Richard.
The cast is headed by former Coronation Street star Wendi Peters as Princess Puffer, with Natalie Day as Edwin Drood, Daniel Robinson as John Jasper and Victoria Farley as Rosa Budd.
In 2009, Lenska joined the cast of Coronation Street as new character Claudia Colby, an old friend of Audrey Roberts.
In 1974, Hughes was cast as binman Eddie Yeats in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street.
She was cast later in the series Pardon the Expression, a spin-off of Coronation Street alongside Arthur Lowe.
In 2007, Coronation Street bosses told The Sun newspaper that there were no plans to retire the character of Betty, despite actress Betty Driver being 87 at the time, the oldest cast member in the soap.
Two cover versions, by Tenor Fly ( incorporating the piano riff from Nina Simone's " My Baby Just Cares for Me "), and the cast of Coronation Street, both reached the charts in 1995.
Lord Olivier, who adored The Dales ( he was a fan of British soap opera per se, and expressed a desire to appear in Coronation Street, a wish never fulfilled ) referred to Jessie Matthews being cast as Mrs Dale as " The most wonderful example of mis-casting in the history of the profession ".
Feast refused to sign a new contract, stating in the British national press that he didn't want to become "... another Coronation Street cabbage ", referring to several cast members — namely Peter Dudley, Jack Howarth and Bernard Youens, who had all recently died.
In June 2002 for The Queen's Golden Jubilee and, with a brand new cast in June 2012 for the Diamond Jubilee, The Queen's Coronation was re-enacted in great detail by the young people of the village in a ceremony entitled " The Children's Coronation ".
In April 2011, Cole joined the cast of Coronation Street, playing Sylvia Goodwin, the mother of regular character Roy Cropper.
After several small parts on television, she joined the cast of Coronation Street, firstly as an extra in episode 4, broadcast Wednesday 21 December 1960.
He then gained roles in television dramas such as Granada Television's Skyport and Knight Errant Limited before being cast as Len Fairclough in Granada's fledgling series Coronation Street in late 1960.
In February 1983, Adamson was suspended from Coronation Street after selling stories about the show and cast to a tabloid newspaper.
Bill Tarmey, who played on screen husband Jack Duckworth, continued to be a part of the cast of Coronation Street.
After 4 bit parts in Coronation Street, first appearing as Duggie Bowson, then taking a role as a delivery man, another small role, then playing Donald Anderson in February 1978, he was eventually cast as Bert Tilsley.
Despite his many film and TV roles, ( including civil servant Sir Frederick Stewart in Yes, Minister ), it was only during the 1990s when he joined the cast of Coronation Street as the bellicose but romantic butcher Fred Elliott that he became a household name.
She first came to prominence in 1985 when she joined the cast of top rated British soap opera, Coronation Street, playing barmaid Gloria Todd in 238 episodes.
In October 2009, actor Nigel Havers joined the cast of Coronation Street as a potential love interest for Audrey.
On 5 January 2009, it was announced that former Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs had been cast in Coronation Street to play Norris Cole's brother named Ramsay Clegg.
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