The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.
Ken Barlow
Rita Sullivan, Rita Tanner
Sally Metcalfe
Gail Platt
Steve McDonald
Audrey Roberts
Emily Nugent / Emily Bishop
Roy Cropper
Leanne Battersby / Leanne Tilsley
Tyrone Dobbs
Liz McDonald
Dev Alahan
Peter Barlow
Fiz Dobbs, Fiz Brown
David Platt
Kirk Sutherland
Tracy Barlow / Tracy McDonald / Tracy Preston, Tracy Barlow
Norris Cole
Chesney Brown, Chesney Winter-Brown
Carla Connor, Carla Connor-Swain
Peter McGinn5 Apr 2020
8/10 If I were rating the Coronation Street classic shows from the 60s to the early 90s, I would give it 10 stars. For the last 30 years, however, it would garner more like 5 or 6 stars. This drama started out being fairly realistic, with humor and drama in equal measure, and a cast you pretty much like from top to bottom, and which tried to represent the people of northern England, (Manchester and thereabouts). There were low expectations for the show, but it took off and made rock stars ut of the performers.
Now Coronation Street has become more like U.S. soap operas. Some people say it is the influence of the newer soap operas like East Enders, with its screamfests. So now there is less humor, fewer long-term characters, and murder, murder, murder.
So if you try the current iteration of Coronation Street and find you don't like it plots or pacing, track down some of the older shows and give them a whirl. You just might get hooked on them.
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Tony Warren
Top cast
William Roache·Barbara Knox·Sally Dynevor·Helen Worth·Simon Gregson·Sue Nicholls·Eileen Derbyshire·David Neilson