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Coronation Street 1977

The Lass O'Gowrie, Manchester
From: Thursday, 3rd January 2013
To: Monday, 7 January 2013

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Synopsis

Rovers Return landlady Annie Walker is preparing for a sherry party and the chance to show off her monogrammed carpet that Eddie Yates claims has been specially made for her. Will Hilda Ogden, Bet Lynch and Fred Gee tell her where the carpet is really from before her guests arrive?

Our Review:

4 January 2013

First introduced last year with a 1968 version, Coronation Street – Live returns to the Lass O’Gowrie, but this time we’re in 1977.

The two vintage episodes, written by HV Kershaw and John Stevenson, centre around the delivery of Annie Walker’s new monogrammed rug to the Rovers Return. The landlady is so pleased with the purchase that she decides to hold a sherry party in honour of it, unaware that the carpet is not as unique as she believes. Around this central plot you have the everyday goings on of the street. Instead of high drama there are really strong characters and you don’t need to be a Corrie fan to care about them.

All the actors, bought together by casting director June West, are excellent, but in these episodes it is definitely the women who stand out. Joan Kempson as Hilda Ogden gets a lot of laughs with her stream of malapropisms (mammogrammed rug anyone?) and Denice Hope does a fine comic turn as ‘...

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