Inspired by David's post about sentimentality over old Corrie, I asked myself this question: Would I like to see classic Corrie broadcast on TV? And my answer to that would be Yes.
I think it would be great for old episodes of Corrie to be shown on TV. And the best channel for that to happen would be ITV3, the successor to Granada Plus. I think the name would be 'Classic Coronation Street' to differentiate between the current episodes of Corrie. Who knows, maybe more people would watch the old ones!
Corrie, unlike many other shows, has still got all its episodes. No episodes have been deleted which is wonderful. I would welcome the re-introduction of old Corrie episodes to TV and I would love to see the episodes to begin at the very beginning, on the 9th of December 1960. I would love to see two episodes broadcast daily in the 8-9 pm hour. But I'm not sure when they would stop their repeats. At the turn of the millennium possibly? Or to more recent episodes?
Between 1996 and its closure in 2004, Granada Plus broadcast a thrice-daily repeat of classic Coronation Street episodes from 1976, beginning with Elsie Tanner's return to the show in April 1976. The final episode to be shown was an episode from February 1994. For eight years, Granada Plus broadcast nearly 18 years of Corrie. Although on weekends they did show various episodes from the 60s and early 70s as a part of specials - being Christmas or character specials. Because I didn't get digital television until after 2004, I never got to see these episodes broadcast on TV, and have only seen old episodes on various DVDs and on YouTube and would love to see them on TV.Would you like to see old episodes to be broadcast on TV and take a trip down memory lane and see those classic characters back on your screens? Or do you think that the past should be left where it was and you just remember what you want to remember?
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