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Coronation Street

Country: UK, Language: English, 30 mins

  • Director: Various
  • Writer: Various
  • Producer: Various

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An institution - consistent...and, at times, rather brilliant.

It will make you laugh and cry - long may it continue.

We love it.


The first episode of the British soap opera Coronation Street was broadcast live on the 9th of December 1960.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

The UK's longest-running TV soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working class people in Manchester, England.

Cast & Characters

Helen Worth as Gail Platt;
Simon Gregson as Steve McDonald;
William Roache as Ken Barlow;
Anne Kirkbride as Deirdre Barlow;
Beverley Callard as Liz McDonald;
Barbara Knox as Rita Sullivan;
Sally Whittaker as Sally Webster;
Sue Nicholls as Audrey Roberts;
Michael Le Vell as Kevin Webster;
Eileen Derbyshire as Emily Bishop;
Jennie McAlpine as Fiz Brown;
Antony Cotton as Sean Tully;
Samia Smith as Maria Sutherland;
William Tarmey as Jack Duckworth;
Sue Cleaver as Eileen Grimshaw