Originally Posted by boogie woogie:
“No, they were all word perfect on the night. Helen Worth hasn't been involved in the last two live episodes and I've heard that she's often known to mess up her lines. I reckon she could be the one to to hit the stumbling block in the live.”
This is a very interesting point about Helen Worth, boogie. She hasn't appeared in any of the live episodes but as a stalwart from the 70s she basically learnt her craft at a time when the street was filmed 'as live'. The actors only had one chance and re-recording a scene was very rare until the late 80s.
Pat Phoenix (Elsie Tanner) was notorious for going off script as well as forgetting lines so Helen must have always had to be on the ball. She has spoken about this in a number of interviews over the years. Her and Pat also had a range of signals to use if they could feel themselves 'drying up'. Pat would bang her hand down on a table or other surface to indicate to Helen that she had forgotten the following line.
I'm keen to see her in the live next week if she's actually in it. Probably the only thing I'm keen about.