Does anybody remember this which caused outrage at the time and his actual stabbing was edited out of the Sunday omnibus even tho it easy hardly shocking and from what I remember no blood was shown.
About 1983 if my memory serves me correctly
Anybody remember this

Yes I remember it. It must have been shocking for me to remember. What happened to the actor? Is he still acting?

It was 1989

It was very graphic at the time for Corrie there wasn't a stabbing on the show before.

Brian was the best of Gails husbands

Oooh, I have to correct ya there - It was in 1988/89, roughly. An early TV memory for me.
Was it shocking? I can remember we were all falling about laughing around our place -
Chris Quentin was a hopeless actor* and his screen death was hilariously hammy.

I remember prior to his departure, Mr. Quentin went on a round of chat shows with his new wife who was an American TV personality of some sort, and the two of them kept referring to one another as 'Baby' - The late eighties were less tactile times and this sort of talk just sounded incongruous, especially from a 'regular bloke' like Brian Tilsley.

I think the plan was that he would go out to the States with his spouse and take Hollywood by storm. Six months later, he was still looking for work over there, bless 'em.

*His son Nick seems to be honouring this family tradition.

One thing I do think is that Ben Price looks like he could be Chris Quinten's son, it's very good casting in that respect - which is not always the case with soap parents and children.

It's a shame they don't have a few random references from time to time to "ower Briiian" from Gail and Nick

BIB - Leeza Gibbons IIRC, she had a talk show in the 90's (a bit like a cheap-ass version of Oprah)

you were well out. It was 1989. And Brian was definitely the fittest of Gails' husbands. I always thought she was punching above her weight with Brian

He is actually the only one out of the three Nick actors that you can picture being Brian's son.

Was he also Sarah's biological father or is Sarah's biological father Martin?

No, he's Sarah's dad. Although there was a while when we thought her dad was Ian, Brian's cousin

Martin's only kid with Gail was David.

This means that Harry's dad and grandad both meant grisly ends!

And his great-grandfather seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

Chris Quinten started a relationship with US talk show host Leeza Gibbons. He planned to move to the US to marry her and asked the Corrie producers to make Brian a part time character. They instead decided to write him out altogether and in the storyline Brian was stabbed to death.

Quinten and Gibbons divorced in 1991. He eventually returned to the UK for work in a touring show, pantomime, and as an after dinner speaker.

That depends on what your definition of "disappearing" is actually.

Bert: He died in a mental hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown and having a fatal heart attack. Par the course if one is married to Ivy Nelson Tilsley.

Ted: He went back to London after Gail married Joe.

Callum didn't have any grandparents (that we know of)

Although not murdered Bethany's dad Neil Ferns died as well (off-screen) in a car crash in 2003.

I think Ian found out he wasn't Sarah's dad because of his blood type in the episode after Sarah was born as he asked the doctor and the blood type wasn't a match.

But he isn't related to baby Harry. He's just his older half-sister's biological father.

There is something else I just realized. Max has two half-siblings. Said half-siblings are first cousins to each other.

When did Corrie get so incestuous?

If I remember correctly Brian never connected with Sarah much at all before he died I can't remember much if Ivy connected with Sarah though.

I'm surprised Bethany hasn't asked much about her Grandfather Brian to Gail or even Martin (to Sarah).

Oh yes, it should have been obvious, but neither of Sarah's kids' dads are around!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WM152akOjU


Watching it at the time it was pretty shocking but watching it now not so much .

Todd is around who was the father of Sarah's baby Billy.

As for Neil Fearns he had no contact with Bethany for three years before he died and only made two appearances on Coronation Street (both before Bethany was born) and one of them wasn't even a talking role.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzbTc3h8cA&t=1m10s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXpOIcqTRtE&t=2m58s

Brian's death itself seems really comical now, particularly with the garish disco lights in the background and Chris Quinten's quintessentially 80s perm/mullet that was already a decade out of date in 1989.

As MelSingleton has explained, Chris Quinten didn't actually want to leave the show permanently. He wanted to jet off to the US for a few months at a time, drool all over Leeza Gibbons and then make periodic returns to Corrie. Sadly for Quinten, he had behaved like this through most of the 80s and had been granted a number of extended periods of time off, most of which were explained by Brian going off to work abroad. Gail and Brian's marriage had been around and around in circles so many times over the previous decade that it became unbelievable that they'd continue in such a fashion. What was great about Brian's death was that it opened up vast new possibilities for Gail and Ivy. Both characters (especially Gail) had been stuck in the same cycle of stories for most of the 80s. Bill Podmore made the right decision in killing off Brian.

However, I think that killing off Neil Fearns was a stupid move and didn't really achieve anything other than the very short-lived story involving his unhinged mother. There could have been many storylines of Bethany getting to know her dad, especially now that she's grown up.


Absolutely. Ivy's focus was always on 'Nicky' and this only got more extreme after Brian died. Ivy put all of her grief over the loss of her only child into her only grandson. Ivy didn't necessarily neglect Sarah, it was more that she was sidelined in favour of Nick. I'd like to see some references From the episodes I have seen the writers have teetered achingly close to indulging in some (Gail putting together the photo album for Carla which, at least in the episodes I saw, we didn't actually see any of the pictures). A reference to Ivy could have been worked in some how.

Brian was reference recently when or before Harry was born.