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Old 03-05-2006, 02:21
Elsie Tanner
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For anyone lucky enough to own the Coronation Street DVD compendium of the 1970s. I suggest you watch the year 1972.

Coronation Street directors went wild this year, with incidental music, flashbacks and dream sequences and even one episode with the ending theme tune played by a jazz band!

Shame that ITV and Coronation Street aren't inventive anymore.

If you have it, watch it. It is a very strange but heartening experience.
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Old 03-05-2006, 07:35
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Nothing to do with the fact in that year Granada finally gave in and started showing Crossroads, which did all that stuff quite often.

They must have been slightly concerned, as they even put a Brookside Motel into Corrie in '72. Ah and who says soaps only recently started to copy each other.
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Old 03-05-2006, 07:54
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Originally Posted by MikeGne
Nothing to do with the fact in that year Granada finally gave in and started showing Crossroads, which did all that stuff quite often.

They must have been slightly concerned, as they even put a Brookside Motel into Corrie in '72. Ah and who says soaps only recently started to copy each other.
Could've easily been a reason.

I feel that it was more to do with Coronation Street firmly reaching the age of glorious colour. The programme went into colour in 1969 but had quite a nightmare and reverted to Black & White on numerous occasions until 1971/72 when the technology was mastered.

I think that it was perhaps the directors and producers just dabbling with their medium.
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Old 06-05-2006, 03:24
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Maybe, could just be co-incidence, but Granada held off for long enough not showing it.

Of course they were right too, most of the 1970s ratings has Crossroads only a few thousand viewers behind Corrie, and more often than not at least one Corrie episode had less than the ATV soap, so who know.

Shame more don't do the US style that Crossroads tried, and was shot down for doing. The only one that bothers to do that style from time to time is Emmerdale.
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