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They're actually trying to target 60+ viewers? I can't imagine that in the US.

Thanks. So I guess she was around for a few months then. What did you think of the Hughes family? It feels like Joe is a little more of a Sugden central force than Jack at this time... I was surprised at how much I liked Sarah, and how lively she was. By the time of Allyson Spiro she seemed so somber. It seemed like Sugden wife recasts were put through heavy trauma before getting their new head.

The only time they sort of did was Kim Tate, although I'm not sure if viewers ever actually thought she was dead. I uploaded 3 August 1990 episodes today and watched them for the first time in a while. I wonder what the show was trying to do with Kate. She was a strong person, but not all that likeable, and there was no chemistry with Frazer Hines. There are two whole episodes with her longtime friend popping in to visit and being horribly snobbish, horsing around the farm like it's some type of tourist attraction, and Kate pretty much enables all of it. The friend was named Fran. Was she around for a while? I had also forgotten that Dolly was still around at this point. It's weird seeing her close with Frank and Kim and Kim talking about how much she'll miss Sam Skilbeck when he and Dolly are away. I never realized they crossed over. Anyway, here are the episodes: Sometimes I wonder why they got rid of Archie. He's an interesting character (and kind of hot). It never stops being weird seeing Neville Ashworth from Hollyoaks as the roguish seducer of Rachel Hughes.

Is this Nancy Stafford?

He'd actually reformed for most of 1983, I think, before Reva arrived. I think she probably helped make him more of the he-man he was for most of his run...

Sadly, no, but he was one of my favorites too. Such a dynamic character - funny, sad, sexy, etc.

Other than the Mark crap this is a decent enough episode. It's odd how much different Philip and Rick are than what they'd soon be. And Josh and the Reardons are also very different post-Marland. Someone watching Josh in summer 1982 and then March 1983 would get dizzy.

From Monika.

I think they assumed as long as Jack and his children were around that's all they needed, and the show was beyond the Sugdens. It's a shame. WIth that said, I think there's a lot you would enjoy even post-Farm. I still can't believe that sometimes. Soaps in the early '00s were nuts.

Some part of me almost doesn't even want to see the episodes when so many left, as I think the show really lost something in that. I'm not sure why they had to completely get rid of characters like Matt or Dolly. The show is lucky that viewers stayed...but even then it took the plane crash to get more viewers, rather than all the attempts at modernization they'd made before.

I thought I remembered reading about Bet going to a country and western bar, but didn't realize I had the episode. I thought it might be kind of fun but it turned out to be depressing... I don't know how fans at the time tolerated all that Maureen, Reg, and Derek.

This is the next episode, and all I have right now, sadly. It's pretty good - great contrast of light and somber.

Thanks Tim. Now if only they'd get some new photos...

I have some January to March 1975 - if you haven't already seen that I can upload it sometime. Here's one from January 1976. I hope you can watch the ones I put up sometime. I'll try to figure out more about how to do playlists. I managed one for the 1983 episodes... Anyway, this channel I'm not sure of, as at first I thought they were just uploading stuff taken from other channels, but they put up an episode from 1990 when Amos has his stroke, and I don't think it's been on Youtube for a while, if ever (although I remember seeing it at some point).

Here's the first one. The poster Karen has on her wall made me laugh for some reason.

Sorry... Which did you prefer as Dolly? My channel, Steph Stokes, has 4 consecutive April/May 1983 episodes and 1 December 1986 episode I hadn't seen anywhere on Youtube. After the two July 1986 episodes that's all I have, but I hope more will pop up. It's strange how there's as much of 1986 up as of almost every other year in the '80s combined.

Ben, I guess they just did it for the tension and an obstacle. Bleh. I really do hope they will prove me wrong and Vanessa will have the baby. A baby won't solve character problems (and at the moment Vanessa has some of the "is she on the same show as the rest?" issue that Katie had for years and Kathy had before Katie), but I do think there's a lot of material there for her and Kirin and Rakesh and Priya. For me the only good part of the reveal was that Charity had some strong scenes, especially when she was alone with Moses. Charity can be tiring but she truly is a complex character. Rachel is unwatchable. I have to assume that when she goes, neither she nor Jai will have that child, especially after she just said she would put him in care if he's like Jai. I keep waiting for her to finally be gone. It speaks volumes when rough Ali (who was more likeable than usual yesterday) is appalled. I really did think they were going to do more with Moira raising Noah. I wonder if they couldn't use that child as much as they wanted to, because of schooling. I have a feeling Val's exit is supposedly Anyway, I don't know if any of you like the older episodes, but I found two July 1986 episodes that I had on a disc - the second one is going to take longer to put up but the first one I'm hoping to have up in a few hours. It's pretty good, although the middle-class focus of many of the characters by that point brings a somewhat strained and regimented contrast with Mr. Wilks, Seth and Amos. The episode as a whole is very regimented between the middle-class stuff, young love, the comedy with the older three, and then a bit of farming talk with that family who popped up off and on in the '80s (the Longthorns). I guess this must have been part of the pressures that helped lead Kevin Laffan to quit. I keep wanting to see more of this Dolly, but she seems so wan compared to Katherine Rogers, who was a real firecracker.

It's interesting how they had Victor hoisted on his own petard here with his arrogance with Nikki tipping Jack off. You wouldn't have that today. I didn't realize that Cricket and Danny weren't actually a couple at this point. Her behavior with the rehearsal was so silly - those cost a lot of money. She'd probably get thrown out, not greeted like an adored child. With that said, I do enjoy their sweetness now in a way I didn't at the time. I have a hard time watching anything with David and Nina. The Paul and Cassandra scenes are so beautiful, especially the dance (until she freaks out). Doug and Nina were magic together. Was this episode around the time Bergman and Braeden got into the brawl? We keep hearing the "didn't come to blows" mentions.

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Another With Bill Hayes. Starts around 4:55.

I'm sure this stuff has been seen a million times, but I was looking through some old commercials and found one with Bill Hayes.

Well Ben it looks like they got the ratings wrong by a fairly significant amount yesterday. I wonder what happened. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s3/coronation-street/news/a655681/uk-tv-ratings-coronation-streets-michael-confession-brings-in-65m.html