00:00Well, this is it, Coronation Street, as you can see, houses, cobbled streets, that's for all you Southerners, you see,
00:04who reckon the motorway's cobbled north of Watford.
00:06Those are the posher houses on the other side.
00:08Have to get Amanda a nice little muse there.
00:10And if you ever wanted to know what was actually in the neighbourhood of Coronation Street, walk round the corner
00:15into Rosamond Street, and there's a Berlin Wall.
00:34That was my old flat up there, and who else lived in there? Everyone's lived in there, didn't they?
00:39Bette Lynch's lived in there, and Fjordas, yeah, had some goings on up in that room.
00:43That was Hilda's old house.
00:44And now it's the Webster's new house.
00:46Webster's, that's Webster's new house.
00:47Seen some great scenes in that house. Great scenes.
00:51Yay!
00:54I was gonna have to crossroads as well, but I thought my customer's hair off.
00:58That is Hilda's, that's Hilda's, yeah.
01:00This is what happened, you know, when the Rovers burnt down, because he said,
01:03And action! And Michael and I had to run down the street and bang on the door, sort of bit
01:06banging away and go,
01:07Who looks here?
01:10Wake up!
01:11Wake up!
01:12What's happening?
01:14What the hell's going on?
01:16Oh, my God!
01:17That was the part of the storyline where there's the graffiti on the house, I think.
01:21I think that episode was overrunning by about two hours.
01:24Only did that.
01:24Yeah, ten years.
01:25I don't know what that went, but I'm sure it was something to do with the storyline or something.
01:28Like Dennis Sanna, wasn't it?
01:29What have I done to deserve you, Dennis?
01:31I've got gorillas in me sink, chorus girls in me bed, and I go out for five minutes and you
01:36let the flaming bailiffs in.
01:37If you go to the toilet and the Rovers, the gents, that's where you end up.
01:41Right.
01:43Cos that's where the toilet is.
01:44The plants, you don't, something's wrong with the plants or something, innit?
01:47And then...
01:48Just smile, Sally, just smile.
01:49Yeah, well you can go and have a look if you don't believe me.
01:52Any road, I've done all the scrubbing and cleaning I'm going to do for one day.
01:55And now to prove that real life sometimes does imitate art, this is the real Rovers' return.
02:00And I can assure you that it isn't 90 pence a pint in here.
02:03Can I have a pint for Teddy, please?
02:05Yeah.
02:05When you go out at night, do people expect you to be like Kevin?
02:08You know, you've never met you before and they come up to you?
02:10Oh, of course they do. I mean, it's only natural they do that, you know.
02:14And I suppose if they didn't do that, then I wasn't doing my job properly anyway.
02:17Mrs. O'Dill, we're shouting for you outside. I didn't spoon these.
02:21Oh, heck, I'm in that.
02:23Hey!
02:24I've heard that you get mobbed by chicks quite a lot. Sally was telling us.
02:28I get mobbed by chicks now. Well, I used to, and then I got married on the show and in
02:33real life and it all stopped.
02:34Everybody say, Gorgonzola!
02:37Gorgonzola!
02:38Did you get loads of letters complaining when you shaved your moustache off?
02:41Er, no, er, it was just the gay community who really didn't like it.
02:47Cos they seemed to like it.
02:49These pants too long.
02:51Hey, you'll have shrunk during the nights all, sweating and fretting about committing suicide today.
02:55Look, I've warned you, Jack Duckworth.
02:57Any more Snyder remarks about all the matrimony and there'll be trouble.
03:00And this is number nine, Coronation Street, the home of the Duckworths. Let's have a look.
03:06I don't want that home at the moment.
03:08Well, they obviously haven't paid the poll tax, have they? Cos I think the bailiffs have been round.
03:12They're not stupid, these fellas, you know.
03:14Stop picking on your dad. Can't you see status in?
03:17Mum, will you shut up?
03:18This is it, the star's dressing room. See if she's in.
03:25Oh, it's Terry.
03:28Hey, super surprised, weren't you? You didn't expect me to come in.
03:31Well, my class feels changed.
03:35Is your character in real life pretty much like Vera's?
03:39Yeah, down to earth, working class, you know.
03:45Do you think that it does a disservice to the north anyway because of the cobbled streets in Coronation Street
03:52and the back-to-back houses?
03:53Do you think we're all like that?
03:55No. I think a lot I'd like to be living back in a cobbled street.
04:02People get stuck in IRI's flat stove.
04:06I mean, they don't know the neighbours, they don't know the comings and goings.
04:09I mean, we all know, see how it went straight.
04:11They're just taking a wreath in across the road.
04:14Mrs Tilsley and that friend of hers, the loud-mouthed one.
04:17Duckworth.
04:18Yeah.
04:20And now, proof that there is social mobility on the street.
04:23This is Derek and Mavis' house and here they are.
04:28Peter, would you say that you and Mavis in Coronation Street are the ideal couple?
04:33We are. We represent the finest marriage in the street.
04:39If what you're looking for is some sort of affair.
04:44Mavis, you of all people, I thought you understood.
04:47And Derek and Mavis died in the wall Tories living on Coronation Street.
04:52I've never been asked that before.
04:53No, isn't that funny?
04:54No. I haven't really thought about it.
04:56I would think probably. Yes.
04:59Well, yes, I dare say they would be. I don't know.
05:03It's funny, politics never comes into this programme.
05:07It doesn't come into our lives. It doesn't come into this programme.
05:10Oh, how lovely. Oh, how lovely.
05:14Well, when Margaret Thatcher came to the set, the cast may have thought,
05:20Oh, Tory.
05:21Are you going to charge up with this?
05:23Of course she can afford it. Thanks.
05:24But Mike Bourbon, as an industrialist, capitalist, a chauvinist pig,
05:32welcomed him with open arms because she dropped in contact with 60% to 40%
05:36and that suited me down to the ground.
05:38You're the self-made man. When did the tide turn for you?
05:41Turn? It's always been a flood, mate.
05:43Turning the fire a week, selling firewood when I was ten.
05:46Any chance of me getting a house on the street?
05:49Oh, do you know the people that ask me things like that?
05:52Even my doctor's wife, she goes,
05:54Can you get me a part on the street?
05:57I mean, really, it's like winning pools.
06:07Can I say it? Hiya, kid. Hiya, kid.
06:10Oh, take it off. I love you. Don't you get in my part.
06:17It's not the first time a girl said that to me.
06:19Haha!
06:20Haha!
06:20Haha!
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