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00:01They say good things come in twos.
00:04Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
00:08More things in life to hot pot.
00:09The man who's tired of hot pot is tired of life.
00:11Coronation Street's greatest ever partnerships
00:15have given us twice the laughs.
00:18It's like lard without lard.
00:19Who needs dumbbells when you've got these?
00:22It's like ant without deck.
00:23And double the drama.
00:25I've got to go!
00:26And don't come back!
00:28Get hold of your boyfriend, fellas.
00:31Get off!
00:32Let's see those dazzling smiles.
00:34Join me as we celebrate
00:36some of the best partnerships in Corrie history.
00:42I know you, Stan.
00:44Well, the rest can go and rot.
00:46Yeah.
00:49Ah, did they wake you up, chum?
00:52Providing comedy on the cobbles for 20 years.
00:54Hey, scratch me back, will you?
00:56There is no better place to look
00:58for one of Coronation Street's
00:59most enduring partnerships of all time
01:02than Stan and Hilda Ogden.
01:05Where's yours?
01:05Same place.
01:06Oh, wait, you know, Stan.
01:08There's nobody else on earth
01:09that'd let do that for me.
01:10I said, Flamin' Hope, not.
01:11Oh, lovely, don't you?
01:13Right, you give them the best years of your life
01:15and what do you get back?
01:16For millions in the 70s and early 80s,
01:19the bickering duo were the street.
01:21What, why don't you say something?
01:22Sat there like Flamin' Ruby, time, yeah?
01:24He was a work-shy layabout.
01:26Can I have me breakfast?
01:27Get it yourself!
01:28She had one of the loudest voices on the street.
01:30There's no need to be vulgar.
01:32Might be your last resort, but it's not mine.
01:33Oh, hello!
01:35And she'd turn it up to 11
01:36if anyone picked on her Stanley.
01:39No.
01:39Listen, I'm not sitting here gauntless
01:40after what they've done to you.
01:41You'll cause a scene.
01:42Too Flamin' Right, I will.
01:47Right, I've got a few things to say
01:48to certain people in here.
01:50You're a bunch of filthy scum, the lot of you.
01:52Scum!
01:53There's not one of you fit to lick my Stan's boots.
01:55I'm not going to say it twice, Hilda.
01:56Out.
01:57I've just got one thing to say before I go.
02:01So they're not in here.
02:03Get him to take you to a Chinese.
02:05Right, Chinese it is.
02:07This partnership was made of tough stuff.
02:10Oh, it's lovely, Chuck.
02:11Just what I've always wanted.
02:13You wait till Faircock or Langton see this.
02:15They'll curl up with jealousy.
02:16For years, they tried to prove they were equal
02:19to everyone else on the street.
02:20But where exactly are you going?
02:22The golden mandolin.
02:24Isn't it mandarin?
02:25That's right.
02:26Chinese foreign.
02:28Afternoon.
02:29They just never got it quite right.
02:31The kitchen's over there.
02:33Yeah.
02:33And we have us meals in here.
02:34But the serving hatch is over there.
02:37Because that's a bearing wall.
02:38What's a bearing wall?
02:40It holds the flaming house up, don't it?
02:43Oh.
02:44Does it?
02:46But then in 76,
02:49something to really put the cat amongst the pigeons.
02:52There.
02:53That is your scenic panorama contrast wall.
02:56You see, it gives you what is known as a murial effect.
03:00Well, Annie Walker's never had one of them murial walls.
03:03That I do know.
03:04I really can smell mountains, can't you?
03:08I can smell fried bread.
03:10Oh, go on, Stan.
03:11Have a good look and just tell me if you can't smell mountains.
03:13Give us me fried bread, will you?
03:15Fingers, Stanley.
03:17Let me try to picture it.
03:19You have all the Alps on one wall.
03:22Canadian Rockies.
03:24Alps.
03:24I get the idea.
03:26That lake's sloping.
03:28Hmm.
03:29And you don't find it a teeny bit overpowering?
03:32Oh, no.
03:34No, the Alps has got a special meaning for me.
03:36Ever since the film.
03:41Oh, my word, Mrs. Ogden.
03:43Do you know, dear, I feel just a little giddy.
03:47Would you mind if I start facing the other way until I'm acclimatised?
03:51Well, either you're one for the great outdoors or you're not.
03:54Myself, I am.
03:57Actors Gene Alexander and Bernard Ewins had combined to bring out something special in each other.
04:03I was thinking back to when it all began.
04:06It doesn't seem 30 years, does it?
04:08No, it doesn't, Chuck.
04:10And you know, they say the time only passes fast when you're enjoying life.
04:13Ah, that's right, they do.
04:15Stanley Ogden!
04:16Hello, Chuck.
04:17Missed me last night.
04:18Oh, you ran out there!
04:20And no matter how much Hilda nagged and Stan tried to please...
04:24You really think I look spashy?
04:26Well, I said so, didn't I?
04:27Well, give us a kiss, then.
04:30Hey.
04:31You heard.
04:32Come on, you daft diaper.
04:34Tis the second honeymoon, you know, not the first.
04:37It was clear they needed each other and were very much in love.
04:41What's that lipstick taste of?
04:44Woman, Stanley.
04:46Woman!
04:48Actor Bernard Ewins struggled with health problems during the early 80s.
04:53Of course, I will admit there's times when he gets on me nerves.
04:56But then I look at him and I think,
04:59well, Chuck, you're no oil painting and you don't bring much money in.
05:03But I'd be a lot worse off without you.
05:07And when the actor passed away in August 84,
05:12it meant we had to say goodbye to Stan.
05:15The Lord gave and the Lord had taken away.
05:19And forgive us our trespasses,
05:22as we forgive them that trespass against us.
05:25And lead us not into temptation,
05:27but deliver us from evil.
05:30For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory,
05:33for ever and ever.
05:34Amen.
05:37And the scene where Stan's belongings arrive from the hospital
05:40created one of the most powerful moments in Corrie history.
05:46As we all moaned with Hilda.
05:59Don't ask for much, do we?
06:02If you wins on the pools, you'll be welcome.
06:07Never mind.
06:09Been a bus ride, hasn't it?
06:11Never mind what they say about you.
06:13You're not daft, are you?
06:14Now, Chuck.
06:16Ha, ha, ha.
06:17Hee, hee.
06:30Stan and Hilda will always be the blueprint for a golden couple in Corrie.
06:37Now, first of all, are you going to kiss me under this mistletoe?
06:42I wouldn't kiss you under an anaesthetic.
06:43Oh, Mr. Subdance.
06:46Whoa!
06:48But some of the street's most memorable pairings...
06:51Oh, don't talk, love you.
06:52I'll crack your face.
06:53...were built for comedy.
06:55There's no point upsetting her unnecessarily.
06:57You rat!
06:58What's gone into you?
06:59I've got to get my pleasure somewhere.
07:00It's what you've been getting into, ain't it?
07:03Sad and desperate.
07:04You should have it tattooed on your forehead.
07:05Come back here!
07:09Get here!
07:11Like our next dynamic duo...
07:14Alpha male to Lone Wolf, come in, please.
07:19...whose comic fallouts and bromance lovins created the perfect partnership.
07:24See you at the finishing line.
07:26If you make kits...
07:28Oh, I'll make it, mate. I'll be there, waiting for you.
07:32Steve MacDonald and his streetcar sidekick, Lloyd Maloney.
07:36Oh.
07:38Oh!
07:39Claire?
07:40And when the pair weren't irritating Eileen...
07:42Austin Slice!
07:43...they were falling out over women.
07:46You've always been my mate's girlfriend.
07:50Is that your idea of trying to get a boyfriend?
07:52It's an unwritten contract.
07:53It's a contract which you just tore up.
07:56I think he's having a heart attack.
07:57My contract says never leave your mates to face the music.
08:02Can I come with him?
08:03No.
08:03Well, my contract says may make sense.
08:06Idiot!
08:07Well, mine says this and that.
08:09Classic slapstick.
08:10Their two-hander scenes had us all in stitches.
08:13All you need now is a winder!
08:16No!
08:17Saints will fall!
08:18No!
08:19That space may have to kill you!
08:21But these boys never stayed cross at each other for long.
08:25My brother from another mother.
08:30They really do love each other, don't they?
08:32Don't you love me that much?
08:33Oh!
08:35But one of the Double Act's most memorable moments came in 2009.
08:39You're my son's best mate.
08:41What you don't know, won't it?
08:44I feel so naughty.
08:46Ah, but you are naughty.
08:47You're a very, very bad girl.
08:50Lloyd had broken the most sacred of non-written contracts.
08:53And I'm not a bad girl.
08:55I'm a good girl.
08:56Lloyd!
08:58And only Corrie could get away with the pure farce that followed.
09:03I said I'm busy!
09:04The mess I am in, Lloyd.
09:05The mess I'm in!
09:08Can I smell perfume?
09:10What?
09:11No, I don't think so.
09:14You know what?
09:16I recognise him.
09:19Lloyd.
09:21What?
09:22It's not Becky, is it?
09:25Of course it's not Becky.
09:27Now go!
09:28Go and face the music.
09:35Hey, these are my mum's keys.
09:37Are they?
09:38Yeah, she lost them earlier, so where'd you find them?
09:42In the gutter outside, Audrey.
09:43She must have dropped them there.
09:45Well, I'll, er, give them to her.
09:47Yeah, good on you.
09:48Saved me a job.
09:49Say hello to it from me.
09:51Who?
09:52Your mum.
09:52What?
09:53Why?
09:54No reason.
09:55Hey, it's a good job it's not her perfume I can smell, because put that together with these keys,
09:59I might think it's her you're knocking off.
10:02Imagine that.
10:05Mother!
10:06Come out of there with your hands up!
10:09Carry on Coronation Street.
10:15Come on, kid, let's go for it.
10:17I was born between those legs.
10:19Er, yes, we know where it is, thank you.
10:22It's an unspoken rule.
10:28It's an unspoken rule.
10:52You're straining for a caning.
10:53You're bleating for a beating.
10:55You're...
10:56Give it up.
10:57No, I'm going to do it.
10:57No, you lost.
10:58I won.
10:59Don't cry about it.
11:00You're angling for a mangling.
11:02Coming up, more classic Corrie Partnerships.
11:06Uncle Fred, we did do sex education at Wendfield, can't you know?
11:09Get up on the stairs.
11:11But it did not prepare you for the vagaries of feminine wiles in the real world.
11:15What will I do?
11:16You look a million dollars.
11:18Trudlepip, ladies.
11:20Welcome back to our celebration of Corrie Partnerships.
11:24You want a choccy-picky?
11:26I would love a choccy-picky, Mavis.
11:28But where there's double the laughs...
11:29I wouldn't be the man in her life if Elle had me.
11:32Remember them days, eh?
11:33I used to warm you up a bit, didn't I?
11:35There's double the trouble.
11:36Marry me and make my life complete.
11:40No.
11:41I'll get it caught.
11:44I have yet begun to fight.
11:47It was a light ale, love.
11:51Which takes us to a relationship forged in the 80s.
11:56What's up, Jack?
11:57Nobody to play with.
11:58How are you fixed?
11:59Corrie's most famous landlady.
12:01At your age, love.
12:02Not your shoe size.
12:03Bold and brassy...
12:05Bet Lynch.
12:07Hey, they're spending a few bob on that pub, aren't they?
12:09I don't wish to know that, Jack.
12:11And miser Alec Gilroy.
12:13He ran the graffiti club on the street.
12:16The two started as business rivals.
12:18Give us a gin and tonic.
12:19It's like the Sahara Desert round here without the rovers.
12:22Ice and lemon.
12:23We actually grow our own lemons.
12:25Well, you could definitely grow your own mushrooms, darling.
12:27It's dark enough.
12:29So when producers teamed them together...
12:31Another day, another dollar, eh, Alec?
12:33Is there any other way to live?
12:35We knew this wasn't going to be a run-of-the-mill partnership.
12:39You were having me on
12:40when you offered to lend me the brass
12:42to buy the tenancy of this place, weren't you?
12:45No.
12:4612,000 quid.
12:48I could let you have it today, if you like.
12:52She took him up on his offer,
12:54but quickly became unstuck
12:55and ran off to Spain to avoid paying him back.
13:00Alec chased her out there.
13:02Have you ever seen her before?
13:04Maria Thatcher?
13:05Does it look like Margaret Thatcher?
13:08I don't know if you screw your eyes up
13:10and knock a few years off, I suppose.
13:12Egg, chips and beans.
13:13Long time no see, eh?
13:15Oh, my God.
13:16I'm not letting you out of my sight
13:18till we've had a very full and frank discussion.
13:23The full and frank chat Alec had in mind
13:25was a surprising business proposition.
13:28So, they're giving you the tenancy.
13:30You ought to be the next landlord of the Rovers.
13:32Yeah, well, I intend to make it
13:33the best little pub in the borough bet.
13:36Well, I had my chance and I blew it, didn't I?
13:39There is a way you could still have somebody else working for you.
13:43Me, for instance.
13:46And there is a way you could still have the Rovers.
13:49What are you on about?
13:51If you were the landlord's wife,
13:53you could walk back in the place with your head high.
13:57Still be queen of the May.
14:00When she said yes, everyone was gobsmacked.
14:04And not just at that dress.
14:06Do you like a dress?
14:08No, I don't really much, sir, no.
14:10You don't mean either.
14:11I therefore proclaim that they are husband and wife.
14:15The deal was sealed.
14:16Well, go on.
14:17Kiss me.
14:18With a less than convincing kiss.
14:23Who needs love anyway
14:25when you've got the Rovers?
14:28Rovers return.
14:29And she made sure her now-husband
14:31knew who the real boss was.
14:34He says he's not in.
14:35I am disgusted with you.
14:37Disgusted.
14:38Yes, and I'm disgusted and all.
14:40He doesn't like the hot pot.
14:41It's terrific, Betty's hot pot.
14:42Ask any of the customers.
14:43Well then, we're both disgusted, aren't we?
14:46Yes, we are.
14:47We'll worry about the hot pot.
14:48You go and have your fancy lunch at the Midland.
14:51Despite odd chinks of affection...
14:55I'm a forgiver.
14:56Well...
14:56And the odd marital perp...
14:58I'll think about it.
14:59...we were never really convinced
15:01whether the business deal...
15:02Get up, I'm still.
15:04...I mean, marriage would last.
15:06You see this smile?
15:07It's not really a smile.
15:09It's the lid on a screen.
15:12And in 1992...
15:14I gather you're planning on putting a manager in there.
15:16...Bette's loyalty to Alec was finally put to the test.
15:19I'm going to pack you some cheese and onion.
15:20Alec had been offered a job on a cruise liner.
15:23Hey, you do know we've got to get everything packed up yet.
15:26He and Bette were to give up the Rovers and move away.
15:29Don't you think you'd have been better employed if you...
15:31I've been to the brewery.
15:35I told you I didn't want to go, Alec.
15:37I went to ask...
15:40...if I could stop on...
15:42...as manager.
15:43We were about to find out whether it was really business...
15:46...or marriage that Bette wanted.
15:48You don't come with me tonight...
15:50...and you'll be announcing an end to our marriage.
15:54Bette!
15:57With their leaving party in full swing...
16:00What she said.
16:01She's not going.
16:04Alec!
16:08Alec, don't.
16:09When they ask you what happened...
16:11...tell them the truth, won't you?
16:16Bette made her choice.
16:18The Rovers was her real love after all.
16:22Now then.
16:23Who's waiting?
16:25He doesn't pay me much...
16:27...but I'm getting plenty of experience.
16:28Ashley!
16:29What the pickin' heck am I paying you for?
16:31Our next partnership was one of Master...
16:33With my head for business...
16:35Head for business?
16:36...and Apprentice.
16:37Goodly no ladies more like.
16:39Then your enthusiasm...
16:40...will turn this place into a little goldmine.
16:42I say a goldmine!
16:44A double act that had more in common than first met the eye.
16:47I say first met the eye.
16:49Come on, Ashley.
16:50Shift yourself.
16:52Fog on, leg on, butcher.
16:53Fred Elliott.
16:54Excellent!
16:55Well, you might think so.
16:57Boston cajoled his high-pitched nephew, Ashley.
17:00If anybody asks what it is, remember, it's somewhat new...
17:03...but don't tell them what it is until they've actually had a taste.
17:07Hmm.
17:07Not bad, that.
17:08What is it?
17:09Reindeer.
17:10It's all the lad's fault.
17:12His father came from bad stock.
17:13Just shut up about me dad.
17:15We were an ill-advised marriage.
17:16At least he wasn't a pervert.
17:18Fred did fancy himself a bit of a ladies' man.
17:21Oh dear, what have you done?
17:23Aerodynamics, Audrey.
17:24Quick in and out.
17:25Makes you look quite dangerous.
17:27That's good.
17:28But it turned out Ashley had more luck with the women.
17:30What's up with you?
17:31Get out at road.
17:33Not that he was allowed to enjoy it.
17:40Writers had a field day coming up with funny scenarios for the duo.
17:44Well?
17:45And we loved it.
17:47Worth going out for?
17:49Bye.
17:50Worth coming home for.
17:52What's he doing here?
17:53You've done wonders for me will to live.
17:56Look, there's something I've got to tell you.
17:59But Corrie are great at throwing in a curveball.
18:02It's about your uncle Fred and Audrey.
18:04You think I don't know about him chasing her?
18:07No, actually, look.
18:10It's about his son.
18:12It's right what they said in war.
18:14Careless talk costs lives.
18:16Oh, Fred, come on.
18:17And in 1999, their partnership came under threat
18:20after Ashley found out his uncle had a secret son.
18:24Thought it might be you.
18:25Of course it's me.
18:26I want to know what you think you're playing at.
18:28I know what's right about you having a son.
18:30I ain't being taken for a mug.
18:31And I'm sick of your promises.
18:33How you'd see me right and how business would be coming to me.
18:36I've trained that lad.
18:38I've worked on him like an artist.
18:39Taught him everything he knows about the butchery trade.
18:42It's all down to me.
18:43If you want someone to do your hard work for you,
18:46get your son to do it.
18:49They must say something to Alanis shouldn't.
18:51They know who they are.
18:54But what came next...
18:56Their height.
18:57..was a twist fit for the silver screen.
18:59I've not been frank with you, I admit it.
19:01About time.
19:03It's very difficult, is this?
19:07I have got a song.
19:11I knew it.
19:12Aye.
19:15It's you.
19:19I'm not your Uncle Fred, Ashley.
19:21I'm your father.
19:23It was a moment that shocked us all.
19:26You're my lad, Ashley.
19:28And one that would pave the way.
19:30Let me be your father.
19:33Father!
19:34For an even stronger partnership.
19:38Introduce Ashley, the Butcher Peacock!
19:44Being father and son...
19:46You are, oh, by God, you are.
19:49...only created more comedy.
19:51Well, what did you give me for your tea last night?
19:53Sausages.
19:55Vegetarian sausages.
19:56What did you say?
19:57I said vegetarians.
19:57Keep your boys down!
19:59I'll hang up.
20:00We're getting ready to leave him out.
20:03If word gets out, we'll be sure within a week.
20:05I said within a week.
20:05Well, I'm not a vegetarian.
20:07Oh, well, make sure it stops that way.
20:08But all good things have to come to an end.
20:11So where is he any road?
20:12He's always over the road, having a manicure.
20:14Must be love.
20:16Just as Fred was set to wed Bevel and win, Audrey, the one that got away...
20:21What would you have said, Audrey?
20:22..was about to drop a bombshell.
20:25Fred had have said yes.
20:28She's put me in a terrible situation.
20:30Audrey's not right for you.
20:33She's a tease.
20:35You'll be happy with Beverly for the rest of your life.
20:37But on the big day, Fred did a runner.
20:40Dad!
20:43I actually needn't have worried.
20:45I'll never forget you.
20:47All Fred wanted to do was say goodbye to a lifelong friend.
20:50I will certainly never forget you.
21:00Be happy.
21:01I said be happy.
21:10Little did any of us know that this final farewell...
21:13What are you doing?
21:17Fred!
21:18..would be his last.
21:20Fred!
21:23Oh, no.
21:25Oh, Fred.
21:26Fred.
21:29He wasn't without his faults.
21:31Well, I loved him for him.
21:33I know I did.
21:35And I'll miss them.
21:38Just as much as I'll miss him.
21:41Fred's time had come.
21:46And with a little nudge...
21:49..we bid farewell to another classic Corrie couple.
21:53Hi, Dad.
21:54It's a good job there are always plenty more double acts waiting in the wings.
21:59Because my heart belongs on the open road to you.
22:02You're kidding!
22:04Very handsome.
22:06Very Bruce Willis.
22:08More like Bruce Forsyth than this.
22:09Get up.
22:09All right, fellas.
22:10All right.
22:10Good time.
22:11Good time.
22:11Well, we'll have to wait and see...
22:13Sweet moment.
22:14...where their stories take us.
22:15What's going on?
22:17Bye for tonight.
22:18Bye for now.
22:21Bye for now.