Coronation Street - Best of 1970-1979 - [ITV] - [Network] - [DVD]

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A celebration of Britain's most famous and enduring television programme, Coronation Street Years features 80 landmark episodes from the 1970's in a 10-disc box set. With 8 outstanding episodes from each year, this box set represents the very best of 'Coronation Street' in the decade that established it as a ste part of British tv culture. With many episodes unseen since their original broadcast, the release is an rtunity to revisit old friends and re-live some classic moments. Featuring appearances by Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix), Len Fairclough (Peter Adamson), Alan Howard (Alan Browning), Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), Bet Lynch (Julie Goodyear), Betty Turpin (Betty Driver), Hilda Ogden (Jean Alexander), Stan Ogden (Bernard Youens), Annie Walker (Doris Speed), Ken Barlow (William Roache), Alf Roberts (Brain Mosely), Minnie Caldwell (Margot Bryant), Mike Baldwin (Johnny Briggs), Emily Bishop (Eileen Derbyshire), Ernest Bishop (Stephen Hancock), Albert Tatlock (Jack Howarth), Ivy Tilsley (Lynne Perrie), Mavis Riley (Thelma Barlow), Alec Gilroy (Roy Barraclough), Deidre Hunt (Anne Kirkbride), Vera Duckworth (Elizabeth Dawn), Eddie Yeats (Geoffrey Hughes) and Fred Gee (Fred Feast). Voted ITV’s Greatest Programme in a national poll and described as “the most successful programme in television history”, this collection of eighty episodes of Coronation Street represents the cream of this accled TV drama. You can now relive the trials, tribulations, joy and jubilation as encountered by the folk of Manchester’s Coronation Street in the UK’s most compelling soap – a show that has become a national treasure and which will forever have a place in our hearts. With many episodes from this celebrated and award-winning series not seen since their original broadcast, this is an rtunity to revisit old friends and relive some of the key moments and dramatic storylines, including: • Elsie Tanner marries Alan Howard • The 1977 Silver Jubilee Street party • The warehouse fire and the discovery of two bodies • Hilda Ogden’s séance • Valerie Barlow’s electrocution • Eddie’s metal detector antics • The residents’ victimisation of Stan • Ernie’s demise at the hands of armed robbers And much more