Coronation Street – Best of 1960 – 1969 DVD – Patricia Phoenix, Violet Carson

Collection of 80 episodes from Britain’s longest-running television soap, covering the whole of the 1960s with eight landmark episodes selected from each year featuring favourite characters such as Ken Barlow (William Roache), Emily (Eileen Derbyshire), Rita (Barbara Knox), and Betty (Betty Driver).

Celebrating many years of this soap drama, of laughter and tears on the cobbled streets of Wetherfield, this release includes a definitive collection of the entire series of CORONATION STREET between 1960-1969.

First aired in December 1960 Coronation Street is the longest running most watched soap opera in Britain. This boxed set of the best episodes from the 1990s is released to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of everyone’s favourite show. Winning numerous accolades the show was described as the most successful television programme in British history by the Royal Television Society and creator Tony Warren was made an MBE in 1976. The dramas of Weatherfield’s residents have kept viewers enthralled throughout the soap s history and this volume of classic episodes from the 1990s allows fans to revisit key moments and storylines of that decade. Newcomers include the unhappily married Des and Steph Barnes loner Roy Cropper wheelchair-bound battleaxe Maud Grimes butcher Fred Elliott scheming barmaid Tanya Poole aspiring model Raquel Wolstenhulme and the troublesome Battersby family; noted writers include Shameless creator Paul Abbott and actor and playwright Stephen Mallatratt.