Coronation Street (series)
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Coronation Street, also referred to as Corrie, is a British television soap opera created by Tony Warren and produced for ITV. It follows the lives of the down-to-Earth, working class community of the titular, cobbled street in the fictional Greater Manchester town of Weatherfield.
Launched at the end of 1960, the series is considered to be a British television institution; it is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's longest-running soap opera. It is currently the fifteenth longest running television series in the world, coming in fifteen places ahead of Doctor Who[1][additional sources needed], which premiered just under three years after the soap. Corrie broadcast its 10,000th episode on 7 February 2020, during the broadcast of Series 12 of Doctor Who.[2]
Crossovers[[edit] | [edit source]]
The two shows may be broadcast on rival networks, but official crossovers between Doctor Who and Corrie have occurred, on both channels, nonetheless.
In 1991, The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic [+]Loading...["The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)"] was released, crossing several series over, featuring elements from the Doctor Who series before later featuring the Rovers Return Inn, wearing a Red Nose.
2011 saw Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor find his way over to ITV for Dermot and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Dermot and the Doctor (TV story)"], the comedic, narrative-based introduction to that year's National Television Awards. The story, in which the Doctor tries to get Dermot O'Leary to the ceremony, sees the TARDIS arriving on the sets of different British shows, including the iconic cobbles, in which the Doctor is shouted at by Becky McDonald (played by Katherine Kelly), who tells him it is over between them (the implication appearing to be that the two of them had a romantic encounter of some sort) before she storms off into the Rovers Return Inn.
A second minor crossover took place in the 2015 webcast, Mind My Minions [+]Loading...["Mind My Minions (webcast)"], this time with the Corrie set showing up on a BBC platform. After the Minions, of Despicable Me fame, hijack the TARDIS, one of the places they take it to is the street, materialising beside the Rovers.
References to Coronation Street in the DWU[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 2007's web tie-in Martha Jones [+]Loading...["Martha Jones (short story)"], a series of in-universe blog posts by the character which tied into the events of the television story Blink, saw Martha write that she and the Tenth Doctor would watch Coronation Street in their flat in 1969 after having been sent back in time by the Weeping Angels.
In 2008's Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"], Donna Noble insults a woman in Leeds by calling her "Vera Duckworth" and telling her to "go and feed t' whippets". This nod to one of the soap's most iconic, longstanding characters, was broadcast just six months before the character was killed off in the series.
References to Doctor Who on Coronation Street[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Connections[[edit] | [edit source]]
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Highlighted rows indicate an actor who is currently appearing in the series as their listed character
1960s[[edit] | [edit source]]
| Actor | DWU role(s) | Corrie role | Corrie duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Bidmead | Maaga | Lily Haddon | 1964 | |
| George A. Cooper | Cherub | William Piggott | 1964–1965, 1970–1971 | |
| Kenneth Cope | Packard | Jed Stone | 1961-1963, 1966, 2008-2009 | |
| Frank Crawshaw | Arnold Farrow | Arnold Tanner | 1961, 1966 | |
| Edward Evans | Ted Moss | Lionel Petty | 1965-1966 | |
| Dudley Foster | Maurice Caven | Tom Hayes | 1961 | |
| Stephen Hancock | First Mate | Ernest Bishop | 1967, 1969-1978 | |
| Donald Hewlett | George Hardiman | Bob Maxwell | 1965 | |
| Frazer Hines | Jamie McCrimmon | Roger Wain | 1965 | |
| David Holliday | Virgil Tracy | Tom Schofield | 1965, 1973 | |
| Susan Jameson | Fenella Wibbsey, Mrs Moynihan | Myra Booth | 1963-1964, 1968 | |
| Donald Morley | Jules Renan | Walter Fletcher | 1961 | |
| Bryan Mosley | Malpha | Alf Roberts | 1961–1963, 1967, 1971–1999 | |
| Colette O'Neil | Tanha | Ruth Winter | 1966 | |
| Daphne Oxenford | Archivist | Esther Hayes | 1960-1963, 1971-1972 | |
| Glyn Owen | Rohm-Dutt, Commander Harlon | Norman Lindley | 1965 | |
| Anne Reid | Nurse Crane, "Florence Finnegan" | Valerie Barlow | 1961-1971 | |
| Graham Rigby | Larry Madison | Sid Lambert | 1965-1966, 1970 | |
| Jon Rollason | Harold Chorley | Dave Robbins | 1963–1964, 1969, 1971 | |
| Alan Rothwell | Byzar Janto | David Barlow | 1960–1961, 1963–1968 | |
| Tom Watson | Ramo | Frank Turner | 1965 |
1970s[[edit] | [edit source]]
| Actor | DWU role(s) | Corrie role | Corrie duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June Brown | Lady Eleanor, Dot Cotton, herself | Mrs Parsons | 1970-1971 | |
| Jonathan Coy | Fowler | Stanley Fairclough | 1977 | |
| Alec Sabin | Ringway | Colin Lomax | 1972 | |
| Helen Worth | Mary Ashe | Gail Platt | 1974-present |
1980s[[edit] | [edit source]]
| Actor | DWU role(s) | Corrie role | Corrie duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Eden | Marco Polo, Donald Baverstock | Alan Bradley | 1986-1989 |
1990s[[edit] | [edit source]]
| Actor | DWU role(s) | Corrie role | Corrie duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dicken Ashworth | Sezon | Geoff Horton | 1993-2000 | |
| Julie Hesmondhalgh | Judy Maddox | Hayley Cropper | 1998-2014 | |
| Glyn Pritchard | Eddie Jones | Malcolm Fox | 1996 | |
| William Russell | Ian Chesterton | Ted Sullivan | 1992 |
2000s[[edit] | [edit source]]
| Actor | DWU role(s) | Corrie role | Corrie duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patti Clare | Ruth | Mary Taylor | 2008-present | |
| Shobna Gulati | Najia Khan | Sunita Alahan | 2001-2006, 2009-2013 | |
| Nigel Havers | Peter Dalton, Nick Zimmerman | Lewis Archer | 2009-2010, 2012-2013, 2018-2019 | |
| Katherine Kelly | Andrea Quill, Becky McDonald | Becky McDonald | 2006-2012 | |
| Bruno Langley | Adam Mitchell | Todd Grimshaw | 2001-2004, 2007, 2011, 2013-2017 | Following Langley's sexual harassment conviction, the role of Todd was recast in 2020 with fellow DWU actor, Gareth Pierce. |
| Linda Marlowe | See list | Marian Lund | 2008 | |
| Gray O'Brien | Rickston Slade | Tony Gordon | 2007-2010 | |
| Debra Stephenson | Thirteenth Doctor (Doctors Assemble!) | Frankie Baldwin | 2004-2006 | |
| Susan Twist | See list | Donna Stout | 2007 | Twist later played Lydia Hartman in 2017. |
| Bradley Walsh | Graham O'Brien, Pied Piper | Danny Baldwin | 2004-2006 |
2010s[[edit] | [edit source]]
| Actor | DWU role(s) | Corrie role | Corrie duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Brocklebank | See list | Billy Mayhew | 2014-present | |
| Charlie De Melo | Charles Banerjee | Imran Habeeb | 2017-2022 | |
| Victoria Ekanoye | Anita, Iris | Angie Appleton | 2017-2019 | |
| Trevor Georges | Vicar | Ed Bailey | 2019-present | |
| Millie Gibson | Ruby Sunday | Kelly Neelan | 2019-2022 | |
| Christopher Harper | See list | Nathan Curtis | 2016-2018, 2024 | |
| Cherylee Houston | Elise Kaplan | Izzy Armstrong | 2010-present | |
| Maureen Lipman | The Wire | Evelyn Plummer | 2018-present | |
| Ian Puleston-Davies | Angus Selwyn | Owen Armstrong | 2010-2015 | |
| Susan Twist | See list | Lydia Hartman | 2017 | Twist previously played Donna Stout in 2002. |
2020s[[edit] | [edit source]]
| Actor | DWU role(s) | Corrie role | Corrie duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dylan Baldwin | Security Officer | Supplier | 2023 | |
| Carla Mendonça | Waltraud Raither, Imp, Evangeline Horton | Orla Crawshaw | 2021-2024 | |
| Gareth Pierce | See list | Todd Grimshaw | 2020-present | Todd was previously played by Bruno Langley until 2017. |
Spinoffs[[edit] | [edit source]]
For Children in Need in 2010, Coronation Street had a special crossover minisode with rival soap, EastEnders, titled East Street. Among the then-present EastEnders actors to reprise their roles for the crossover included Nina Wadia (Dr Ramsden in The Eleventh Hour) as Zainab Masood, Shane Richie (Drax in Here Lies Drax) as Alfie Moon, Jessie Wallace as Kat Moon (whom she also played in It's Showtime), Shona McGarty (herself in Consider Yourself One Of Us…) as Whitney Dean, and Ricky Norwood (himself in the aforementioned Consider Yourself, as well as an interview subject for The Ultimate Guide) as Arthur "Fatboy" Chubb.
The Road to Coronation Street was a 2010 docudrama that dramatised the creation of the soap, produced in celebration of the its 50th anniversary. Actors featured within it included the aforementioned Jessie Wallace as Pat Phoenix, Celia Imrie (Rosemary Kizlet in The Bells of Saint John, as well as a number of voices for Big Finish) as Doris Speed, Lynda Baron (Captain Wrack in Enlightenment and Val in Closing Time) as Violet Carson, Steven Berkoff (the Shakri hologram in The Power of Three) as Sidney Bernstein, and Shaun Dooley (Epzo in The Ghost Monument) as Derek Bennett.
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