Coronation Street

Watch: Coronation Street Season 1 Episode 1

S1 EP1

TV-PG

4058 episodes66 seasons

US Release

Overview:

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

Created by:

Tony Warren

Status:

Returning Series

Language:

English

First air date:

12/9/1960

Last air date:

6/18/2025

Key words:

northern england
community
manchester
soap opera

Seasons

Specials

47 Episodes

Season 1

7 Episodes

Season 2

102 Episodes

Season 3

105 Episodes

Season 4

74 Episodes

Season 5

42 Episodes

Season 6

22 Episodes

Season 7

61 Episodes

Season 8

2 Episodes

Season 9

50 Episodes

Season 10

104 Episodes

Season 11

7 Episodes

Season 12

8 Episodes

Season 13

2 Episodes

Season 14

2 Episodes

Season 15

41 Episodes

Season 16

7 Episodes

Season 17

5 Episodes

Season 18

3 Episodes

Season 19

16 Episodes

Season 20

2 Episodes

Season 21

27 Episodes

Season 22

4 Episodes

Season 23

6 Episodes

Season 24

2 Episodes

Season 25

2 Episodes

Season 26

2 Episodes

Season 27

2 Episodes

Season 28

76 Episodes

Season 29

41 Episodes

Season 30

2 Episodes

Season 31

35 Episodes

Season 32

7 Episodes

Season 33

80 Episodes

Season 34

2 Episodes

Season 35

14 Episodes

Season 36

10 Episodes

Season 37

63 Episodes

Season 38

12 Episodes

Season 39

2 Episodes

Season 40

208 Episodes

Season 41

6 Episodes

Season 42

2 Episodes

Season 43

25 Episodes

Season 44

11 Episodes

Season 45

3 Episodes

Season 46

13 Episodes

Season 47

2 Episodes

Season 48

54 Episodes

Season 49

19 Episodes

Season 50

51 Episodes

Season 51

61 Episodes

Season 52

264 Episodes

Season 53

258 Episodes

Season 54

260 Episodes

Season 55

253 Episodes

Season 56

210 Episodes

Season 57

22 Episodes

Season 58

10 Episodes

Season 59

95 Episodes

Season 60

134 Episodes

Season 61

220 Episodes

Season 62

266 Episodes

Season 63

177 Episodes

Season 64

160 Episodes

Season 65

157 Episodes

Season 66

80 Episodes

Cast

William Roache

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Ken Barlow

Barbara Knox

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Rita Sullivan

Sally Dynevor

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Sally Metcalfe

Helen Worth

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Gail Platt

Simon Gregson

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Steve McDonald

Sue Nicholls

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Audrey Roberts

Eileen Derbyshire

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Emily Nugent / Emily Bishop

David Neilson

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Roy Cropper

Jane Danson

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Leanne Battersby / Leanne Tilsley

Alan Halsall

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Tyrone Dobbs

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Reviews (1)

Peter McGinn
Written 5 year(s) ago
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If I were rating the Coronation Street classic shows from the 60s to the early 90s, I would give it 10 stars. For the last 30 years, however, it would garner more like 5 or 6 stars. This drama started out being fairly realistic, with humor and drama in equal measure, and a cast you pretty much like from top to bottom, and which tried to represent the people of northern England, (Manchester and thereabouts). There were low expectations for the show, but it took off and made rock stars ut of the performers.

Now Coronation Street has become more like U.S. soap operas. Some people say it is the influence of the newer soap operas like East Enders, with its screamfests. So now there is less humor, fewer long-term characters, and murder, murder, murder.

So if you try the current iteration of Coronation Street and find you don't like it plots or pacing, track down some of the older shows and give them a whirl. You just might get hooked on them.