40 Years on Coronation Street (2000 TV Special) User Reviews

Forty Years On Coronation Street

[Mark Jones · 4 March 2001]

Forty year of Coronation Street was the first life episode I had ever seen. It wasn't the first ever life episode, no because the first episode was life, the first live episode was in 1960 which was the first episode. Unlike the first episode, it was on for an hour, the first episode was only on for half an hour.

There was one well known person in it and that was Noddy Holder(lead singer of the 1970 band Slade). But the only person who had been in both live episode that was, William Roach (Ken Barlow).

The episode was really to mark that coronation street has been go for 40 years and still going as strong as ever.

Okay for the first time you see it.

[Simon_J_Rodgers · 3/10 · 15 August 2012]

This is one of the few documentaries which was made on Coronation Street which focuses on the history of the programme.

No matter how hard they try, they can never seem to make them interesting. I'm left feeling if they showed anything that I would be interested in.

There is basically old clips and interviews galore, but nothing too special. As I have mentioned before the clips do not have any special length on their own, they are cut too short and the interviews go on too long.

If you want to see some proper vintage (and uninterrupted) Corrie, your best bet is to get the DVD box-sets.

I know my comments for such documentaries are the very similar, but that's what they're all like.

When you've seen one, you've seen them all, what's the point of so many of them?