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Voted ITV's Greatest Programme in a national poll of ITV viewers in 2005, this collection of eighty episodes of Coronation Street spread across 10 discs represents the cream of this acclaimed TV drama between 1960 and 1969.
Specially selected by Coronation Street's official historian 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, that has become a national treasure and which will forever have a place in our hearts.
Highlights from the Sixties that feature in this package include:
1960 - Dennis Tanner's arrest on suspicion of breaking and entering.
1961 - Ena missing the bus back from Swindley's Blackpool trip.
1962 - The infamous bar brawl between Ken and Len Fairclough in the Rovers Return.
1963 - Sheila's attempted suicide and Jerry and Myra's marriage.
1964 - Florrie's shop rage and Stan's wrestling antics.
1965 - The destruction of one of the houses on 'The Street' plus the birth of Ken and Val's twins.
1966 - Ena's encounter with louts and her alleged shoplifting.
1967 - The infamous train crash involving some of your favourite characters.
1968 - Val Barlow's hostage experience plus Ena's envy of Bobby the Cat.
1969 - Minnie's gambling addiction plus the notorious coach crash that hospitalises Val and Minnie.
Created by Tony Warren, this first decade of the nation's favourite soap proves why the programme is the UK's longest running serial and also why the programme has rightly been the winner of over forty accolades including the BAFTA award for Best Continuing Drama, multiple British Soap Awards, numerous National Television Awards, many TV Quick Awards and various honours from the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.