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In 1960 a former child actor with writing ambitions,Mancunian Tony Warren begins submitting television scripts for Shadow Squad to progressive Canadian producer Harry Elton,who wants to nurture local talent. Tony,however,is keen to sell a drama he has written about real Northerners,called Florizel Street,after a picture of Prince Florizel in his office. Harry is supportive but Granada studio boss Sidney Bernstein is lukewarm,feeling it is seedy and unglamorous. Fortunately his brother Cecil sees the virtue in cheaply made studio drama with local actors and,with writer Harry Kershaw and director Derek Bennett on board,the streets residents are cast. Thirteen episodes are commissioned but the pivotal character of battle-axe Ena Sharples is proving impossible to cast until Tony brings in a cantankerous old actress from his radio days - Violet Carson. She is perfect. Less perfect is the title,which the tea lady says sounds like disinfectant. A new title must be found quickly - and so Coronation Street is born.
Ann Aris
Nita Valerie
Lynda Baron
Violet Carson
Steven Berkoff
Sidney Bernstein
David Dawson
Tony Warren
Sophia Di Martino
Josie Scott
Shaun Dooley
Derek Bennett
Henry Goodman
Cecil Bernstein
Michelle Holmes
Brenda
Jane Horrocks
Margaret Morris
Celia Imrie
Doris Speed
Christian McKay
Harry Elton
Tara Moran
Edna Walker
Phoebe Nicholls
Mrs Simpson
Malcolm Raeburn
Board Member
James Roache
William Roache
John Thomson
Harry Kershaw
Jessie Wallace
Pat Phoenix
David Williams
Jack
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