60 Years Of Coronation Street-Disliked Characters of the 60's/70's

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In December this year, serial drama/soap Coronation Street will celebrate 60 years on British TV. I have been watching it from the late 70's and remain a big fan. Between now and December I will be looking at the best bits from the Corrie years. This time I'm looking at my most disliked characters from the 60's/70's.

1) Ray Langton
The guy was a piece of filth who was ex-Borstal, stealing, threatening women, trying to seduce Lucille Hewitt, having an affair with his best friend's wife when he was their lodger (Dickie & Audrey Fleming), married Deirdre and had a daughter Tracy, but cheated on her in 1978 which ended things. He caused trouble for Deirdre over their divorce and Ken adopting Tracy. Scum!

2) Suzie Birchall
Arriving in 1977 she was the bitchy friend of Gail Potter, but was always trying to upstage her by dating men Gail liked including Steve Fisher. She played nasty tricks on people, dragged Gail into trouble constantly, chased men with money like Mike Baldwin and was pretty much a cow to everyone. Left in 1979 but returned briefly in 1983, trying to split Gail and Brian.  

3) Tricia Hopkins
A bitch friend of Gail who fancied Ray and got a black eye from Deirdre for lying that he was cheating. Her family tried blackmail to buy the corner shop, threatening to expose Betty Turpin was really Gordon Clegg's mother, not her sister Maggie. Rude to customers, giving credit to men she fancied, she was evicted and sacked by Renee Bradshaw. Hurrah!

4) Christine Hardman
Spiteful and impatient with her ailing mother, Christine was well named. Fed up with a dull job and no man, she threatened suicide but was saved by Ken. Her eye fell on Ken's widowed dad Frank who was twice her age while stringing her ex along. Despite not loving Frank they got engaged and she broke his heart by later dumping him. I couldn't stand her!

5) Jed Stone
After being released from Borstal, Jed was forever involved in petty crime with and without Dennis Tanner. He was in and out of prison, lodging with Minnie Caldwell in spells. He was an obnoxious character who bugged me every time he appeared on screen. He reappeared to cause grief for Tony Gordon in 2008. 

6) Linda Cheveski
Linda was Elsie Tanner's daughter and a right miserable cow, and always being nasty to her husband Ivan. Ivan adored her, worked hard and did everything he could to make her happy but she threw it back in his face. She also cheated on him and he was forever chasing her to come home each time she left him. Dreadful woman! 

7) Dennis Tanner
What is it with Elsie Tanner's kids? Dennis was a lazy, workshy lout who was always on the con and in and out of borstal and prison. He became a talent scout but his hair brained schemes were always a disaster. Constantly in debt and bringing trouble to his mother's door, he left the street in 1968 and returned in 2010.

8) Lucille Hewitt
Lucille was raised in an orphanage after her mum's death and came to live with her dad Harry when he married Concepta Riley. Disliking her stepmother she was rude and sulky, and after her father's death, had to move in with the Walkers. She was besotted with Ray Langton who treated her badly. Lucille was whiny, lazy, rude and annoying!

9) Myra Booth 
Myra was a spoiled brat of a woman who dominated her kind husband Jerry Booth. She would spend more than he earned, getting goods on HP and causing debts. She never seemed to care about him and after he left declared she wanted him back and refused to divorce him. She was a right cold bitch!

10) Eddie Yeats 
A jailbird friend of Jed Stone, who lodges with Minnie Caldwell and then the Ogdens, Eddie was another get rich quick con artist who was forever lying and cheating, selling dodgy things to his neighbours and constantly in trouble. I found him mouthy and irritating though the character did improve as the years went on. 

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In the 60's Ken Barlow was a pain in the rear. Stuck up and snobby, he was ashamed of his family, disrespected his neighbours and cared more about his beloved principals than anything else. By the 70's he was much more interesting with his tangled love life so he isn't on the list.

The other main irritant was mouthy Bet Lynch. She was prone to playing spiteful tricks on people and getting others into trouble so there were times I really didn't like her-like pretending she was having an affair with Alf or the phone calls to Mavis. However she is not on the list because I loved her interactions with Betty and Fred, and the scenes when her son died. Every time she called Fred 'Fred Face' I crack up!