Line #19 Trivia/CoronationStreet


1	* ActorInspiredElement:
2	** Shobna Gulati was asked if she'd like to name Sunita's twins when they were born. She named the girl 'Asha' after her mother.
3	** Julie Hesmondhalgh had a lot of say in what Hayley Cropper wore, including her famous red anorak. She felt that Hayley would never wear trousers, and pushed for her to only be seen in skirts and dresses.
4	* CastTheRunnerUp:
5	** Creator/DorisHare was offered the role of Ena Sharples and played Minnie Caldwell in one of the {{Pilot}}s but didn't get the part. She went on to play Hilda Davies and Maud in 1961, and Alice Pickins from 1968 to 1969.
6	** In 1989, Creator/SuElliot was considered for the role of Liz [=MacDonald=] but lost out to Beverley Callard. Two years later, Elliot joined ''Corrie'' as Julie Dewhurst.
7	* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Betty Driver died aged 91, so her character Betty Williams was killed off as well. This has happened several times: Jack Walker, Jerry Booth, Albert Tatlock, Stan Ogden, Bert Tilsley, Blanche Hunt and Deirdre Barlow. Ena Sharples, Elsie Tanner and Christine Hardman were both mentioned as having died several years after they left the show and Annie Walker is talked about in the past tense.
8	* CharacterOutlivesActor: Several characters live on off-screen following their actors' deaths. Others live on until the scriptwriters are able to work the characters' deaths in.
9	** When Graham Haberfield who played Jerry Booth died suddenly his last two episodes were yet to be aired so Jerry's scenes were going to be cut but his widow insisted that they aired them as a tribute to her husband.
10	* CreatorBacklash: When then-new producer Tim Aspinall in 1964, planned the refreshing of the street with the removal of several characters, one of which was the killing of Martha Longhurst in order to boost ratings. The move was controversial with nearly all the cast and crew, to the point that even years later, producers like H.V. Kershaw say that it damaged any new ideas for Ena and Minnie.
11	* TheDanza:
12	** Betty Driver as Betty Williams (née Turpin).
13	** Frank Pemberton as Frank Barlow.
14	** Christine Hargreaves as Christine Hardman.
15	** Sally Dynevor (nee Whittaker) as Sally Webster.
16	* DawsonCasting:
17	** Gail Platt was introduced as a sixteen-year-old. Helen Worth was twenty-three at the time.
18	** Nick Tilsley's current actor, Ben Price, is ''ten years older'' than his character's age.
19	** While Sunita Alahan was born in 1978, Shobna Gulati was born in 1966.
20	** Helen Worth who plays Gail was born in early 1951 while the character was born in 1958. To contrast, Gail's Mother Audrey is three years older than her actress Sue Nicholls (born late 1943). In other words, there is only a seven year age difference in real life between onscreen mother and daughter.
21	** 19-year-old Lucy Fallon started playing 14-year-old Bethany Platt in 2015. The heavy amount of make-up that Bethany liked to wear made the age difference ''very'' noticeable. Also worth noting that Bethany was originally going to be played by Katie Redford who was 25 years old at the time.
22	* DeletedRole:
23	** Creator/RossGrant filmed a couple of scenes featuring Todd that had to be cut from the broadcast when Bruno Langley was convicted of sexual assault.
24	** This is a common trope in the older episodes, sometimes characters would be credited however they are nowhere in the episode and possibly their scenes were cut before transmission which was common if this example is to be believed [[note]]https://coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Joyce_Wentworth [[/note]]
25	* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: The show has had a few wheelchair-using characters in its time, though previously they were played by able-bodied actors. Currently, however, both Izzy Armstrong and actress Cherylee Houston, who plays her, suffer from a rare connective tissue disorder, Type III Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
26	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents:
27	** Claire Peacock was originally going to be involved in a storyline where her baby Freddie was kidnapped from her house during a fire and kept missing for four months. Due to the Madeleine [=McCann=] disappearance, they quickly changed direction to have Freddie found in a park the next day - and the mystery instead shifted to who started the fire.
28	** The episode scheduled to air on the 2nd June 2010 was cancelled by Creator/{{ITV}} due to the then-breaking news about the Cumbria massacre. The episode in question featured scenes with guns.
29	* DuelingShows: With ''Series/EastEnders''. Although they don't broadcast opposite each other, in the UK you're either a fan of one or the other. [[TakeAThirdOption Or both]].
30	* FakeIrish: A borderline example with the Connor family. While Michelle, Liam and Paul were presumably reared in England, they were born to Irish parents and seem to have kept close contact with Ireland (their parents returned to Dublin to live). Of the three, only the actor playing Paul had any known Irish ancestry and even his parents were English-born. Rob James Collier (Liam) did later reveal that he has Irish grandparents though.
31	* FakeNationality:
32	** Collins has a natural London accent. Opinions vary on how good/bad her Manchester accent is.
33	** Karl Munro's actor is Scottish.
34	* HideYourPregnancy: Julie Hesmondhalgh, who played post-op trans woman Hayley Cropper became pregnant during her tenure on the soap as it started with the character sitting down a lot, and later she went on holiday to keep things from getting too obvious.
35	* HostilityOnTheSet:
36	** During her first stint, Elsie's actress Patricia Phoenix had a reputation of being difficult, argumentative and holding grudges way beyond what most people would call their natural shelf-life, which resulted in a falling out with her co-star William Roache (Ken) when she tried to scene-steal an episode ending from him in contravention of the script that led to the two not talking for two years, along with that another co-star of hers Philip Lowrie, who played her son Dennis, had a falling out with her after his departure in 1968 as she refused to talk to him unless their work demanded she do so, resulting in the two never speaking on informal terms ever again. Even Hilda's actress Jean Alexander couldn't stand her offscreen, though she did give her a present during her second wedding to Alan Browning.
37	*** Creator/MichaelApted has stated that his primary memory of working on the programme was trying to keep Phoenix and the equally forthright Violet Carson from coming to blows.
38	*** However, fellow co-stars Julie Goodyear, Bill Kenwright and Veronica Doran have disputed this as they've said stories about the way that Phoenix went out of her way to help them when they first appeared on the programme.
39	*** Fortunately, during her second and final stint, she got along with her fellow cast members well though her bad blood with the writers unfortunately resumed and refused to accept that her advancing years made requested storylines for Elsie to have affairs with young, good-looking men seem ridiculous. After the writers saw an aging Elsie as being a "saloon bar philosopher", Phoenix was determined that the character she had worked hard to create would not be watered down, so she decided to leave the show in 1984 and would never return to the soap again, following her death due to her battle with lung cancer two years later.
40	** Margot Bryant who played the lovable Minnie Caldwell was known to be a strict profession who was sometimes rude to people, she could be more like Ena Sharples. Eileen Derbyshire who was one of her closest friends on set described her as like W.C. Fields when it came to children and when she brought her baby son Oliver to the set Margot said "Shame it's not a cat", but afterwards made a shirt for Oliver. However she had a sad side that came out when she feared Minnie was a one episode character and when in 1976 she began to forget her lines, thankfully the studio forgave her and gave her a nice ending to her character.
41	* IAmNotSpock: Helen Flanagan aka Rosie Webster.
42	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: While most of the episodes have survived (rare for 1960's TV) many of the episodes are in the archive and while recordings are easy enough to find they come from the re-airings on Granada Plus which did cut the episodes to timing. One victim of this was Ena Sharples' final line.
43	** Also the show is trimmed when it gets aired in Canada on CBC and one Youtuber uploads the missing scenes from each episode https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1xEYNcrx-WeNWAn87dwzcA/videos.
44	* KilledByRequest: Noël Dyson who played Ida Barlow planned only to appear in the 13 episodes, she lived in London, so tired of the traveling as well of the part and so she asked to leave when her contact came up. So they killed off Ida and she was the first regular to be killed off.
45	** Averted in this one but Brian Capron who played the infamous killer Richard Hillman was pleased that they chose to kill him off rather than send him to prison.
46	* MissingEpisode: Surprisingly, none of the 1960s-1970s episodes are missing except for the two test pilots, the entire 6-episode run of the 1967 spinoff ''Turn out the Lights'', the inserts produced for the 1969 and 1970 editions of the ITV Christmas special ''All Star Comedy Carnival'' and the original Episode 1202 (24th July 1972). When the original Episode 1202 was found to be missing soon after its original UK transmission, the production team filmed eight minutes of new material which was combined with an abridged version of Episode 1203 to create a new Episode 1202 for overseas airings; the full Episode 1203 presumably never aired outside the UK.
47	* TheOtherDarrin:
48	** Tracy Barlow. Played by various actors, with Dawn Acton and Kate Ford being two of the best-known.
49	** Tracy's step-brother Peter has been played by seven different actors. Two have even appeared as completely different characters including Ken's ''other'' son.
50	** Tracy's daughter Amy holds the show's record of the most actors to play a character with a total of eight actresses. Most of these actresses however, were babies or toddlers at the time and weren't even old enough to read lines or really understand what was going on.
51	** Most of the characters introduced as children.
52	** Nick Tilsley. ''Twice'', and both times as an adult.
53	** Averted with Chesney Brown -- Sam Aston has played the character from a child to an adult.
54	** In her first two appearances in 1974, Blanche was played by Patricia Cutts. After Cutts' suicide, Maggie Jones took over her role and would continue playing her until her death in 2009.
55	** The two "Dry Runs" had some different cast members, including Creator/LarryDann and Bryan Hulme playing Dennis Tanner, and Creator/DorisHare playing Minnie Caldwell.
56	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/AndrewSachs, best known as Manuel from ''Series/FawltyTowers'' appeared as a ShrinkingViolet dying of a brain tumour.
57	* PostScriptSeason: Probably the ultimate example -- it has essentially been on a series of postscript seasons since ''1961''. It was originally intended to be thirteen episodes long, with Coronation Street bulldozed in a [[MadeForTVMovie Made-for-TV Movie.]] However, it proved so popular that a new series was commissioned, and it's been broadcasting more or less continuously to the present day.
58	* RealitySubtext: Sally Webster was scripted to reveal to her husband Kevin that she had cancer on Christmas Day, 2009. The storyline prompted Sally Dynevor, the actress playing her, to see a doctor and undergo tests for the disease in order to research the role. [[TearJerker Sally found out she had cancer hours after filming the scene where she told Kevin about the cancer]], so when they shot the scenes where they told their on-screen daughters, [[EnforcedMethodActing the tears were real]]. The storyline was rewritten so that the actress was off-screen for six months whilst she was undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
59	* RealLifeRelative:
60	** Linus and James Roache, the real life sons of Bill Roache (who plays Ken Barlow) played his son and his grandson, respectively.
61	** Brooke Vincent (Sophie Webster) and Ellie Leach (Faye Windass) are cousins in real life.
62	** William Rush, who appeared in 2014 as one of the lads that bully Maddie in her room in the homeless hostel, is the real life son of Debbie Rush (who plays Anna Windass).
63	* RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle:
64	** Sally Dynevor was undergoing treatment for breast cancer (ironically after her character had been given the all clear) so she was wearing a wig for several episodes. Once she finished treatment, she appeared without the wig, and they wrote in a line saying that Sally's new boyfriend had treated her to a short haircut.
65	** Julie Hesmondhalgh is naturally blonde and had very short hair when she was cast as Hayley, requiring a brown wig. She joked that this meant she could do whatever she wanted to her hair over the year, without having to worry how it would affect the character.
66	** Becky cutting her hair to shoulder length before her and Steve start applying for adoption agencies was because Katherine Kelly's hair had been ruined from constant bleaching.
67	** Leanne wears a hairpiece for the hen party right before The Joinery's explosion because the next episode would be filmed live, and this would avoid continuity mistakes with the pre-taped episodes.
68	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: On the 1st of November 1961, the Equity Actors Strike began which resulted all actors that didn't have full time contracts or adult extras had to leave the series, reducing the cast to 13 members, for that time only children and animals were allowed to appear in the show. Some characters would be referred to being in another room and some characters would disappear never to be seen again. The strike ended on 3rd of April 1962, with Coronation Street being the only TV Series that was allowed to be produced.
69	* RecastAsARegular: This is a common thing to happen in the Street's history famously many cast members would appear as background characters or smaller roles [[note]]There's even a Category page on [[https://coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Regular_cast_members_who_previously_appeared_in_guest_roles Corriepedia]] [[/note]]:
70	** Jean Alexander played landlady Mrs. Webb in 1962 before going on to play Hilda Ogden from 1964 to 1987.
71	** Johnny Briggs played lorry driver Frank in 1974, then went on to play Mike Baldwin from 1976 to 2006.
72	** Creator/JohnChallis played handbag thief George Naylor in 1967, before playing Detective Sergeant Phillips from 1974 to 1977.
73	** Creator/DorisHare was the original Minnie Caldwell in the second "Dry Run", then played Hilda Davies and Maud (both in 1961). Her final role was her biggest, that of Alice Pickins between 1968 and 1969.
74	** Creator/TimHealy played a bingo checker in 1976, then returned for seven 2006 episodes as Brian Tully.
75	** Creator/GeoffreyHughes was thug Phil Ferguson in 1967, later playing Eddie Yeats from 1974 to 1987.
76	** Maggie Jones played a policewoman in 1961 and shoplifter Maggie Monks in 1967. After Patricia Cutts committed suicide in 1974, Jones took over the role of Blanche Hunt and stuck with it on and off until 2009.
77	** Creator/MaureenLipman briefly played Lillian Spencer in 2002. Since 2018, she has appeared in the series as Evelyn Plummer.
78	** Jennifer Moss provided the voices for Christine Farrar in episode 1 and Sandra Haddon in episode 2 before playing Lucille Hewitt for fourteen years.
79	** Gordon Rollings played Jim Schofield in 1961. Two years later he played Charlie Moffitt from 1964 to 1965.
80	** Creator/KathyStaff played a number of small roles in the series. It wouldn't be until she was cast as Vera Hopkins in 1973 that she became a proper regular.
81	** Bill Tarmey played a number of extras in the Rovers Return Inn before he got the chance to play Jack Duckworth from 1979 to 2010.
82	** Creator/PaulaWilcox played Ray's sister Janice Langton in 1969, and since 2020 has returned to the series now playing Elaine Jones.
83	* RecycledScript:
84	** An oldie example used to be kidnapped babies, the first being Christopher Hewitt in 1962, then Jason Lomax in 1972, before rounding off with Tracey Langton in 1979. The kidnapper would also be repeated in description each was a mother who had lost their own child and needed help.
85	** Many fans and critics have noted when the Windasses made their debut in 2008 that they and their circumstances were a bit too similar to the Battersbys, i.e., the "family from Hell", who made their debut over a decade earlier.
86	** Steve having a baby outside of his current marriage has been done twice: first in 2004, when he got Tracy pregnant while he and then-wife Karen had broken up, but remarried that same year and became pregnant with a child that she miscarried and then again in 2017, when he got Leanne pregnant while he and then-wife Michelle were separated but soon reconciled, became pregnant with their own child and that pregnancy also ending in a miscarriage.
87	** The storyline involving [[spoiler: Daniel]] pushing Ken down the stairs is nearly identical to the storyline of David pushing Gail down a flight of stairs. Also, both incidents happened for the same reason: [[spoiler: a strained relationship with the parent and the latter convincing the former's girlfriend to get an abortion,]] only the earlier storyline was not a Whodunit.
88	** Pat Phelan becoming a killer resembles Richard Hillman storyline from 15 years ago. Phelan [[spoiler: allowing Michael to die at a building site]] is similar to Richard leaving Duggie to die. This was then followed up by Phelan [[spoiler: committing his first murder by killing Andy Carver]], similar to Richard's first proper murder being his wife. Funnily enough, Phelan killing took place before his wedding, just like Richard's first killing took place before his wedding.
89	* RoleEndingMisdemeanor:
90	** Jennifer Moss who was Lucile Hewitt left the show due alcohol related misbehviour.
91	** Peter Adamson who played Len Fairclough had been known for his alcoholism with warnings regularly given to him and for a brief time he was suspended, however, it was in 1983 in a indecent assault trial when in order to pay off his legal bill Granada were going to pay but he admitted in a moment of weakness that he had signed a contract for a press story. After this the producers couldn't forgive him, Peter was cleared in court but Len was killed off screen, returning home from an affair to make the audience hate him.
92	** Lynne Perrie who played Ivy Tilsley, had possible one of the most infamous reasons for being fired, she had plastic surgery that left her lips unappealing for her character, so she was fired and Ivy killed off screen, but Perrie would later claim that her character had ran it's course and there is evidence proving this reason now.
93	** Two key characters were in limbo after being caught up in the fall-out from the Creator/JimmySavile business. Michael [=LeVell=] (Kevin Webster) and Bill Roache (Ken Barlow) were temporarily written out of the show pending resolution of alleged under-age sex offences. Kevin came back, after spending a ''very'' long time visiting family. Ken is now back as well.
94	** Bruce Jones (Les Battersby) was written out after allegations of drunkenness and inappropriate comments in the presence of an undercover reporter.
95	** Chris Fountain (Tommy Duckworth) was abruptly fired after a homemade rap video where he sang about rape was discovered online.
96	** Marc Anwar (Sharif Nazir) was dropped from the show in September 2016 after making negative comments about India (as Anwar was born in neighboring country Pakistan) on Twitter. The actor alleged that his contract was going to be up soon anyway, so was only dismissed early; either way he was dropped earlier than expected.
97	** Katie Redford (Bethany Platt) before she even started filming her first episode. She was fired from the role when fans on the ''Digital Spy'' forum uncovered evidence that she had lied about her age (she had claimed she was 19 to get the part of 14-year-old Bethany, but she was actually 25). She was replaced with Lucy Fallon.
98	** Bruno Langley (Todd Grimshaw) was fired after being charged with sexual assault in October 2017. Todd's disappearance was explained by having him punch a police officer off-screen and when the producers decided to have Todd back in 2020, Langley wasn't welcomed back, instead they opted to recast his role with Gareth Pierce.
99	* RomanceOnTheSet:
100	** Ernst Walder who played Elsie Tanner's Polish son in law Ivan Cheveski dated Tony Warren.
101	** Pat Pheonix married her on-screen husband Alan Browning and were together for 7 years until his death.
102	** Anne Kirkbride married David Beckett, who was playing Deidre's then-boyfriend and they were together until Kirkbride's death.
103	** Tina O'Brien (Sarah Louise Platt) dated Bruno Langley (Todd Grimshaw), the couple splitting up before their characters began dating.
104	** She then began dating Ryan Thomas, who plays Jason Grimshaw, Todd's brother and Sarah Louise's future husband.
105	** A more successful pairing is between Alan Halsall, who plays Tyrone Dobbs, and former Corrie actress Lucy-Jo Hudson, who played Katy Harris from 2002-2005, who have been married since 2009 and welcomed a baby girl four years later.
106	** Rupert Hill (Jamie Baldwin) and Jenny Platt (Violet Wilson) became a real-life couple as they played a couple on the show. They had a daughter in 2010 and ultimately married three years later.
107	* StarMakingRole:
108	** Creator/MichelleKeegan became a national celebrity thanks to her role as Tina, winning the British Soap Award for 'Sexiest Female' six times (among other nominations and wins). After leaving the soap she was launched onto lead roles in ''Ordinary Lies'', ''Series/OurGirl'' and ''Tina & Bobby''.
109	** Creator/SuranneJones got her start here, first playing Mandy Phillips in 1997 [[YouLookFamiliar and then]] Karen [=McDonald=] from 2000-2004. After leaving, she went on to greener pastures in shows such as ''Series/ScottAndBailey'', ''Series/DoctorFoster'', ''Series/GentlemanJack'' and a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife very well-received episode]] of ''Series/DoctorWho''.
110	* StuntCasting: The soap has acquired an impressive number of guest stars, some of whom may have been shoe-horned in.
111	** Stephanie Beacham showed up in 2009 to play a woman called Martha that Ken had a brief affair with. At this point in time, Ken's womanising ways had all but disappeared completely.
112	** On the flip side, Nigel Havers had a small role that same year as an escort called Lewis who briefly seduced ''Deirdre'', and stole money from the bookies.
113	** Sarah Harding of Music/GirlsAloud showed up for four episodes in 2015 as Robert Preston's wife. She agreed to it because [[PromotedFanboy she was a huge fan of the soap]].
114	** Creator/HonorBlackman in 2004 as one of Rita's old friends from her days in the theatre. HilarityEnsues when she invites Rita and Norris to a swingers' weekend.
115	** Subverted with Sir Creator/IanMcKellen as Mel Hutchright - as he was lobbying to be on the show because he was a huge fan.
116	** Status Quo showed up as themselves for a small arc that lead to them performing at Les and Cilla's wedding - with Candice eventually leaving the street to be their official hairdresser.
117	** And of course Prince Charles appeared AsHimself in 2004.
118	* ThrowItIn: When the title sequence was redone in the 1970s, the film crew did not notice that a cat has found its way onto the set. It's been a fixture of the show ever since.
119	* TransCharacterCisActor: Hayley Cropper - a trans woman and the first transgender character to feature in the series - was played by cisgender actress Julie Hesmondhalgh.
120	* UncreditedRole: Creator/KathyStaff as a woman in an audience in a 1962 episode.
121	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
122	** When the show was planned certain characters were very different from what they became. For example, Ena Sharples was envisioned as a small woman (at one point the role was offered to Creator/DorisHare) which failed in the test pilots however Violet Carson made the character work as a large tough woman, then Dennis Tanner was planned to be hard nailed but instead Philip Lowrie presented the character as a trickster which suited him better.
123	** In 1967, the show began to look old fashioned and was briefly looking at being axed due to low ratings, issue-based storylines looking at the series' first Black family, Homosexuality, Drug Use, and even Emily having an illegitimate child were planned however they were dropped and stories like the Train Cash and Elsie Tanner's wedding were the human-based story-lines that were used to restore ratings.
124	** In 1988, with the death of Margot Bryant, the producers talked about bringing back Lynne Carol, who played Martha Longhurst and had been controversially killed off, since Martha couldn’t return the producers planned for her twin sister from Australia.
125	** Upon both Tracy and Peter's returns in the early 2000s, there were talks for them to [[BrotherSisterIncest become involved with one another]] and Tracy to become pregnant as a result of the affair. This, thankfully, never came about, due to some very [[{{Squick}} obvious reasons.]]
126	** Bet Lynch was going to become manageress of the Rovers Return following her 2002 return. However this never came about as Julie Goodyear dropped from the show due to health reasons, meaning the character was only on-screen for a couple of weeks and left suddenly off-screen, though she would make a brief return a year later to serve as a proper departure. After the death of her old colleague and friend Betty Driver in 2011, Julie Goodyear expressed interest in reprising the role of Bet Lynch for a one-off appearance for the character Betty's funeral. However the producers didn't take her up on the offer (despite numerous rumours about them wanting to bring her back), which led to only Betty's son Gordon Clegg (played by Bill Kenwright) returning for the funeral.
127	** Julie Hesmondhalgh found out later that Hayley Cropper (nee Patterson) was first conceived as "a joke character", as part of a comedy storyline where Roy would go on a series of bad dates, and Hayley's UnsettlingGenderReveal would be the punchline. Due to concern from trans activists, the soap employed a consultant to bring the character in a less stereotypical direction. Said consultant, Annie Wallace, would later make history as the first trans actress to play a trans character in a soap as Sally on ''{{Series/Hollyoaks}}''. Hayley was given the middle name Anne, and the same birthday as the actress, as a tribute to her.
128	** Also, there was supposed to be a conclusion to the Maya Sharma storyline involving a trial against her, but was left unresolved due to some personal reasons involving Jimmi Harkishin, who plays Dev Alahan.
129	** Creator/LaurenceOlivier was once offered a guest role.
130	** For the 50th Anniversary Special in 2010, producers attempted to lure back Jean Alexander to reprise her iconic role of Hilda Ogden, and even tried to tempt her with a huge salary for just one episode. But Jean turned down the offer due to her dismay towards the soap's quality in recent years, although was down to her wanting to keep Hilda's legacy intact.
131	** Creator/JohnNathanTurner wanted to produce the series and his agent put his name forward to be considered, but he was unsuccessful. Nathan-Turner said prior to his death that he was a particular fan of the series and not becoming producer was his biggest unfulfilled ambition.
132	** Although Stephanie Cole (Sylvia Goodman) was going to leave the series, she was meant to remain throughout Hayley's cancer storyline and bring some caustic charm to the screens during the story. However after suffering a personal loss, she ended up leaving much earlier, meaning the character was suddenly written out and absent during the storyline.
133	** The tram crash in the 50th Anniversary Special was originally planned to for the soap's 45th anniversary and would've had a tram crashing into the Rovers Return. Claire applying for a job driving the local trams was originally going to lead into the crash, but it was scrapped following objections from Manchester transport officials, who feared for the image of the city's tram service if Corrie aired the plot. Presumably this is why the crash itself was due to an explosion, not driver error.
134	** Vera's departure was originally not going to have her being killed off as her actress Liz Dawn considered making guest appearances following her departure and presumably would've also had Vera's husband Jack departing as well, however a change of direction due to her battle with emphysema, prompted her character to be [[KilledByRequest killed off at her request]].
135	** Geoff's comeuppance wasn't going to take quite as long to happen, but production was halted right at the height of the storyline in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, requiring the writers to push back or scrap any scene that would requires 2 actors physically interacting.
136	** Iconic actress Creator/JoannaLumley was intended to return to the show in 2009 as her character Elaine Perkins, who last appeared back in 1973 as Ken Barlow's girlfriend. But due to scheduling conflicts she was unable to return, and the story was rewritten for original character Martha Fraser, with Stephanie Beacham playing the role.
137	** Creator/LizFraser had been offered a role in the series' earlier years, but turned it down due to fears of being contractually obligated to stay with the series for years.
138	* WorkingTitle: Tony Warren had to rename the series from its original title ''Florizel Street'', which was considered to sound like a disinfectant.
139	* WrittenInInfirmity: Sally Webster had a storyline where she battles breast cancer. Turns out that the actress who plays her, Sally Whittaker, ''discovered she had breast cancer as a result of researching the storyline for the role''. She says that she would never have noticed if the storyline hadn't been given to her, so [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome the show effectively saved her life]].
140	* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/RossGrant made two appearances - one in 2011 as a character called Jasper and another in 2017 as a business associate of Peter Barlow.

Context Trivia / CoronationStreet