Coronation Street (series)

Coronation Street, also referred to as Corrie, is a British television soap opera created by Tony Warren and produced for ITV. It follows the lives of the down-to-Earth, working class community of the titular, cobbled street in the fictional Greater Manchester town of Weatherfield.
Launched at the end of 1960, the series is considered to be a British television institution; it is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's longest-running soap opera. It is currently the fifteenth longest running television series in the world, coming in fifteen places ahead of Doctor Whohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_television_shows_by_category, which premiered just under three years after the soap. Corrie broadcast its 10,000th episode on 7 February 2020, during the broadcast of Series 12 of Doctor Who.https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/coronation-street/a30629616/coronation-street-10000th-episode-hour-long/
== Crossovers ==
The two shows may be broadcast on rival networks, but official crossovers between Doctor Who and Corrie have occurred, on both channels, nonetheless.
In 1991, was released, crossing several series over, featuring elements from the Doctor Who series before later featuring the Rovers Return Inn, wearing a Red Nose.
2011 saw Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor find his way over to ITV for , the comedic, narrative-based introduction to that year's National Television Awards. The story, in which the Doctor tries to get Dermot O'Leary to the ceremony, sees the TARDIS arriving on the sets of different British shows, including the iconic cobbles, in which the Doctor is shouted at by Becky McDonald (played by Katherine Kelly), who tells him it is over between them (the implication appearing to be that the two of them had a romantic encounter of some sort) before she storms off into the Rovers Return Inn.
A second minor crossover took place in the 2015 webcast, , this time with the Corrie set showing up on a BBC platform. After the Minions, of Despicable Me fame, hijack the TARDIS, one of the places they take it to is the street, materialising beside the Rovers.
== References to Coronation Street in the DWU ==
In 2007's web tie-in , a series of in-universe blog posts by the character which tied into the events of the television story Blink, saw Martha write that she and the Tenth Doctor would watch Coronation Street in their flat in 1969 after having been sent back in time by the Weeping Angels.
In 2008's , Donna Noble insults a woman in Leeds by calling her "Vera Duckworth" and telling her to "go and feed t' whippets". This nod to one of the soap's most iconic, longstanding characters, was broadcast just six months before the character was killed off in the series.
== References to Doctor Who on Coronation Street ==
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== Connections ==
=== Cast ===
==== 1960s ====
Actor 	DWU role(s) 	Corrie role 	Corrie duration 	Notes
Frank Crawshaw 	Arnold Farrow	Arnold Tanner	1961, 1966 	
Daphne Oxenford	Archivist 	Esther Hayes 	1960-1963, 1971-1972	
Alan Rothwell 	Byzar Janto 	David Barlow 	1960–1961, 1963–1968	
==== 1970s ====
Actor 	DWU role(s) 	Corrie role	Corrie duration	Notes
June Brown 	Lady Eleanor, Dot Cotton, herself	Mrs Parsons	1970-1971 	
Helen Worth	Mary Ashe 	 	1974-present 	
==== 1980s ====
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==== 1990s ====
Actor 	DWU role(s)	Corrie role 	Corrie duration	Notes
Dicken Ashworth 	Sezon 	Geoff Horton	1993-2000 	
Julie Hesmondhalgh	Judy Maddox	 	1998-2014 	
==== 2000s ====
Actor 	DWU role(s) 	Corrie role	Corrie duration 	Notes
Patti Clare 	Ruth 	 	2008-present 	
Shobna Gulati 	Najia Khan 	 	2001-2006, 2009-2013 	
Katherine Kelly	Andrea Quill, Becky McDonald	 	2006-2012 	
Bruno Langley 	Adam Mitchell 	 	2001-2004, 2007, 2011, 2013-2017	Following Langley's sexual harassment conviction, the role of Todd was recast in 2020 with fellow DWU actor, Gareth Pierce.
Gray O'Brien 	Rickston Slade 	 	2007-2010 	
Bradley Walsh 	Graham O'Brien, Pied Piper 	 	2004-2006 	
==== 2010s ====
Actor 	DWU role(s) 	Corrie role 	Corrie duration	Notes
Charlie De Melo 	Charles Banerjee	Imran Habeeb 	2017-2022 	
Trevor Georges 	Vicar 	Ed Bailey 	2019-present 	
Millie Gibson 	Ruby Sunday 	Kelly Neelan 	2019-2022 	
Cherylee Houston	Elise Kaplan 	 	2010-present 	
Maureen Lipman 	The Wire 	Evelyn Plummer	2018-present 	
==== 2020s ====
Actor 	DWU role(s)	Corrie role	Corrie duration	Notes
Gareth Pierce	Various 	 	2020-present 	Todd was previously played by Bruno Langley until 2017.
== External links ==
== Footnotes ==
Category:Real world series with DWU connections
Category:Television overviews