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<blockquote data-quote="Whovian" data-source="post: 385304" data-attributes="member: 57872">Unfortunately it seems unlike we&#039;re going to get the early years of the show shown on TV or even added to a streaming service any time soon. Fans have been asking ITV about this for more than a decade now. The ideal is if they just began adding the early episode to ITVX in the same way Brookside is being added to STV Player but them starting the &#039;Classic Corrie&#039; reruns with 1989 shows they&#039;re not too keen on putting the early stuff out there.&nbsp; Another option could be amazon buying the rights to the back catalogue. A re-run or a streaming collection that starts from the absolute beginning is what&#039;s needed. &quot;Classic Corrie&quot; is now well into the 2000s, which isn&#039;t what most people would class as Classic Corrie. I don&#039;t know if there&#039;s some sort of rights issue preventing them from doing that or whether they are worried putting the early stuff out there would devalue the current show too much. I&#039;m sure there&#039;s a good enough demand to see the 1960s and 1970s episodes to warrant doing it but for whatever reason ITV don&#039;t share that view-point. ITV didn&#039;t have a wiping policy like that in place like the BBC so as far as I&#039;m aware it all exists, but there&#039;s resistance to actually making it available to viewers.It&#039;s worth remembering the sensationalist plots were a feature of soaps all the way back to the beginning - May Hardman&#039;s death to start off with and Sheila Birtles suicide plot (which was scrapped as too controversial) the difference is they were apparently acted much better in the early days. Or we at least think they are because we can&#039;t watch most of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whovian, post: 385304, member: 57872"] Unfortunately it seems unlike we're going to get the early years of the show shown on TV or even added to a streaming service any time soon. Fans have been asking ITV about this for more than a decade now. The ideal is if they just began adding the early episode to ITVX in the same way Brookside is being added to STV Player but them starting the 'Classic Corrie' reruns with 1989 shows they're not too keen on putting the early stuff out there. Another option could be amazon buying the rights to the back catalogue. A re-run or a streaming collection that starts from the absolute beginning is what's needed. "Classic Corrie" is now well into the 2000s, which isn't what most people would class as Classic Corrie. I don't know if there's some sort of rights issue preventing them from doing that or whether they are worried putting the early stuff out there would devalue the current show too much. I'm sure there's a good enough demand to see the 1960s and 1970s episodes to warrant doing it but for whatever reason ITV don't share that view-point. ITV didn't have a wiping policy like that in place like the BBC so as far as I'm aware it all exists, but there's resistance to actually making it available to viewers. It's worth remembering the sensationalist plots were a feature of soaps all the way back to the beginning - May Hardman's death to start off with and Sheila Birtles suicide plot (which was scrapped as too controversial) the difference is they were apparently acted much better in the early days. Or we at least think they are because we can't watch most of it. [/QUOTE]

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