Coronation Street - Elsie Tanner Vs. Ena Sharples (27th January 1965)

More like a comedy when viewed retrospectively. Priceless!!

You just don't want to push the button of Shakespeare's sister

I'm 20 years old and a massive Corrie fan. I respect if people like Corrie less than these times but I still think it's an amazing soap. I absolutely love this scene. Ena and Elsie were and still are the TRUE Queens of Soap

Two strong feisty women, Ena being the feistiest of the two.

I think they recorded this live. Amazing.

If they recreated this nowadays between Evelyn and someone, who would Evelyn go up against??

Ken Barlow is by far the best character. since his debut.

I’m an American, so I’m seeing these for the first time. What strikes me so much of these early episodes is how they were basically 30 minute plays. I mean, the band playing through after the fight has broken up was just genius.

How common....

Ena Sharples was a star in the early days with her sharp tongue and quick wit .

Is that Ken Barlow or Harrison Ford?

You avent had your pills😅

QUIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!

CAN YOU NOT ARGUE PLEASE?

Uuu!

It’s okay Jim! I’m here now!

Everything’s going to be all right!

Corrie was good up until before covid. After that it is just not good. All the amazing characters are going.

There is a nice scene about 15 yrs later when Elsie has Ena to stay with her for a few days and they chat and reminisce over the breakfast table......

Violet and Pat - both fantastic actors. Arthur Lowe as Leonard Swindley was so massively popular that he was given his own series playing the same character - Pardon My Expression.

Love the old classic episodes, those northern women were very tough and never failed lose an argument.

Is that captain.mainwearing arthur lowe😅

Elsie tanner got more people on elsie tanner side then Ena sharples

Corrie was never better than in the 60s and 70s. The writing and acting were top notch and spot-on. By comparison, it is rubbish now.

This is the essence of coronation street, it's all a pile of the brown stuff now.

Captain Mainwaring sorted it out!

throwback to when people actually fought face to face… nowadays 50 year old bats are whipping up aimed facebook statuses for attention and that they are actually scared like fuck to argue in person

Funny seeing the original Nellie Dingle in this ( Sandra Gough). She played Stan and Hilda’s daughter, Irma. Now if Emmerdale had ever had Nellie’s mother in, Jean Alexander ( Hilda) would be perfect!

Sadly it's gone down hill fast.

BY GOD; When Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanner went at it; The whole bloody country stopped to watch and listen; It was superb acting by a generation of soap actors who have now gone, and we will never see the likes again; God bless you Violet; God bless you Pat;

I don’t think today’s Corry can top that, flipping magnificent ❤😂

I’ve watched this clip so many times and only just realised the man who talks to Mrs Sharples at the end is Captain Mainwaring from Dads army.

Proper Corrie the way scripts should be written in today's shows

Captain Mainwaring saves the day !!!

When the corrie fights were fun and entertaining to watch rather than just depressing and violent like it is now

And no “effing” and “blinding” - just sheer creative brilliance with the English language.

Can anyone make out what Ena called Elsie as she swung her handbag at the window? Sounded like she said "You..." something

Everyone addressed each other as Mr & Mrs back in those days, even when they're arguing with each other 😆

I remember as a young kid see a picture of ena and bursting into tears corrie was the best in those days along with world in action a family at war all from the granada stables hardly watch telly these days

classic

An especially inspired moment, when Albert Tatlock manages to unite the two woman in their shock and disgust, that they might live together...😀...

Those houses look about 8 feet wide. And is that Captain Mainwaring ?

I would have been selling tickets!! All the way to Bessie Street😂❤😂❤

Wonder what ena would think of some of the women in the show today 😂

Elizabeth James

Elsie calls Ena a 'Mary Ann'. Reminds me of my dear old mum who often used that phrase. Brilliant TV.

Those were the days! I've said it before and I'll say it again, Coronation Street started to lose it's way when Mrs Sharples went to keep house for Mr Foster and completely wandered off it's path when Hilda Ogden closed the door of no. 13 behind her for the last time. Now, it's just an overdone parody, with murders and disasters and gloom. Bring back the old days, if possible, and it will return to it's old position at the top of the viewer's charts.