It comes into our homes six times a week, but what if we happen to be busy and can’t catch the latest Coronation Street episode?
Fortunately, for those who have missed recent episodes, there is a way to watch everything that’s been missed.
Episodes dating back one month are available to watch on the ITV Hub.
The ITV Hub is available both online and on TV on demand services such as Sky and Virgin. Streaming sites like Netflix and Amazon do not have any Corrie episodes available.
The ITV Hub has an app for smartphone users to download and watch on their mobile and tablet devices.
Like with television you will have to watch adverts, and you can’t download programmes and watch them while not connected to the internet, unless you subscribe to ITV Hub+.
ITV Hub+ costs £3.99 a month. It’s ad-free, you can watch when you’re abroad, and you can download and then watch things while offline.
But what about watching anything further back? Or even from the beginning?
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The first episode of the longest-running soap opera in the world, featuring longest-serving soap actor in the world William Roache as Ken Barlow, is actually available to view on YouTube.
You can also buy a collection of Coronation Street episodes on various DVD boxsets, each spans a decade of cobbles life and features eighty top episodes of the show.
The first – Coronation Street Best Of 1960-1969 – features episodes including the birth of Peter and Susan Barlow, Ena Sharples’ alleged shoplifting, and Val’s hostage horror.
The 1970-79 collection shows gems including the 1977 Silver Jubilee Street party, the warehouse fire and the discovery of two bodies, Hilda Ogden’s séance, Valerie Barlow’s electrocution and Ernie’s demise at the hands of armed robbers.
The episodes from 1980-89 show the legendary Ken and Deirdre Barlow affairs, the Ogdens’ ruby anniversary, a fire at the Rovers Return and Alan Bradley’s reign of terror over Rita Tanner.
During 1990-99 purchasers would be treated to Reg and Maureen’s waterbed fiasco, Curly’s pursuit of Raquel, the McDonald family crises, and the Free The Weatherfield One campaign as Deirdre goes to prison, as well as Hayley’s sex-change revelation.
The beginning of the 00s, 2000-09, sees Richard Hillman’s murderous rampage, Peter Barlow’s bigamy, Gail and Eileen’s street showdown, Tracy Barlow vs. Karen McDonald, Mad Maya’s revenge, Les and Cilla’s fake wedding, and Blanche at the alcoholics’ support group.
If you’d rather watch on the television, ITV3 are currently showing two Classic Coronation Street episodes from the 1980s every afternoon from 2.50pm, repeated the following morning at 6am.
The likes of Raquel Watts, Des Barnes, Derek Wilton, and wife Mavis can all be seen, as can younger versions of cast members still going strong today such as Rita, Ken Barlow and Audrey Roberts.
These Classic Corrie eps are not available on demand.
And sadly, the complete back catalogue is not downloadable anywhere.
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In 2017 a petition was started on change.org for the show to strike a deal with Netflix to allow the service to stream episodes from the beginning.
It was signed by 188 fans who supported the poster’s desire for ITV to open the vault.
It said they wanted the channel to make Coronation Street episodes from the start available “by opening up the archive. For example, being released in yearly box sets on DVD, or being repeated on ITV3 from the beginning, or even being streamed on a service such as Netflix.
“It would be preferred if they were released or shown uncut, as originally broadcast.
“Numerous generations of viewers have been unable to see the older episodes due to not being born when they originally aired, as well as older viewers who would like to revisit those characters and stories again.
“Whatever way you may wish to distribute them would be greatly appreciated by the legion of fans Corrie has gained through the decades, and made it such a national institution.”
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