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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cobbles" data-source="post: 237284" data-attributes="member: 5138">It's odd because in some ways it's an almost too comfortable and slightly idyllic version of 70s Britain with the community focus, but then you get random story-line's that are pretty deep cutting like Janet's suicide, the siege at Baldwins, the strikes or the bigamy story-line with Emily.  It's seems to be when the show first experiments with real sensationalism that would come to define it after EE arrived looking at story-lines and episode guides from the era. As the show always seems to do it's playing safe but staying dramatic. It feels like a show still very much experimenting with what it is and where it wants to go as it starts to shed some of it's icons. I suppose like much of media in those days it's not sure what it can do - any being a flagship nominally family appropriate (or at least appropriate for teenagers - you'd have a good case to argue many 70s story-lines were not family friendly and I don't think the show has ever claimed to be family friendly despite children genuinely watch it - that's a discussion that could take up reams in another thread...)You do wonder if Podmore hadn't come in in 76 and giving it a great big shake up whether it might have survived - although it's unfair to pass comment on that when we haven't seen the early 70s episode from the era that gets a lot of criticism (if there's anyone on this forum who used to watch it back then or has been lucky enough to see any since do chime in...) After all the decision to start the Granada run from  April 1976 onward back in the 90s was a conscious one in that that was the era that had come to symbolise 'old fashioned or classic corrie' even by then.</blockquote>

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