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<blockquote data-quote="cobbles" data-source="post: 222582" data-attributes="member: 5138"><p>I'm really not following your point. Yes the two guys who get most of the info on Corriepedia etc have got a lot of it from watching the episodes through the BFI archive (they actually had to approach them as researchers to watch the majority of pre-1976 episodes as thats the only available option, there's no official release and no telerecordings for most episodes before the re-run that started in 1976) and Granada archives and taking notes. And fair play to them for going to the efforts to get the opportunity to do so, for most of us without an official release that's infeasible. Travelling to London to watch every episode of Corrie is an undertaking beyond most folk. And the number of people the BFI would permit to do it is low. However for example say you watch The Coach Trip and want to know what happens to Audrey and Ray's affair before you watch a later episode the information is there to see. Similarly if you want to find out why a character left in between. You don't need to have seen every episode to appreciate and individual episodes place in the shows history.</p><p></p><p>Yes we all want the luxury of watching it from the start. It doesn't exist at the moment, and I'm not going to wait for it to be possible to go and look at scenes and episodes that are often featured in Corrie clip shows - such as Ken/Diedre affair reveal/Jack's dating agency/The Coach Crash/Raquel and Curly's wedding etc when the context is available either in the episode or with a bit of research thank to the people I mentioned above.</p><p></p><p>It could be years - or even - never before the entire lot is available, so I don't see why there's anything to complain about with Britbox releasing iconic episodes. As I said in a previous post, the target audience is primarily those who have watched Coronation Street long term on ITV1 and possibly even watched these episodes first time out but want to relive them, rather than people who've never seen Corrie and want to jump in on them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cobbles, post: 222582, member: 5138"] I'm really not following your point. Yes the two guys who get most of the info on Corriepedia etc have got a lot of it from watching the episodes through the BFI archive (they actually had to approach them as researchers to watch the majority of pre-1976 episodes as thats the only available option, there's no official release and no telerecordings for most episodes before the re-run that started in 1976) and Granada archives and taking notes. And fair play to them for going to the efforts to get the opportunity to do so, for most of us without an official release that's infeasible. Travelling to London to watch every episode of Corrie is an undertaking beyond most folk. And the number of people the BFI would permit to do it is low. However for example say you watch The Coach Trip and want to know what happens to Audrey and Ray's affair before you watch a later episode the information is there to see. Similarly if you want to find out why a character left in between. You don't need to have seen every episode to appreciate and individual episodes place in the shows history. Yes we all want the luxury of watching it from the start. It doesn't exist at the moment, and I'm not going to wait for it to be possible to go and look at scenes and episodes that are often featured in Corrie clip shows - such as Ken/Diedre affair reveal/Jack's dating agency/The Coach Crash/Raquel and Curly's wedding etc when the context is available either in the episode or with a bit of research thank to the people I mentioned above. It could be years - or even - never before the entire lot is available, so I don't see why there's anything to complain about with Britbox releasing iconic episodes. As I said in a previous post, the target audience is primarily those who have watched Coronation Street long term on ITV1 and possibly even watched these episodes first time out but want to relive them, rather than people who've never seen Corrie and want to jump in on them. [/QUOTE]
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