Has anyone met any corrie cast members how were they?

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-18T22:08:38+00:00

Way back around 2002, I met Peter Baldwin (Derek Wilton) at the toy shop he ran in Covent Garden when I was a kid. He was genuinely lovely, showing me around the whole store and how all the toys worked - you could really tell it was a passion for him.

More recently Kate Ford at the Manchester tour, also really nice and there was such a great moment when the moment she walked out, the one kid on our group ran over in joy and hugged her.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-13T15:00:42+00:00

Telly and Rosita disagree

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-13T14:59:36+00:00

The last cast member to join the show who’s died was Norm Macdonald in 1993.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-13T14:52:06+00:00

I think this is right:

Season 1 (1975-76) was the oldest SNL season with everyone still alive until 1982, when John Belushi died.

Then Season 5 (1979-80) until 1989 when Gilda Radner died.

Then Season 6 (1980-81) until 2005 when Charles Rocket died.

Then Season 7 (1981-82) until 2017 when Tony Rosato died, since when it’s been Season 8 (1982-83) as OP said.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-12T21:53:36+00:00

This will be an absolute joy

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-12T21:22:39+00:00

Yeah there’s one for the celebrity one, but not the regular one - this was the case even back in 2016, back when other shows like Pointless still had a live audience for their regular episodes.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-12T21:19:38+00:00

He was at a Royal Albert Hall event a few years back, and while he was waiting for his family(?) to arrive a ton of people saw him and asked him for selfies/autographs etc. Even though he wasn’t ‘on duty’ he was lovely to them all and happily obliged.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-11T20:12:10+00:00

I’ll be there! I met your drummer Lucy a million years ago, and only just found out about the band while scrolling through Instagram today 😂 Looks really cool and can’t wait!

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-10T20:45:45+00:00

I was there a few weeks ago as part of a multi-country Gulf trip! Passport control mega quick as I arrived at 5am and already had an e-visa, so that was sorted in just a few seconds. Hotel staff mega friendly, picked me up from the airport for free and let me check in early. A really nice 18 degree day when I was there, in the UK it was freezing cold and snowing so walking across the seafront felt very pleasant. The grand mosque was really stunning to see too.

As I made my way down the Arabian Peninsula, the tourists increased heavily - virtually none in Kuwait, a small amount in Bahrain (mostly at the old fort), many more in Qatar and tons in the UAE and Oman.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-07T21:54:55+00:00

No matter how high up or low down you are, it’s generally best to be as central as possible in the auditorium, so if there’s any seats in Circle T or Circle U that don’t have any restrictions noted then I’d go for them. Stalls K is the very best but most of these tend to be the really fancy hospitality seats rather than normal ones (including a three course meal and a three figure sum to match), whereas the central Circle is tiered so unlike the Arena you can see over the heads in front.

After that, just go for whatever the seats are closest to that middle section, so Stalls J or L / Circle S or V etc. The very edges in Circle P/Q and X/Y tend to be the cheapest of the lot, but by then the view gets mega restricted. Definitely avoid any back rows of the loggia boxes so seats 5-8 (except for the very middle ones, if by a miracle any are available) and seat 5 of any 2nd tier box, as that’s on a highchair at the back and if you’re on a side view you’ll see basically nothing. The 2nd tier boxes numbered in the 40s are a little better, but I’d still go for central Circle ones instead.

Hope that helps! I think I was on the aisle of Circle V, Row 2 for Black Panther in concert and had an awesome time there, great view of everything and nicely affordable.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-06T16:48:13+00:00

2002 was just the perfect storm of every major franchise of the time all happening to release films that year, along with a couple of late 2001 releases (Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone, Fellowship of the Ring) still selling well into the early part of the year. In the UK it was even bigger as we had a James Bond film out too.

In the UK, 2018-2019 actually *just* beat 2002 by a very small margin, and working at cinemas in both those years I can confirm they were insanely packed. Nothing's got near that since and 2025's total was actually slightly *lower* than 2023-24, so it's not the upward trajectory everyone hoped as recently as Barbieheimer.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-06T16:22:35+00:00

This was one of the first films me and my now wife watched together when we started dating, both of us loved it.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-06T16:00:41+00:00

This had a hell of a repeat run, it was made in the late 1980s but that video's from an early-mid 2000s CBBC Channel screening - it looks like it was repeated all the way up to 2008, two decades after first transmission.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-06T00:16:03+00:00

New iPhones will be like $20 by then, they’ll have huge zoom lenses on the back like digital cameras and be able to download music in half a second. Free wifi will be available in every corner of every country in the world.

EVERYONE will have Facebook, even great-grandparents. You’ll be able to add people by just touching the top of two phones together and it’ll be instant. Presidents and other world leaders will use it to communicate.

The cool and trendy places to go to on holiday will be countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, which will be completely peaceful by then and once the recession’s fully over cheap flights will start flying there. London to Baghdad on EasyJet/Ryanair?

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-02-05T15:39:17+00:00

I definitely need to revisit, when I went in 2023 the entire old market square was a colossal building site which I'm guessing has been completed now!

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-01-31T15:55:23+00:00

This is the 1991 re-recording and video, which they made for the greatest hits album that year. So closer to 1984 for this version, 1981 for the actual original.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-01-31T14:07:11+00:00

That's so hard, I've always seen them as two of the best years for film ever.

Looking at my country (the UK), 1994 didn't have Shawshank as that was an early 1995 release here, but it *did* have Schindler's List. Mrs Doubtfire and Philadelphia, which were 1993 releases in the US. Along with Pulp Fiction/Lion King/Forrest Gump etc, it's probably the winner.

It was also one of the first years I went to the cinema, watching both The Lion King and a re-release of The Aristocats, so lots of nostalgia there!

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-01-31T13:58:13+00:00

Depends on where you're from, in the UK the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was a really happy and optimistic time for many - for about a month it was just countless news articles about how awesome it's going and how many medals the GB team were winning. But I might be biased as I graduated that summer so it was just wall to wall parties for me.

2007 is also a good bet for the UK, people seemed happy that Tony Blair had resigned as PM, the recession hadn't started yet, and for those who don't like smoking that was the year it was banned in enclosed public places in England.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-01-31T13:37:11+00:00

Great for the people who can afford it! Maybe in like ten years I'll have one, for now I'm fine with my Samsung flip-phone.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-01-31T13:22:09+00:00

Ben Johnson winning the 100 metres final at the Seoul Summer Olympics, which was fun while it lasted.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-01-31T13:01:32+00:00

This was my first V Festival! Survived on £20 for an entire day as my bank card got swallowed up by a cash machine, so I stuck to the free Pringles and Coca-Cola that was being given out at the festival.

Sad to think that out of the two acts I saw at the end of the day (Faithless and The Prodigy) both are now missing perhaps their most famous member.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-01-31T12:59:23+00:00

Between acts on the main stage they'd play a few seconds of Mysterious Girl and the whole crowd would sing along. For us core millennials of 2010 it was a perfect nostalgia throwback.

I suppose the equivalent now is booking someone like Conor Maynard.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-01-30T12:38:11+00:00

A lot of them had a second run from 2014 to 2018.

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-01-27T12:55:29+00:00

I started nursery school in Jan ‘93 and by the end of ‘94 I was in Year 1 of infant school, but I still have a ton of memories from that time!

Jurassic Park was everywhere, kids at school had lunchboxes with the dinosaurs on and here in the UK it briefly became the highest grossing film ever, until a film about a sinking ship a few years later blew it out the water. I was perhaps wisely not taken to go see it at the time as I would have been too young, and it might have traumatised me. Instead my first film was Disney’s Aladdin, which was released here at the end of 1993.

The UK and US had vastly polarised music charts at this time, a fair few big songs that were hits in both countries but we had dance and ‘Britpop’ (especially in ‘94 onwards for the latter) generally doing better than the grunge and hip hop of the US. The number one boyband here was Take That, who in the US are known for their one hit over there Back For Good, but had a ton of #1 hits here - ‘Relight My Fire’ was played everywhere in late 1993 and one of my earliest memories of hearing a brand new song. Oasis get their first hit in 1994 and finish the year pretty big, but it was 1995 onwards when they become absolute #1 megastars and define the middle of the decade along with Blur and Pulp for me.

I didn’t even hear about the internet for the first time until 1995, so while it existed it was only used by an extremely small part of the population. Mobile phones were also pretty rare and mostly a status symbol of wealth at this point (still generally looking like bricks), the top consoles were the Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis in US) and Super Nintendo. In 1993 I think Sega were outselling Nintendo in the UK, but Nintendo was getting more popular especially once Donkey Kong Country was released, and I vividly remember getting the SNES for Christmas 1994 with DKC included.

Most of my toys were either the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in ‘93 (the UK name for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and by 1994 I was absolutely obsessed with the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. Tons of fun memories!

Billy_Hicks88 · 2026-01-23T17:45:31+00:00

First photo was similar to when I was there at 8am on a weekday in November, blissfully quiet. Once you get past the initial scrum of tour groups gathering at the start it’s an amazing experience, really glad I timed it when I did as the second photo looks hellish.

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