On a show like ‘Coronation Street’, with a history spanning across six decades, it’s inevitable that there will be occasional crossed wires and errors in continuity - whether it’s a character forgetting a rather crucial or formative part of their history, or bosses failing to notice a glaring mistake in production, like an errant prop or hairstyle that subtly modifies itself with every change of camera angle.
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The soap launched in 1960, and back then things like continuity weren’t too much of a worry. However, over time, characters’ histories have become more full on screen, and thanks to the invention of on-demand telly and the Internet, it’s becoming more and more difficult to bury a continuity error.
In fact, soap viewers over time are becoming increasingly more eagle-eyed, such as those who spotted a continuity mistake with Kevin Webster recently, when he seemed to have completely forgotten about the death of one of his children.
That isn’t the only mistake to have struck a chord with ‘Corrie’, though, here are eight of the continuity errors that fans have spotted over time...