Who ever thought this would ever be done? (1 Viewer)

[JohnTRU]

A bit excessive maybe - but for fans of the show it'd be dvd gold!

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/790842

Will probably hold the record until the entire run of 'Coronation Street' gets put on the market

 

[Charles Ellis]

Been there, done that: Dark Shadows had nearly twice the amount of episodes, and besides, that Aussie release isn't even Region1 and it's in PAL, not NTSC!

 

[MatthewA]

I have a feeling this is what we'll see as a complete series set for The Simpsons.

 

[MishaLauenstein]

And it doesn't come with a hand job from Jessica Simpson.

That throws off the episode count even more.

 

[Josh_HI]

See if they can come out with something like that, I'm sure they would be able to put every episode from Big Brother 1 on dvd! LOL I don't know how many discs it would take but I'd sure love to see it.

 

[Andrew!A]

There have been approx 5000 episodes of Corrie to date.

That's approx 2000 hours (at 24 mins. per episode on average; there were far fewer commercials in the 1960s...).

At 6 hours per disc, we're looking at a 300+ disc box set!

And you know what? I bet it'd sell.

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Failing a complete run, fans will have to settle for the current box sets on amazon.co.uk.

There are box sets for each of the first three decades of Coronation Street: the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (no box is available for the 1990s yet). Each set contains 10 discs - one for each year - with the "top" 8 episodes per year. So that's 240 episodes in total -- roughly 1/20th of the entire output since 1960.

 

[AndyMcKinney]

But, do all of the episodes still exist? I would've thought that a lot of the '60s episodes would've been wiped in the '70s, especially as this is a soap.

 

[Andrew!A]

From what I understand, Granada still has every episode.