Coronation Street (series)

Coronation Street, also referred to as Corrie, is a British television soap opera created by Tony Warren and produced for ITV. It follows the lives of the down-to-Earth, working class community of the titular, cobbled street in the fictional Greater Manchester town of Weatherfield.

Launched at the end of 1960, the series is a considered to be a British television instituation; it is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's longest-running soap opera. It is currently the fifteenth longest running television series in the world, coming in fifteen places ahead of Doctor Who, which premiered just under three years after the soap. Corrie broadcast its 10'000th episode on 7 February 2020, during the broadcast of Series 12 of Doctor Who.

Crossovers
The two shows may be broadcast on rival networks, but official crossovers between Doctor Who and Corrie have occurred, on both channels, nonetheless.

2011 saw Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor find his way over to ITV for Dermot and the Doctor, the comedic, narrative-based introduction to that year's National Television Awards. The story, in which the Doctor tries to get Dermot O'Leary to the ceremony, sees the TARDIS arriving on the sets of different British shows, including the iconic cobbles, in which the Doctor is shouted at by Becky McDonald (played by Katherine Kelly), who tells him it is over between them (the implication appearing to be that the two of them had a romantic encounter of some sort) before she storms off into the Rovers Return Inn. A second minor crossover took place in the 2015 webcast, Mind My Minions, this time with the Corrie set showing up on a BBC platform. After the Minions, of Despicable Me fame, hijack the TARDIS, one of the places they take it to is the street, materialising beside the Rovers.

References to Coronation Street in the DWU
In 2007's web tie-in Martha Jones, a series in-universe blog posts by Martha Jones which tied into the events of the television story Blink, saw Martha write that she and the Tenth Doctor would watch Coronation Street in their flat in 1969 after having been sent back in time by the Weeping Angels.

In 2008's Turn Left, Donna Noble insults a woman in Leeds by calling her "Vera Duckworth" and telling her to "go and feed t' whippets". This nod to one of the soap's most iconic, longstanding characters, was broadcast just six months before the character was killed off in the series.

References to Doctor Who on Corrie
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Cast
Alan Rothwell, who voiced Byzar Janto in the 2004 Big Finish audio, The Twilight Kingdom, played, beginning from the very first episode, and continuing until 1968.

Helen Worth appeared in the 1971 serial, Colony in Space as Mary Ashe, three years before she began her longstanding role as on the soap.

Before Julie Hesmondhalgh appeared in Kerblam! as Judy Maddox, she was best known for playing from 1998 to 2014.

Shobna Gulati, who played Yasmin Khan's mother, Najia Khan in Arachnids in the UK, played for over a decade from 2001.

Bruno Langley, before playing temporary Ninth Doctor companion, Adam Mitchell in Dalek and The Long Game, became best known for playing the soap's first openly gay character,, from 2001, which served as his TV debut. He played the role for multiple years until 2017, when he was sacked from the series following his sexual misconduct conviction. The character returned in 2020, with the role taken over by another DWU alumni; reoccurring Big Finish voice actor, Gareth Pierce.

Bradley Walsh played the character on the soap from 2004 to 2006, two years before playing Odd Bob in The Sarah Jane Adventures serial, The Day of the Clown, and twelve years before becoming a regular as Thirteenth Doctor companion, Graham O'Brien.

Before Katherine Kelly portrayed Andrea Quill on Doctor Who spin-off Class, she had become perhaps most famous for playing Becky McDonald on the soap from 2006 to 2012. Kelly also briefly played the character in Dermot and the Doctor.

Just three months before appearing as the pompous Rickston Slade in Voyage of the Damned, Gray O'Brien began his three-year stint on Corrie as the murderous.

Just over nine months after appearing as Ruth in the Torchwood episode, Meat, Patti Clare joined the soap as comedic character.

Cherylee Houston joined the soap in 2010 as, eight years after voicing Elise in three stories for Big Finish's The Sixth Doctor Adventures anthology.

Trevor Georges joined the soap in 2019 as Ed Bailey, thirteen years after playing the Vicar in The Runaway Bride.