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Coronation Street
You may wish to consult Coronation Street (disambiguation) for other, similarly-named pages.

Coronation Street was a long-running British television drama airing in the final decades of the 20th century and well into the 21st, as well.

The Sixth Doctor had a dream in which his adventures were broadcast on television and taken off the air, and when they were returned they were placed opposite this series. (PROSE: Christmas Special [+]Marc Platt, Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury (Short Trips short stories, 2004).)

Betsy, Bernard Watson's Irish wolfhound, had a penchant for barking during the theme tune. (PROSE: The Sleep of Reason [+]Martin Day, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2004).)

While stuck in 1969 without the TARDIS, (TV: Blink [+]Steven Moffat, adapted from What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow (Steven Moffat), Doctor Who series 3 (BBC One, 2007).) the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones watched Coronation Street in their flat. (PROSE: Martha Jones [+]Joseph Lidster, 2007.)

Ace's nan used to watch the series. (PROSE: Chemistry [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

While in Prague in 1989, Heather Lake mentioned Corrie (a common nickname for the series) as one of the things that she missed about London. (COMIC: The Broken Man [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

In 1998, it was watched by Robert Gibson while he was in a hospital. (PROSE: System Shock [+]Justin Richards, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)

Among the casualties of the Vore invasion of Earth in 2005 were members of the cast of the series, though they lost less than EastEnders. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).)

In the 2000s,[nb 1] the TV at the community room at the Lavender Lawns Rest Home blew up half an hour before the latest Corrie (Coronation Street) wedding. (PROSE: Eye of the Gorgon [+]Phil Ford, adapted from Eye of the Gorgon (Phil Gladwin and Phil Ford), The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations (Penguin Character Books, 2007).)

Coronation Street was still running when MoonCentre 7 began operation on the Moon. Cut off from the rest of humanity, some crew members were eager to find out if the programme was still going when the Tenth Doctor visited. (AUDIO: The Opacity Factor [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Behind the scenes[]

Main article: Coronation Street (series)

Both Doctor Who and Coronation Street started in the 1960s, have had notably long runs and have entered into British culture as television institutions.

In the late 1980s, Doctor Who aired opposite Coronation Street, which is often considered a factor in the show's decline and cancellation. The short story Christmas Special includes a reference to this situation.

Coronation Street has included the odd reference to Doctor Who over the years, especially since the show returned in 2005. The young boy Simon Barlow is a Doctor Who fan. He made reference to Journey's End when he saw two men who looked similar to each other. He said "there's two of them, it's like Doctor Who" referencing the Tenth Doctor and the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor seen in that story.

The 2006 episode The Idiot's Lantern is set in Florizel Street, which was the original planned name of Coronation Street.

In the 2008 episode Turn Left, Donna Noble attempted to insult a woman standing in her doorway by calling her Vera Duckworth, who was a long-standing character in the series.

In the Doctor Who Confidential instalment, 'Ello, 'Ello, 'Ello, Derek Jacobi stated that one of his ambitions since the 1960s has been to take a part in Doctor Who and Coronation Street. In 2012, he appeared as an extra on the show.[1]

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  1. No on screen date is given for the first two series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, outside of The Day of the Clown from the second series being set shortly after 9 October in an undisclosed year. While Donna Noble's present from the fourth series of Doctor Who is set around the same time as the first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith from the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures is explicitly described as being set a year after Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? from the first series, Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008, and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos setting them in about April to June 2009.

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