Buggernation Street Annual 1975

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Meanwhile, Gail rejects tradition and invites a poet round for an intellectual education that ends on a sour note, despite the fact he professes not to like chins. When a blotto Albert and Stan are discovered the following morning, Annie bans them both but lets the humiliated Hilda off the hook. Hilda discovers Annie Walker is planning a Rovers day-out at Buggerton Hall; rightly convinced Annie didn’t want her and Stan there, Hilda books herself on the trip, despite Stan’s assertion that stately homes are for working-class masochists. Ena has to stand her ground when suspicions surround the theft of the community centre’s colour TV set, with rumours primarily spun by Albert and Hilda; Mrs Ogden also has a new cocktail cabinet to brag about, which - along with the completion of Irma’s room as a separate flat - convinces Stan the Ogdens are coming up in the world. Ray discovers Deirdre’s unfulfilled fantasy is being bent over a bonnet by a mechanic, but Billy beats him to it when he borrows Alan’s garage.

Norma decides she and Maggie deserve better than the men poorly servicing their needs and proposes they have a ‘girl’s night in’; Alf salutes his spanking partner for her spirit of adventure. It had originally been published on Vimeo a couple of years ago and attracted virtually no attention at all; remixed and expanded, I decided to temporarily shelve my ‘Buggernation’-only principles when it came to YT uploads and enabled ‘Wokeday Evening’ to be seen by the widest possible audience. Bookie Dave Smith tries to do a good deed by offering his services as a gigolo free of charge to Ena and Minnie, both of whom reject the offer, whilst Hilda announces she and Stan will be holding a ‘sex party’ the following week. Jerry is still going on about the cost of living and Ray eventually suggests he and Len accompany him on a day out at Fine Fare; meanwhile, Ken confesses to Elsie that he’s been meeting up with Janet in seedy hotels again, Albert is offered four free jars of chutney, and Maggie is uneasy about the new vocalist on the next Can LP. Dialogue is exposition-heavy as a consequence and the episode is also notable for marking the solitary appearance in the series of Stan and Hilda Ogden’s daughter Irma.

Ken, on the other hand, is more preoccupied with Albert’s denial over ownership re the log in the bog. Annie Walker is also unaware as she accepts Nellie Harvey’s invite and is mortified when she sees it with her own eyes. Fairclough and Langton then swiftly relocate to the Rovers, where the redecoration is in full swing in time for the festive season - one that it looks as if Albert will be celebrating on his own with a tin of pork luncheon meat for company. Given the go-ahead by the IBA to break new ground in terms of ‘foul language’ on the grounds that the only people watching would be insomniacs and weirdos (decent people went to bed earlier back in the 70s), Granada produced a programme unlike anything previously seen on British television. Deirdre's mother Blanche has a crystal ball that depicts a future in which Deirdre has a prominent gunt and a neck like a turtle's scrotum whilst Blanche herself resembles the bride of Quasimodo.

Jerry is Len's lodger and works with him at the builder's yard, a role also filled by Ray Langton, a Jack-the-lad character who hired Deirdre Hunt to be the firm's secretary, even though he regularly ribs her about her parallel career as a prostitute. Albert decides the latest way for him to defy the years is to wear some sunglasses and pass for John Cale - though nobody else is convinced; Alan’s own way of looking younger is to acquire a new tattoo whilst checking out a cheap motor in Blackpool, with at least Annie Walker impressed by the addition to his physique; her account of accidentally being exposed to it fires Irma’s ongoing lust for Elsie’s feller.A YT channel with over a decade’s worth of work put into it, hundreds of videos, thousands of views and appreciative comments - all wiped out in the blink of an eye. Eddie Yeats hires an Alsatian as a guard-dog for his intended security business; the lack of interest prompts him to nick some copper from Len’s yard and leads Stan and Albert to plan hiding in the Rovers’ cellar overnight, both actions proving Eddie’s services are needed.

Ernie and Emily now resort to asking their friends for financial donations to pay for Ernie’s impotence operation, which proves to be another disaster - and Deirdre tells Blanche she’s decided not to turn their home into a brothel after all. Len is in a foul mood as a swimming contest featuring the under-14s in bikinis is relocated from Weatherfield Baths to the lido - a venue he’s barred from. I could understand it if they blocked a video and explained why but to terminate an account without warning nor explanation? Just in case I mistook YT for CBeebies, I always ticked the box stating my videos were for adults only, YT’s equivalent of the old-fashioned X certificate.After years of rumours that individual cast members had preserved copies of ‘missing episodes’, these eventually started to resurface too. YT must have missed the money they made from cramming ads into my videos during my absence, but they’ve made a hell of a lot more from me over the last twelve months.

Jerry is out of his depth as he takes Mavis for a meal at a swanky Italian restaurant, declaring he’s far happier eating beans-on-toast in his socks, vest and underpants in front of the telly. Her assistant in the Kabin is the prematurely middle-aged Mavis Riley, who nonetheless has expanded her own sex-life (and, in the process, quashed lesbian rumours) by getting into fisting with her on-off boyfriend, Jerry Booth. I’ve been uploading videos to Vimeo for quite a while now and I’ve never had any problems with them, to be honest.The colour telly arrives at the community centre, and Albert ensures he has a front row seat in time for ‘The High Chaparral’, even though he sleeps through most of it. Yes a lot of their non Buggernation Street videos came across as pretty grim from the descriptions, never watched any of them. Alan and Elsie are absent, with a pissed-up Alan coming close to setting the house on fire earlier; Albert Tatlock is also absent, busily planning his new career as a gigolo.