![Coronation Street is an award winning British soap opera. It is the longest-running television soap opera in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on Friday 9 December 1960 in the Granada region of Coronation Street is an award winning British soap opera. It is the longest-running television soap opera in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on Friday 9 December 1960 in the Granada region of](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/GHG3N7/coronation-street-is-an-award-winning-british-soap-opera-it-is-the-GHG3N7.jpg)
Coronation Street is an award winning British soap opera. It is the longest-running television soap opera in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on Friday 9 December 1960 in the Granada region of
![A portrait of British TV and Crossroads soap opera star, Ronald Allen, taken in the early 1960s Stock Photo - Alamy A portrait of British TV and Crossroads soap opera star, Ronald Allen, taken in the early 1960s Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2BJ3C17/a-portrait-of-british-tv-and-crossroads-soap-opera-star-ronald-allen-taken-in-the-early-1960s-2BJ3C17.jpg)
A portrait of British TV and Crossroads soap opera star, Ronald Allen, taken in the early 1960s Stock Photo - Alamy
Real Time 1960s - Sept. 4, 1962 - Two more T.V. soap operas will go down the drain Sept. 28. They are “The Brighter Day” on CBS and “Our Five Daughters” (pictured)
![Compact soap opera Studio TC2 BBCtv 1960s by Hazel Adair & Peter Ling with Julia Lockwood as Anthea Keane & Moray Watson as Richard Lowe. PER0092 Stock Photo - Alamy Compact soap opera Studio TC2 BBCtv 1960s by Hazel Adair & Peter Ling with Julia Lockwood as Anthea Keane & Moray Watson as Richard Lowe. PER0092 Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/A1GMJ2/compact-soap-opera-studio-tc2-bbctv-1960s-by-hazel-adair-peter-ling-A1GMJ2.jpg)