- List of past recurring and minor Coronation Street characters
"Coronation Street" is an award-winning UK
soap opera created byTony Warren , produced byGranada Television and aired byITV . It first broadcast on Friday 9 December 1960, and is consistently one of the highest-rated programmes onBritish television . [cite web|first=Broadcasters' Audience Research Board LTD|title=Terrestrial Top 30
url=http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/weekreports.cfm?report=weeklyterrestrial&requesttimeout=500&
format=Website|work=Barb.co.uk|accessdate = 2007-03-08] The programme features an ensemble cast of characters, comprised for the most part of residents of the fictional Coronation Street, located inWeatherfield , a fictional town inSalford ,Greater Manchester . [Little. p.93.] Recurring and minor characters in the show are often children of the Street's residents, or friends, relatives, lovers or antagonists introduced to the show for a single specific storyline.Notes
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