Doctor Who Vs. Coronation Street at 60, Part 2: 1962-1964

Despite a critical start in December 1960

(when the Daily Mirror said the programme

was unrealistic and "doomed"), the popularity

 of Corrie was cemented within weeks. The

soap topped the TV ratings chart for the first

 time in March 1961, and reached a 1960s

peak of over 21 million viewers in December

1964.

Coronation Street soon became noted for its
depiction of a working class community, and
established the use of Northern English

language and dialect, widely heard on British 

television for the first time. The show first

aired in Australia in 1963, and began in New 

Zealand a year later.

These three years on the Street featured
Jackie Lane (under her stage name Jackie
Lenya, as Cheryl in episode 322 in January 1964) and sixteen other
Doctor Who cast connections:

• Fred Ferris (Appleby) was Bert Rowse in (episode 3 of) Planet of Giants
• Rhoda Lewis (Miss Welch here; Lilian, 1969) was Marta in State of Decay
• Judy Cornwell (Georgina) was Maddy in Paradise Towers
• Roy Holder (Butterworth) was Krelper in The Caves of Androzani
• Susan Jameson (Myra) was cast as Morgan for Colony in Space but was replaced by Tony Caunter - she later voiced Mrs. Moynihan for Big Finish's The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (2000), then Fenella Wibsey for the Hornets' Nest (2009), Demon Quest (2010) and Serpent Crest (2011)
• Geoffrey Hinsliff (Vincent here; Don Brennan, 1987-97) was Jack Tyler in Image of the Fendahl, and Fisk in Nightmare of Eden
• Derek Benfield (Salesman here; Greenhalgh, 1967) voiced John Hallam for Catch 1782 (2005)
• Alan Curtis (Thornley) was Major Green in The War Machines
• Jon Rollason (Robbins, 1964, 1969) was Harold Chorley in The Web of Fear
• Michael Barrington (Nuttall) was Sir Colin Thackeray in The Seeds of Doom
• Ray Brooks (Phillips) was David in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD, and voiced the titular Time Lord for The Trouble With Drax (2016)
• Jerome Willis (Presenter) was Stevens in The Green Death
• Stephanie Bidmead (Lily) was Maaga in Galaxy 4
• Neville Smith (Workman) was D'Argenson in The Reign of Terror (1)
• George A Cooper (Piggott, 1964, 1970) was Cherub in The Smugglers
• Noel Johnson (Braithwaite) was King Thous in The Underwater Menace, and Charles Grover MP in Invasion of the Dinosaurs