Yahoo News Corrie boss Tony Warren's first soap idea revealed
Coronation Street creator and soap pioneer Tony Warren almost changed TV as we know it with a very different soap opera.
Before he started writing Corrie in the 1960s, he embarked on a totally different project called Seven, Bessie Street.
Warren's friend, David Tucker, who has lent the script's cover page to a Salford exhibition, told BBC News that the only thing the two 'soap operas' had in common was a terraced street.
[Kym Marsh, Tony Warren and David Neilson]
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Billed by Tony as "a new soap opera in half-hourly episodes", Seven, Bessie Street focused on the life of just one family who all had theatrical backgrounds.
"The only thing really that relates to Coronation Street is the setting of a terraced street and the fact that it jumps a little bit between peoples' lives," Tucker explained.
"But there are no characters that relate to Coronation Street at all, and no scenarios. It's very different."
Sadly, fans of the Tony's work will never get to find out just how different Seven, Bessie Street is to Corrie, as the script is on loan under the proviso that no-one is allowed to read it. Well, damn.
Tony Warren - whose original scripts were commissioned by ITV when he was just 24-years-old - sadly passed away last year following a short illness.
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