Geoffrey Hughes

You could probably see a glimpse of your own family in the Royles. Mum, Dad, Denise, Antony and Denise's husband, Dave Best sit in front of the television in their dirty, untidy living room and are constantly smoking, talking and bickering.

A British police constable and his doctor wife, weary of the turmoil in contemporary London, decide to move and work in a quiet village where life is livelier than they anticipated.

This was one of the best and most popular British sitcoms of all time. Patricia Routledge played Hyacinth Bucket, a woman who pretended to be upper-class but wasn't.

The longest running soap opera on British television screens (and the world), the series focus' on the lives of individuals that are living in Weatherfield's Coronation Street. Births, marriages, affairs, deaths and all the events in between are tackled in this ITV series, who's cast is always in a constant cycle of change. Coronation Street is in it's 53rd year and is still going strong!!!