IAN HYLAND
on last night’s telly
Coronation Street Icons: Sally Metcalfe, ITV ★★★★★
Harry Hill will be kicking himself after this latest celebration of a Corrie legend.
For the first episode of his new BBC2 series, World of TV, Harry compiled soap’s best ever innuendos.
He missed a lovely pair involving Sally Dynevor’s character Sally Seddon/Webster/Metcalfe. First Sal stole a kiss from Kevin at the dinner table, with Kev warning: “You’ll get meat pie all over your face.” Then we had Sal’s recent revelation that: “Tim is going to be attending to my shrubbery later.”
Amazingly, Harry and his researchers missed Sally’s finest moment – last year’s carpet-related assertion that: “There isn’t a woman alive who doesn’t crave a deeper shag.” We’ll let them off, though. Well, Dynevor has appeared in over 3,300 episodes. The odd pearl was bound to slip through the net.
For longevity alone, Dynevor deserved to be one of the icons in this series. This retrospective reminded us how much she has contributed to the show – and how much her character has evolved.
I’d almost forgotten she played so many wonderful scenes with
Jean Alexander’s Hilda Ogden. It definitely didn’t register with me at the time how cool Sally was when she first arrived in 1986, looking like the foxy singer in a trendy indie band.
We were also treated to a glimpse of another icon – Kevin’s purple(ish) blouson. That jacket deserves its own half-hour tribute. It’s been around so long we’d need carbon dating to tell us its age.
All I know for sure is, back in the early-90s I was working at the Manchester menswear emporium where Granada TV’s wardrobe man did his shopping. And we had those jackets in stock.
‘‘ Harry Hill missed a lovely pair of Sally’s innuendos