The Road to Coronation Street

The story follows 22-year-old writer Tony Warren (David Dawson) as he conceives, writes and fights for the record-breaking UK TV series Coronation Street, which aired in December 1960. Set mainly at Granada Studios, Manchester in 1960, the drama is a dramatisation of the creation of Coronation Street from conception to its first transmission. Retired actress Doris Speed (Celia Imrie) plays landlady Annie Walker, while young actor William Roache (implied but not explicitly mentioned as Kenneth Barlow) and Jessie Wallace (Pat Phoenix) are among those cast in early auditions for the show.