ITV is releasing classic episodes of Coronation Street during the coronavirus lockdown.
Vintage episodes of Corrie and its rural sister soap Emmerdale will be placed on its on-demand platform ITV Hub while filming is halted on the shows.
Emmerdale will run out of episodes at the end of this month while Coronation Street will last into June.
This is the first time that filming on the world's longest soap, which turns 60 in December, has been stopped.
The episodes will air every weekday on ITV Hub from Monday, to give “soap fans a trip down memory lane and a chance to relive some of soapland’s most iconic characters,” ITV has said.
Coronation Street episodes from 1995 featuring iconic Weatherfield characters Bet Lynch, played by Julie Goodyear, Alec Gilroy, played by Roy Barraclough, Mavis Wilton, played by Thelma Barlow, Raquel Wolstenhulme, played by Sarah Lancashire and Mike Baldwin, played by Johnny Briggs, will go on the platform.
Emmerdale will go back to December 1995 ahead of villainous Chris Tate’s wedding and in the midst of Kim Tate’s affair.
The broadcaster already screens classic episodes on ITV3 which have proven popular with viewers.
ITV Hub will also feature previous episodes of ITVBe reality show The Real Housewives Of Cheshire and Gemma Collins’ fly on the wall show Diva Forever.
It is understood that any return to filming at Corrie, filmed at Trafford Wharf, would take into account government guidelines to ensure the safety of everyone involved.
And some of the older cast such as William Roache, 88, might be absent.
Head of studios Kevin Lygo told the Edinburgh TV Festival 2020: "I don’t want Ken Barlow to get sick."
