First Episode of Coronation Street

Date: December 9, 1960 • Location: London, United Kingdom

The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

Coronation Street is a British television soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres on a cobbled, terraced street in the fictional town of Weatherfield in Greater Manchester. The location was itself based on Salford, the hometown of the show's first screenwriter and creator, Tony Warren.