The Road to Coronation Street a Londoner most famous for her role as Kat Moon in "EastEnders", "religiously" watched YouTube footage of early episodes to master the "old-fashioned Mancunian" accent as she described it. Wallace also briefly had sessions with a dialect coach before filming commenced. James Roache plays his father William Roache in the drama. The elder Roache has played Ken Barlow in "Coronation Street" since its inception. As well as acting in "The Road to Coronation Street", James was filming scenes for "Coronation Street" in a non-regular role as Ken Barlow's grandson at the same time. Celia Imrie played Doris Speed, who played
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and "Forest of the Dead" as Proper Dave. The last episode of the story received the highest viewing figure of Sylvester McCoy's time in Doctor Who - 6.6 million against "Coronation Street". Reviewing "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", Tat Wood described it as "a story with so much going "right"" and a sign of how he believed the show had improved since its mid-1980s period. Noting how difficult the story had been to film, he stated "it was worth it. This is everything "Doctor Who" should be." Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping said "The ideas in this,