Coronation Street Elsie and Bet. Other recurring archetypes include the war veteran such as Albert Tatlock (Jack Howarth), Percy Sugden (Bill Waddington) and Gary Windass (Mikey North), the bumbling retail manager like Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe), Reg Holdsworth (Ken Morley), Norris Cole (Malcolm Hebden), quick-tempered, tough tradesmen like Len Fairclough (Peter Adamson), Jim McDonald (Charles Lawson), Tommy Harris (Thomas Craig) and Owen Armstrong (Ian Puleston-Davies), and the perennial losers such as Stan and Hilda, Jack and Vera, Les Battersby (Bruce Jones), Beth Tinker (Lisa George) and Kirk Sutherland (Andrew Whyment). Villains are also common character types such as Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford),
Ken and Deirdre's Bedtime Stories spinoff followed the success of exclusive online-only content which was introduced for "Coronation Street"'s 50th anniversary the month before. The series is made up of ten three-minute episodes. Ken and Deirdre's Bedtime Stories Ken and Deirdre's Bedtime Stories is an online spin off from the ITV soap opera "Coronation Street". The episodes have been available on the "Coronation Street" website from 14 February 2011 and will be broadcast within ten weeks. The series featured the characters of Ken Barlow and his wife Deirdre Barlow talking in bed before going to sleep. In January 2011, "Coronation Street" producers confirmed that Ken