The Corriedale crossover will go down in soap history ...Middle East

The A57 – better known as “Snake Pass” – is one of the most dangerous roads in the country, with 138 collisions (including five fatalities) reported between 2018 and 2023. It also happens to be the road that connects the Salfordian cobbles of Coronation Street to the Yorkshire village of Emmerdale. How it took the writers of both soaps this long to connect the dots is beyond me. 

For the very first time, Corrie and Emmerdale have become Corriedale in an unrelenting, explosive and shocking cross-over episode. It might sound like a shameless ploy to get Corrie fans to watch Emmerdale and vice versa, but the resulting episode was a triumph – albeit a very sad one – with both soaps concluding massive storylines, and kickstarting several more.

It all took place after Debbie’s wedding, a Corrie get-together that provided an excuse for everyone to be driving back towards Manchester. Add in the fact that Becky, Lisa and Betsy were hotfooting their way to the airport for their new life in Spain, with Kit and Carla (who had been found tied up in a shipping container in the preceding episode) in pursuit and almost the entire street was on the moors.

Becky and Lisa’s collision with Emmerdale’s Aaron and John was inevitable. Becky had just been thrown by Carla ringing Lisa, and psychopathic John had taken his hands off the wheel and decided to close his eyes while driving. But their smash – which saw one car somersault through the air – was just the beginning.

Soon, the minibus had swerved off the road to avoid the crash, tumbling onto its side and setting on fire. Everyone escaped safely, except Billy, as the evil Theo had strapped him to his seat after working out that Todd had told him about his abusive behaviour. It was a heartbreaking moment of cruelty, shocking even amid all the other devastations in the hour-long special episode. When the van exploded, Billy’s fate was sealed.

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Combining the world of Corrie and Emmerdale was not without its risks – the former is set in a working-class suburb of Greater Manchester, while the latter concerns itself with the more affluent residents of a small (but certainly not quiet) rural village. But the merging was smooth, with the requisite “who are you?” questions doing the parallel jobs of introducing unknown characters to one another and to those who only watch one of the soaps.

For those of us who do watch both Corrie and Emmerdale, it was a thrill to see them all in the same moment. To imagine that they all exist in the same universe only grounded both soaps in reality – neither happen in a bubble.

I suspect it’s akin to how Marvel nerds feel when Spider-Man hangs out with Thor… or something. Seeing Corrie’s paramedic Asha and Emmerdale‘s doctor-in-training Jacob team up to tend to the wounded certainly felt like watching the soap version of Avengers.

Meanwhile, murderer John had escaped into the nearby woods with a shotgun in hand; paramedic Asha rushed around seeing to each injury despite her recent breakdown; Debbie went missing and had a possible mini-stroke; Mac was pinned to the car with a pole skewered through his arm; Cain was shot. It was relentlessly dramatic in a way that only soapland logic could get away with, and to go into all the tiny details here would take up far too much of your time.

But it wasn’t all complete misery. Reliably hapless Steve was on hand to quip about his lack of tie to use as a tourniquet and to do a double take when he saw Emmerdale’s Jai in a short and sweet Easter Egg for long-time fans (the actor who plays Jai also played Vikram in Corrie, who founded Street Cars with Steve). And meetings between cross-Pennine counterparts Ken and Eric, and Charity and Carla were treats for those who regularly dedicate their time to both programmes. Cheesy? Yes, but again– that’s what we have grown to love about these soaps.

The aftershocks of this special will be felt in both communities for months, particularly given the reveal of Cain’s cancer diagnosis and David’s mysterious collapsing. But this hour was more than just a way to ensnare more viewers (though I’m sure it has done just that). It was a declaration of the power of soaps – that only shows with a history and dedicated fansbase such as Coronation Street and Emmerdale could get away with something so daring.

Just like Corrie’s 50th anniversary tram crash and Emmerdale’s 1993 plane disaster, Corriedale will go down in soap history.

Emmerdale and Coronation Street continue tomorrow at 8pm and 8.30pm on ITV1

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