High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Coronation Street Live is a live episode of the British soap opera Coronation Street which was broadcast on Friday 8 December 2000 as part of the show`s 40th anniversary celebrations. The episode was an hour long and aired at 8.00pm, an hour after a repeat of the first episode with an introduction by William Roache from the soap`s outdoor set where last minute preparations for the live episode were under way. The episode was number 4945 in the series and was the first live edition to be broadcast since Episode 17, which aired on 3 February 1961. It was watched by in excess of 16 million viewers.