Rotorua's Kath Yeates has been watching Coronation Street since it started screening in New Zealand in 1964 and has no plans to give up watching the antics on the street any time soon.
This weekend, TV1 will screen the 50th anniversary episodes of the English drama as well as other specialty programmes to commemorate the milestone and Mrs Yeates says she will be watching.
Mrs Yeates, who was born in England, moved to New Zealand when she was 3.
She watched the series from when it first screened in New Zealand. She was 32.
The show was in black and white and screened once a week.
Her earliest memory of the show was watching one of the street's original characters, Ken Barlow, talking with his brother in a room at the Barlow family home.
Her interest in the show stems from her heritage.
"A lot of it is because I'm English. I just like the accent and the story lines. I think it's very real ... I like the English humour."
Some of her favourite moments on the street include the conflict between two of the characters, Elsie Tanner and Ena Sharples.
"I loved the spats between Elsie Tanner and Ena Sharples. They used to have big rows on the street usually over Elsie's son Dennis. He was always getting into trouble."
The most gripping moments for her was the affair between Deirdre Barlow and Mike Baldwin.
"There was some real good acting."
She also recalls when Deirdre Barlow was sent to prison for something she didn't do and there was a campaign in the UK to free her. "Some people believed she was there [in prison]."
One of her favourite characters over the 50 years was Hilda Ogden who was on the street from the start until the late 1980s.
"She was real and she fought with her husband Stan. She was a poor little lady trying to be something she wasn't."
Another favourite was Annie Walker - the first landlady of the Rovers Return - who was on the street from its inception to the early 1980s.
"She was trying to be something she wasn't."
As for Mrs Yeates' favourite of the current cast, it would have to be Norris Cole who owns the Kabin.
"Just that he's so stupid and he's such a fusspot, a nosey parker and such a know-it-all. He is a very good actor."
As for her least favourite character who she would like to see written out of the programme, she has no time for dairy owner Devendra "Dev" Alahan.
"I don't think he is realistic enough. He doesn't seem to fit."
She said the show had changed over the years and while she didn't like some of the content, it was still Coronation Street.
As for her husband Mick, he is content to sit and watch it with her but he can "take it or leave it".
While Coronation Street has screened for only 48 years in New Zealand, it has caught up to 50 years' worth of screenings as New Zealand does not take a break over Christmas, like the ITV production does in the United Kingdom. New Zealand also screens three hours of the show per week compared with 2.5 hours in Britain.
However, the New Zealand screenings are still about 18 months behind Britain.
Who is your favourite Coronation Street character?
Betty [Williams] was a good character. When it started me and my husband were in Te Puke and our neighbours would come and watch it with us. I enjoyed it then but now it isn't as good, I get sick of it by 8.15pm and go to bed.
- Gena Innes, Regency Park Estate Retirement Village
Ken Barlow. He always adds mystery and fun. I've been watching Coro since it began, never missed it at home and now I have it here. It looks like it will all blow up tomorrow. I think Kevin [Webster] will find out the baby doesn't belong to him.
- Heather Crispe, Redwood Retirement Village
I don't know any characters but I do watch it in between the rugby. It's entertaining but it is getting over the top now, it has got too complicated.
- Jean Rowe, Regency Park Estate Retirement Village
Betty [Williams] because we are the same age. We were the first ones in Galatea to have a television and people used to come around and watch Coronation Street with us.
- Lena Steiner, Regency Park Estate Retirement Village