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Maid22

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Just caught up with this week's, Michael Choi's girlfriend Alison (the actress who played her has been mentioned alot in recent classic Emmerdale!) is a dreadful character, can she just go to the states now!
Sammy starting to drink, not good.
Really missing Sheila and Billy, it's quite a bore without them!
Is this about the time when the actress who played Annabelle was diagnosed?
 
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Just had a thought, Claire's parents might not have wanted her credited maybe?
 
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AdsB said:
You’ve watch 2 years worth since we last interacted! I think I stopped watching around December 1999 originally. Well until I dipped back in for some of the bullying plot and the siege/helicopter crash.
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🤣🤣🤣 there's nothing else I watch on telly. I'm in a routine. Husband goes to bed. I make a cuppa and watch loads 🤣🤣
 
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cryptix said:
Same,one of my earliest memory of a soap is Suzanna's car crash my mum taped it and made us watch it as kids to never mess about in the car as it could cause the same.
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Are we the same person 😂. I never forgot my seatbelt after that episode (even though watching the crash again it’s really tame).

Also learned never to switch on a light during a gas leak thanks to Brookside 😂.
 
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Miss Havisham

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I am still loving the Brookside reruns. Back in the day I would be watching it Monday and Tuesday - and then the repeat on Saturday!
it can’t be too far off now - before we have the vasectomy storyline (Bobby and Sheila). This storyline really annoyed me back in 1985 - as it was all about Sheila’s refusal to use contraception because of her catholic faith. I grew up in Liverpool (catholic) and cannot recall any catholics refusing to use contraception in the 1980s. It’s only a soap - but it did annoy me at the time as it was so OTT.
 
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Maid22

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Bit of a boring week!
Noticed the spin off South, where Tracy and Jamie go to London is on STV, don't think I've ever seen it.
 
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Maid22

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I'm also not keen on the Rogers, especially Chrissie!
Oh and I felt sorry for grumpy Harold! Loved that scene when he was looking out the window next to the frog ornament!
 
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Cupid_Stunt said:
Brookside was shown on Monday & Wednesdays in 1984. What feels like a jump in storyline where you think you’ve missed an episode is because of the big gap between the Wednesday and the following Monday’s episode. Events have probably happened off screen so life on the Close has carried on in those intermittent days so you have to fill in some of the gaps yourself.

Presumably Marie (and Michelle) had a catch up with their dad in those missing days
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Ah yeah true.
The dad was annoying tbh. Glad he had a short stint.
I went down a rabbit hole of wiki ing Marie and then George to find out their future storyline too…..
 
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Maid22 said:
Ha just watched that, I thought I can't see any difference!!
Yay we got abit of a look inside Dixon's front room!
That Josie is a right horror, why the hell does Mick keep taking her back.
Why is Rod putting frozen chickens on a shelf instead of the freezer!!
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I was young when Brookside first came out and I remember my Mum and Dad absolutely loathing Josie!
 
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