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Break the soaps down into 'Eras'?
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Eastenders. Den and Angie Era. The Mitchell Brothers Era Etc. Corrie. Hilda and Stan Era. etc |
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Eastenders
Den and Angie Era Pat and Frank Era Mitchells On Top Era Young Ones Era Mitchells on Top Again Era Where Did they All Go? Era Where Did They Come From? Era/ Walford Mafia Era (very short!) The Aftermath Of That Tragic Dragon Slide Accident And Coming To Terms With Jack's Death Era |
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Eastenders
Den and Angie Era Pat and Frank Era Mitchells On Top Era Young Ones Era Mitchells on Top Again Era Where Did they All Go? Era Where Did They Come From? Era/ Walford Mafia Era (very short!) The Aftermath Of That Tragic Dragon Slide Accident And Coming To Terms With Jack's Death Era Ah yes the 'Pat and Frank' Era. What was the 'Young Ones' Era?? When Sharon and Michelle ruled?? I take it. |
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No when the square was overun with Kim Macfarlene (whatever happened to her?), Martin Fowler, Matthew Rose, Huw & Lenny, Teresa Di Marco, Jamie Mitchell, Sonia Jackson, Sarah Hills and the imminent arrival of Zoe Slater and Kerry Skinner (What happened to her as well?).
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No when the square was overun with Kim Macfarlene (whatever happened to her?), Martin Fowler, Matthew Rose, Huw & Lenny, Teresa Di Marco, Jamie Mitchell, Sonia Jackson, Sarah Hills and the imminent arrival of Zoe Slater and Kerry Skinner (What happened to her as well?).
![]() Kerry Skinner is in the UK Gold episodes at the moment and played by a Gemma McCluskie , but didnt she later get played by Brooke Kinsella? or was that a different Kerry??? It's ok found out they are different Kerry's. |
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Lol, the girl on UKGold is KERRY, Brooke Kinsella played KELLY! Don't woory, it was an easy mistake to make. Both friends of Zoe, with similar looks and names and both played by poor actresses. To be fair though, Kelly was an improvement on Kerry - ATROCIOUS actress!
Kerry goes on holiday to Tenerife and never returns. Zoe tells Robbie that she 'met a bloke there' and decided not to return. I guess the fact that she was only 16/17 didn't matter. I've gone way off topic here... |
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Yes, but Kerry wasn't exactly the settling down type. I remember the time when Robbie thought that all his Christmases had come at once, she was the second girl he ever slept with after the disastarous Sarah Hills thing that he got beaten up for), he woke up next to Kerry. Can't remember what Robbie said to her exactly, but when he said "Kerry" at the end of it, she replied, "aw, how sweet,they don't usually remember my name".
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Lol, the girl on UKGold is KERRY, Brooke Kinsella played KELLY! Don't woory, it was an easy mistake to make. Both friends of Zoe, with similar looks and names and both played by poor actresses. To be fair though, Kelly was an improvement on Kerry - ATROCIOUS actress!
Kerry goes on holiday to Tenerife and never returns. Zoe tells Robbie that she 'met a bloke there' and decided not to return. I guess the fact that she was only 16/17 didn't matter. I've gone way off topic here... ![]() Must have been lazy writing on the part of the EE writers. |
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Hmm, I didn't think you meant eras like that. I always see Emmerdale as being broken into 3 different eras.
The 70s to the early 80s when it was purely a farming soap. The mid-80s to 1993 when it was bordering between its farm roots and trying out soap opera stories based around the characters and village etc. The arrival of Kathy was a key player in this giving the show a more "sexy" image. And from 1993 onwards where it became a fully-fledged soap, only hanging onto to the farm roots simply because it was a country village so it made sense that certain stories and characters would have a few farm connections. But it was still a soap entirely about the villagers' personal lives and moving up a gear when it came to dramatic stories and events etc as well as becoming incredibly popular and force to be reckoned with. I think the show may now be moving into a 4TH era. One where it moves up several gears again (as the show's producers said), by upping the stories even more, the range in character's personalities, things that make people take notice and generally a more consistently watchable and entertaining show that makes viewers stick with it and gains new ones. At least that's the PLAN and I hope it goes that way. It's certainly on the right track. |
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I don't think the Street has had any "eras" that were particularly defined by characters, for instance there wasn't really an "Ogden Era" like you say.
During the 60s the show was still very gritty and shocked many viewers, in a way that Brookside did in the 80s. By the 70s the Street had really started to settle into its place as Britians only real soap opera, it got a bit too comfortable. The 80s saw a real change in the show, after the kick up the arse from first Brookside and then EastEnders, the show became much pacier and the way it was filmed changed dramatically. The exodus of Corrie past was lost, when many of its familiar faces from the 60s, Elsie Tanner, Ena Sharples, Hilda Ogden and Annie Walker all left, but the Street did what it always does and evolved to suit a new, more issue-driven audience. After the popular stories of the 80s, most famously "Alan Bradley and the Tram", the 90s saw the show reaching its biggest lull. It plodded along in the early 90s, ending up as a show that only people's grandmother's watched, and by 1997 Brian Park came along as "the axeman" and cleared the place out. Since 1997 I believe that it has taken right up until 2002, and the Richard Hillman storyline, for the Street to really regain its crown, and the success has continued for nearly 2 years and only looks like it will continue. |
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Originally Posted by Drifter
Hmm, I didn't think you meant eras like that. I always see Emmerdale as being broken into 3 different eras.
There is definitly a feel of 'The Den and Angie' era and 'The Grant and Phil era'. Programs seem to change depending on the characters that take center stage. Like I posted in another thread, this can be to the programs detriment when the character (or more importantly the actor) become bigger than the show. |
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