I am a fan of the Mitchells, however I think with Phil getting on and Jay and Ben been a bit to young to be the alpha males of the family that maybe a new Mitchell should be introduced. I always thought a new addition of a Mitchell man would be brilliant, Kirkwood lost an opportunity killing Billys son, Danny Mitchell mark one was a disaster but the notion of his character was a good one.

Danny was not Archies son, but what a twist it would be if he was Eric Mitchells son. That would make him a Mitchell in his own right and siblings of Ronnie, Roxy, Grant, Phil and Sam. Glenda was a beautiful woman, it is plausible that maybe Glenda and Eric had a one night stand.

Obviously any return of Dan aka Danny would have to be recast, but I do feel the character has potential and should return in the future. I think if he came back to return Roxys money with interest and him been successful that Roxy would forgive him, however dark Ronnie never would.

There is also Clive Mitchell who Eastenders have yet to explore.

Both Danny Mitchell and Danny Butcher have potential as future characters due to their parentage.

I've heard of Eric, but did he have any kids? IIRC he appeared once as an extra at a wedding years ago, but I may have got that wrong.

Grant will probably return once Ross Kemp has finished his current set of documentaries.

Eric is Phil and Grants father

Clive is the uncle, brother of Eric and Archie and yes he was at Louise Mitchells name thingy

Sorry, yes, I meant Clive at the wedding. I knew Eric was the dad.

Get Clive and his boys Harry and Charlie in as the new Mitchell brothers. They could corrupt Jay and Ben into their menacing Mitchell ways and there could be a feud within the Mitchells - it would be very interesting to see Phil and Ronnie (who are always enforcing the importance of being a Mitchell) have conflict with another side of their own family

Steve McFadden will probably still be able to pay Phil hard as nails at 70, don't you worry!

The Mitchells were good back in the 2000s, but they are very much dying out. I've noticed that TPTB are desperate to keep them in tact but they're dead wood, there's not much else you can do with them.

It happened with the Watts and the Fowlers. There's no point trying with the Mitchells.

Shake things up a bit. Bring back the Ferreira family.

Doubt they'd bring siblings in with them names, not while the Slater's are on the Square...

It's a fact that Clive Mitchell's son's names are Charlie and Harry, though.

There is Charlie Cotton on the square regardless of there having once been a Charlie Slater, what's your point.

The Mitchells are not dying out.

Phil is always getting storylines and now Ben is back.

Ronnie always gets storylines too. Roxy is only a plot device for Ronnie, so is ever likely to get any of her own storylines. Shes the perfect foil for Ronnie's character

Billy always gets storylines.

Its no coincidence tat when the Mitchells are at teh heart of the show that the show gets good again. They are still the number 1 faaaaaaaammmiiiillleeeeee

We have Aleks and Charlie now too, they can be involved in the Mitchell empire. In fact I would like more scenes between Phil and Aleks as they couldn't be any different from each other.

I also like the fact Sharon has become the new Mitchell matriarch, she has revitalised the Mitchell's by marrying into it.

I don't think we need any more Mitchell's just yet but there are the new generation of Mitchell's who can join the family fold in the next few years.

Aleks is a terrible character and I'd hate to imagine him getting any further involved with the Mitchells. Charlie is a Cotton and shouldn't included as a part of the Mitchells.

Whether Sharon and Phil are meant to be, I don't know. But making her a Mitchell makes sense as it isn't jarring for the audience as its always been her second family behind the Watts.

There's no way Eric could be Danny's father as he died 4 years before Danny was born. When Phil and Grant arrived in 1990 it was established their father had passed away 5 years earlier when Sam was just 10 years old - meaning Eric died in 1985. Glenda's backstory established she walked out on Archie and the girls when Ronnie was 14 - Ronnie was born in 1974 meaning she was 14 in 1988. Glenda then fell pregnant after leaving Archie in 88 and therefore gave birth to Danny in 89 - 4 years after Eric's death.

The Mitchells treat Billy as the poor relation what makes you think they would have respected his son?

I just wish King Philth would snuff it.

His 'hardman' act got boring at the turn of the millenium - but the pitiful TPTB's total worship of the character will ensure he is still intimidating hardened criminals, gangsters and men half his age and twice his size until he is in his 90's.

Aleks is fantastic. I love him

Okay... why?

Oh they've been creative with years before they can bend it again.