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Old 03-08-2015, 09:55
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Soap characters brought back from the dead

Bobby Ewing (worst every return)
Harold bishop (nei)
Vinny (HA) I think...
Nick cotton (EE)
Dirty den (EE)
Frank Butcher (EE)
Kathy (EE)
Mercedes (ho)
Warren (ho)

Can't think of anyone from corrie, seems ee enjoy brining folk back 😀
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Old 03-08-2015, 10:08
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Kathy is the best return from the dead for me.
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Old 03-08-2015, 10:12
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I hope they dont mess it up, and keep it real, well as real as soap world can be that is lol
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Old 03-08-2015, 10:16
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Denise (EE) - viewers knew she was alive but they had a funeral for her onscreen

Kim Tate (ED) - possibly the first time somebody came back from the dead on a British soap?
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Old 03-08-2015, 10:19
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Frank Butcher and Nick Cotton don't really count. It was decided they wouldn't really be dead from the start. So those two are not like Dirty Den or Kathy Beale who were killed off by the writers at the time.
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Old 03-08-2015, 12:31
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Most of them had enough ambiguity written into their deaths that their return was always possible. The writers did it like that on purpose because they didn't really want the actors to leave but once they had, they couldn't see a way to keep characters connected with them (eg Madge in Neighbours) in unless they 'died'.

I think the only ones where the writers really intended them to be dead for good at the time of writing are Bobby Ewing, Kathy Mitchell and Warren Fox.

Even Kim Tate, they got in touch with the actress asking her to please come back the day that they filmed Kim's funeral!
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Old 03-08-2015, 13:00
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Most of them had enough ambiguity written into their deaths that their return was always possible. The writers did it like that on purpose because they didn't really want the actors to leave but once they had, they couldn't see a way to keep characters connected with them (eg Madge in Neighbours) in unless they 'died'.

I think the only ones where the writers really intended them to be dead for good at the time of writing are Bobby Ewing, Kathy Mitchell and Warren Fox.

Even Kim Tate, they got in touch with the actress asking her to please come back the day that they filmed Kim's funeral!
Dirty Den's first death was written and shot as final. There was unused footage of Den lying dead in the water. (Shot at a water tank because the actual canal water was too dirty.)

The death scene was drastically cut at the last minute on the orders of BBC One Controller Jonathan Powell, who wanted to leave the door open for Den's return. This decision enraged series creators Julia Smith and Tony Holland. Neither of whom ever worked on EE again.
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Old 03-08-2015, 13:02
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I think val is next, everyone thinks she dies this week but she will use this to disappear I think, val will return from the grave Also lol
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Old 03-08-2015, 13:33
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Didn't Mark Brennan die in Witness Protection when the actor first left? Then when he came back it was all a ruse to catch the bad guys?
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Old 03-08-2015, 13:37
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Corrie brought in a character who wasn't even born - Adam Barlow.
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Old 03-08-2015, 13:59
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Corrie brought in a character who wasn't even born - Adam Barlow.
It would be interesting to look back at those episodes to see how the abortion storyline played out at the time. As I recall, there was no doubt that Susan went through with the abortion.
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Old 03-08-2015, 14:47
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Dirty Den's first death was written and shot as final. There was unused footage of Den lying dead in the water. (Shot at a water tank because the actual canal water was too dirty.)

The death scene was drastically cut at the last minute on the orders of BBC One Controller Jonathan Powell, who wanted to leave the door open for Den's return. This decision enraged series creators Julia Smith and Tony Holland. Neither of whom ever worked on EE again.
Yes, true. I probably shouldn't have said writers. However, even though it wasn't their intention, TPTB's decision to remove the last shot did leave it ambiguous and that was their intention. To allpw for the possibility of a return and even when his body was found and buried a year later to try and lay the matter to rest, it was still a plot point that he was identified by his ring, not dental records or other conclusive proof so there was still doubt.

What i mean with Den's death and also Harolds was that there was room to believe they weren't dead right from the start from what appeared on screen and that was deliberate on the part of the programme makers, even if against the wishes of the chief writer and main producer of the time.
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Old 03-08-2015, 14:49
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It would be interesting to look back at those episodes to see how the abortion storyline played out at the time. As I recall, there was no doubt that Susan went through with the abortion.
Yes. I haven't seen them since transmission so can't be sure but my recollection is that there was absolutely no doubt. She had her confrontation with Mike after she'd been to the clinic and given her marriage and career (Mike was bankrolling her design range) were on the line she had no reason to lie about it.
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Old 03-08-2015, 17:55
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Vera Duckworth, Bobby in Home and Away, Madge in Neighbours all returned as ghosts.
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Old 03-08-2015, 19:42
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What about Peter Baker in Home and Away? He 'died' onscreen and it was later revealed through flashbacks to have been faked.

The most ridiculous one was definitely Warren Fox in Hollyoaks. At least Den Watts death had a bit of ambiguity what with them draining the canal and not finding a body until 12 months later which even then was unidentifiable. And with Kathy Beale her death was off-screen so always had to potential to have been faked. However with Warren we actually saw him die onscreen so the decision to bring him back ruined whatever credibility Hollyoaks had left.
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