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Old 17-05-2016, 18:12
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After reading the latest edition of inside soap magazine today about Maddy in home and away having to have her arm amputated it said it was a soap first as it's the first ever soap character to lose an arm.

It got me thinking what other soap first's is there? I know Brookside probably hold the record for the most soap first's, but I would be really interested to know some more.
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Old 17-05-2016, 18:14
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I think EE were the first to have gay characters.
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Old 17-05-2016, 18:17
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I think EE were the first to have gay characters.
I thought Brookside was the first to feature a gay character (Gordon Collins)?
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Old 17-05-2016, 18:17
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In ED Lawrence & Bernice's sexless marriage, to my knowledge that hasn't been done before.
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Old 17-05-2016, 18:18
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Wasn't Coronation Street the first to have a teenage pregnancy storyline (Sarah)?

I know it's been done again recently with Leela/Peri in Hollyoaks but wasn't EastEnders the first to have a sister actually being a daughter storyline (Kat/Zoe)?
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Old 17-05-2016, 18:18
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I thought Brookside was the first to feature a gay character (Gordon Collins)?
Maybe they were the first to have a gay couple then. There was major hoo-hah about Colin and Barry.
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Old 17-05-2016, 18:24
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Wasn't Coronation Street the first to have a teenage pregnancy storyline (Sarah)?

Wasn't EastEnders the first to have a sister actually being a daughter storyline (Kat/Zoe)? It's been done again recently with Leela/Peri in Hollyoaks.
Michelle in EE was ages before Sarah! Don't know if there was someone before Michelle though? Brookside?
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Old 17-05-2016, 18:27
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I think Sarah was the first underage pregnancy. Michelle was 16 and at legal age.
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Old 17-05-2016, 18:43
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I think EE were the first to have gay characters.
I thought they were first to show two gays kissing.
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Old 17-05-2016, 18:58
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Chris Tate was the first soap character to be confined to a wheelchair
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Old 17-05-2016, 18:58
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In ED Lawrence & Bernice's sexless marriage, to my knowledge that hasn't been done before.
Annie and jack walker had a sexless marriage in corrie
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Old 17-05-2016, 19:02
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The Maddy story on Home and Away is actually quite upsetting and I have never been a fan of the character. When she was told she would have to lose her arm was absolutely horrifying
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Old 17-05-2016, 20:17
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Corrie was the first soap to feature a transsexual character in Hayley Cropper
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Old 17-05-2016, 20:33
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Corrie did the first live episode in 2000 (I'm not counting the first episodes as these were live anyway).

Which soap had the first two hander? I'm thinking EastEnders for some reason.
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Old 17-05-2016, 20:47
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EastEnders where and still are the only soap to have a one-hander!
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Old 17-05-2016, 20:48
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Chris Tate was the first soap character to be confined to a wheelchair
Or at least to stay there.
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Old 17-05-2016, 20:55
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Chris Tate was the first soap character to be confined to a wheelchair
1972 Meg Richardson's son Sandy was injured in car accident and was confined to a wheelchair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_(soap_opera)

Sandy Richardson was injured in a car accident in 1972 and need to use a wheelchair, the first paraplegic regular character in British soap opera (by coincidence, actor Roger Tonge himself later ended up using a wheelchair).
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Old 18-05-2016, 02:16
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Was Hollyoaks the first to have a serial killer storyline with Toby Mills or was there one before that on another soap?
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Old 18-05-2016, 04:01
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Michelle in EE was ages before Sarah! Don't know if there was someone before Michelle though? Brookside?
Sharon has forgotten, "Kids today"
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Old 18-05-2016, 08:42
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Australian soap Number 96 was the first soap to have a gay couple. Initially Don Finlayson and Bruce Taylor were an item (in 1972). Later Don was with Dudley Butterfield for a lengthy period (1974-1976) followed by a brief relationship with Rob Forsyth. Don was in the series its entire 1972-1977 run.

96 also had a serial killer (the Pantyhose murderer) in 1974. Rob himself was later revealed as a psycho with a split personality - but he fell victim to his own booby trap set to kill Don.

96's Arnold Feather lost a leg after being injured in a parcel bomb explosion (1973).
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Old 18-05-2016, 13:09
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After reading the latest edition of inside soap magazine today about Maddy in home and away having to have her arm amputated it said it was a soap first as it's the first ever soap character to lose an arm.

It got me thinking what other soap first's is there? I know Brookside probably hold the record for the most soap first's, but I would be really interested to know some more.
Don Brennan in Coronation Street had his foot amputated
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Old 18-05-2016, 18:00
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Where Emmerdale the first soap to kill off a high number of characters in one storyline? In the plane crash there was 4 regular characters killed! Is that the most number of characters killed in a storyline at a time?
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Old 18-05-2016, 18:18
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Echo beach...least number of episodes (12)?
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Old 18-05-2016, 18:27
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I thought Brookside was the first to feature a gay character (Gordon Collins)?
Yes it was. Gordon came out prior to leaving in 83 although he didn't return and feature prominently until about 1988 by which time Colin and Barry had been resident in EE for a couple of years.

Of course Steven Carrington predated both ot them as a main gay character.
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Old 18-05-2016, 18:29
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Don Brennan in Coronation Street had his foot amputated
Yes. Paul Robinson in neighbours had a leg amputated some years ago.

I think they are being specific about which limb it is being a first rather than amputation.
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