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Some kind uploader is posting the Eric/Michael Feldmann story as aired in 1993/1994. Great stuff! Not just for the story itself, which has some good moments (although that Elsa can't act), but also because you can see some of the devastation that the crash caused. This is how you do a disaster story. Now they are over and done with in a month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN0f_yiZoZY&feature=related

Sorry if you've already seen this, but in May someone posted an entire episode from 1994. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJnuNMDtpiw&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGy_iOE-JIk&feature=related

Dennis was stabbed because a mob boss, Johnny Allen, threatened Sharon and said that if she didn't get Dennis out of town, he would kill Dennis. Phil told Dennis about this and Dennis beat up Johnny, but stupidly left a phone for Johnny. Johnny then called Danny Moon, who killed Dennis.

I see what you mean...to me, she lost her identity more with Grant than with Dennis. I was so put off by the way he treated her, especially at the end, after Sharongate. I think Letitia's frequent absences helped make the character seem more isolated and weak. For me the chemistry between Nigel and Letitia carried the story.

"We did it" The last interesting younger leading man on the show. Steve McFadden has lost a lot of weight.

You should write some best and worst stuff in the other thread - I don't watch the Australian soaps that often and would like to hear your thoughts on them.

Mercy was my favorite part of E20. I wish they did more with her, but I like the role she fills on the show at the moment. I don't know what happened with Vanessa and Jodie. They seem to have dropped whatever story was planned and now it's a long, slow death. It's a shame because I think Max and Vanessa have chemistry and she's a respite from more Max/Tanya hell.

I'm going into more detail in this when I write my best/worst of the year thing (are either of you going to do this?), but for a brief answer, I think Kirkwood is doing a good job. Not anywhere near perfect, and you can see some very insightful criticism from Ben several pages back, but I like the humor and the edge and sense of community he's brought back to Eastenders, and I like that the godawful crutches of the Santer era, the horrible attempts at aping primetime soaps of the Reagan years and the constant empty plotting, are gone. The stories, well most of them, have some fascinating moments. The show is like a curate's egg at the moment, but some of it is the best Eastenders has been for years. Even stuff that I don't care for, like Carol's current material, I get drawn in by, because they are letting us see so many sides of her and she has a real sense of vulnerability that has always been there but not developed until recently. She and Conor work well together. (Whitney sucks though). Kat and Alfie had a shouty and overpacked return, too much going on and she was too harsh towards him, but since then I think she's calmed down considerably and I've really enjoyed them over the last few weeks. I also think Alfie, for all the stick Shane Richie gets, has fit back into Walford well, even if they aren't having him interact with people as much as I thought they would. The main thing is that the show is moving away from being so safe and so trapped in its own head, which was very much needed. And for the endless hostility Kirkwood has faced since he arrived, the viewing public has been supportive, at least so far - this is one of the most consistent ratings years Eastenders has had in a long time, and their ratings held strong even with the whole TRAM CRASH!!!!111 stuff. Now in a few months if I'm still posting and Tanya is eating up the show, I might not have as positive an answer.

That's great! I wish I could see her work, she sounds fantastic.

From the 1981 Who's Who in Daytime TV (Sterling House Inc)

That's very interesting, Dion. I wish they'd left the baby as Garry's. I think Garry would have been better coping as a father, a single father once Lynne left, than those awful comedy stories with the horrific Minty. And Bobby has been a spare part in the Beale family all along. So I finally watched last night's episode and the only stuff I didn't care for was Tiffany and Whitney. Too contrived. I know a lot of people are put off by the story but I do think Carol and Connor have a very interesting relationship. I also liked most of the scenes at the Vic, the sense of the community with the organ collection and everyone reacting to Kat giving birth (Kim's responses were very funny). The screeching from Kat got a little much sometimes but still some very good moments too, and I'm glad Mo is playing such a central role in the family again. The scenes with Ronnie were very good, how she was basically alone; Roxy was fine once the yelling stopped. Their last scene was moving, for many reasons. I also liked the scene with Heather and Ronnie, even with the hilarious CGI. One of the posters at Walford Web who would know said that

More cheap trash with Tracy and David -- and not even entertaining trash. Collinson seems to see Corrie as Melrose Place, but if you can't do camp and if you can't find actors who can do camp, then just avoid it, IMO.

He didn't know that the vasectomy did not immediately take.

The other main story with Laura was that she had sex with Garry, and since Ian had, without her knowledge, had a vasectomy, he assumed the baby was Garry's. Ian threw her out around Christmas 2002 and she had the baby that summer. Bobby was raised for about a year as Garry's son, only for the truth to be revealed around summer 2004 -- the truth that Ian was the father because he'd had sex with Laura before the vasectomy "took". Around this time Garry's wife Lynne also lost her baby, very late in her pregnancy, at the infamous fairground disaster. Sadly these stories did not stop Eastenders from turning Garry into a HAHAHAHA type of character - Ricky Groves could have been better with dramatic material.

That never made a lot of sense to me either, and the story seemed to change very abruptly thanks to JFP. My guess is she saw Paulina as unworthy.

Thanks for posting this, I'm sure it took a lot of work. I can see where DS was a tough slog but it's tough to imagine RH being better, but then I guess it depends on her perspective. Did she know she was only there for the short term?

I had forgotten about the twin. That wasn't a great story was it? How did that end? Did you ever see Kathleen Sullivan on E News in the mid-90s. She was always wearing short skirts and would put her hand on Steve Kmetko's knee and all that

I didn't know she had been fired - and they fired her with a year or more still on her contract? That's paying money not to use her. What a stupid waste. Kathleen Sullivan got on my nerves, she was a bizarre newsperson, but I liked that she asked the question about primetime soaps and why they hadn't sustained their audience.

I'm surprised at how they lay it out there regarding criticism of the Hortons being pushed out.

The first gay character on soaps who was sure of their sexuality was Lynn Carson on AMC in 1983, played for a few months by Donna Pescow. Hank was the first gay man. Marland initially was going to have Hank leave after learning he had HIV, but he decided it was too grim for both Hank and his partner to have HIV/AIDS, so he just had Hank leave because Charles was ill.

I think this Revealed might have been the best I've seen. They did a good job of going through the Stacey eras (skipping most of the piss-poor 2008, I noticed...I wish they'd mentioned her role in Den's murder story in 2005 but I can see where that wasn't necessary). I did laugh when they had Jake Wood talking about Stacey's sexiness as they showed her in the 2004 episodes -- I don't think that's what he had in mind. I don't believe Janine is "evil", but I liked the segment on her, and that Charlie Brooks always tries to defend Janine. The back and forth with Charlie Brooks and Neil McDermott was lots of fun, they have a breezy chemistry. And they played a clip I'd never seen before -- Janine splashing mud on Laura as she drove by. I love it. I bet you liked that scene Y&RWT... Some great scenes about Stacey's bipolar and her early relationship with Bradley. And the stuff with Mario, priceless. I'm also glad they acknowledged what an important relationship Stacey and Max had. I have to admit that Natalie Cassidy's narration got on my nerves a little. She seemed to be awkward and some of the lines they gave her, like the mock Italian accent, were cringers. I don't ever want to hear Sonia Fowler say "get in there son"

And they say there's no such thing as fate. Being at the last day of taping must have been sad.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/eyespy/s13/hollyoaks/news/a295081/eye-spy-oaks-villain-to-die-for-second-time.html