If Tony and Julia had stayed beyond 1988/1989.

[CAEF]

Was a shame when they both decided to move on from EE in mid to late 1988. Their final contribution was Den Watts death. The scene of Den falling into the canal was cut by the BBC head boss, and Tony and Julia protested, and had their names taken off the credits.

I wonder if they would have carried on as consultants or given advice once they left the show if it was not for the Den scandal?

If they had stayed on as producers after 1988 then I doubt we would have seen the dead wood characters introduced in 1989 and more comedy. I think Tony and Julia would have bought in some more multi cultural families as well as the Mitchells. Maybe another Turkish family and an oriental family.

I feel by 1991 the multiculturalism had very much subsided as we only had the Trinidadian Tavernier family as regular ethnic characters. The Turkish and Bangladeshi families had left and Dr Legg the Jewish doctor was no longer a regular character.

[Zeus89]

The only thing I would have hoped for them to have done is develop Nick Cottons character, after watching his last two stints in the show. He certainly seemed a lot more developed back in the 80's and 90's.

I would have liked them to progress his character beyond what we got, which was a pantomime villain.

[CAEF]

I feel by 1992 that the show had entered its own bubble, whereas it was about London of today when it begun in 1985. Tony and Julia wanted "London. Today". By 1992 a lot of that had been lost. While the show remained to its family roots, by 1992 the gritty feel to the show had subsided.

I wish Tony and/or Julia had returned to the show at some point as they would have steered the good ship EE back to its gritty London setting.