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Post by CAEF on Oct 16, 2018 15:08:11 GMT
I do get a bit irked by the picture quality of the episodes when I know the original broadcast would have been crisp and clear 4:3. As said it is stretched for widescreen and larger TV's. The Corrie repeats also suffer as well.
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Post by Lotty27 on Oct 16, 2018 15:24:23 GMT
Sorry Rover I didn't have time to watch it. Here's the link if you want to have a look: I thought Debbie's wrist was because she was mugged? I could be wrong though, that was supposed to be just after christmas I think (her engagement ring was stolen as it was in her handbag) and this is about 21st January so perhaps not.
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Post by Lotty27 on Oct 16, 2018 15:27:50 GMT
I do get a bit irked by the picture quality of the episodes when I know the original broadcast would have been crisp and clear 4:3. As said it is stretched for widescreen and larger TV's. The Corrie repeats also suffer as well. Yeah I think it's because it's stretched into widescreen. When you watch it on catch up it's in the original 4:3 and looks loads better. I was surprised how much thinner the actors look too (not that they look fat in widescreen but definitely bigger!) I'd rather they had just shown it in it's original format TBH.
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Post by roverman on Oct 16, 2018 16:25:22 GMT
Sorry Rover I didn't have time to watch it. Here's the link if you want to have a look: I thought Debbie's wrist was because she was mugged? I could be wrong though, that was supposed to be just after christmas I think (her engagement ring was stolen as it was in her handbag) and this is about 21st January so perhaps not. Cheers for finding this, going to have some fun making Drama look stupid! Debbie injures her hand in the very final scene as she thumps her fist down she smashes a glass that was in the washing up water. Andy is very cruel at this point and refuses to treat her wound and says “I’m off duty”. Naima was subject to racial abuse and it wouldn’t be tolerated on screen today.
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Post by roverman on Oct 24, 2018 21:52:13 GMT
Today we got to meet the new Brewery Manager. James Wilmott-Brown!
Or as Den called him “Collis Browne” which I think is an old medicinal laxative!!
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Post by wallis on Oct 25, 2018 6:10:30 GMT
Today we got to meet the new Brewery Manager. James Wilmott-Brown! Or as Den called him “Collis Browne” which I think is an old medicinal laxative!! J Collis Browne Mixture - I remember it well as we used take a bottle with us when we went on holiday abroad. It actually isn't a laxative and is supposed to help alleviate diarrhoea.
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Post by roverman on Oct 28, 2018 10:57:56 GMT
I think he was being a laxative to Den that day!
Think they missed a trick with the brewery stocktake though, they should have had dozens of bottles of gin missing from when Angie was drinking them like Perrier water.
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Post by CAEF on Oct 28, 2018 13:28:27 GMT
I think even back then, people were living just yards from their front door. Ali and Sue worked just 20 yards from their front door. Arthur was a road sweeper in the market which was outside his front door. Saeed and Naima lived 20 yards from where they ran the shop. Den lived above his pub. Even Pete lived just a few hundred yards from the Square in the towerblock. Pauline worked in the launderette opposite her house.
In Brookie at the same time, everyone seemed to work in central Liverpool.
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Post by roverman on Oct 28, 2018 16:22:40 GMT
Until they built the Parade and overnight half the Close gained employment a few yards (6 miles IRL) away.
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Post by CAEF on Oct 29, 2018 14:11:19 GMT
In 1985, EE was competing with Emmerdale in the ratings until Michael Grade moved EE to a later slot and the figures rose. I am sure if Emmerdale had a later slot it's figures would have risen as well. In 1985 before Grade moved EE to 7:30pm, EE and ED were getting about 12 million each.
There is not a Big 2 soaps but a Big 3 soaps.
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Post by CAEF on Dec 22, 2018 21:38:24 GMT
Outside Corrie, I say Emmerdale, EE, Neighbours and H&A are the 4 biggest soaps.
1986 and 1988 Emmerdale, EE and Neighbours were great years. I love watching early 1986 episodes of the 3 soaps and early 1988 episodes, and thinking how many characters had come and gone and how many 1986 storylines were long forgotten about by 1988.
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Post by Holey on Dec 22, 2018 23:01:15 GMT
If we are talking now in terms of ratings Doctors is the 4th most watched soap followed by Neighbours, Hollyoaks with Home and Away the 7th most watched.
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Post by CAEF on Dec 26, 2018 12:44:29 GMT
30 million watched Den handing Angie divorce papers.
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Post by Lotty27 on Feb 10, 2019 20:05:41 GMT
Just catching up on the old episodes and Pauline's just said to Kathy about Ian:
"Still ... in a way it's not his nature to leave the square is it? Even when he moved in with Tina he still stayed local ..."
Pauline definitely had him sussed eh? 32 years later and he's still there! An atom bomb won't be able to shift him now lol!
(incidentally Kathy was holding a toddler Martin, you'd barely know nowadays she was his aunt and is his godmother the amount of interaction they have. Pity. Old Kathy would have been giving Stacey what for for the way she treats Martin).
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Post by CAEF on Feb 11, 2019 21:20:06 GMT
I hope they get up to 1999 and 2000, although that will be some time away. I would love to see the episode shown in 2000 I think where Peggy is looking at her marriage certificate to Frank. I seem to remember it saying Peggy's dad was called Harry (Martin?). Frank's dad was nicknamed Chike but that cert will give his real name. I think Hilary Kingsley said in her EastEnders book from 1991 that Chike was his nickname.
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