Soap Characters 70-90s

[Richard1978]

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Kylie and Jason Donovan in Neighbours

Their time on Neighbours as Scott & Charline was it's golden age, & almost everyone my age seemed to be crazy over it.

I remember the BBC used to boast it was getting more people watching in the UK than the entire population of Australia.

[amethyst]

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Kylie and Jason Donovan in Neighbours

[Twocky61]

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Nichole Dixon plated Bobby in Home & Away until Bobby got run over in the sea by a jet ski & died

[staffslad]

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In the 70s and 80s I watched Coronation Street, Emmerdale Farm, Crossroads regularly, and Eastenders, Neighbours and some others on a less regular basis. In the 90s I more or less gave up on soaps. But there are so many characters...

David Hunter, Miss Diane, Meg Richardson, Sandy Richardson, Jill Richardson, Shughie McPhee, Mr Lovejoy, Carlos from Crossroads.

Amos, Mr Wilkes, Seth, Dolly, Matt, Jackie Merrick and his sister from Emmerdale Farm.

The Ogdens. Len Fairclough, Ray Langton, Jerry Booth, Suzy Birchall, Minnie Caldwell, Ena Sharples, Elsie Tanner, Curly Watts and Raquel, from Coronation Street.


For me, Coronation Street in the 70s was the best, with so many really great characters, and a fine mixture of drama and humour, rather than the constant state of crisis soaps seem to now require.

[beccabear67]

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There were a lot of memorable 'characters' on the soaps... Maude Grimes in the wheelchair on Corrie was a sort of modern Ena Sharples with something to complain about! I remember she set Jim McDonald straight who was feeling sorry for himself because he was temporarily in a wheelchair. On Emmerdale there was Seth Armstrong. In the '70s there was Sam the grandad and his sheepdog, and of course the sometimes tetchy pub owner Amos Brierley. One 'character' I really found irritating was Reg Holdsworth on Coronation Street, he seemed like a drooling turtle, I used to change the channel when he came on, Les Battersby came close to that a few times. Phyliss chasing Percy Sugden was a running theme for few years on Corrie too.

I always wondered what the story was behind that Sinbad bloke on Brookside. It seemed to me he was well known somewhere outside of the show and I didn't know about it, but maybe I'm wrong. He was on the run with those Jordaches or something while their back yard was being excavated.

[amethyst]

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Jimmy Corkhill from Brookside who forged a degree to become a teacher after all the robberies and drugs

[Palazzo]

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You can't beat a bit of Nick Cotton "Ello, Maa". Definitely one of soap's greatest villains.

Another question though, where does Phil Mitchell get all his cash? The bloke always waltzes round the square, acting like he owns the place with his pockets always full of cash. If anybody is a bit hard up, Phil is always there with a handout. The bloke owns a garage and did own the cafe for a bit but the man's bank balance is seemingly bursting.

Corrie is my fave though, it has plenty of laughs and likeable characters whereas Eastenders is just grim.

[Moondog]

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Patrick from Eastenders with his hilarious, almost Jamaican accent.

[DaysWentRollingBy]

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Who remembers Bea, Lizzie and `The Freak`, Ferguson from Prisoner Cell Block H? I thought it was quite a good programme although amateurish. I spent many a late night watching this.

I loved Prisoner Cell Block H ! I wish they'd repeat it. I know they can be bought on dvd but it's not something I'd watch repeatedly (I tend to look at sit coms over and over), but would like to see it just one more time.
It used to be on so late. I was always so tired the next day at school !
Vera Bennet and Lizzie Birdsworth were my faves. I also liked nice Meg, and Judy. And loved to hate Joan.

[telcur]

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Elsie and Ena.........legendary Corrie characters.

[Marine Boy]

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I found this one of Glyn Murray:

[Marine Boy]

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Wow, you recall a lot more than I. Though I really was a big fan at the time. Yes, Martin Glyn Murray. That was the guy. I've been Googling for some nice pics, but there's practically nothing!

[stockportyears]

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Yes stockportyears! I loved Morag Hood and thought the series was pretty good generally. As well as Jude Law, there was the guy who played his brother, who was in quite a successful band at the time. My memory is that I enjoyed the earlier episodes more than the later ones. I used to be able to play the theme on my piano!

The series lasted about two years, didn't it?

Martin Glyn Murray was in the Mock Turtles who did 'Can You Dig It' in 1991. I remembered when that was on Top of the Pops, I had no idea it was actually him and remember thinking 'wow, he's the spitting image of that guy in Families', then I found out a few years later it was him.

It was on for three years, must have gone quickly it was so good!

I seem to remember it had some of the best looking people you could find anywhere on tv in it - even the scruffy bloke who ran the pub had two beautiful daughters, and of course the Bannermans were probably the most glamorous people in the whole of northern England at that time.

I probably preferred the later era with the Bannermans in it, but the early eps were good too, and Edward Woodward's son had a voice so much like his dad, I could shut my eyes and think I was watching the Equaliser!

I also liked it because I recognised the locations - as well as Tatton Park mentioned in the Wikipedia article, there was one scene between Charles and Fiona at Stockport Railway Station, and the corridors of Crown Court where Charles did his lawyering were actually Manchester Town Hall - I purposely made a call from the very same phone kiosk as CB had in one episode, just for the hell of it, THAT'S how obsessed with Families I was at the time!

[Krazy]

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Who remembers Bea, Lizzie and `The Freak`, Ferguson from Prisoner Cell Block H? I thought it was quite a good programme although amateurish. I spent many a late night watching this.

[Marine Boy]

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Yes stockportyears! I loved Morag Hood and thought the series was pretty good generally. As well as Jude Law, there was the guy who played his brother, who was in quite a successful band at the time. My memory is that I enjoyed the earlier episodes more than the later ones. I used to be able to play the theme on my piano!

The series lasted about two years, didn't it?