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The first episode of EastEnders on 19 February 1985 centres upon pensioner Reg's death. According to scriptwriter Colin Brake, the creators of EastEnders, Tony Holland and Julia Smith, wanted to start the serial "with a bang, throwing the audience into the middle of life in [the fictional setting of] Walford". The Reg Cox storyline was deemed ...
EastEnders logo. EastEnders is a British television soap opera first broadcast on BBC1 on 19 February 1985. The following is a list of characters who currently appear in the programme, listed in order of first appearance. In the case that more than one actor has portrayed a character, the current actor portraying the character is listed last.
Den Watts is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by actor Leslie Grantham.He became well known for his tabloid nickname, "Dirty Den". Den was the original landlord of The Queen Victoria public house from Albert Square – in the local community of Walford, a fictional borough in East London – who first appeared when the show debuted on 19 February 1985.
The link between the Watts family and The Queen Vic is reinforced by the fact that only two other families have owned the pub in EastEnders first 25 years (apart from a brief spell in the early 1990s when it was run by Eddie Royle), and that the Watts family have secured possession on four separate occasions (Sharon in 1991, 2001 and 2020 and ...
Gill Fowler (also Robinson), played by Susanna Dawson from 1991 to 1992, is the first wife of Mark Fowler . Gill met Mark in Newcastle during 1989 and they lived together until 1990 when Gill tested positive for HIV and moved to London. Mark discovered that he was HIV positive as well and returned to Walford.
EastEnders is the BBC's most consistent programme in terms of ratings, [152] and as of 2024, episodes typically receive between 3 and 4 million viewers. [357] EastEnders two biggest ratings rivals are the ITV soaps Coronation Street (produced by Granada Television in Manchester) and Emmerdale (produced by Yorkshire Television in Leeds). [357]
Ian Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Adam Woodyatt.He is the drama's longest-serving main character and one of four remaining original characters, the others being his mother, Kathy (Gillian Taylforth), his long standing best friend and ex-wife, Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) and Queen Vic barmaid, Tracey (Jane Slaughter).
Mandy first appears in March 1992 as a school girl aged 15, abandoned by her mother in Pat Butcher's care. She left the series temporarily a few weeks later; in the storyline she goes back to her mother's flat, but she returns by the summer of 1992 as a regular character, squatting in the soap's setting of Albert Square .