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Post by startrak on Oct 23, 2004 12:59:03 GMT
I miss this soap. Especially the glory days. It had the right balance of humor and drama. What are everyone's fav memories and moments of the show?
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Post by QuincyMD on Oct 26, 2004 7:45:20 GMT
When TV GOD Brian Murphy killed all the minor characters with bubonic plague.
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Post by Cherubic on Oct 26, 2004 11:55:25 GMT
I really liked Jimmy Corklhills 30 minute monologue in the last episode.
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Post by startrak on Oct 26, 2004 12:39:10 GMT
I really liked Jimmy Corklhills 30 minute monologue in the last episode. It was more like Phil Redmond's 30 minute monolugue.
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Post by WhiteNoiseMaker on Oct 26, 2004 23:08:46 GMT
I only ever really watched Brookie when it was supposed to be going down the pan, but I enjoyed it muchly anyway. Loved Jimmy, what a legend. Particularly liked the episode when he became obsessed with different kinds of artificial smell... 'Lime zest???!'
Also great was the ridiculously evil drug dealer/not-at-all veiled attack on Brookie-killer Michael Jackson, Jack Michaelson. It was possibly the greatest thing ever when they all clubbed together and murdered him.
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Post by si on Oct 31, 2004 8:45:56 GMT
The defining moment was the discovery of the body under the patio. It was when Brookie entered the national consciousness I think, and it stayed there for a little while. I seem to remember it having a huge following and lots of praise (a little like Corrie, post-Richard Hillman).
I think Beth is one of my favourite soap characters ever. I really, truly love her. She had such an awful ending to her plot -- did Anne Friel want to leave that badly/hack the producers off that badly to do something so totally un-Beth?
Favourite moments from the Jordache plot: the week long running-away-to-Ireland run up to their capture; the way that the plot actually divided the characters as if they were real people on not just actors; the Free The Brookside Two campaign, incluing Jean and Pat hancuffing themselves to Beth and Mandy; the police taking B & M to a landfill and telling them that they WILL find the knife. Wasn't it brilliant?
Other favourites: Lindsay Corkhill. Forget Claire Sweeny, Light Entertainer -- think Lindsay Corkhill, rubbish-gangster, rubbish-lesbian, Kidman-esque resident of the Bangkok Hilton... just genius. My favourite Lindsay moment was probably in The Lost Weekend. Not her Cher impression, just the fact that she was running around in a wedding dress with a gun. High camp, me?
For a while in the mid ninties, I loved Brookie so much. Mainly because it was on at ten on S4C and I'd watch it in bed.
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Post by Lisa on Nov 4, 2004 16:32:14 GMT
I got really into it when Mick - I think - was being stalked by his kid's teacher, Jenny. That was scary brilliant.
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Post by si on Nov 10, 2004 17:44:32 GMT
Jenny Swift!
He pushed her down the stairs.
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Post by Carrotline on Jan 11, 2005 10:09:17 GMT
Its quite frightening the recycle job going on involving the reusing of old Brookside sets for new in Hollyoaks.
Grants the restaurant is always used whenever someone wants to eat out at somewhere other than "The Dog" or Gnosh. And the Dean's house used to be Max and Patricia's I'm sure.
Bev was the best in Brookside.
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Post by dirtypop on Jan 18, 2005 19:07:14 GMT
Brookside did incest before Neighbours. And they did it properly - they were shagging and they even KNEW they were brother and sister. Genius.
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Post by Smudge on Feb 18, 2005 0:29:56 GMT
I was obsessed with Brookside, and even watched it when it went totally shit. I missed all the late night episodes when they made it cult-fabby again which is a shame cos my uncle said they were proper bo. Isn't there any straight-to-video spin offs yet?
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Post by David Hunter on Mar 19, 2005 1:00:28 GMT
Loved Jimmy, what a legend. Jimmy still has his weekly website update! www.heyjimmy.com/
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Post by Smudge on Mar 20, 2005 17:10:31 GMT
Jimmy's millenium arch was brilliant. To be honest, the last few years it was all about Jimmy. Watching him slowly turning into a complete head case.
And when Jackie was pregnant with William and they discussed calling the baby Celine, should it be a girl! Brookie really was Queen of the Pop Culture References before Corrie. Nikki's Ralph Fiene's poster...Adele's love of ABBA...The Nolan's guest appearence, Graham Norton and Carol Smillie...Susannah crying into the "Babe, Pig in the City" video that she was going to watch with Matthew and Emily before she threatened to kill them, and effectively did! Deborah requesting "Common People" at Bar Brookie and dedicating it to Jacqui Dicko! Max finding jelly babies in his wellies after the Mighty Julia name checked Kinky Boots!
We were really spoiled...even when it was shit.
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Post by QuincyMD on Mar 21, 2005 11:30:59 GMT
The best ever cultural reference in Brookie was when Kenneth Cope got married and they put him in a white suit and had him talking to someone called Jeannie on the phone.
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Post by Smudge on Mar 23, 2005 17:31:49 GMT
I LOVED Kenneth Cope in Brookie, but the woman who played his mother was even better!
I loved the episode where she got drunk in Bev's B&B and was ushered home to The Bungalow singing "The Fog On The Tyne"
Genius!
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Post by JellyShoos on Mar 23, 2005 17:55:34 GMT
What about when Max and Susannah offered Jacqui Dicko a few grand to be a surrogate via a turkey baster? Ah those were the days
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Post by Smudge on Mar 23, 2005 20:09:07 GMT
Not as great as Ray's mother suggesting that Jesse Shadwick was a gold-digger who would nick all of Ray's money and cash it in for Air Miles! Legend!
I loved Lance as well, but Bev put in such a star turn when the "ladies" went to Benidorm or wherever it was and Deborah did a rousing kareoke rendition of "Come Alive".
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Post by JellyShoos on Mar 23, 2005 20:38:14 GMT
How it all comes flooding back. Nat and Georgia the incestuous siblings...the Brookie band that was playing in the background all the time cos it was cheaper then buying the rights to songs.. Casa Bevron! and I always had a little crush on Barry Grant. Even after he pushed best mate Terry's wife off a roof.
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Post by Ben on Jan 21, 2007 23:27:30 GMT
Oh come on, Brookside was at its best during the 1980's...
Sue Johnston's powerhouse performance as Sheila Grant, Amanda Burton as Heather Haversham, the legendary siege, Free George Jackson, Billy Corkhill fiddling the 'leccy meter, Harry Cross, Gordon Collins outed when his Gay Times was delivered to the Corkhills by mistake, the disappearance of Petra/Alexandra Pigg, Doreen Corkhill's Billy Idol hairdo, Paul and Annabelle Collins going down in the world, Damon and Debbie...
Curiously enough, the Jordache body under the patio saga was when I started losing interest just as everybody else suddenly started watching it.
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Post by boxedjoy on Jan 24, 2007 21:55:44 GMT
I was only little at the height of Brookside but my God was it good. Who killed Susannah? We all sat round the TV for that. The best bit of that storyline was when the body lay there, for weeks and weeks and weeks.
I also loved Katie and Leanne and Bev and Ron... Brookside plots may have been ridiculous, but there are few soaps nowadays that have the same strength of characters.
However, it also gave us Ray Quinn and Jennifer Ellison.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jan 25, 2007 9:59:50 GMT
The death knell for me was Nat & Georgia, the impossibly good looking incestuous pair. They, and their entire family, were so colossally dull, that I couldn't care less if they spent their days breaking society's laws; it was boring. Coupled with The Divine Beth Jordache dying off screen of a heart condition we'd never heard about before, and the Ebola virus killing off unimportant residents who'd only been in it a few weeks, it just crossed the line into "don't care anymore". Plus the characters' constant about turns (Jacqui Dixon becomes a surrogate mother! Susannah Farnham becomes a nympho slut! Jimmy Corkhill gives up the drooks and becomes a saint!) made it impossible to empathise.
Which was a shame because for about the first fifteen years or so it was really, really good. Yes, it gave us Jennifer Ellison and Ray Cuntface, but it also gave us Sue Johnstone, Ricky Tomlinson, Amanda Burton, John McArdle, Anna Friel and a bunch of other great Scouse actors.
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Post by jamie on Jan 25, 2007 10:51:31 GMT
I started watching Brookie in maybe 1995, and I remember getting really traumatised by Leanne spraying Jacqui in the eyes with mace or cleaner or whatever it was.
Bev was the aces, even when it was going all tits up. And the way she kept leaving then coming back like when she had bought the bar(I think) as a surprise buyer, before even EE had the plot with Sharon buying the Queen Vic 'hello Peggy' etc.
Nat + Georgia moving into their new house was great as people thought they were married rather than brother and sister.
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Post by thelovelykate on Jan 25, 2007 10:57:02 GMT
I remember being really young and watching the episode where Barry Grant pushed Terry's wife and baby off the scafolding and thinking it was the most shocking thing EVER. It's probably still in my top ten of Most Evil Moments in Soap.
I also used to quite fancy Max Farnham. He was on Celebrity Mastermind the other day and I was quite thrilled.
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Post by Nick on Jan 25, 2007 15:39:40 GMT
I remember being really young and watching the episode where Barry Grant pushed Terry's wife and baby off the scafolding and thinking it was the most shocking thing EVER. It's probably still in my top ten of Most Evil Moments in Soap. I also used to quite fancy Max Farnham. He was on Celebrity Mastermind the other day and I was quite thrilled. I always wanted things to work out for Max. I don't know why; he never did anything for me. Sue and Danny's murder was brilliant, if only for the novelty of the murderer's identity being kept from the audience for ages, and them having THREE WHOLE SUSPECTS! That would barely sustain a week of episodes in a modern soap. But it was a nice way for them to christen Brookside Parade, the deadliest row of small, unassuming, suburban-set local shops in the world.
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Post by Bungle on Jan 25, 2007 16:08:19 GMT
Some photos of the set from a couple of months ago here:
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