The problem is when Eastenders went from 2 days a week, to 3 days, and then 4 days a week, and the pressure was to keep one-upping itself and then Coronation Street, by coming up with more outlandish plots. If they'd just kept it to 2 days a week, or even 3 days a week, and didn't feel the need to keep coming up with sensational tabloid-friendly stories several times a year (as opposed to say two or three big storylines per year), it might have remained a reasonably decent and relatively believable show.
It had begun its downhill slide by 1995, but while some things annoyed, it had enough life left to limp to 2000, but by this turn of the century, it was all over. Yes things change-and that is exactly WHY it isn't EastEnders anymore. It COULD and is anything. Why is shy all soaps, like anything, should have a shelf life and be put to death once they're so unrecognisable that they're not what the label says and does. After all, Brookside was killed off, why not this? Except it has been, as since 2000, it was not EastEnders any more. Perfect in the 80s (like the music) and most of the 90s, but gone by 2000.
Love Pete's Pringle jumper , very 80's, I remember my stepdad wore one .
30 years on......now things are different
Soaps had more believable storylines in those times,.....now they are terrible
The problem is when Eastenders went from 2 days a week, to 3 days, and then 4 days a week, and the pressure was to keep one-upping itself and then Coronation Street, by coming up with more outlandish plots.
If they'd just kept it to 2 days a week, or even 3 days a week, and didn't feel the need to keep coming up with sensational tabloid-friendly stories several times a year (as opposed to say two or three big storylines per year), it might have remained a reasonably decent and relatively believable show.
Yeh i watched this back in 85, thought it was depressing then, but now compared to the modern woke garbage this is amazing
I loved the Dirty Den, Michelle and Vicky storyline
And me too best storyline of the 80s
Brilliant
Better storylines back then than today
‘Chelles in bed with the flu one minute and the next she’s out shopping with Sharon!!
Those turkey sandwiches in the Vic will be dry as anything by the time the pub opens.
Always thought those two that run the sandie shop looked like they came from an American soap opera.
Pete a bit like Roger Daltrey with that accent
Daltrey
Turkey Sandwiches 50p lol 1985 for you
Poor old Arthur having to clean out the loo.
Get in there pete😂
nick berry is in eastenders to 1985 to 1989 mate in for aussie
michael hopper he left in early 1991 actually 😊
and kathy never gets older
She has plastic surgery
this was 30 years ago
master boy 31
34
Joseph and Tuesday 😀
What a terrible actor Saeed was.
Loved the scottish vicar
amy clarke scottish vicar? Andy was a nurse.
Eastenders was by far better in the 80s and 90s and of course the 00s but now it is totally rubbish
Yes I'd say Eastenders started going downhill in the late 1990's.
Between 1985-88 Eastenders was just remarkable..cutting edge, radical..
Chris Dawson yes I have to agree
I watched every episode, from the very first one until sometime in 2003, then started losing interest and haven't watched it since.
It had begun its downhill slide by 1995, but while some things annoyed, it had enough life left to limp to 2000, but by this turn of the century, it was all over. Yes things change-and that is exactly WHY it isn't EastEnders anymore. It COULD and is anything. Why is shy all soaps, like anything, should have a shelf life and be put to death once they're so unrecognisable that they're not what the label says and does. After all, Brookside was killed off, why not this? Except it has been, as since 2000, it was not EastEnders any more. Perfect in the 80s (like the music) and most of the 90s, but gone by 2000.
Poor Said.