Calm Down, Calm Down (in a scouse accent)

[steve56]

Fancied Doreen Billy Corkhills Mrs.

[spider]

You are very sad!

[steve56]

Then there was Sinbad/Marcia he was the lovable yet sort of fly boy window cleaner she was his knock off!

[spider]

Getting better.

[number 6]

Brookside was great in the early days,ha d agreat script and great actors. Used to enjoy watching Terry Sullivan,the perrenial loser,always coming off second best to his best mate Barry,who ended up sleeping with his missus Sue.

[spider]

I agree, it was unmissable in the 1980's (the Ricky Tomlinson, Sue Johnson days) but it lost its way in the 1990's and was absolute rubbish by about 2000.

It was one of those programmes that went on too long and should have been put out of its misery long before it actually was in 2004.

I always recall Charlie Booker (the TV critic) calling Lindsay Corkhill (played by Claire Sweeney) ?a cross-eyed gangster?s moll? in a newspaper column.

Phil Redmond threatened to sue Charlie Booker for defamation, Charlie Booker had to tell Professor Redmond* that Lindsay Corkhill was a fictional character and the law does not recognise defamation of fictitious characters.

That?s confirmed my view that this soap is taking itself too seriously and the people makingit have lost the plot.

It makes you wonder what Harry Hill would make of it on ?TV Burp? if the soap was still running; he would have ripped the piss out of it good and proper. The Prof would be having a fit.




*he was made an Honorary Professor of Media Studies at Liverpool John Moores University in 1989 and he insisted in using the title when communicating with Charlie Booker.

[number 6]

I agree,was gritty and realistic up til about 1990 then there must have been some kind of change in the wrirters and producers because it became totlaly unrealistic and crap. The only good thing about it was the occasional appearance by Barry Grant,the best dodgy villain in soaps.

[Peter]

number 6 wrote:
was the occasional appearance by Barry
> Grant,the best dodgy villain in soaps.

I read somewhere in the last week or so he's appearing in a new film as a dodgy villain. Maybe back to his typecast best!

[number 6]

@Peter...yeah i read somewhere about that,shall have to check it out.