Classic Eastenders on the Drama channel

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So, classic Eastenders starts airing on the UKTV Drama channel from tomorrow! Two episodes from noon, and they’ll also be on UKTV catchup.

Use this thread to talk about Den, Angie, Arthur, poodle perms, poor fashion choices and Ethel’s Willy.

Diane, Ricky, Janine

Frank is lying. Frank has 4 kids.

Claire, Diane, Ricky & Janine.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about Claire!

Or maybe Eastenders haven't decided on his back story yet?

I love finding out the back stories. I remember them Both being it on but thought had always been together not such a recent thing especially with soon to be
Jeanne

Love it’s all based on very old love affair and now he wants to get married how times have changed.

Wonder how long before Michele runsoffinto the sunset. Really don’t remebee he having Vicky as a school age child but I could be wrong. Everyone I see them makes me feel sick thought Michele and him getting together.

Why is the shop still not making anything? She is now a lodger paying them
£25 a week because needs to pay morgage on shop. But Tina was paying half that working part time and she owns it. She be better off working in pub part time like Ian and having had the week off for the same
Money.

Michelle stays around for quite some time I think Vicky is about 9 or10 when they go to America?

Bit behind but

OMG Donna!

Not the same as Frank but a big impact!

Are Den and Ange semi back together?

I’m completely confused as to whether Den and Angie are back together or not

I don’t know either. Though really sad Angie is on wagon yet he makes her drink every time they met. He didn’t understand alcoholics at all.
Feel really sorry for Mary, she’s been waiting weeks so in real time months for Annie. Hope it has a happy ending. They are just really cruel

Can’t remember Donna or her backstory. But given she tells everyone a different one something dosnt add up.

Bit shocked at the stereotypical Jewish moneylender “Uncle” – he was in an earlier episode too. Why didn’t Arthur approach him for a loan? Can’t help thinking it’s the scriptwriters once again crowbarring in a “current issue” without much regard for how the actual characters would behave. Even in 1987 there was no way £100 would cover tea at the Ritz, hotel in Piccadilly, a West End show & a hat from Selfridges.

Why does Angie even want Den back? She’s the best example of a successful single working woman in the whole Square, and all she wants is her lying, cheating scumbag of an ex-husband! And she’s back on the booze.

Good for Michelle having the ambition to use her qualifications and build a career. Pity that she’s lumbered with Lofty!

PETER PURVES!!!! I’d forgotten he was ever in it!

I thought the same about ,the £100 Limer,it's like the writers are totally out of touch with reality .

I’m confused about the Beale house - everything suggests from the last couple of episodes that it’s council owned as Pauline said it was when house prices were being discussed and then Lou saying all she has to leave anyone is ‘the barrow’ but I thought she owned the house and left it to Pauline and Arthur when she died?!

I thought the same igotdemons?unless they inherited the tenancy and at some point.managed to buy it ?

I thought that as well, early on she kept calling it her house. But then while ago they were complaining about damp and landlords. So again not really if it was council.

Can’t see Fowler’s buying it now giving low paid job but someone must at some point. Though right to buy would come in the 80s/90s and discount based on how long you been renting for. So most of twins life.

I don’t get how Dot can rent council all to herself and yet Mary and baby have one room with shared bathroom and no kitchen or tap.

Still enjoy it every afternoon good to see how society has changed. Though Sharon and Angies voice are so high pichted I feel my ears bleeding.

Glad I’m not the only once who’s noticed the discrepancy over ownership! 😄 When I read about it on Eastenders Wiki it just says Lou leaves the house to Pauline and Arthur, who then leave it to Martin on the condition he doesn’t marry Sonia, which he did, so the house went to Ian. So if anyone bought it from the council, it would have had to have been Lou wouldn’t it? As you can’t leave a council tenancy to someone in your will! Must have been a continuity issue I guess... 🤔

You can't now but I think you could?certainly the people of mumsnet believe children can inherit council tenancies,but maybe they were joint tenants.with her?

Years ago you could leave the tenancy once so to children say but someone must buy it before Pauline gives to Martin.

I don’t get why Arthur isn’t looking after the kids when he’s not working while Pauline does early morning clearing, part time cleaning and works in the laundrette and drags the kids to work. I know he had to sign on the other day but that’s an hour max.

I think there was a massive intentional elephant in the room as regards male vs female roles - Arthur's often made derogatory comments about not wanting to do "women's work" (work available threading jewellery that he refused to apply for on those grounds?) Loads of dialogues with Pete/Ali/Den doing their verbal dick-swinging on the same subject. And now we have Michelle leaving Lofty quite literally holding the baby while she goes out to work, because she can earn better money than him. Also Mags also doing better than her current partner, and poor old Dot (I say old, but she's younger in 1987 than I am now) managing to support herself and any feckless male relatives who happen to be around quite easily.

Lou's house I never understood. When they watched the Peter Purves TV documentary, Pauline said something like, "oh Arthur we must get the house painted" - suggesting it's theirs to maintain, so no landlord. Yet there's also been earlier comments from Pauline & Arthur about "finding the rent this week" - suggesting a landlord, surely not Lou herself insisting they pay money they can't afford?

I stopped watching in 1990 so have no idea about Pauline leaving it to Martin!

If it's council though you would decorate it yourself?

The council would be the landlord unless it is some landlords we have never heard off. But unlikely to be private landlord given the twins were supposed to have been born there what 45-50y ago? Would made sense for Lou to be on original tenancy given she often says “it’s my house”.

I was a teenager in 90s when new man was a thing, so maybe I never noticed how unfair labour was on women when men weren’t working. Arthur never even makes Tea or doesn’t shopping or anything.

Did Den just say nip.to the "paki" shop? or was I hearing things??

Yes, I heard that too. Presumably Naima's shop.

I think Lou's house has to be owned by her, ridiculous though it seems, because of the storylines that follow. How on earth did she & Albert buy a house on the profits of their veg stall though? And if they did, why are Pauline & Arthur worried about money, when that house will be increasing in value by £100 each week in 1987?

Can’t believe it’s already Bonfire Night, next week it’ll be Christmas again! We’re going through a whole year in a couple of months!

I guess if Lou and Albert did buy the house they would have bought it in the 40,s how much would a house llike that have been worth in the 40,s in London?