Brookside reruns

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Has anyone else been watching today? I've watched 4 episodes so far. Dated, but loving it

Very ironic! I always wonder about smoking in old programmes - did they actually smoke proper cigarettes?

@NCTDN, it certainly looked like it. Maybe only if they were a smoker in RL (nearly everybody!)?

I can't believe that Marie is only 34 in these scenes, she looks so old, more like late 40s! Sheila was only 40 in real life too.
On the other hand Paul Collins would be 101 if he was still alive today

Really enjoying the Brookside reruns. I watched them all as a child/teen from around the Billy Corkhill days, so it's brilliant seeing it from the very beginning.

It was a bit of a slow start but it's getting going now don't you think?

Love Sheila and Bobby. Roger is just awful.

I felt so sorry for Petra, she's been through a lot and I thought the guy in the pub was a creep.

All of the characters seem a lot older than they are supposed to be.

Marie is 34???

I remember thinking Roger was repulsive back when it was first on and what had Heather ever seen in him! Also how would Sam ever have been with Alan?!

I noticed the camera focused very closely on the women’s shorts when they were playing golf too.

I used to love Brookie!
A question though: does it entail sitting through all the ads? Usually I record programmes so that I don't have to.

The ads seem a bit haphazard. Sometimes it skips them and other times they're shown. I don't know why.

I tend to watch it whilst doing something else though as it's very slow paced compared to soaps these days.

Ok, thanks.

I find the more episodes I binge together mean fewer adverts.

Yes, the ads can very from none to two. I get this weird thing too where it cycles from the end of part one credit to the part two credit and back round again… that gets annoying.

Dougie and Jeanette from Manchester!! 😁

Five episodes a week is just not enough!

I've only just started watching this and loving it. it's very nostalgic I remember my parents watching this in the 80s and early 90s. it seems so slow and uneventful compared to fast paced soaps nowadays where there's a murder every 5 minutes!! was a much slower relaxed pace of life back then.
I was only 4 in 1982 so don't remember these early episodes but I do remember the Grant family and Damons death. and I remember grumpy Mr Harry Cross whos not yet in it as I'm only on episode 20 at the moment. every else still watching?

Roger is awful can't stand him. And what was going on with gizzmos hair!!

Also did new builds really not have central heating installed in 1982?

I bought a house once which had been built in the 80s and it didn't have central heating in terms of radiators. It had some sort of hot air blower type system so there were vents in every room instead. So I suppose it's possible, but I don't remember new builds having no heating at all.

Marie is doing my head in. Why the Grants keep tolerating her marching over and wanging on about Barry, Lord knows. And wet Michelle's role atm seems to be just to shout 'Marie!' at regular intervals. And yes, what on earth does Sam see in Alan or Heather in Roger? Baffling. And whoever said upthread about Sam's terrible acting was so right.

My mum and dad bought a house in the late 70,s it wasn't a new build but about 5/6 years old so built in 1972/73,they had to have Central heating put in,but was only about five so I can't rememberwhat if any heating was there before they moved in
I do remember being all.excited about having Duvets or continental Quilts as my mum called them😂

You've just reminded me my parents' late 60s new build only had storage heaters when they moved in. And yes, the excitement of duvets!

[Glad your DS is better, too, btw]

Thank you

It would be interesting to know what the brookside houses sold for in 1982!

@x2boys, we couldn’t have continental quilts - must have been too continental. We had 1950s blankets and candle wick bedspreads!

We did until we moved into the modern " house in around 1978and then my mum and dad must have got with 'the times and suddenly we all had "continental quilts"/Duvets.😂

I loved sleeping at my granddad's because I got layers and layers of blankets

@x2boys i think the producers play fast and loose with house prices. The Grants, who have hinted at previously being council tenants, have a 4 bed detached on a factory wage whilst the trainee accountant and solicitor have a semi and talk about their lack of money. The Grants absorbed Sheila losing her job and although we get a lot of union rhetoric, the family don’t seem too perturbed at the loss of the second job and the vague hope of a union job tbd. My recollection of this period was families sick with worry about losing a property as interest rates rocketed, jobs were few and far between and the Conservatives were set on closing Liverpool down.