Brookside reruns

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

The Chrissy talking to Geoff’s teacher about how the school would support him with dyslexia was depressing. Almost 40 years later and I recited what he was going to say to DH before he said it. It’s a storyline that hasnt aged!

I’m a bit behind. Katie Rogers has had her head changed!

Yes I was thinking the same thing. This was something that was rarely covered back then. You'd imagine that in 2025 it would be so different irl, but my goodness we seem to have stood still!

I wondered if she was different.

It's a little dull at the moment with Paul and Annabel bickering and Gordon being sly
And the very boring goings on with the Rogers, but I'm sure it will pick up soon.

It’s Mick!

Gah! My TV is playing up and I haven't managed to get STV on it since the beginning of the six weeks holidays. I'm going to go and troubleshoot now with a YouTube guide as I really need to catch up and I'm missing my weekly binge!

I think you can tell Doreen Sloane isn't very well in these episodes
Such a shame she died IRL about a year after these episodes were filmed.

I’m confused. Thought there would be 5 more today ? Aren’t they released on Wednesdays ?

Mine got dropped but later than.normsl.

I’ve got a bit of catching up to do as we’ve been away, but I’ve just seen an article in the Echo saying they are going to do a crossover episode with Hollyoaks (never watched!) to celebrate their 20th anniversary!

Yes I saw that ( although I think it's their 30 th anniversary) I remember watching it aa a student nurse in the 90,s!
I wonder how they are going to do it given all the residents moved out in the end
And real people live in the close now.?

All caught up and also just r4ad up about the reboot/ crossover. I guess as its just one episode, they could probably get away with filming a bit here and there outside the original houses / at the end of the close for example and the rest could be filmed anywhere for that matter. (As in existing set / indoors)

I'm wondering if it will maybe be a wedding or celebration of some sort whereby 'old friends' meet up after years of not seeing each other with a few seconds of flash backs here and there.

I don't watch Hollyoaks now but I know the Actress. who played Jackie Dixon is in it I wonder how they will explain that ,she l was a main character in Brookside for years!

I guess she could be a 'link' to other families in Brookside, but again as its just one episode I reckon they might just gloss over a lot of stuff and just have some guest actors in as a nod to the old show as it were. Not sure which actors will be appearing, but Billy Corkhill was mentioned in one of the news articles (though the media are probably just speculating, dependent on who is still alive and which ones are still active as actors / were willing and available to partake)

It will be interesting.

I’ve now watched the episode where the teacher slaps Geoff across the face - can’t believe a teacher could have got away with that, even at the end of the 80s!

We had a teacher we called 'Basher Broughton' in the late 80s who used to hit the lads with a cricket bat. Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. He was around 70 at the time and was made to retire in the end as he really wasn't very well.

It really was the tail end of the bad old days. The abolishment of corporal punishment in England was in 1986, but a lot of old fashioned teachers still hung on to it for a few years and got away with it.

Yes I was shocked by that, i left school in 1990 and I don't remember teachers being violent in secondary school
Although I do remember getting slapped across the legs by a teacher when I was about six for dropping a crisp packet.in the playground.

That is shocking! You could do serious injury with a cricket bat

My mum taught in the same primary school as me. I am still horrified when I recap witnessing her slap a boy (aged about 6) on the back of the legs. No idea wane he had done now, but definitely minor. This would have been about 1975.

I started primary school in 1978 so it was probably 1979/ 1980.

I was at primary school in the 80s and we had some vile teachers there - Mrs Cameron was notorious for making anyone who had been accused of kicking (even if there was no proof) take their shoes and socks off and they had to kick a huge stone that she used as doorstop.
If they'd been accused of swearing, they had to spit into a bucket infront of the class until she told them that they could stop.
If they had spoken in class, they had to stand at the sink and eat the bar of soap - on top off all that, she was extremely fond of slapping children (especially girls) across their legs for any spelling mistake or mistake with their times tables - I have discalculia so I had a real struggle with maths and especially some of my times tables and you knew when she was going to smack you - she'd give you "the stare" as you stood at her desk, then she'd slam her pen down, slowly walk around the desk, lift your skirt up (trousers down if you were a boy) and smack you really hard on your bare legs infront of the whole class and if you cried, she'd smack you again.

Another vile teacher was called Mrs Martin and I remember her dragging me across the classroom by my hair infront of the class and then screaming at me to "look at the board" whilst yanking my head about by my hair - I was 5 years old and wore glasses and had simply been unable to read something on the huge blackboard that was filled with old work from days earlier, from near the back and side of the class.

I'd love to confront these teachers nowadays. There were others in the school who were fond of smacking legs too.

Smacking legs must have Been a thing ?We had a Big Mrs Wroe who was fond of smacking legs we called her Big Mrs Wroe becsuse we had another Mrs Wroe who was a lot younger and smaller, she got Little Mrs Wroe🤣

@AddictedToBooks, that is awful. As a just retired teacher, I can’t imagine deliberately hitting a child at school or inflicting painful punishments like that.