What are your earliest memories of the soaps?

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when Sarah platt was pregnant with Bethany

I think my first clear memory was Martha Longhurst dying in Coronation Street, although we watched it from the very beginning. I can remember watching the first episodes of Eastenders, Brookside, and Neighbours, and always watched Dallas and Knots Landing, but Prisoner Cell Block H was always my favourite.

@Growlybear83 loved prisoner cell block H growing up. My mum taped it when it aired on stv/itv. Then we watched it at teatime the next day.
Then years later channel 5 got the rights to show it again.
Most of the cast ended up in neighbours/home and away afterwards.

The remake Wentworth was good as well.

Scott & Charlene
Den & Angie
Who shot JR
Brookside body under the patio.

I used to love The Sullivans at lunchtime in the school holidays.

I saw the first episode of EE and was a late-teen with an unwanted and secret pregnancy at the same time as Michelle. Tea time was very traumatic for a while.

I literally cannot watch any of them now.

Annie Walker running the Rovers Return.
Audrey and husband Alf (Alfie).
Hilda Ogden and her rollers and her husband Stan and lodger Eddie - always eating breakfast.
Derek and Mavis in the corner shop.
Ken Barlow and all his fancy women.
Always loved Mike Baldwin; charismatic, cocky and devious.
Den and Angie fighting in the Queen Vic.
Sharon, Kelvin, Ian and Michelle in a Band.
Ethel, Willie and Dr Legg being old friends.
Sons and Daughters when off school.

For me it was EastEnders when Dennis Rickman was stabbed and died in the square by the Vic. I remember that so vividly and have watched it since then.

Brookside was so great. It still boggles me that Hollyoaks is still there and Brookside isn't.

Not quite soap but loved me a little bit of Grange Hill and Biker Grove!

Eastenders in the early days - Punk Mary choking on her own vomit, Martin Fowler being born, Ali the taxi driver and his wife.
I feel exceptionally old now when I see Martin on screen!

Arthur Folwer having a breakdown and trashing the living room in Eastenders.

Neighbours, Kylie and all that.

Hollyoaks, first season ever. Loved how funny it could be in the early days. It's too issue driven and intense now.

Oh, yes. Grange Hill and that wonderful theme tune with those sausages!!

Byker Grove, it was either that or maybe Why Don't You...? where I first heard a Geordie accent. Mind you, I think about that same time we watched Look and Read: Geordie Racer at school on the big t.v.with wheels on it. I love that accent and have fallen in love with Tyneside/ Northumberland as an adult.

OMG - forgot about this show but the theme tune came immediately to mind.

Why don't you
Just switch off the television set
Go home and do something less boring instead?
Sitting at home watching t.v
Turn it off, it's no good for me...

Wasn’t that because of money fraud or something and he ended up in jail ?

Pauline finding out he had an affair and smacking him with the frying pan !

Yes, Crown court. Scary!

Also the Flying Doctors, The Sullivans and Crossroads- remember watching them all at my nans house early 80s.

Watching Coronation Street during school holidays in the 60s (black and white, Ena Sharples era). Was broadcast during the day as it was in Australia.

Benny from Crossroads - my neighbours, where i went after school while dm was at work, used to watch it. so i remember Benny and his hat and his Miss Diane

Sandy Richardson ending up in a wheelchair in Crossroads.
My Mum watching Peyton Place, Dr Finley’s Casebook and Coronation Street.

The theme tunes to any of these alerted my Dad’s dogs he was about to pick up their leads

the door bell on brookside made my dog bark!
i imagine my dm watched coronation street but i dont remember it,
i watched brookside from the beginning. when babysitting, but i would have been a teenager so it wasnt much on my radar.

Mrs Dale's Diary while I was sitting under my mother's ironing board...

Mrs. Dale's Diary

Emergency Ward 10

Ena with Minnie in the Rovers

Elsie Tanner's son-in-law, Ivan Cheveski (Sp?)

Watching Emmerdale Farm with my mum.

The Sugdens getting together or a funeral.

I remember my Gran never missing the Archers - and I’m 72.

My dad taping a week's corrie on an audio tape for me to listen to when I got back from a school residential. I would have been 11, so 1979. I didn't see a video recorder until about 3 years later.