User:AnemoneProjectors/List of EastEnders episodes (1985)
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EastEnders is a British soap opera, examining the domestic and professional lives of working class people who live in the fictitious London Borough of Walford in the East End of London. The show broadcast its first episode on 19 February 1985, with Julia Smith as executive producer. EastEnders aired 91 episodes in 1985, with the the typical week comprising two half-hour episodes on BBC1, in a time slot of 7:00 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, until September 1985 when they were moved to 7:30 pm.
EastEnders (1985) | |
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No. of episodes | 91 |
Release | |
Original network | BBC1 |
Original release | 19 February (1985-02-19) ā 31 December 1985 (1985-12-31) |
Season chronology | |
Next ā 1986 |
The show's original characters include Den Watts (Leslie Grantham), Ali Osman (Nejdet Salih), Arthur Fowler (Bill Treacher), Ethel Skinner (Gretchen Franklin), Pauline Fowler (Wendy Richard), Harold Legg (Leonard Fenton), Lou Beale (Anna Wing), Saeed Jeffery (Andrew Johnson), Naima Jeffery (Shreela Ghosh), Angie Watts (Anita Dobson), Nick Cotton (John Altman), Sue Osman (Sandy Ratcliff), Pete Beale (Peter Dean), Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth), Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean), Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt), Michelle Fowler (Susan Tully), and Mark Fowler (David Scarboro), all of whom are introduced in the first episode, and Lofty Holloway (Tom Watt), Tony Carpenter (Oscar James), Mary Smith (Linda Davidson), Kelvin Carpenter (Paul J. Medford), Andy O'Brien (Ross Davidson) and Debbie Wilkins (Shirley Cheriton), who appeared after the first episode. Characters introduced later include Hannah Carpenter (Sally Sagoe), Dot Cotton (June Brown), Simon Wicks (Nick Berry), and Cassie Carpenter (Delanie Forbes). Johnnie Clayton, Gary Whelan, Allan O'Keefe, Haluk Bilginer, Ken Wynne, Douglas Fielding, Dulice Liecier and Ishia Bennison guest starred throughout the year as Reg Cox, Terry Rich, Chris Smith, Mehmet Osman, Ernie Mears, Roy Quick, Sheena Mennell and Guizin Osman respectively. Johnson (Saeed Jeffery) was the only cast member to leave the series during the year. Scarboro temporarily left his role as Mark Fowler, making a brief return in December.