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Forgotten Storylines

posted 17 years ago by philc1987
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I have always thought that some storylines were forgotten since the show finished in 2003. People always go on and on about the body under the patio or the gas explosion and so on.

One storyline which I particually enjoyed was during Christmas 1996. This was when Bev burned down No8 or 'Casa Bevron'. It hardly ever gets a mention, and I can't find anything on the internet about it apart from the brief episode guides on the Brookside Soapbox website. I can remember the special 90min episode which started as the previous one had ended.

The fire was AWESOME!!! Here were some highlights

Ron running back into the house to save Jackie Corkhill while most of the residents converged on the close to watch.

Sinbad and Mick Johnson breaking into the Farnhams house to get them out

Max telling Sussanah to call the police because he thought Sinbad and Mick were burglars.

Sinbad dragging Mike Dixon away from the back door just before an explosion occures caused by a backdraft

At this point, the camera panns from around the bushes by the 'Brookside Close' sign to reveal the whole of No8 completely engulfed, including some of the roof, by flames.

It was a top episode!!

[–] WesJones87 16 years ago

i personally enjoyed the whole Drug seige storyline, if only for the brilliance of the main dealer (i forget his name). Thats why my favourite episode is when they track him down in manchester...and also the unfinished business spin off

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[–] hakyhiqz 16 years ago

I remember a storyline with A guy called Marcus i liked that storyline it was funny and it was kinda scary, but i liked it.

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[–] kinky_boots2000 16 years ago

I really enjoyed when Susannah Morrisey divorced Max and turned into the show's superbitch, and her eventual murder mystery.

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[–] bedroomscene 16 years ago

The one and only Anthony (Ray Quinn) and Imelda bullying fiasco. Can't remember much of the storyline but it was immense when he drowned her and the police came and everything. Dead good.

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[–] eso7 15 years ago

Big bad protection mobster Calum Finnigan, and the return of Barry Grant to put him in his place was my fav storyline.

[–] Vidson 15 years ago

Tommy McCardle the gangster. he had an apartment in the then newly developed Albert Dock. He strung Barry and terry along for years. Also the 'Free George Jackson' campaign when he was wrongly imprisoned. His wife, marie, was totally mental. Someone ahd a song i the charts I'm sure.

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[–] TheTeuchter 15 years ago

I always thought the Ralph/Harry/Madge storyline was pretty good-it wasn't much later that I stopped watching!!

[–] lmccreadie-70-192144 12 years ago

Doreen having an affair with the dentist she worked for so he would help her pay the bills (prostitution really) then her husband going mental when he found out and driving across all the neighbours' lawns shouting like a loony. He was called Billy, can't remember their surname.

[–] usersince03 12 years ago

I remember the storyline when Sinbad was accused of molesting a young kid and it turned out the boys older brother told him to say those things.

[–] avia2 11 years ago

I was just about to mention the Sinbad story. It was ground-breaking back then, as many of us were still new to the internet.

Poor Sinbad - it got so bad he had to flee to Manchester and set up a kebab shop.

[–] SeanBCFC 11 years ago

I started watching it while I was in school,when the dug up Trevor, as everyone was going on about it...

Shortly after they had a story where an old man called George (he's been in One Foot in the Grave, George & Mildred) stayed at the close. He had been abroad can came back with some terrible virus that infected and killed loads of the residents. Leo Johnson (I think) saw his mate collapse and die in the swimming pool and Patricia's mum, Jean, nearly died. Her husband confessed to an affair when he thought she would die. She lived and left him. Racist Ron accused Mick Johnson of poisoning everyone from his pizza shop.

[–] usersince03 11 years ago

After Bernie Nolan's (who played Diane)death I remember the storyline where her characters stepdaughter gets pregnant by Mick's son and had an abortion.

[–] Michael71 10 years ago

I always remer Ron killing the burglar and the Antony Murray stories, I only started watching it inthe last coue of yrs so unfortunately I missed all the top stories.

[–] usersince03 10 years ago

Susannah's affair with the doctor when she was with Mick.