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Steve McFadden | ... |
Phil
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(2,657 episodes, 1990-2016)
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Adam Woodyatt | ... |
Ian
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(2,599 episodes, 1985-2016)
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Pam St. Clement | ... |
Pat
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(1,818 episodes, 1986-2012)
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June Brown | ... |
Dot
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(1,771 episodes, 1985-2016)
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Barbara Windsor | ... |
Peggy
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(1,555 episodes, 1994-2016)
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Wendy Richard | ... |
Pauline
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(1,544 episodes, 1985-2010)
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Perry Fenwick | ... |
Billy
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(1,436 episodes, 1998-2016)
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Letitia Dean | ... |
Sharon
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(1,420 episodes, 1985-2016)
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Sid Owen | ... |
Ricky
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(1,209 episodes, 1988-2012)
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Natalie Cassidy | ... |
Sonia
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(1,165 episodes, 1993-2016)
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Patsy Palmer | ... |
Bianca
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(1,146 episodes, 1993-2014)
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Jessie Wallace | ... |
Kat
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(1,122 episodes, 2000-2016)
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Todd Carty | ... |
Mark
(1,082 episodes, 1990-2003)
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A British soap that has been running since 1985, about the lives of people living on Albert Square in the fictitious Walford borough of East London. Written by James2001
Coarse, vulgar, repetitive, clichéd, unimaginative, tawdry, aggressive, nasty, this feeble excuse for entertainment seeks out the worst aspects of human nature and magnifies them across a community, never contrasting them in any meaningful way with any of the characteristics that make living in human society tolerable, let alone joyous. New writers seem to buy into the milieu immediately (yes that word, I don't apologise for erudition) by recycling plots, adultery, rape, murder, gangsters, family betrayal, sexual abuse, etc. etc. etc. in this supposedly ordinary London square. In the UK they used to call these 'continuing drama serials', but this truly is 'soap' in the American sense, trite observations on supposedly current societal shifts, hypocritical public defences of 'shocking' and 'offensive' material broadcast in the early evening on a public channel, the constant refrain that 'we merely reflect society' as if that is any defence to the constant depiction of ever coarsening human relations. If I make the mistake of being on this channel as the theme music starts up, my mouth dries and my mood sinks as I reach to turn the TV over, or at least change channels! Save yourselves from this opiate for the foolish, run, run fast, run far and keep on running!