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Andy From Sligo · 28-05-2022 5:34pm

just as aside - off topic , but on topic if you know what I mean , how did people used to manage to watch Brookside in the 80's ? ... intrigued to find out if RTE broadcasted it or if people just pointed their TV aerials to Norn Ireland to get Channel 4 ?

But yes he was good in that. in the first episodes they didnt hit off with viewers because the scouse accent was very heavy and people could understand him /them but it ended up a great programme, never missed it.

deisemum · 28-05-2022 6:26pm

I lived in London for most of the 80's and 90's so watched Brookside. It was brilliant.

Andy From Sligo · 28-05-2022 8:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119126858#Comment_119126858

oh right , of course I never tied that one into the equation 🙂

Pipmae · 28-05-2022 8:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119126678#Comment_119126678

Channel 4 was one of 6 channels you got on aerial. RTE1, RTE2, BBC1, BBC2, UTV and C4.

Andy From Sligo · 28-05-2022 9:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119127626#Comment_119127626

ah yes now I think of it I can recall moving over in 1991 and getting RTE1 and RTE2 on a VHF aerial and then getting the others from brougher mountains in Enniskillen with a 21 element high gain UHF aerial where I am .. then i think there was Chorus maybe a cable dish / microwave service

spurious · 29-05-2022 10:43am

The actress who plays Amy has improved in leaps and bounds, it's as if as her confidence has grown with age, she has let loose, even channelling TracyLuv on a number of occasions. She acts new head fake Summer off the screen - I wonder why the real Summer left. Fake head Summer and her personality transplant annoys me.

Aadi - bless - he's lovely.

29-05-2022 11:17am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119129425#Comment_119129425

I love Aadi, a mini Dev. Lovely character.

threetrees · 29-05-2022 11:07pm

Yes Aadi is lovely, I'd like him to have a good story soon, not one that changes his personality, something that shows his kindness

Love the Amy/Steve scenes, she is more than able to wrap her dad around her little finger, and yet idolises him.

freshpopcorn · 30-05-2022 2:19pm

The young actors in Coronation Street are fairly good now much prefer them to a lot of the ones in Emmerdale.

Immortal Starlight · 31-05-2022 1:31am

In all fairness Abi had loads of time to hide the passports. She may as well have waved them in Imram’s face and shouted “look at what I’ve got here”. Toyah is so concerned about the environment that she won’t use disposable nappies but is content to drive around in a VW Touareg. There is no way Toyah’s character would be driving that.

threetrees · 31-05-2022 7:13am

The intro confused me a little, I thought I missed an episode, but it was a view into the future, probably because the story has been leaked. Kinda not interested in the whole Alfie story now. He is a gorgeous baby though!

DubKildare · 31-05-2022 10:10am

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You'll find lots of Brookside episodes on Youtube. During Lockdown I started on episodes from, I think 1982 and worked my way up through the years 😀.

My daughter became completely hooked too.

GAAcailin · 31-05-2022 10:49am

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absolutly ridiculous the way he 'found' those fake documents. Abi had no problem hiding her drugs over the years. Why can't soap characters put these documents away somewhere out of sight.

First is was Kevin finding Alfie's birth cert, now the fake passwords. Scriptwriters need to do a bit better...

phormium · 31-05-2022 1:00pm

But in fairness she wasn't expecting it to be Imran at the door, sure she was practically ready to go, wasn't Kevin just gone to get the car or something or other and it was him she thought would be coming through the door so didn't check!

pjohnson · 31-05-2022 7:52pm

Trust Toyah to make everything worse again.

Andy From Sligo · 31-05-2022 11:12pm

are we to guess then how they crashed into a building with scaffolding then or will we get a flashback of moments before the crash?

Also Toya gets a taxi to the police station and he gets in his car to drive to the police station and yet in other episodes of Corrie we get to see that the weatherfield police station is in walking distance virtually around the corner of the street!

pjohnson · 01-06-2022 7:58pm

So Imrans lies die with him at the Battersby's shriek Abbi and Kev into trouble.

01-06-2022 9:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119142331#Comment_119142331

Did he take the car without it being finished?

Andy From Sligo · 01-06-2022 9:37pm

well , that 'part' that Kevin held up and smiled when he attempted to stop them starting the car was just a relay. More than likely a relay under the bonnet for the starter motor or fuel pump ... and would have nothing to do whatsoever with brakes

freshpopcorn · 01-06-2022 9:48pm

I don't think Kevin was to blame. Unless he replaced the start motor wrong and the car died resulting in the steering and brakes locking .

However I'd say the pair were fighting and they crashed!

Alice1 · 01-06-2022 9:50pm

But the policeman said that there were no skid marks on the road and it is assumed that no attempt was made to brake. I don't drive so I don't know, but are you not supposed to slow down coming to blind corner?

Andy From Sligo · 01-06-2022 9:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119146773#Comment_119146773

he didnt remove the starter motor - didnt even touch the starter motor. a remove of that relay in his hand would stop the car from starting up

Andy From Sligo · 01-06-2022 9:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119146791#Comment_119146791

if arguing and taking eyes off road for a second and not concentrating then realise the bend until too late .....

RetroKing · 01-06-2022 10:21pm

He took it out! When Toyah and Leanne went to drive to their cousins the car wouldn't start because of this. Kevin came along and offered to fix it. He had put it back when Imran came along to the garage and took the car back.

Andy From Sligo · 01-06-2022 10:27pm

he took the relay out of the under bonnet fuse box .... not the starter motor

JP Liz V1 · 01-06-2022 11:06pm

It is a shame they killed Imran, I do not want Abi to get the baby, she is a bad mother period, send Alfie to another family, even what about Imran's parents who were against gay Rana or a new family

Andy From Sligo · 01-06-2022 11:12pm

good that they (the writers) made Imran 'nice' in the end and with a conscience .

I am getting vibes that Kelly might end up going out with your detective bloke that Imran took on??? - or not you reckon?

threetrees · 01-06-2022 11:17pm

Craig was the only police officer on the scene and.... since when did Craig get elevated to Tony Stamp from The Bill as a driver?

I didn't realise they were going to kill off Imran.

freshpopcorn · 01-06-2022 11:34pm

I knew Imran was leaving.

It would have being great of some of scaffolding fell on Craig killing him also.

threetrees · 02-06-2022 7:38am

Yep I knew he was leaving but didn't think they'd kill him off, I thought he'd just leave in a taxi as they all do. Cardiac arrest was a feeble death, be better if he was skulled by falling scaffolding!

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