The opening episode starts off with a murder, but Reg Cox has not croaked yet. However the events of finding his body is a way of bringing the characters together and interact with each other.
Lou Beale and Ethel reminiscence about the good old days when people looked out for each other. Lou laments that it is the Asians who noticed that Reg was missing for a few days.
Pauline has found out she is pregnant at her age, she is afraid to tell her mother, Lou, especially as husband Arthur is still unemployed.
Albert Square looks grimy and dirty, the set was newly built to be that way.
Eastenders went on to become an institution but this where it all started. It had a rawness and grittiness that contrasted with the then cosiness of Coronation Street.
The episode ends with a punch up between Ali and Nick Cotton as Ali has had enough of Nick's casual racism. Den has blood on his best shirt as he planned to have an anniversary dinner with his wife Angie.
For the show's 30 year anniversary episode, it started in a similar way as this with the corpse of Nick Cotton slumped on a chair, the man who was accused of Reg Cox's killing.
Lou Beale and Ethel reminiscence about the good old days when people looked out for each other. Lou laments that it is the Asians who noticed that Reg was missing for a few days.
Pauline has found out she is pregnant at her age, she is afraid to tell her mother, Lou, especially as husband Arthur is still unemployed.
Albert Square looks grimy and dirty, the set was newly built to be that way.
Eastenders went on to become an institution but this where it all started. It had a rawness and grittiness that contrasted with the then cosiness of Coronation Street.
The episode ends with a punch up between Ali and Nick Cotton as Ali has had enough of Nick's casual racism. Den has blood on his best shirt as he planned to have an anniversary dinner with his wife Angie.
For the show's 30 year anniversary episode, it started in a similar way as this with the corpse of Nick Cotton slumped on a chair, the man who was accused of Reg Cox's killing.