Do you have any soap memories from very early childhood?

Karly · 07/01/22 - 00:18

If perhaps you were around when your parents watched a soap when you were a very young child do you remember anything about them? My earliest memory would be the Hopkins family in the corner shop in Coronation Street in the early to mid 70s. I was too young to understand storylines, but I remember the father, and being very very confused as to why the girl called Tricia there was in a different show called A Handful of Songs where she sang and called herself Kathy.

cobwebsoup · 07/01/22 - 01:31

One of my earliest memories is Paul and Gail having a massive argument on Neighbours, I think it was outside their house. I remember being a bit frightened by it, I must have only been about three or four. Kerry's death and Joe's heartbreak is also a storyline I remember watching at a very early age.

Nova8221 · 07/01/22 - 01:40

The first time I ever saw Corrie was the mid 90's. Sally & Kevin had split up and Rosie went missing at the seaside.
I remember Sally standing at the beach, shouting "She's dead"

R2Y5A0N2 · 07/01/22 - 01:44

My earliest memory of EastEnders was when me and my mum were at my mum's friend's house and EE was on in the background.

It was the aftermath of You ain't my muvva and Kat was in hospital, it was around October 2001 and I was only 6 but it just stayed in my mind all the this.

Brummie Girl · 07/01/22 - 04:07

The Rovers fire of 1986. I had seen a few episodes of Corrie before this ep but I remember this one sticking in my mind more because of the big storyline and the fact it was the first time I’d seen Bet with her hair down and she was in a white nightie crawling across the floor

lufcfan1998 · 07/01/22 - 06:46

Can't remember for the others, but the first time I saw Emmerdale was the storm episode from 2004 (very very early 2004 of course since it was shown on New Year's Day that year) and as I was only 5 at the time, it frightened me and put me off Emmerdale for a few years

dee123 · 07/01/22 - 06:48

The Angie Russell story on Home & Away.

They've never had a better female villain. Even though they keep trying.

Hound of Love · 07/01/22 - 07:49

Corrie - Rita marrying Len Fairclough

Along with Ernest Bishop getting shot

SeagullNipple · 07/01/22 - 07:59

I remember being at school around primary 3 and we were discussing last nights episode of Neighbours around the table at lunch time. It had been Kerry Bishop-Mangel getting shot by the duck hunters. That's my earliest memory.

Robert_Davies1 · 07/01/22 - 08:47

I remember Alan Bradley being killed in Corrie but also have vague memories or Hilda Ogden aswell.

Brian Tilsley dying is also very vivid in my mind, with Nicky running away shortly afterwards.

ralph_smith · 07/01/22 - 08:50

Vic Windsor’s post office death - stayed with me as it was the first time I saw someone die on TV. I was only around 7 years old I think?

Gizo · 07/01/22 - 08:50

The week of Eastenders episodes in Italy (I think that was 1997), with Phil and Grant helping Ian get his kids back from Cindy.

The part when they crashed into someone else's car, and Grant had a 'showdown' with an elderly man, is one of the funniest soap scenes that I've ever seen.

cuslirvee · 07/01/22 - 08:54

Alf Roberts dying in Coronation Street is my first soap memory. I didn't know it was him until years later, I just remembered someone being found dead in their chair and put two and two together.

Alma dying was my next memory and it turned me off Corrie, as I thought all people did was die!

Ironically enough, the Richard Hillman serial killer story then got me into it, and the rest is history!

Kymberly · 07/01/22 - 11:21

Mine was Crossroads when one of the characters got shot by his estranged wife. Think I was about 4 or 5 at the time.

Ben_Thistlewaite · 07/01/22 - 11:28

Graham pushing Rachel over a cliff to her death on Emmerdale.
Jim and Liz arguing and he threw her out of the car on Coronation Street.
Neighbours used to be on when I was at pre school and I remember Karl and Susan talking in their house for some reason lol.

TotallyTV · 07/01/22 - 11:36

When I was young, my parents used to watch Neighbours and EastEnders, and although I watched it with them, it took a while for me to realise that they were different programs. So, I remember seeing Sky and Boyd getting together on Neighbours, then feeling confused that they didn't appear on EastEnders a couple of hours later! In which case, perhaps I was a bit too young to be watching soap operas back then!

Zaphod Beeblebrox · 07/01/22 - 12:16

This thread is full of young whippersnappers!

Can't remember the storyline, but I remember Benny in Crossroads being shouted at, someone calling the police, and Benny running off. I would have been about 4 years old.

MJsDirtyDiana · 07/01/22 - 12:34

The standout memory for me is Trevor Jordache’s body being discovered under the patio in Brookside 1995. Jimmy Corkhill and Eddie Banks went digging in the Jordache garden curiously wanting to find what had been buried there and got the shock of their lives when they started rummaging through a black sack and found Trevor’s hand! I remember the episode as if it were yesterday.

LittleBadGirlXxx · 07/01/22 - 12:37

My first ever soap memory is Shelley Unwin corrie going on a date with Peter Kay in early 2004 haha I was only about 5

Tanya1982 · 07/01/22 - 12:51

The royal wedding massacre...

tfox6 · 07/01/22 - 13:11

I first got into soaps when I was ten years old and off sick from school. We had an au pair from Holland who used to meet her friends and watch Neighbours at lunchtime. While I was at home on the sofa, bored, with a fever and waiting for brother to come home from school, I watched it too. The first story I remember was Jane digging up her grandad's belongings from the garden of the Mangel house in the belief her beloved grandma had murdered him. There was also a story about an attack on a young mother. Her daughter was the only witness and Clive got her to reveal the attacker's identity using a puppet show. Then there was Lucy's original dog, Basil, and of course Scott and Charlene's wedding.

Jervis_Tetch · 07/01/22 - 13:23

Richard Hillman kidnapping the Platts and driving them into the canal, I was only 9 at the time. I remember finding it quite tense and on the edge of the seat stuff, which I never thought would have happened in a soap set in a backstreet. It is what got me into the show. The next memory was when the Katie Harris got held hostage in her house by two gangsters, which happened a month later.

I didn't know much about Richard Hillman, but I think around that time a documentary was released about his killing spree and I realised how big the plot actually was and that he had actually killed before.

asians0up · 10/01/22 - 17:51

I once saw Ricky Groves (Garry Hobbs) on a quiz show which was on before EE. I thought all TV was live, so I remember thinking he'd better hurry up or he'd miss his doing his scenes.

My first memory of EE is Irene and Terry Raymond arguing outside the Vic.

pc1985 · 10/01/22 - 18:01

I’ve always remembered in Brookside when Bev Dixon referred to the Corkhill family as scum of the earth 😂

peterstone · 10/01/22 - 18:12

I remember Renee Roberts being hit by a truck in Coronation Street around 1980.

LTS · 10/01/22 - 18:48

I remember watching Corrie when I was about 8 or 9 and seeing Mike Baldwin's wife throwing her wedding ring in his face and chasing him out of the house with a gun! That's probably my earliest soap memory.

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