Character 'Gene pool' at play - Edna Gee is the prototype/forerunner to both Vera Duckworth and Karen Philips/McDonald.....whilst Tricia Hopkins was obviously a forerunner to Suzie Birchall and later characters like Candace Stowe
its odd how character types revolve.eastenders were shit at it .dirty den was replaced by identical lookalike tricky dicky and the mitchell bros as grant left so often had numerous sets of crooked brothers to fill the gap and we had so many similar gangbosses it got impossible to tell them apart.vera and jack were bought in to be the new stan and hilda as age then death softened the characters and slowed them down .when jack and vera started to age the battersbys were the same type but younger .rita returned to the street really as the new version of elsie tanner who left then came back but was then in her 50s. percy sugden was the grumpy but secretly nice old man to fill the slot left by jack howarths death as albert.when jack duckworth called it a day they even had a very similar looking barman john michie who started like the younger jack then as soaps go became a serial killer or something.
@@mikekemp9877 Interesting point about 'Soap Gene Pool' - also Max Branning (EastEnders) was VERY Dirty Den-like, but it is fair to say that soaps in general do take elements of personalities from each other to create their own characters i.e Corrie legend Bet Lynch must have provided (intentional or maybe unintentional) the inspiration for the Kat Slater character in EastEnders, similarly Hilda Ogden must have partly inspired the Dot Cotton character as both were quite similar in personality.
@@fmensah8581 oh i agree.corrie formed the template for every soap in the uk that followed. crossroads for example ignored the potential of the storylines of thousands of guests passing through in favour of dishing out a simililar style of show to corrie.even today new soaps cling to the idea of the pub being central to the life of the community when in reality they are shutting down at an alarming rate! of course the basic idea of coronation street got subverted simply because of the shows success.originally the show was brilliant in its simplicity .we see a bunch of locals in the pub on the corner fairly true to the times. what was breathtaking for the time was it then showed the bits we dont see the people in their homes.therefore lovely intelligent handsome ken is an inutterable snob indoors hating his family.carefree loose woman elsie is bereft when she finds her son dennis has rifled her purse etc. sterotypes often dont come off either .eastenders at the start wanted a ena sharples character whom everyone would love.they had lou beale whom everyone hated and had to be killed off! even the oz soaps foloowed the same path in no small measure due to the popularity of corrie down under. mrs mangle was a crude version of the immortal hilda!
Smart choice breaking glass on a leather hose really that what a sub officer can think as a bright idea and 2 appliances and 1 ambulance for a 'make pumps 4 person reported' REALLY what budget cut did the LFB suffer
