Brookside

[mypost]

A great show until the late 90's when I started watching it. The tedious storylines contributed seriously to it's demise. It was common for storylines to last 12 months or more. There was an over reliance on pyrotechnics at times, the more notorious ones are still on youtube. While the theme tune was at times, the only uplifting thing in an action-packed episode.

 

It still produced great moments of drama though, the Jordache court case was fantastic tv when Brookside peaked in popularity, the bust-up between Jackie and Jimmy after Shelley's involvement in their marriage was similiar. There were high points too, Ron' Dixon's antics at the Jacqui castle wedding to the posh bloke show at the turn of the decade was as close as Brookside came to a sitcom.

 

It was a real eye-opener at times, about subjects people knew little about. But the show lost the plot in the last 12 months, with single show storylines, regular Yank-style "flashbacks", coupled with at times unwatchable "filmic" presentation technique, made the show more surreal than realistic. The show ended with a whimper, rather than a talking point.

 

It might have been the "most dangerous housing estate in Britain", but it was a C4 institution until the now BBC boss pulled the plug in 2002. Live episodes may be no more, but classic episodes are regularly posted on youtube.

[Mook]

 

 

[Elite]

It felt like a gangster epic when I was growing up as a kid. Barry Grant was the hardest fucker in Merseyside.

[Tony Moanero]

 

[Mook]

My Jackie Dickson crush was brought to the fore yesterday which is why I had a wee look for a Brookside thread.

 

I wanted to be Damien when I was a kid, absolutely gutted when he was chibbed & always remember Rod the Plod being a bluenosed twat.

[Bjornebye]

Anna Friel was on a programme on itv last night. She is still gorgeous.

[Elite]

My Jackie Dickson crush was brought to the fore yesterday which is why I had a wee look for a Brookside thread.

 

I wanted to be Damien when I was a kid, absolutely gutted when he was chibbed & always remember Rod the Plod being a bluenosed twat.

There was some proper fit tanned bird on there as well, totally forgot her name though.

[Mook]

Anna Friel was on a programme on itv last night. She is still gorgeous.

 

I used to love her but her face is absolutely fucked with plastic nowadays.

 

There's a lot to be said for growing old gracefully.

[Bjornebye]

My uncle used to be the floor manager on brookside. God knows what that means but we did get to go to a cowboy and indian fancy dress party in the close with all the cast. I was too young to appreciate it unfortunately.

[Josef Svejk]

Friel looks wonky nowadays.

[Bjornebye]

Friel looks wonky nowadays.

No chance. Unless you are gay.

[Josef Svejk]

No chance. Unless you are gay.

We could meet in my local public toilet and discuss this...

[Bjornebye]

We could meet in my local public toilet and discuss this...

Only if I can bring her

[Fugitive]

Only if I can bring Jimmy Corkhill and his fella, Fred

Fixed that for you.

[Total Longo]

People used to say to my Mrs "you look like Katie Rodgers". Which in all honesty used to offend me. 

[dickie mint]

People used to say to my Mrs "you look like Katie Rodgers". Which in all honesty used to offend me.

 

 

It could of been worse they could of said she looked like Frank.

[Tony Moanero]

People used to say to my Mrs "you look like Katie Rodgers". Which in all honesty used to offend me. 

 

 

Understandable.

[King Emlyn]

I used to fancy Sammy Rodgers

[Mook]

This clip features an appearance by the mystical Magic Rabbits at 1 minute 10 seconds in...

 

[VladimirIlyich]

I used to love her but her face is absolutely fucked with plastic nowadays.

 

There's a lot to be said for growing old gracefully.

Totally agree mate. She is a naturally attractive woman but she is disfiguring herself with botox and surgery. Its so sad.

[Josef Svejk]

I used to fancy Brendan Rodgers

Deviant.

[Curly]

I fancied both sammy and Katie when I was a nipper.

 

Ba' and Te' were fucking brilliant.

[King Emlyn]

Deviant.

I’m just lacking that wee bit of good taste.

[manwiththestick]

Patricia Farnham.

[Harry Squatter]

I worked for Littlewoods in the 90s.

 

Some Geordie fella got his couch delivered to Northern Ireland because some dopey bitch thought County Durham was in Northern Ireland when she processed the order. It took ages to sort out.

 

The Geordie fella got so fed up of waiting he ranted paddy berger style in a letter to us. Which read like this:

 

Dear scouse twats,

 

Thanks for delivering my fucking couch to IRA land. Pity you are that fucking stupid you think county Durham is there.

 

I spoke to some fat fucking scouse Slag who sounded like Jackie Dixon. She was a thick fucking twat who had no idea what the fuck was going on.

 

You really are a bunch of stupid scouse thick twats and while you've been sitting round I've been sitting on fuck all because I've got no fucking couch which I've already paid 800 bastard twatting quid for.

 

If you doing sort this out I am going to come down and shoot all of you scouse twats. And I don't care if the boss of the call centre is Barry Grant. If he is i will fucking batter the cunt.