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No one can call Brookside timid - its plots have been hard hitting, gritty and often controversial. It came up with the story that had a whole nation glued to the t.v. set for over three years watching the after effects of domestic violence unfold behind the door of No. 10 Brookside Close. Right up until Mandy Jordache moved away to Bristol with her baby daughter Ruth in tow, there wasn't a person in the country who hadn't heard of or watched the Jordache story developing.
Its characters come and go but the plots go further than some might expect, from euthanasia to incest - the public interest just keeps on coming. Often accused of being a "shock factor soap" the producers insist that if the public is prepared to deal with these issues on the news, they should be prepared to see it in its true light through drama.
Not one character has stayed from the beginning of the Scouse soap but hundreds have lived in the ill-fated close and given the soap the power to go deeper into issues sometimes avoided by other soaps...
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Brookside debutted in the UK on November 2nd, 1982. It is broadcast on Channel 4 and is the channel's main soap opera.
It is also broadcast in Australia and New Zealand.
If you wish to write to the cast or production crew of Brookside, the address is :
Brookside, c/o Mersey Tv, Campus Manor, Childwell Abbey Road, Liverpool, L16 0JP