A short video shown in a mock up of Number 8 Brookside Close, at the now closed Museum Of Liverpool Life, featuring 3 characters from the Liverpool based Soap, Sinbad, Jimmy and Lindsey Corkhill. Brookside ran for 21 years on Channel 4, from the 2nd of November 1982 until the 4th of November 2003, produced by Mersey Television and Conceived by Phil Redmond, he also devised the much loved Grange Hill and Hollyoaks. Brookside was originally inteneded to be called Meadowcroft, Brookside became very successful for a number of years and is notable for its tackling of realistic and socially challenging storylines. It was at its most popular in the 1980s and the early 1990s. From the mid-1990s it began raising more controversial subjects under the guidance of new producers such as Mal Young and Paul Marquess. It is especially well-known for broadcasting the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British television, as well as a powerful domestic abuse storyline resulting in murder. The series caused an uproar when it featured a storyline featuring a consensual incestuous sexual relationship between two sibling characters during 1996. Brookside was also the first British soap to feature an openly gay character when Gordon Collins came out in 1985, and it was also the first to depict serious drug addiction with a number of different characters. Notably Dean Sullivan';s character Jimmy Corkhill NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED, I DO NOT OWN THE VIDEO OR AUDIO. APOLOGIES FOR POOR ...

• published: 27 Jun 2012
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• author: Lastofthetimelordz