When EastEnders launched on BBC One in 1985, Britain’s most popular soap operas were being imported from America. Dynasty and Dallas both peddled televised fantasies of extreme wealth, atrocious ...

It has been 40 years since EastEnders first hit television screens on February 19, 1985, and viewers fell in love with Walford for the first time. Over the years, there have been countless characters ...

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

EastEnders star Anita Dobson has explained why she almost didn't play her legendary character Angie Watts. Appearing in the debut episode in 1985, Dobson cemented her place as EastEnders royalty, ...