[James2001]

Good to hear, been wanting to see Brookside from the start for decades. I think the only 80s episodes I've ever seen properly are the first episode and those around Sheila's rape (I saw the latter both on Channel 4's soap weekend in 1996 and when they put a bunch of episodes on 4OD- they, with episode one, were the only 80s episodes among them as far as I can remember). Interesting it's STV and not Channel 4 doing this though.

Never had access to UK Living/Living TV when they were repeating it, then they moved the repeats to Sky One, skipping several months in the process, then throwing the episodes around the schedule before dumping them in the middle of the night and dropping them.

STV Player have been doing this with High Road ever since STV2 closed down as well, uploading 10 episodes every week.

Hopefully someone will give us Emmerdale Farm and even Coronation Street from the start as well. While we do have televised repeat runs of both, they also both started well into the show's runs and many of us would love to see the early episodes.

Interestingly, in soap news. Network are going to release a massive Crossroads boxset which has every surviving episode from the start until Meg's departure in 1981. Though, unlike Corrie and Emmerdale, most episodes of Crossroads until the mid-70s are missing and there's missing episodes into the early 80s, so it's not going to be a complete run. It's still over 700 episodes though. Probably the biggest boxset ever released in the UK (though there's been some huge ones in Australia).

In one of the shots at the end of the 1982 titles, you can see the security lodge at the bottom of the close, though before the barrier was installed. Was there abandoned for years after the show ended, though in the last few years they've knocked it down and built two new houses in its place