[James2001]

One thing I remember was when Channel 4 had a soap weekend in the mid-90s, they repeated one of the Sheila Grant episodes from 1986, and it was followed by the repeat showing (hard to call it the "omnibus" seeing as it was only one episode a week at that point) of Hollyoaks, and the description in the TV guide was something like "will Phil Redmond's new soap be considered worth repeating in 10 years time".

Of course 10 (and 20 and 25) years later, Hollyoaks was still running, but Brookside wasn't.