Gritty ​BBC One soap EastEnders is celebrating its 40th anniversary and many will recall with affection the early years in ...

The people behind the soap, both past and present, spoke with Radio Times magazine to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

Back in 1985 the first episode of EastEnders aired and rejuvenated the soap opera world and now it's about to celebrate 40 ...

Albert Square isn’t known for its shrinking violets. As the groundbreaking soap turns 40, superfan Johnathon Hughes selects ...

In February 1985, the BBC launched its own soap opera to rival Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITV and from the very start us viewers knew the world of soap was being shaken up ...

The primetime soap may not have its peak 30-million audience, but its humour, warmth and the certainty that someone on the ...

Jane pole dancing for Ian's 40th birthday when Dot walks in and all those interactions in the early days between Dot and Ethel (not forgetting 'Little Willy'). One of the big EastEnders' ground ...

The soap had pets too: Roly the poodle, witness to all manner of grubby goings-on in the Queen Victoria pub, and Ethel’s pug Willy ... in the late 1990s did little for Anglo-Irish relations ...

Willy the pug: Ethel’s dog Willy was put down in heart ... Now 85, he has appeared in Little Britain, The Real Marigold Hotel and Bo’ Selecta. Kelvin Carpenter (Paul J Medford): After leaving ...

But the 29-year-old and his co-pilot Wilford John Willy were killed Aug. 12 ... could have lived her life as a Kennedy girl, just a little slower," Rose told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin ...