Best Brookside Character Poll

He says realising he's missed out the Polish nanny who turned up in Heartbeat *sigh*

God these were mostly all unbearable at some point.

Easy, Jimmy Corkhill

Got to be Billy Corkhill.

I watched Brookside religiously from about 85 to 97, but most of these names mean nothing to me.

Maybe vote for Patricia Farnham for being top Milf.

I'm going for Tommy McArdle. Always my favourite soap hard man.

Ah, I forgot Harry Cross!

The Dixon family = scum.

It has to be Karen - if only because I was a smitten with her as a youth.

Either her or a joint vote for Ralph'n'Harry.

I was talking about Polish Nanny Who Turned Up In Heartbeat in the pub the other day, although in the context of That Thing That She Did With Nick Berry Where He Was A Coastguard.

WHERE IS SPOOKY SIMON AND HIS WEIRD CULT EXPLOSION NONSENSE?

OMG EATED POST WTF. Spooky Simon! Eeeek.

Back say maybe 10 years ago there was a Brookie relaunch press jolly involving bussed-down cast members and the thirstier members of the fourth estate. I WATCHED CARNAGE THROUGH FINGERS. You wanted to hug the woman who played Jackie Corkhill and already Claire Sweeney = punchables.

Where is the Sinbad love? Oh, hard not to vote for Corkhill, J purely for The One Where He Necks An E At Home.

Max Farnham, due to the absense of scary Simon.

Yes where IS Spooky Simon AARGH!

Memories of ill-directed adolescent lust tips it for Karen Grant.

Harry Cross ftw.

incest ponce family ftw

WHERE IS SPOOKY SIMON AND HIS WEIRD CULT EXPLOSION NONSENSE?

Yeah, this is who I've been scrolling up and down the list trying to find!

NOT Jimmy Corkhill, please. Really really unbearable in the last few years.

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Julia Brogan

Creme de la crime me.

Someone used to run a jimmycorkhill.com but it's no longer going. Was an imitation of the personal site that Jimmy had in the show.

I've only ever seen the first episode (as part of Channel 4's birthday weekend) so I may be slightly behind.

I liked how they got around the absence of one of the main characters by putting her in the bathroom for the whole episode.

More like Jimmy Cockhill amirite?

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The peak era of Brookside was when Jimmy C was on smack and ran over Ron Dixon's son. GRIPPING.

Fuck this vote! I can't even remember Karen Grant!

I'm going to poly.

It might have been Karen who was in the toilet for the whole first episode. Her acting was superb.

This was the only British soap I liked, and they cancelled it about a month after I started watching :/

My fave Brookie storylines:

Corkhill and his son on smack, trying to get off it.

Hippy kid who grew weed and sold mystical new age "shadstones".

Ron Dixon's mysterious double "Dick Ronson" who also had a food van.

Anna Friel being a lesbian and murdering her crazy Irish dad.

Sinbad wrongly accused of being a paedo by a deaf kid he was looking after.

Nat and Georgia, generally.

The one where Bobby Grant jumped the shark and provoked Ricky Tomlinson's departure, i.e. latter stages of strike where he donated all his wages to the union and drove Sheila Queen away with his Lear-esque tormented howls of "I'll pour this sour milk on me cornflakes every morning and it will taste like CHAMPAGNE to me!"

Also whatever plot it was where Alan Partridge wanders around the close, drunk, clutching lampposts and howling at the moon.