Eastenders on location in the '90s was always good fun. Like that time the Mitchell brothers went to Italy and ended up scrapping with the locals. Or that time the Mitchell brothers went to Spain and ended up scrapping with the locals. Or that time the Mitchell brothers went to France and ended up scrapping with each other.
It's true that this aired a year prior to 24, but don't forget it aired two years following the release of German film Run Lola Run. And there were more than a few comparisons made at the time. I watched this episode and the main reason was a paper referring to it as 'Run Ian Run.' (Also, it was five years after the film Nick of Time, many elements of which were stolen for the first season of 24)
Adam Woodyatt sold that punch from the lad who plays Charlie Slater like Mick Foley going off the hell in a cell. Much like Foley ending up half under the railing, I did not expect to see Ian Beale under the table when the violence started.
Those scenes of him jogging around Albert Square (with traffic noises and sirens going off as he passes by dozens of characters with their own bits of business) weirdly reminds me of the early scenes of Shaun of the Dead
I really appreciate videos like this, because the big british soaps are something I wish I felt I could get into but I know I don't have the time or the attention span, so it's neat to have some of their memorable moments highlighted. I didn't realize until adulthood how their long-running continuity and melodrama make them close cousins of pro wrestling and mainstream superhero comics in terms of how people tend to enjoy them.
I watched this at the time, I'd forgotten how involved it was. I remember Beale being an arrogant turd for months before, this was a satisfying comeuppance
The young lady at 21.07, appeared in Doctor Who- Curse of Fenric, one of my favourites. She also got a gun pointed at her and threatened in a crimewatch reconstruction
18:01 It's a testament to the quality of Beale's acting that he can smash an entire cake in someone's face and not a single bit of it actually stays on his face. With a lesser actor they would surely have reshot it on the excuse of a fluffed line or wrong look, but they can't do that with Beale, no-one would buy it.
18:01 You'd be hard pushed to find a poorer cake in the face than that. The actor was giving it 110% to try and rescue the situation, but there's only so much you can do when you have absolutely nothing to work with. Reminds me of the old ITV Crackerjack rip off, Crush A Grape. Border TV noticeably couldn't match even the BBC's unimpressive budget, and they just didn't have the money available to fill the gunge tanks with any notable amounts of substance. You'd get the tiniest splodge of muck hurtle down from above celebrity, most often just landing on the floor next to them due to ill placed chairs beneath release, leaving Stu Francis absolutely stranded as to how he could make any kind of comedic reaction out of it. I'm also reminded of a musical I saw over twenty years ago, called Rent and starring Adam Rickett from Coronation Street. Aside from the audio being so poor that the audience would have been hard pushed to collectively decipher so many as a dozen words throughout the entire thing, there was a fantastic moment when it should have snowed but didn't. One, and I swear just one, imitation snowflake floated down from the ceiling. The cast just stood there, inwardly shrugging their shoulders as to how they could possibly do the imminent snowball fight scene with a single flake of snow, which was taking an absolute age to land anyway. They eventually mimed making and throwing snowballs, after one guy took the lead and barely bailed them out, but all the acting in the world couldn't distract attention away from that sad little flake of snow, sat all alone on that stage as they frolicked in the magical winter wonderland scene that it entirely failed to create.
As being mentioned Eric Pollard from Emmerdale is a bit like Ian Beale and Tony from Hollyoaks as well but is there anyone from Coronation Street who is a bit like Ian. But Mike Baldwin and Ken Barlow is a bit like Ian but they are more older than him.
I tried to identify the Amiga game music used in the video but I could only do four of the six 00:00 Theme from 'Rock 'N' Roll' 01:27 'TIM 3' a.k.a. 'Lemming a Helping Hand' from 'Lemmings' 02:34 'The Wall' from 'Turrican II - The Final Fight' 08:34 '10 Green Bottles' from 'Lemmings' 15:45 20:33 If anyone recognises those last two, please post the names. :)
I’ve always thought they should introduce a storyline where Ian Beale tries to compete with local supermarkets lunchtime offerings by launching the ‘Ian Beale Meal Deal’ at the cafe. I’d enjoy seeing him take the whole thing very seriously and perhaps admiring some new signage outside the cafe notifying locals of his amazing business brainwave. He could even wear a tabard and stand in the street drumming up trade and handing out sandwich samples to local residents whilst having the piss taken out of him by some naughty youths in the square. It’s the sort of drivel that passes as entertainment and it’s totally pathetic and stupid as an idea - So it’s definitely a goer!
Eastenders on location in the '90s was always good fun. Like that time the Mitchell brothers went to Italy and ended up scrapping with the locals. Or that time the Mitchell brothers went to Spain and ended up scrapping with the locals. Or that time the Mitchell brothers went to France and ended up scrapping with each other.
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It's true that this aired a year prior to 24, but don't forget it aired two years following the release of German film Run Lola Run. And there were more than a few comparisons made at the time. I watched this episode and the main reason was a paper referring to it as 'Run Ian Run.' (Also, it was five years after the film Nick of Time, many elements of which were stolen for the first season of 24)
Walford should have a sign before you enter it which reads 'abandon all hope, ye who enter here'.
TIL Walford's sister city is Cleveland.
Adam Woodyatt sold that punch from the lad who plays Charlie Slater like Mick Foley going off the hell in a cell. Much like Foley ending up half under the railing, I did not expect to see Ian Beale under the table when the violence started.
Loving the Amiga tunes here!
I never thought id see the day i watched 21 mins of Eastenders…… great video ❤
Those scenes of him jogging around Albert Square (with traffic noises and sirens going off as he passes by dozens of characters with their own bits of business) weirdly reminds me of the early scenes of Shaun of the Dead
I really appreciate videos like this, because the big british soaps are something I wish I felt I could get into but I know I don't have the time or the attention span, so it's neat to have some of their memorable moments highlighted. I didn't realize until adulthood how their long-running continuity and melodrama make them close cousins of pro wrestling and mainstream superhero comics in terms of how people tend to enjoy them.
Uncut Gems owes a lot to Ian Beale
I don't know why the Lemmings music fits this video so well, but it does.
"I've got nothing left."
I used to live a woman who watched EastEnders. It didn't last.
Steve McFadden is dying to laugh at Woodyatt in that scene on the sofa.
Somehow feels like a bizarro-world inverse of a mission from one of the Yakuza games.
Funny you mention Threads. Mick Jackson, the director of that film, initially considered casting it with actors from Coronation Street.
I watched this at the time, I'd forgotten how involved it was.
I remember Beale being an arrogant turd for months before, this was a satisfying comeuppance
Love the Threads reference as Ian runs panic striken across the square, trying to escape financial obliteration rather than nuclear.
Your choice of backing music is amazing, Turrican! Your videos are fantastic and your musical taste is impeccable
My personal fave episode of all time!
Haha, I've watched nearly all your videos over the last week.
So glad to be here as a new ones released.
Cheers.
3:23 Bealewulf
The young lady at 21.07, appeared in Doctor Who- Curse of Fenric, one of my favourites. She also got a gun pointed at her and threatened in a crimewatch reconstruction
Ian Beale isn’t the only current cast member who appeared in the first episode. Sharon Watts and Kathy Beale also did.
I need to hear the full Lemmings soundtrack now...
I don’t even like Eastenders but I will watch this cos it’s Millard.
"You better be [a good boy]. Otherwise I'll tell Jesus." I can't stop laughing
18:01 It's a testament to the quality of Beale's acting that he can smash an entire cake in someone's face and not a single bit of it actually stays on his face. With a lesser actor they would surely have reshot it on the excuse of a fluffed line or wrong look, but they can't do that with Beale, no-one would buy it.
Bonus points for brining on some 90s Amiga-based ennui using the theme from Puggs in Space....
18:01 You'd be hard pushed to find a poorer cake in the face than that. The actor was giving it 110% to try and rescue the situation, but there's only so much you can do when you have absolutely nothing to work with. Reminds me of the old ITV Crackerjack rip off, Crush A Grape. Border TV noticeably couldn't match even the BBC's unimpressive budget, and they just didn't have the money available to fill the gunge tanks with any notable amounts of substance. You'd get the tiniest splodge of muck hurtle down from above celebrity, most often just landing on the floor next to them due to ill placed chairs beneath release, leaving Stu Francis absolutely stranded as to how he could make any kind of comedic reaction out of it. I'm also reminded of a musical I saw over twenty years ago, called Rent and starring Adam Rickett from Coronation Street. Aside from the audio being so poor that the audience would have been hard pushed to collectively decipher so many as a dozen words throughout the entire thing, there was a fantastic moment when it should have snowed but didn't. One, and I swear just one, imitation snowflake floated down from the ceiling. The cast just stood there, inwardly shrugging their shoulders as to how they could possibly do the imminent snowball fight scene with a single flake of snow, which was taking an absolute age to land anyway. They eventually mimed making and throwing snowballs, after one guy took the lead and barely bailed them out, but all the acting in the world couldn't distract attention away from that sad little flake of snow, sat all alone on that stage as they frolicked in the magical winter wonderland scene that it entirely failed to create.
I suppose the end music from Long Good Friday would have been too on the nose.
07:39 I see what you did there
Very long Good Friday that shot in the back of the car.
He used to work in th kwik save butchers down the road from me before he got in to eastenders.
I miss Kwik Save. They were a good shop.
That cheeky Linehan really made me laugh.
Ian Beale/Adam Woodyatt is a household name but as Charlie Brooker said he's still seen as inherently low-rent. A uniquely British fame story
oh hey Lemmings music! Only got that now
A iconic episode
Long Good Friday closing sequence there.
Lemmings......
I wonder if Adam Woodyatt knows his name is actually Adam Woodyatt
Great video, well researched and entertaining as always, cheers!
Damn, Tamsin Outhwaite was stunning back then.
"comprised of' No. You've done this before.
Oh god.
Whenever I buy dill, all I hear is Ian beale
He has half an hour to raise 13k but he’s driving a Jaguar?
Bealezebub will have his day.
" you better be....or I'll tell Jesus ! "
Can't tell if the music is from Fast Food Dizzy or the Amiga version of Pushover, but I recognise it!
And definitely some Turrican.
As being mentioned Eric Pollard from Emmerdale is a bit like Ian Beale and Tony from Hollyoaks as well but is there anyone from Coronation Street who is a bit like Ian. But Mike Baldwin and Ken Barlow is a bit like Ian but they are more older than him.
I tried to identify the Amiga game music used in the video but I could only do four of the six
00:00 Theme from 'Rock 'N' Roll'
01:27 'TIM 3' a.k.a. 'Lemming a Helping Hand' from 'Lemmings'
02:34 'The Wall' from 'Turrican II - The Final Fight'
08:34 '10 Green Bottles' from 'Lemmings'
15:45
20:33
If anyone recognises those last two, please post the names. :)
Mark died in a non-AIDS related motorbike accident, off-screen!
He crashed into an AIDS clinic. Still counts!
If they'd made this in 2024 Beale could've been forced to raise the money by performing ever more depraved & humiliating acts on a webcam.
Amiga music
Anybody know what amiga game the music is from at 2.35?
Hate to be that guy... but the clip shown to illustrate Julia's theme is actually Peggy's Theme
Another classic, but where’s the music from? Is it a C64 game? Something like Short Circuit… my memory is fading in my old age.
Most of the music's from Lemmings on the Amiga
I assumed it came from some now completely forgotten EE game released on the Spectrum in about 1987. Looked it up and of course such a thing exists!
@@StuartMillard The music from the beginning is from an Amiga game called Rock 'N' Roll. :O
Lol 😂😂👍
He has no future in other productions. Cold War Steve summed him up well.
I don’t think eastenders know how Garys work.
Here lies
Donald Trump
1946 - 2023
Utter Ian Beale
Have visions of a sobbing, snotting, blubbing mess of Donald Trump sitting on his prison bunk "I'VE GOT NOTHING LEFT!!" #BEALE NOISE INTENSIFIES#
The Linehan reference was gold... the protector of women's lavs
Yeah, good to see some shade thrown at that bigoted, swivel-eyed lunatic. You’d think he was some sort of national hero by most comments you see.
I’ve always thought they should introduce a storyline where Ian Beale tries to compete with local supermarkets lunchtime offerings by launching the ‘Ian Beale Meal Deal’ at the cafe. I’d enjoy seeing him take the whole thing very seriously and perhaps admiring some new signage outside the cafe notifying locals of his amazing business brainwave. He could even wear a tabard and stand in the street drumming up trade and handing out sandwich samples to local residents whilst having the piss taken out of him by some naughty youths in the square. It’s the sort of drivel that passes as entertainment and it’s totally pathetic and stupid as an idea - So it’s definitely a goer!