Louis Tomlinson had a late entrance to this video diary as he came down the stairs with a garbage can lid on his head. This week, The X Factor is celebrating chapter five of One Direction’s video diaries.
The cast of EastEnders in the Queen Vic (1985).One Direction Had Some Iconic Video Diaries On ‘The X Factor’
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I n the first episode of EastEnders (19 February 1985), one of the longest running TV soap operas in the world, Reg Cox is found half-dead and stinking in a filthy garret after languishing there for days. For the next half an hour, the members of the community of Walford – the fictional East London borough where the show is set – are introduced to us one by one: who will take responsibility for this unloved ‘cantankerous’ old man nobody could give a ‘toss about’? Lou Beale, Albert Square’s matriarch and one of its main gossipmongers, insists that charity begins at home: ‘We’ll take care of our own, thank you very much.’ Her friend Ethel Skinner laments the passing of the ‘good ol’ days’, when ‘we might have had a few fleas but at least we knew our neighbours everybody cared for each other.’ One direction video diary moments tv# The troubling message is that in these changed times no one knows what’s going on behind their neighbours’ locked doors – or even in their own home. The parallel plotline in this first episode – a key structure in all soap operas – is about Lou’s daughter, Pauline, who has been hiding the fact that she’s pregnant from her family. ‘It’s all strangers now,’ Lou complains when she finds out, ‘even the people you know.’ As both these pieces of news – Reg Cox, Pauline Fowler – start to fly around the square, the show’s paradigmatic form of suspense becomes clear, along with the principle that will keep it running for nearly forty years and counting. There will be no secrets – or there will only be secrets – in Albert Square. Women are the moral barometers of life in Walford – in particular, Lou and Ethel, whose special status stems from their memories of the Second World War. They were the first two characters established by the creators of the show, Tony Holland and Julia Smith (Ethel was based on a woman Holland met in a pub in Hackney). On Boxing Day 1988, seven million people watched ‘Civvy Street’, a prequel to the show that provides a backstory for all the main characters who were alive in 1942. This was where the community had its roots, amid the trauma of war. Reg turns out to have been a petty criminal and would-be seducer, shunned as he tries to use his black-market chocolate to woo Lou (‘Above board, that’s my motto.
I don’t believe in cheating’ is her put-down). Ethel emerges with Lou from an air-raid shelter to discover that her entire family has been wiped out by a doodlebug.
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In a spin-off novella based on the series – the first of twelve such books by Hugh Miller – Dr Legg, the GP who in the first episode will tend to both the pregnant Pauline and the comatose Reg, is married to a young nurse who is killed by an unexploded bomb in the garden of their newly bought home. One direction video diary moments series#ĭr Legg, whose last appearance in the series was in 2019, never remarried. At the same time, a fierce optimism – talk of Beveridge and the welfare state – is rising from the ashes (‘a whole new world’, in Lou’s words). Lou’s husband, Albert, returns from the war haunted by what he has suffered and seen in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Trauma makes him impotent for a time, but the novella ends with the birth of Lou’s twins, Pete and Pauline, two days after the German surrender. The war casts a long shadow, and these people will prove as damaged as they are tenacious. Nick Cotton starts a fight and is thrown out of the Queen Vic, the pub at the heart of the series, by the landlord, Dennis Watts (later to become famous as ‘Dirty Den’), who looks down appalled at the blood on his white shirt.īy the end of the first episode, it’s clear that belonging here carries with it the threat of violence, past, present or to come.
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