Watching Eastenders from the Very Beginning

What does your perfect Sunday consist of? For Pauline and Arthur, it's pretending to be the perfect family so Pauline's mother Lou doesn't kick her daughter and her family out onto the curb for bringing another child into the world while Arthur still hasn't got a proper job. Ali and Sue devise a plan to ditch their baby for an evening in order to talk the pub lord and lady into letting Ali back into the Queen Vic after his fight with Nick Cotton. Sue's mad jealous of single punk mum Mary and does something she really shouldn't have...

How do you pronounce Luftwaffe"? Is it a good sign if you can't pronounce it correctly? Comedians Kathryn Mather @beforenowafterthen and Spring "Kathryn" Day @springkathryndaycomedian are Watching EastEnders From the Very Beginning on @LAFSUK YouTube channel to marvel at how much fictional London has changed since 1985 and how much it hasn't. Episode 6, AKA 'One Man's Trash' picks up where episode 5 left off. A swishy cop on the beat is investigating teenage trouble maker Mark Fowler for stealing a Nazi Luftwaffe that is possibly connected to a local murder...Also local corner shop is confronted for selling teens cigarettes by...

One of the reasons comedians Kathryn Mather (@beforenowafterthen) and Spring "Kathryn" Day( @springkathryndaycomedian) are Watching EastEnders From the Very Beginning is for Spring to get filled in on a lot of British culture she missed out on that's imbedded in the average British psyche… like the fact that the EastEnders theme song's name is "Anyone Can Fall in Love" and has such ominous lyrics about love, Spring's surprised it's not a country song. In this episode 5 of EastEnders we meet the new character single teenage mum to a premature newborn aka the punk Mary who has moved into Reg Co...

Record unemployment; get rich quick schemes; and lying to keep your job; fictional London in 1985 doesn't sound all that different from real London in 2026. Comedians Kathryn Mather@watchingeastenders and Spring Kathryn Day @springkathryndaycomedian are watching EastEnders from the very beginning because they both have OCD and can't start near the end! It's loads of fun as there is a murder investigation underway as well as a MLM scam that traveled the world via chain letter, power harassment and a house party. Join us as we judge the life choices of fictional characters from 40 years ago. You'll feel better about...

We live in turbulent times but was the past every really that simple? Comedians Kathryn Mather and Spring Kathryn Day are watching EastEnders from the very beginning. On this episode we watch and judge the life choices of fictional 1980's characters life choices with Schadenfreude heavy glee. We talk about smoking while pregnant, cockney slang, gambling, cheating on your wife and the skills of aa young Stewart Lee look-alike making a mockery of the long lost art of stealing cigarettes from your mum's purse. People are pining for simpler times but was life ever really simple? Comedians Kathryn Mather...

Spring 'Kathryn' Day and Kathryn Mather are watching Eastenders from the very beginning. In this second ever episode, we watch Den and Angie's Wedding Anniversary while discussing: lunar astrology, infidelity, drinking while pregnant and facing your local bully who you may also be physically attracted to. It's a gossipy episode where we judge the fictional characters of Den, Angie, Pauline, Arthur, Ethel, Dr. Legg, Ali and Nick Cotton from forty years ago. It is very satisfying. People are pining for simpler times but was life ever really simple? Comedians Kathryn Mather ( /beforenowafterthen and Spring "Kathryn" Day ( / springkathryndaycomedian ) are looking...

Comedians Kathryn Mather ( / beforenowafterthen and Spring "Kathryn" Day ( / springkathryndaycomedian ) are looking for answers in the legendary soap opera EastEnders. They are on a mission to watch EastEnders from the very beginning to parcel this time capsule of a soap opera that was the first of it's kind to integrate audience research as it dealt with social issues of the day. American transplant to the UK Spring wants to get filled in on the British culture she missed back when she was a child watching "Little House on the Prairie" in the rural Midwest. Mancunian Kathryn grew up watching "Coronation...