Chris just a brilliant voice and legendary actor

He was my favourite back then

Classic : "...let's get someone down here to check the mileage on everything..'" Frank : "oooh Wow wow just a minute now I remember ..."

I agree, the glory days of Eastenders was the 1980's. Den and Angie. Pete Beale.

Today’s EastEnders is dire, I’ve watched a few episodes and they left me feeling stale and bored

So true. Todays’s Eastenders is VERY poor in comparison of how good it was 20 years ago. I stopped watching it almost 20 yrs ago to the day to be honest

I love 80's Eastenders but my era growing up was the 90's. I idolized the Mitchell brothers and in my opinion the last great era was around 2005 with Johnny Allen, Dennis Rickman, Andy Hunter etc. The only reason I'll catch the odd episode nowadays is because of Phil Mitchell.

The problem is, with all the different writers over the years, Phil's character changed somewhat. The writers were never consistent with how Phil was originally written. Sure, he was always a hard man, but going into the 2000's he went more phycho and that's down to the writing.

​@@virgilblaze9090 actually I disagree I think they have always been fairly consistent with Phil's temperament, rarely argues with elderly or women. However when it comes to Frank you could tell he had a deep respect for him as a stalwart to the old east end.

Agree especially at 2:34-2:43

Michelle was at uni during this period.

They probably figured out University was a waste of time and decided to start businesses earning real money.