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    What’s Yours? – The preferred tipple of your favourite TV characters

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    Many TV shows are lubricated by alcohol, and the big American soaps would dry up and stop without it.

    The Rovers Return, The Queen Victoria and the like, are the setting for so much important action, useful places for characters to meet and a boon to writers.

    whatsyoursangieDot Cotton is looking for her evil son, Nick, so she tries the Queen Vic. Rita must come across Alan Bradley chatting up another woman so she pops in to the Rovers for a vodka and a confrontation. Newton & Ridleys Vs Churchills . . . what’s yours?

    Dallas, Dynasty, The Colby’s, Falcon Crest and Knots Landing always featured a great deal of drinking. It’s easy to see why.

    Boring plot lines have to be made in complicated chunks of tête-à-tête dialogue. A pretty waitress pouring JR’s Bourbon and branch water gives you something to look at while the turgid stuff about the cartel is dispensed.

    A character’s taste in drinks is crucial to his or her place in the society of the TV show. In British programs, all ‘real men’ drink beer.

    Young characters drink mostly Lager. Middle-class men drink Whisky, women who’ve ‘been around’ drink Vodka . . .

    What’s the tipple of choice of some of the most famous TV characters? It’s your round . . .


    Coronation Street

    whatsyoursenaEna Sharples : Milk Stout
    Minnie Caldwell : Milk Stout
    Martha Longhurst : Milk Stout
    Hilda Ogden : Light Ale (bottled), Port & Lemon, Planters Punch
    Annie Walker : Special Sherry, Cherry Brandy (at Christmas)
    Mavis Riley : Fruit Juice
    Emily Bishop : Fruit Juice
    Elsie Tanner : Gin, Lager & Lime
    Vera Duckworth : Lager (bottled)
    Ivy Tilsley : Lager (bottled)
    Alec Gilroy : Irish Whisky
    whatsyourshildaMike Baldwin : Scotch Whisky, Champagne
    Rita Fairclough : Vodka & Tonic
    Albert Tatlock : Rum
    Alf Roberts : Beer
    Stan Ogden : Beer
    Jack Duckworth : Beer
    Deidre Barlow : Lager, Gin
    Tracey Barlow : Coke
    Ken Barlow : Newton & Ridley’s Mild (half)


    EastEnders


    whatsyoursange&denDot Cotton
     :  Orange Juice, Tea
    Angie Watts : Gin
    Pauline Fowler : Light Ale
    Ethel Skinner : Guinness
    Lou Beale : Milk Stout, Brandy, Guinness
    Pete Beale :  Beer (Churchill’s)
    Arthur Fowler : Beer (Churchill’s)
    Charlie Cotton : Beer (Churchill’s)
    Wicksy : Lager
    Ian Beale :  Lager
    Lofty : Lager
    Pat : Gin
    Den Watts : Beer, Scotch, Champagne, Wine
    Michelle : Soft Drink, Vodka, Gin
    Sharon : Soft Drink, Vodka
    Mags : Spring Water, Gin & Tonic
    Wilmott-Brown : Beer, spirits
    Dr Legg : Half of bitter
    Ali : Beer, Whisky
    Sue : Gin, Soft drinks
    Dr Singh : Half of bitter


    Dallas

    Miss Ellie : Brandy, Whisky, Wine
    Clayton : Beer, Whisky before dinner
    JR : Bourbon and branch
    Cliff Barnes : Bourbon, Whisky, Wine, Beer
    Ray Krebbs : Beer
    Bobby : Beer, Whisky before dinner
    Sue-Ellen : Vodka (lots of it)


    Dynasty

    Alexis : Champagne, Cocktails
    Blake Carrington : Brandy, Whisky, Wine
    Krystle : Wine, Whisky, Brandy
    Steven Carrington :  Beer
    Jeff Colby : Whisky, Wine, Beer, Champagne, Cocktails
    Falcon Colby :  Wine, Champagne, Cocktails
    Adam Carrington : Beer, Wine, anything to get drunk on
    Sammy-Jo : Wine
    Dominique Deveraux : Champagne
    Dex Dexter : Beer, Wine with a meal


    Knots Landing

    Gary Ewing : Anything alcoholic
    Abby Ewing : Wine


    Falcon Crest

    Richard Channing : Milk
    The rest of the cast : Falcon Crest Wine

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