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    Drama TV Shows - 1990s 2 Mins Read

    Hollyoaks

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    Set in Chester (though filmed in Liverpool), this soap opera from Phil Redmond, designed specifically for a teenage audience, was surprisingly free of social conscience and angst, given his track record with Grange Hill and Brookside.

    With its ‘Britpack’ cast of hunks and hunkettes, and a Ray-Ban perspective on the life of British 17 and 18-year-olds (all puppy love and consumer goods worship), the show was quickly dubbed ‘Chester 90210’.

    But Redmond was unable to let old habits die completely, and a prominent early storyline saw Natasha die of a drug overdose.

    The characters – mainly students and young business owners – instead of mundanely struggling to put food on the table, were ducking and weaving to escape stalkers and serial killers.

    Originally a weekly series with a Sunday omnibus, Hollyoaks went twice weekly in September 1996. The show was shot on video but with the tapes manipulated in post-production to give the series the quality look of film.

    In an inexplicable piece of casting, aged rock star Alvin Stardust played Natasha’s ill-fated father and landlord of the Dog & Duck public house.

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    Shebah Ronay
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    Sam ‘OB’ O’Brien
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