The BBC has launched its first ever soap opera, EastEnders.

Breakfast Time's Paul Burden visits a pub in the East End of London, to find out what the locals thought of EastEnders' first episode. Do they think the fictional borough of Walford and its residents were a fair reflection of the real East End? Will they keep watching?

Originally broadcast 20 February, 1985.






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