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"Brookside" (1982)

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• In 2000, the character Matt Musgrove (played by 'Kristian Ealey' ) transferred from Brookside to "Hollyoaks" (1995), the first time this had been done in England.
  
  
• The series was filmed on a real estate in Liverpool. Mersey TV owned all the houses one of which was used as a production office and never actually filmed in. When the series was cancelled in 2003 the houses were renovated and are now used for the interior scenes in "Hollyoaks" (1995). The only exterior scenes are shot around the front doors.
  
  
• The last resident to leave Brookside Close, Jimmy Corkhill, added the letter 'd' to the word 'Close', symbolically signalling the end of the soap.
  
  

• In the final few episodes a drug dealer named "Jack Michaelson" moved into Brookside Close. This is a play on the name Michael Jackson, the Channel 4 controller who had canceled the soap.
  
  

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