Smash hit

Like Top of the Pops, another recent BBC casualty, the series has undergone several attempted relaunches, including its relocation from London to Liverpool in 2002.

What they did next

Tucker Jenkins (Todd Carty). Tucker’s Luck spin-off. Graduated to EastEnders, now television director

Trisha Yates (Michelle Herbert) Worked for sweet manufacturer then moved to Dundee to raise family

Suzanne Ross (Susan Tully) Played Michelle Fowler in EastEnders

Zammo Maguire (Lee MacDonald) Set up key-cutting shop in London

Roland Browning (Erkan Mustafa) Appeared in Lenny Henry’s sitcom Chef! and Blackadder

Robbie Wright (John Alford) Star of London’s Burning. Convicted of supplying drugs to newspaper reporter in 1999

Danny Kendall (Jonathan Lambeth) Communications director for AOL

Benny Green (Terry Sue Patt) Appeared in football hooligan drama The Firm

Douglas “Pogo” Patterson (Peter Moran) Runs a London pub

Claire Scott (Paula Ann Bland) Posed topless for Mayfair magazine, below, then worked in a shoe shop

Fay Lucas (Alison Bettles) Qualified as beauty therapist, set up freight forwarding company, acted again in The IT Crowd

Luke “Gonch” Gardener (John Holmes) University of East Anglia student union president, then trainee manager at Golden Horseshoe Casino in Bayswater, West London

Mr Geoff “Bullet” Baxter (Michael Cronin) Author of children’s novels and scriptwriter

Mrs Bridget McClusky (Gwynneth Powell) Heartbeat and Touch of Frost, pub landlady Ivy Trehearne in Echo Beach

Mr Maurice Bronson (Michael Sheard) Appeared in The Empire Strikes Back, played Hitler in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Mr Dan “Hoppy” Hopwood (Brian Capron) Serial killer Richard Hillman in Coronation Street

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