User:Ooh, Fruity/List of Brookside episodes (1982)

The British soap opera Brookside began broadcasting on Channel 4 in 1982. Created by Phil Redmond, the series was designed as the centrepiece of the schedule of the new television channel and the first episode aired on the channel's launch night, 2 November 1982.

Seventeen further episodes were broadcast before the year was out, and featured the debut of the acclaimed writer Jimmy McGovern, who went on to write over 100 scripts over the next decade. Redmond is also credited as writing the first ten episodes.