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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 405209" data-attributes="member: 673"><p>[ATTACH=full]53855[/ATTACH]</p><p>This time 29 years ago, an even shorter lived BBC soap was in the middle of its summer run of 24 episodes. <em>Castles</em> was unusual in that it was a Granada soap produced for the BBC. While Granada had produced programmes for other channels before, this was the first time one of their soaps hadn’t aired on ITV (<em>Corrie, The Practice, Albion Market, Families, Revelations</em> were all made for ITV). Going out twice a week (initially on Tuesday & Thursday evenings), <em>Castles</em> was created by <em> Corrie</em> writer Peter Whalley and featured Sally Wainwright (future creator of <em>Happy Valley</em>) on the writing staff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 405209, member: 673"] [ATTACH type="full"]53855[/ATTACH] This time 29 years ago, an even shorter lived BBC soap was in the middle of its summer run of 24 episodes. [I]Castles[/I] was unusual in that it was a Granada soap produced for the BBC. While Granada had produced programmes for other channels before, this was the first time one of their soaps hadn’t aired on ITV ([I]Corrie, The Practice, Albion Market, Families, Revelations[/I] were all made for ITV). Going out twice a week (initially on Tuesday & Thursday evenings), [I]Castles[/I] was created by [I] Corrie[/I] writer Peter Whalley and featured Sally Wainwright (future creator of [I]Happy Valley[/I]) on the writing staff. [/QUOTE]
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