History Trivia / EastEnders

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/BarbaraWindsor was opposed to the storyline which saw her character Peggy mount a hate campaign against Mark Fowler for being HIV positive. She later claimed:
-->[Peggy] was vicious to [Mark]. She was so naïve about the whole thing. When I got the script and it said some awful things, I couldn't believe it. It's the only time I've questioned the writers and said "I can't believe it, people aren't like that today". Then they sent me a survey and proved that people are actually like that. When it came to doing the scenes, I just got hold of Todd [Carty] and said, "sorry this is Peggy!" I got the most appalling [hate] mail because of it. I had a very dear friend of mine who was dying of AIDS so it was very personal to me. The last scene I did I went straight out and got terribly drunk.

** When Jim Branning's actor John Bardon suffered a stroke in 2007, he was written out of the show while Bardon recovered, with it being established that Jim had also suffered a stroke. The effects of the stroke (on both Bardon and Branning) were evident in
** After June Brown started to lose her eyesight in 2015, a storyline was written in 2016 involving Dot Cotton beginning to lose her eyesight as well.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://eastenders.wikia.com/wiki/ EastEnders Wiki]]

** Sal is seen walking with a frame during Peggy's funeral, as Anna Karen had a bad fall.

** Before Stacey was ultimately revealed to be Archie's killer, the writers originally planned for his wife Peggy to be the one who committed the crime, but it was changed when Barbara Windsor decided to leave, as confirmed by scriptwriter Simon Ashdown.

** Kim Medcalf replaced Danniella Westbrook as Sam Mitchell, after the latter was involved in a number of drug incidents. In 2009, when Sam was reintroduced again after 4 years away, she was portrayed by Westbrook, who had finally kicked her addictions.

** Zigzagged by Danniella Westbrook (Sam Mitchell). In 1996 her character was axed from the show due to the controversy surrounding Westbrook's cocaine addiction. However, she returned to the role in 1999... [[HistoryRepeats only to be axed again the following year]] after her continued addiction ''completely eroded her septum''. Sam was brought back ''again'' in 2002, [[TheOtherDarrin with Kim Medcalf in the role]], then written out in 2005. When the character returned briefly in 2009 and 2010, Westbrook, who had by now cleaned up her act and had reconstructive surgery on her nose, was handed the role back.

** Tiffany Mitchell was killed off when Martine [=McCutheon=] left the show in order to embark on a pop career. Since leaving the show, she has publicly slammed the BBC's "Controller of Continuing Drama Series", Mal Young, who made the decision to kill her character, accusing him of treating her unfairly and bringing her role in the soap to an end so irrevocably, merely as punishment for leaving. In turn, Young has hit back at [=McCutcheon=], saying her anger only arose because she wanted him to keep her role in EastEnders open as a "safety net" in case her pop career failed, and he was not prepared to do this.

* NamesTheSame: Billy Mitchell and Billie Jackson, Big Mo and Little Mo, Tiffany Mitchell and Tiffany Dean. The Billies were introduced at different times, the Mos joined the show at the same time and [[JustifiedTrope are grandmother and granddaughter]], while Tiffany Dean [[DeadGuyJunior was named after]] Tiffany Mitchell.
** There have been two characters named Aidan (Brosnan and Maguire), who both appeared at different times. However once you consider that the former was played by Creator/SeanMaguire, it makes the latter's name either completely unintentional or some kind of weird ShoutOut.