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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp;amp; Karma" data-source="post: 385501" data-attributes="member: 23">I&#039;m wondering if I&#039;ll have this experience more in the episodes that lie ahead. I think the very first episodes I watched were the Siege Of &#039;85, but I probably didn&#039;t become a regular viewer until later that year or even the following.&nbsp; It&#039;s likely that episodes from this time onwards might have more familiar scenes. Oh, I watched his first episode last night. Terry called him &quot;Kojak&quot;, and I found myself thinking that &quot;Uncle Fester&quot; would have been funnier (for me, at least). Speaking of familiar actors, the bloke who had lost his decorating job for Damon&#039;s YTS placement to be created was Ron Brownlow from Crossroads. Which, of course,&nbsp; would have completely passed me by if I hadn&#039;t watched The Noele Gordon Collection last year. Ian Liston&#039;s Brookie episode doesn&#039;t even rate a mention on IMDb, but&nbsp; his profile does mention that he was born in Merseyside, so his appearance seems a good fit. Oh, that&#039;s great. I think I&#039;d have been tempted to try it myself if I&#039;d seen this back in the day. It&#039;s one of those practical jokes that would probably be less likely to work now, partly because of technology (Caller ID, etc.), but also because an awful lot of people don&#039;t even have landlines anymore. I&#039;m sure you will spot quite a few. I&#039;ve noticed with actors who&#039;ve played well-known characters in a long-running soap that it&#039;s often the case they&#039;ve played a number of smaller roles in earlier years. In Brookie alone we&#039;ve had the likes of Billy Corkhill, Sinbad and David Crosbie showing up years earlier. And that&#039;s not even touching on actors who&#039;ve swapped soaps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 385501, member: 23"] I'm wondering if I'll have this experience more in the episodes that lie ahead. I think the very first episodes I watched were the Siege Of '85, but I probably didn't become a regular viewer until later that year or even the following. It's likely that episodes from this time onwards might have more familiar scenes. Oh, I watched his first episode last night. Terry called him "Kojak", and I found myself thinking that "Uncle Fester" would have been funnier (for me, at least). Speaking of familiar actors, the bloke who had lost his decorating job for Damon's YTS placement to be created was Ron Brownlow from [I]Crossroads[/I]. Which, of course, would have completely passed me by if I hadn't watched [I]The Noele Gordon Collection[/I] last year. Ian Liston's [I]Brookie[/I] episode doesn't even rate a mention on IMDb, but his profile does mention that he was born in Merseyside, so his appearance seems a good fit. Oh, that's great. I think I'd have been tempted to try it myself if I'd seen this back in the day. It's one of those practical jokes that would probably be less likely to work now, partly because of technology (Caller ID, etc.), but also because an awful lot of people don't even have landlines anymore. I'm sure you will spot quite a few. I've noticed with actors who've played well-known characters in a long-running soap that it's often the case they've played a number of smaller roles in earlier years. In [I]Brookie[/I] alone we've had the likes of Billy Corkhill, Sinbad and David Crosbie showing up years earlier. And that's not even touching on actors who've swapped soaps. [/QUOTE]

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