E Street 35 years old
E Street is an Australian television soap opera created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993. Whereas Neighbours is set in a middle-class suburb, Home and Away in a seaside town, and Richmond Hill a semi-rural ordinary community, E Street was set in a tough inner-city district called Westside and stories revolved around the local community there. The moderately successful and sedately-paced Grundy serial Richmond Hill was cancelled by Ten to make way for E Street. Richmond Hill had also been successfully sold to ITV in the UK, and was rating in the high-20's in Australia, so it was a huge gamble by Ten to axe it and replace it with the untried E Street. Indeed, it would take 3 years for a UK broadcaster to pick up the soap and E Street initially rated somewhat lower than Richmond Hill in Australia, but audience research indicated that it attracted a significant proportion of the 14-35 audience and a large male viewership - a demographic highly prized by advertisers. Later, with racier storylines, the ratings climbed, eventually eclipsing the figures that Richmond Hill had attracted. E Street ran for 404 one-hour episodes. Like many Australian soap operas before it, E Street was broadcast as two one-hour episodes each week and until the premiere of HeadLand in November 2005, it had been the last Australian soap opera to screen its episodes in this format.
Credits
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Leslie Dayman She was 51 , now 86 years old | |
| Briony Behets She was 37 , now 72 years old | |
| Marcus Graham He was 25 , now 60 years old | |
| Noel Hodda He was 35 , now 70 years old | |
| Cecily Polson | |
| Tony Martin He was 3 , 27 years old when he died | |
| Serge Lazareff He was 44 , now 79 years old | |
| Vince Martin He was 51 , 81 years old when he died | |
| Brooke Anderson She was 10 , now 45 years old | |
| Diane Craig She was 39 , now 74 years old | |
| Virginia Hey She was 36 , now 71 years old | |
| Alyssa-Jane Cook She was 21 , now 57 years old | |
| Rebecca Rigg She was 21 , now 56 years old | |
| Julieanne Newbould She was 32 , now 67 years old | |
| Richard Huggett He was 24 , now 59 years old | |
| Joan Sydney She was 52 , now 87 years old | |
| Tony Martin (Australian actor) He was 36 , now 71 years old |
Crew
| Name | Job title |
|---|
E Street (35 years)
Ended
- First Air Date: 1989-01-24
- Runtime: [60] minutes
- Number of Episodes: 35