EastEnders is celebrating 40 years of bringing street punch-ups, impactful storylines, and family feuds to viewers.
On Thursday, viewers will find out the results of key storylines that have been rumbling on since the explosive Christmas episode.
As part of the celebrations, a live episode will be shown on Thursday where viewers will find out if their votes mean Diane Parish's character, Denise Fox, reunites with her estranged husband Jack Branning, played by Scott Maslen, or her secret lover Ravi Gulati, played by Aaron Thiara.
Warning: spoiler alert!
This week they have also discovered who hit Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) in Albert Square on Christmas Day - Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth).
The East End of London-set soap began airing on 19 February 1985.
It was a ratings hit from the start with 17 million viewers tuning in, according to UK ratings.
Here is a round-up of its biggest storylines:
1) Angie tells Dirty Den she's dying
In a 1986 episode, the landlady of The Queen Vic, Angie, played by Anita Dobson, lied to her philandering husband 'Dirty' Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) - saying she had six months to live. Later, he found out the truth and served her with divorce papers in a Christmas episode.
2) Sharongate
The Sharongate episode was the talk of office watercoolers in 1994 as the often-warring Mitchell brothers, Grant (Ross Kemp) and Phil (Steve McFadden), entered a new rivalry, this time over Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean), Angie and Den's daughter. The tense storyline had been building up for several episodes, leading to the point where Grant played a tape on which his wife confessed to an affair with his brother.
3) Tiffany hit by Frank Butcher's car
Another Mitchell love interest, Grant's wife Tiffany (Martine McCutcheon), ended up dying on New Year's Eve after she was hit by Frank Butcher's (Mike Reid) car while being chased by her husband, grabbing their daughter Courtney Mitchell. Tiffany had only recently cheated death after surviving a fall down the stairs of The Queen Vic and said she was leaving Grant after he cheated in the 1998 episode.
4) Mitchell brothers' River Thames fracas
Phil found out that Grant vengefully had sex with his then-wife Kathy Mitchell, but the character was not killed and instead left the Square with his daughter Courtney for a new life in Brazil. His departure in 1999 followed Phil firing a gun at a car he was driving causing it to slide into the River Thames.
5) You ain't my mother!
The character of Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) memorably revealed that Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan) was her daughter, after her uncle Harry Slater's (Michael Elphick) abuse. Zoe stormed across Albert Square and screamed: "You can't tell me what to do, you ain't my mother!" to which a tearful Kat screeched back: "Yes, I am!"
6) Wedding day fight
Often unlucky in love, businessman Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) angrily confronted Jane Collins (Laurie Brett) on their wedding day after she slept with Grant, the brother of his mother Kathy's former partner. The couple had a mud wrestle in full wedding gear but later reconciled with Ian deciding to support her.
7) Stacey's affair with Max and Bradley's death
The Branning family watched some Christmas DVDs together in 2007 - and one revealed that Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner), the wife of Bradley (played by Charlie Clements), had shared a kiss with Bradley's father Max Branning (Jake Wood). They later reconciled, but Bradley plunged off a roof in 2010 after he appeared to take the fall for the death of Archie Mitchell (Larry Lamb).
8) Janine pushes Barry off a cliff
Poor Barry Evans (Shaun Williamson) was the latest of Janine Butcher's (Charlie Brooks) love interests to become a target of her web of lies and cruelty. She killed Barry on New Year's Day 2004 after finding out that he was not sick, following a plan to take his money.
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Source: Press Association
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