Soap Opera
UK 1998-2002 - 4 weekly episodes of 30 min.

Starring: Martin Kemp (Steve Owen) - Barbara Windsor

Production: BBC Eastenders Productions

Rating:

That's a hard one with a soap and the one million storylines that this genre is famous for. It's impossible to keep you updated with all the conspiracies, love triangles and other dramatic events on this page. Martin's character arrived at the square as a bit of a lady's man, soon got into trouble with one of his ex-lovers, got rid of her with an ashtray and managed to walk out of the court room as a free man. More drama was to come with drug addiction, marriage, the Phil Mitchell shooting, marriage breakdown, mother problems and a very dramatic exit from Walford on March 1st 2002.

If you are interested in all developments in detail we suggest to check out the following link for ultimate Eastenders information:

Official BBC Eastenders Homepage

There you will find information on all the cast, on all storylines and you can also find a lot of pictures from 'vintage' episodes. It's huge and definitely worth a look!
If you interested in Martin's fate especially, there is a real fun page that gives you the whole 'Steve Owen' story, with plot summeries, storyline updates, several chatrooms and a messageboard ... everything that a real Steve Owen fan needs!!! Martin himself is a fan too: "It's with help from people like you that justice will soon prevail! I admit I'm no saint....but life's not easy in Walford." So check out this link and support the campaign:

Free Steve Owen Homepage

Obviously it's hard to comment on a soap because your judgement may vary from episode to episode but what we can say is that Mart brought a lot of excitement to the Square and therefore was a real big win for the show!

Eastenders Links: For all those soap addicts out there we can only note that there are quite a lot of inofficial websites around, here's an award winning one for a start: http://www.xcelco.on.ca/~walford