Template:19 February

19th February 1985: In the first episode of EastEnders, the fate of missing resident Reg Cox is revealed to Den Watts, Arthur Fowler and Ali Osman when they break into his flat. Elsewhere in Albert Square, local doctor Harold Legg confirms the pregnancy of forty-year-old mum of two Pauline Fowler, but when her battleaxe mother Lou Beale hears the news she's furious and orders her daughter to "get rid of it"; she won't have a baby in her house. It also saw the first of a long line of bust-ups when local villain Nick Cotton slashed his fist through The Queen Vic's window.
 * For more information see Episode 01 (19 February 1985).