Summary[]
With secrets rife, the Carters are set to explode with Linda ready to tell Mick about Dean. The Beales do their best to enjoy Christmas despite their beloved Lucy not being there, but there is a particularly eerie twist coming amidst the Beale Christmas Day presents. Linda is delighted when Johnny skypes from Italy. Stan dances with Cora, but is stunned when Sylvie returns. Shirley worries that Sylvie will reveal that Mick isn't Stan's son. Mick tells Dean that he couldn't imagine the family without him but Dean is drunk and Mick orders him home. Mick proposes to Linda, she tells him that she can't marry him.
Credits[]
Main cast[]
- Shirley Carter - Linda Henry
- Mick Carter - Danny Dyer
- Linda Carter - Kellie Bright
- Dean Wicks - Matt Di Angelo
- Nancy Carter - Maddy Hill
- Lee Carter - Danny Hatchard
- Johnny Carter - Sam Strike (video)
- Tina Carter - Luisa Bradshaw-White
- Babe Smith - Annette Badland
- Sylvie Carter - Linda Marlowe
- Stan Carter - Timothy West
- Phil Mitchell - Steve McFadden
- Ronnie Mitchell - Samantha Womack
- Charlie Cotton - Declan Bennett
- Dot Branning - June Brown
- Nick Cotton - John Altman
- Denise Fox - Diane Parish
- Patrick Trueman - Rudolph Walker
- Cora Cross - Ann Mitchell
- Max Branning - Jake Wood
- Emma Summerhayes - Anna Acton
- Abi Branning - Lorna Fitzgerald
- Lauren Branning - Jacqueline Jossa
- Peter Beale - Ben Hardy
- Ian Beale - Adam Woodyatt
- Jane Beale - Laurie Brett
- Cindy Williams - Mimi Keene
- Bobby Beale - Eliot Carrington
- Beth Williams - unknown actress (uncredited)
Guest cast[]
Notes[]
- Johnny Carter makes a video appearance to his family. This is his last appearance until 11 April 2016, where he will then be played by Ted Reilly.
- This hour-long Christmas episode was transmitted at the later time of 9pm.
- Lee Sheward was credited as the stunt co-ordinator of this episode.
- Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid, It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Andy Williams and Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl are heard playing in the Queen Vic.
Dialogue[]
SHIRLEY CARTER (to Mick Carter): Dean is your brother.