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    <description>News, highlights and banter from the team at BBC Genome – the website that shows you all the BBC’s listings between 1923 and 2009 (and tells you what was on the day you were born!) Join us and share all the oddities, archive gems and historical firsts you find while digging around…</description>
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      <title>Kathy and the EastEnders teasers</title>
      <description><![CDATA[As Kathy Beale makes a regular return to EastEnders, we glance at the soap opera's 'mystery' listings from its earlier days.]]></description>
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    <img class="image" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p0323jby.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p0323jby.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p0323jby.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p0323jby.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p0323jby.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p0323jby.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p0323jby.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p0323jby.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p0323jby.jpg 1008w" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 613px, (min-width: 48.125em) 66.666666666667vw, 100vw" alt=""><p><em>Kathy Beale pictured in 1988 with her first husband Pete</em></p></div>
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    <p>EastEnders stalwart Kathy Beale is making her <a title="regular return to the soap" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031lxgs" target="_blank">regular return to the soap</a>&nbsp;after apparently being dead for almost a decade.</p>
<p>Here at Genome, her comeback has prompted a delve into the TV listings. As one of the original Albert Square line-up, it's no surprise to find that 'Kaff' - played by Gillian Taylforth - is on the <a title="first cast list" href="http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/95e92fac0ca74da591e0950048b8cb45" target="_blank">first cast list</a> for the show on 19 February 1985.</p>
<p>In the early days of EastEnders, episodes were teased with a single line of dialogue - and some of them were very mysterious indeed.</p>
<p>The first one to mention Kathy's name popped up in the listings on 8 January 1987. <a title="What does it mean?" href="http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3701a96a17ba4fc7aaf71e730c0e83bd" target="_blank">What does it mean?</a> And what happened in the episode itself? We'd like to hear your theories or even memories of that.</p>
<p>Around 1990 it appears that these curious little tasters were replaced with more digestible, obvious plot synopses, with <a title="Kathy's first mention" href="http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c90989ffb1634e7197d941476d88696a" target="_blank">Kathy's first mention</a> being about "deciding it's time for some straight talking".</p>
<p>Welcome back, Kathy - you've been missed.</p>
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