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=== Ratings ===
''EastEnders'' is the BBC's most consistent programme in terms of ratings,<ref name="Lifeblood">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/feb/08/eastenders-bbc-25-years|title=Is EastEnders the lifeblood of the BBC?|last=Sabbagh|first=Dan|date=8 February 2010|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=12 April 2017}}</ref> and as of
The launch show in 1985 attracted 17.35 million viewers.<ref name="Week ending 24 February 1985">{{cite news|last1=Fiddick|first1=Peter|title=Research|issue=2899|publisher=[[The Listener (magazine)|The Listener]]|date=7 March 1985|page=38}}</ref><ref name="Viewing figure 1985">{{cite news|last1=Hassell|first1=Katherine|title=EastEnders 30th anniversary: The most memorable moments of the hit BBC soap|url=http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/557729/EastEnders-30th-Anniversary|newspaper=[[Daily Express]]|access-date=22 December 2016|date=15 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Monroe|1994|p=6}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Kingsley|1991|p=8}}</ref> 25 July 1985 was the first time the show's viewership rose to first position in the weekly top 10 shows for [[BBC One]].<ref name="Week ending 28 July 1985">{{cite journal|last1=Fiddick|first1=Peter|url=http://find.galegroup.com/lsnr/infomark.do?prodId=LSNR&userGroupName=livjm&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=GM2500175352&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=Research|access-date=20 January 2017|url-access=limited |format=pdf|issue=2921|journal=[[The Listener (magazine)|The Listener]]|date=8 August 1985|page=42|via=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]}}</ref> The highest rated episode of ''EastEnders'' is the Christmas Day 1986 episode, which attracted a combined 30.15 million viewers who tuned into either the original transmission or the omnibus to see Den Watts hand over divorce papers to his wife Angie. This remains the highest rated episode of a soap in British television history.<ref name="BARB" />
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