Brookside
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- a British television soap opera about the lives of a group of families living on the same street in Liverpool. It was broadcast from 1982 until 2003 by Channel Four and was one of the most serious soap operas, dealing with subjects such as death, disability, drugs and child abuse (= cruel treatment).