Talk:Market in Honey Lane

Anna Wing - Not A Main Character And A Very Different Show From EastEnders....

It has long been rumoured that Anna Wing appeared in this show. I'm not sure if the actress ever said so, but this notion was at first questioned, but now seems accepted by all and sundry. If she did appear, it was not as a major long-running character - cast lists from TV Times of the broadcast years exist in my collection, and I cannot find her name anywhere in those I have (although my collection is not complete). Also, Market In Honey Lane had a similar setting to EastEnders, but not premise. The premise of EastEnders was to show life in 1980s Britain, and be gritty and topical. Market In Honey Lane is described by no less an authority than the British Film Institute thus:

This soap serial, in trying to demonstrate an earthy, natural society, succeeded somehow in showing how very nice, how indomitably life-loving, how British and human and working-class life is.

Inspired to some extent by Granada TV's success with Coronation Street (ITV, 1960-), ATV's Market in Honey Lane was a very conventional TV serial, setting up minor heartbreaks and conflicts so that the writers could dissolve them, usually, in a flood of cosy sentimentality.

The series, overall, is deeply embedded in a culture; that of the Cockney proletariat with its wide boys, stoical mothers and hermetic yet threatening cosiness. It was not an earth-shaking programme, and certainly not pioneering in any revolutionary ideas in technique and production, but simply proposed itself to the casual viewer as a mildly pleasant affair.

This is very far from the serial dreamt up by Julia Smith and Tony Holland in the 1980s.

(86.141.69.6 (talk) 02:49, 28 May 2014 (UTC))

Anna Wing - Did She Appear In Market In Honey Lane At ALL?

I have been trying to find exactly what role and for what duration Anna Wing appeared in Market Honey Lane, and I now suspect she didn't or, if she did, in a brief and minor role. I can find no interviews - either printed or online - in which Miss Wing discussed this show, and suspect it all began as an online rumour which has been picked up by web surfing journalists from the likes of the Guardian, the Stage, etc. This type of parroted error is increasingly common. I have also checked she British Film Institute's cast list for the show, which includes guest appearances, and whilst several actors who would go on to fame did appear and the list seems to be pretty exhaustive for a 91 episode serial, Anna Wing's name or character is NOT THERE - http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1400806/credits.html

(86.141.69.6 (talk) 10:27, 28 May 2014 (UTC))

Final two years

In first para: "It was broadcast between April 1967 and March 1969. For the final two years, the name was shortened to just Honey Lane"

Errm... April 67 to March 69 is less than two years in total so "final two years" doesn't make much sense. What is it actually trying to say here? Bagunceiro (talk) 20:09, 17 November 2017 (UTC)