By Jim Shelley for MailOnline
Published: 22:10 GMT, 19 February 2019 | Updated: 22:14 GMT, 19 February 2019
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EastEnders was 34 years old but didn’t celebrate the way you’d have expected, or wanted frankly.
Although you couldn’t call it a happy birthday exactly, it wasn’t nearly miserable enough – which on such a special occasion is traditional in this series.
There were no murders or devastating medical emergency befalling one of the most popular characters, no bombshells involving illicit sex or illegitimate parentage. Even the young children and babies all made it through without being run over or kidnapped.
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Miserable: EastEnders was 34 years old but didn’t celebrate the way you’d have expected, or wanted frankly. Although you couldn’t call it a happy birthday exactly
The soap had commemorated its 30th anniversary with a HUGE storyline - by revealing the identity of Lucy Beale’s killer.
In contrast no 34 was so low-key the
