The kiss was later screened to a TV audience of billions when a clip of it was included in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. That one kiss between the soap’s Beth Jordache and Margaret Clemence seems so tame now but it was a historic moment, both celebrated and condemned.
If you are old enough, you were possibly one of the nine million people who tuned in to watch British TV’s first pre-watershed lesbian kiss in Brookside.