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28 January 2010 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

It was a perfect EastEnders funeral – bury one Mitchell, get another one free

And so to bed. Last night in EastEnders (BBC1) ­Archie Mitchell, fatally dented by a bust of Queen ­Victoria, was laid to rest in the part of ­Walford cemetery which is exclusively reserved for murdered landlords of the Queen Vic. Dirty Den was buried there. Twice. So was that other chap no one remembers because he was a fine, upstanding man. Or he was upstanding, until Nick Cotton stabbed him.

Archie got all the trimmings. As dear Lord Tennyson – a favourite of Queen Victoria – wrote, the little place had ­seldom seen a costlier ­funeral. There were two matching black horses with nodding plumes, beefy-looking blokes in frock coats, a coffin with brass knobs on and Dad spelled out in white ­gerberas. Archibald would have been ­impressive, but that was not the name by which he was widely known. »

- Nancy Banks-Smith

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