| CROSSROADS | Old long-running ITV soap opera which featured Meg Richardson (10) |
| THEBILL | Old, long-running ITV police drama series, if adequate, fits this? (3,4) |
| STREET | ITV soap opera which first aired in 1960, Coronation _ (6) |
| DYNASTY | American TV soap opera which featured the Colby and Carrington families (7) |
| DALLAS | Soap opera which featured the Ewing family (6) |
| SOAPOPERA | Appear so upset about old long-running series (4,5) |
| NEIGHBOURS | Soap opera which became Australia's longest running TV drama series (10) |
| GARNOCKWAY | Soap opera which was replaced by 'Take the High Road' (7,3) |
| GEORGECOLE | Actor who starred as Arthur Daley in long-running ITV series Minder (6,4) |
| MIKEPOWELL | 1991 breaker of Bob Beamon's 23-year-old long jump world record (4,6) |
| DAYSOFOURLIVES | Long-running soap opera which began airing in 1965 |
| ALL | American soap opera which aired for 41 years, _ My Children (3) |
| DAYS | US soap opera which has aired since 1965, _ of Our Lives (4) |
| PEYTON | ___ Place, American soap opera which aired between 1964 and 1969 (6) |
| CORONATIONSTREET | Soap opera which spawned the spin-off Albion Market |
| BILL | The _, long-running ITV police drama which ended in 2010 (4) |
| MINDER | Long-running ITV comedy-drama which starred George Cole (6) |
| NOELE | Actress who starred as Meg Richardson in the ITV soap Crossroads (5,6) |
| GORDON | Noele ?, actress who starred as Meg Richardson in ITV soap Crossroads |
| AFFAIRS | Word that follows Family to give the title of a Channel 5 soap opera which ran from 1997 until 2005 (7) |
