East Enders Off Set Episodes - 2007

2007

• Stella Crawford and Ben Mitchell (23 February)

Stella took Ben to the London Dungeon in an attempt to get him to like her.

• Kevin Wicks (8 March – 9 March)

Kevin was on Dungeness beach, having been missing from Walford for several weeks. Whilst there, he met a man named Jed who stole Kevin's bag and eventually died in a road traffic accident.

• Jim and Dot Branning (9 April)

Jim took Dot to the "hop-picking fields" in Kent that they both went to in their youth. Dot decided that she wanted to visit her old friend Margot Baker who lived nearby but was told by the vicar of a local church, Mary Lavender, that Margot had died two weeks previously. The vicar suggested going to visit Margot's son Douglas, who was also a vicar. Douglas revealed he was no longer a vicar because he had lost his faith, which caused him and Dot to get into an argument about religion while Jim went to a local pub. Before returning to Walford, Dot went back to the church and found a baby, Tomas, abandoned there. The church scenes were filmed at St Giles Church of Wormshill. The Blacksmiths Arms, Wormshill was used for exterior shots of the pub and The Ringlestone Inn, two miles away, was used for the interior pub scenes. The scenes of Dot and Jim arriving at the site of the hop fields and the farm as well as the interior shots of Douglas's home and the cottage were filmed at Stansted, Kent.

• Kevin Wicks, Deano Wicks, Carly Wicks, Denise Wicks, Chelsea Fox, Libby Fox, Pat Evans and Shirley Carter (27 April)

Kevin and Denise's wedding took place, which was filmed on location at a registry office in North London.

• Ian and Peter Beale and Phil, Billy and Ben Mitchell (17 May – 21 May)

The two families went camping in the woods but when Phil burned down his tent by accident, they decided to return home. On the way, Phil and Ian argued in the car and as a result, Phil failed to see a fallen tree in the road, swerving at the last minute and crashing the car. The car later rolled into a lake with Peter and Ben still inside.

• Stella Crawford and Phil Mitchell (20 July)

Stella's final scenes were filmed on location at a disused office block, Evershed House off Alma Road in St Albans. In this episode, Phil confronts Stella on their wedding day about her abuse of his son Ben. Stella jumps off the roof to her death.

• Tanya Branning (2 August)

Tanya tried to locate her sister, Rainie Cross at the council estate in which they once lived. Here she spoke to a family friend, Alice Lord.

• Garry Hobbs, Dawn Swann, Summer Swann, Shirley Carter, Heather Trott, Minty Peterson, Hazel Hobbs and Pat Evans (20 August – 24 August)

Pat went to Worthing, while Garry, Dawn and Summer took a break in Brighton. Heather wanted to follow Garry there, so she and Shirley got a lift from Pat, and then stole her car to go to Brighton, abandoning her at a service station.

Pat met a man named Len Harker, who gave Pat a lift to Worthing. She believed her sister Joan, who had Down's syndrome, had died at the age of 22, and Pat was going to collect her belongings from the mental facility that her parents had sent her to at the age of 6, but she was too late as the building was to be demolished. She and Len broke in and eventually found Joan's belongings, discovering that she could still be alive. These scenes were filmed at an abandoned mental facility.

Minty and Hazel were also in Brighton together, not knowing that Hazel's son Garry was there with Dawn.

• Mickey and Keith Miller (20 August)

Mickey and Keith attempted to sell ice cream in Mickey's uncle Clint's ice cream van. This coincided with the first episode of the Brighton/Worthing week, but was a separate storyline, and several scenes were filmed at the usual Albert Square set.