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The forgotten Noughties soap with huge Emmerdale, EastEnders and Hollyoaks stars – but can you remember it?

Published on April 27, 2025 at 09:00 AM

A FORGOTTEN Noughties soap drama had huge Emmerdale, EastEnders and Hollyoaks stars – but can you remember it?

The show first broadcast on ITV in 2001 and ran until 2003 with an enormous amount of trailers promoting the new series.

Photo of the cast of the TV show *Night and Day*.
A forgotten Noughties soap drama had huge Emmerdale, EastEnders and Hollyoaks stars – but can you remember it?

Set in Greenwich, it focused on the lives of six very different families, including a missing 16-year-old girl, who appeared in flashback and fantasy sequences.

Do you know it yet?

The soap began on the sixteenth birthday of best friends Jane Harper and Della Wells, who lived in the same street in Greenwich.

However, before the day was over, Jane had disappeared.

Over the next year, the lives of six families in the street became further intertwined as a tangled web of secrets and lies threatened to boil to the surface,

And Jane's disappearance continued to have a devastating effect.

Did you guess it?

The soap was called Night and Day and featured a host of stars that went onto find fame in other soap dramas. Let's delve into a few.

Glynis Barber

Glynis Barber in a beige suit, standing outside a row of houses.
Glynis Barber played a school teacher in the soap drama

Glynis played Fiona Brake and was close to the children of the street given her nature as their school teacher.

But fans of Holly Oaks will know her as who was a gangland boss, whose organisation had been active inHollyoakssince at least2020.

After her son, Warren Ross began suffering from liver failure, Norma offered herself as a donor, unaware that Warren planned to kill her in revenge for his childhood trauma following the transplant.

However, he changed his mind after they bonded together.

The pair continued to fall out and reconcile as Norma attempted to make amends for the 40-odd years of Warren's life she missed out on.

Kevin Sacre

Kevin Sacre as Dennis in an ITV Archive photo.
Kevin Sacre went on to playing the notorious Jake Dean in Hollyoaks

Kevin played Roxanne's eldest son Dennis Doyle who never fully trusted his stepdad, Alex, and was discovering adulthood.

He was a loser in love after being rejected by bitchy Jane Harper and catty Kate Ellis.

He went onto play the in who after finding out about his wife's affair – was taken down a darker path and his personality became erratic and controlling to those around him.

Jake then developed drinking problems as well as becoming more aggressive and even caused the death of another due to his actions.

Jake then had a breakdown and was sectioned but he returned in 2009 on a redemption path but that didn't end well either.

Sally Dexter

Sally Dexter using a computer.
Emmerdale's Sally Dexter played the role of Dr Natalie Harper

Sally played a GP called Dr Natalie Harper who was Jane's mother.

Despite being very highly-strung and quite secure, Natalie's initial ability to deal with her daughter's disappearance masked her true crumbling nature.

However, viewers might know her much better as Faith Dingle in who was the ex-wife of Shadrach Dingle and the mother of Cain Dingle, Caleb Miligan and Chas Dingle.

when she died of cancer in Cain's arms.

Stuart Manning

Stuart Manning in a suit at a wedding.
Stuart Manning played a soccer player before catching his role in HollyOaks

Stuart played the role of Sam Armstrong; an up-and-coming soccer player.

Sam was Jane's first boyfriend, and the father of her unborn baby, although he wasn't aware of it at the time.

Sam's life, however, changed when his parents were killed and he took in his sister Lucy, brother Ben, and had to deal with the sudden involvement in his life of his Aunt Rachel.

Stuart went on to the in and first appeared in 2004 with the Owen family.

Russ has been involved in storylines including being diagnosed withtesticular cancerand kidnapping his sonMax McQueen(Gabriel Lawrence).

Russ returned to the soap in 2018 and waskilled offafter being murdered byBreda McQueen.

Lysette Anthony

Lysette Anthony in a leopard print top.
Lysette played Roxanne, Natalie's best friend in the show

Lysette played Roxanne Doyle who was Natalie's best friend, and Della's mother.

She was pregnant and prone to irrational outbursts.

Another HollyOaks cast member – Lysette went on to play who was the ex-wife of Mac Nightingale and the mother of James, Nathan and Ellie Nightingale.

Marnie hired her grandchildren, Juliet and Romeo, to work at her pâtisserie but the building exploded during the “Dee Valley Heroes” event.

The disaster claimed her life shortly afterwards.

Shane Richie

Still image from the TV show *Night and Day*.
Shane played the villainous Danny Dexter in Night and Day

Shane played the villainous Danny Dexter who was Dennis's father, who may have been involved in Jane's disappearance.

Shane went on to play roles in Dr Who and Benidorm as well as starring in Flushed Away but he is best known for his role.

who made his first appearance in 2002 and has been a recurring character ever since.

Some of his character's more prominent storylines have included his turbulent relationship with Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) and the and death of his grandmother Nana Moon (Hilda Braid).

He also believed that Kat's son Tommy Moon had died of cot death, unaware that their neighbour Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Womack) had switched him with her own deceased child.

Currently Alfie has been diagnosed with and is supporting Kat with Tommy's parental abuse.

Promotional photo of the cast of the TV show *Night and Day*.
Night and Day aired from 2001 until it was axed in 2003 but it achieved a cult following

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