No Julia’s Theme for Pat Evans’ last scene in EastEnders

Pat Evans’ death is not going to end with the regular EastEnders sad tune entitled ‘Julia’s theme’ and instead an awful tinkling half-version of the regular tune will air as the episode closes.

Wendy Richard was known to ‘tell it like it is’ and give bosses a hard time if she felt her character of Pauline wasn’t going in the right direction. When she departed Albert Square for the final time in 2006 she was snubbed Julia’s theme, now poor Pat’s final episode ends with what sounds like a cat plonking across a piano.

“Its partly the EastEnders theme, partly some strange deviation.” Says Mike Watkins who has seen the episode. “It is a bit of a shame that such a dramatic episode should end with such a weak nothingness of a tune. The duff duffs would even have been better, which at least dear Wendy got.”

Pam St Clement, who has played Pat for 26-years, revealed recently she was often ‘telling off’ bosses for being too sensational with the storylines, but while the programme pulls in the all important ‘youth’ audience and decent ratings there will be no want to invest in more realistic, character-led plots, again.

“It’s a very emotional and deep episode” Mike Watkins adds, “Its actually good, which is rare for EastEnders these days. Pam is excellent as to be expected, and there are some sweet moments and of course a fair few sad ones.” He continues “There is a scene with Janine (Pat’s one-time step daughter) that would have ended better to the theme they’ve used at the end, its more an incidental theme than a main closing theme. As the show ends, with the scene fading to black and the credits roll over a black background, the music just doesn’t fit the drama, Julia’s theme was made for such drama, it’s a shame.”

The episode also sees the return of Michael French as David Wicks, Pat’s eldest son.

EastEnders: Pat Evans’ last day in Albert Square, airs tomorrow on BBC One.