The Firm (EastEnders) The Firm (EastEnders) The Firm is a fictional gangland organisation in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders". In late 1985, members of The Firm made local headlines when they were deemed unofficially responsible for putting Kenny Malone, a local badboy, through a sausage machine. Den Watts (Leslie Grantham), who attended school with two of the Vinnicombe brothers, The Firm's tyrannical and elusive leaders, threatened Nick Cotton (John Altman) with the gang unless he left Walford, following his blackmailing Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth). The menfolk of Albert Square thought it was a bluff until Den revealed the truth to Tony Carpenter (Oscar
EastEnders in popular culture within the health industry to: "describe the elderly population who continue to smoke heavily without registering the health problems they are or will soon suffer from, seeing it as their only pleasure left in life". Chris Moyles' "Difficult Second Book" contains a chapter called "There Is No "Carry On" in "EastEnders"", referring to many things that cannot exist in the "EastEnders" fictional world, due to actors appearing in both TV shows, including Spandau Ballet (Martin Kemp), "Carry On" (Barbara Windsor), "Grange Hill" (Todd Carty and Susan Tully), "Hotel Babylon" and "Red Cap" (Tamzin Outhwaite), "Jonny Briggs" and "Star Wars" (Leslie