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Het Oude Noorden

Dutch television drama

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ30642137 ↗
Source-derived summary

Het Oude Noorden (English: The Old North) is a 1993 Dutch drama television series, set in Rotterdam. The series is a remake of the British series EastEnders, which follows families as they go about their lives.

Cast

Loes Vos – Bep Martens

Ton Pompert – Willem Martens

Aletta de Nes – Carolien Martens

Helen Hedy Pavias – Jozefien Ottevanger Martens

Paul van Soest – Fred Ottevanger

Tim Meeuws – Kroegbaas Ger Visser

Dana Dool – Ankie Visser

Nora Kretz – Greetje Kuyper

Jaap Maarleveld – Dokter Ruben Klein

Amber de Grauw - Tamara Visser

Cahit Olmez - Sheref Elmaci

Martin Schwab - Frankie Portier

Cynthia Abma - Poel van Delden

Pepijn Gunneweg - Sjoerd Martens

Hans Breetveld - Johnnie Crooswijk

Froukje van den Akker - Bianca Ottevanger

Jaloe Maat - Vera Firat

Coen van Vlijmen - Vic Ottevanger

Ramon Ramnath - Jimmy Singh

Kietje Sewrattan - Aisha Singh

Vefa Ocal - Avares Firat

Dennis Rudge - Jeffrey Martina

Maaike Boulee - Hannie Duvekot

Episodes

References

Works cited

Allen, Robert C; Hill, Annette (2004). The television studies reader. Routledge. ISBN 9780415283236. OCLC 846446529.

Editorial summary

“Het Oude Noorden” enters the record as dutch television drama. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oude, Noorden and Dutch can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Oude, Noorden and Dutch.
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Why this record matters

“Het Oude Noorden” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Oude, Noorden and Dutch provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q30642137. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993 and 2004.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Het Oude Noorden” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.