any tv fan worth their salt will be familiar with eastenders' character zoe slater's dramatic wail: 'you ain't my mother!' and now the iconic 2001 scene where feisty character kat slater revealed that she was, in fact, zoe's mother, has been named the greatest soap storyline of all time in a poll of 2,000 soap fans, the scene   in which kat's confession that zoe was conceived after kat was abused by her uncle harry   topped the list of favourite tears, tantrums and cliffhangers scroll down for video  the eastenders' storyline revealing kat slater to be the mother of her 'younger sister' zoe has been named the greatest british soap narrative of all time  the iconic scene sees zoe shout: 'you ain't my mother!' in the street before kat screeches back: 'yes i am!' the famous street row between the pair, where zoe yells 'you ain't my mother' at kat before finding out the truth even featured in australian soap neighbours' recent tribute video to celebrate eastenders' 30th anniversary richard hillman driving the platt family into the canal in coronation street came second in the poll, followed by hayley cropper's courageous cancer battle and subsequent death in 2014 eastenders bad guy dirty den getting shot in 1989 and the coronation street tram crash completed the top five the episode was given the top spot in a poll of 2,000 soap fans on their favourite storylines  as well as old favourites, the recent eastenders cliffhanger of 'who killed lucy beale' also made it in to the top ten, taking the number seven slot a spokesman for survey site onepollcom, which commissioned the research, said that the winning storyline thoroughly deserved its title 'the kat and zoe storyline is something most people are familiar with, even if they aren't an avid eastenders fan the tear jerking episode of coronation street where hayley cropper died earned third place on the list  the recent eastenders storyline 'who killed lucy beale' earned seventh place on the list after attracting millions of viewers in a week of live episodes to celebrate the soap's 30th anniversary  'it had everything a great soap storyline needs   a blazing row, some tears and a huge shock just as the episode comes to a close' he added that the reason that some of the older story lines had found their way into the top 50 was because they had a large impact on our lives 'there have been many brilliant and gripping storylines over the years   whether they are tearjerkers like the moment hayley died in coronation street or high drama like the live tram crash 'soaps are a huge part of our culture and these results show the storylines are remembered years after they are first screened' in second place was richard hillman driving the platts into a canal in a 2003 episode of coronation street  sixth place in the poll went to the famous moment dirty den handed wife angie divorce papers in the eastenders' 1986 christmas day episode, followed by the london based soap's huge 'who killed lucy' story after almost a year's worth of teases, the killer was finally revealed to be her half brother bobby during a week of live episodes during the eastenders 30th anniversary celebration little mo's domestic abuse storyline in eastenders came eighth followed by scott and charlene's wedding in neighbours and deirdre barlow being jailed for fraud in coronation street little mo's domestic abuse story also stuck in viewers heads as the 2001 drama came eighth in the poll  other storylines to feature in the top 20 include the whodunnit storyline 'who shot phil' in eastenders, after the hard man was shot on his doorstep, corrie's tyrone suffering domestic abuse at the hands of partner kirsty and mike baldwin dying in rival ken barlow's arms on the cobbles the emmerdale plane crash in 1993, the body under the patio in brookside, max and stacey's affair in eastenders and the famous love triangle between brothers phil and grant mitchell and grant's wife sharon are also high on the list more than half of the storylines featured in the poll were ones from eastenders, including the long running storyline of 'who shot phil mitchell' that was on our screens over 2000 2001 coming 11th in the poll  eastenders features heavily in the top 50 with more than half the list made up of storylines from the soap old favourites such as michelle fowler falling pregnant with dirty den's baby as a teenager and nick cotton trying to kill mum dot all feature alongside more recent storylines such as dean watt's attack on linda brookside, which was last on our screens in 2003, also features several times with nat and georgia's incest and beth and margaret's lesbian kiss, which was seen as a ground breaking storyline at the time it was aired 1 kat slater revealing she was zoe slater's mum, not her sister   eastenders 2001  2 richard hillman driving the platts into a canal   coronation street 2003  3 hayley's cancer battle and death   coronation street 2014  4 dirty den getting shot   eastenders 1989  5 the tram crash   coronation street 2010  6 dirty den hands over divorce papers to angie  eastenders 1986  7 who killed lucy beale   eastenders 2014/5  8 little mo's domestic abuse   eastenders 2001  9 scott and charlene getting married   neighbours 1988  10 deirdre being jailed for fraud 'free the weatherfield one'   coronation street 1998  11 who shot phil   eastenders 2000/2001  12 tyrone's domestic abuse   coronation street   2012  13 michelle fowler having dirty den's baby   eastenders 1985  14 mike baldwin dying on the cobbles   coronation street 2006  15 trevor jordache killed and buried under the patio   brookside 1993  16 the plane crash   emmerdale 1993  17 janine killing barry   eastenders 2004  18 max and stacy's affair   eastenders 2007  19 the love triangle between phil, grant and sharon and the tape   eastenders 1994  20 ronnie swapping her baby with kat's  eastenders 2010/2011  21 who killed tina mcintyre   coronation street 2014  22 harold bishop returning after his death with amnesia   neighbours 2011  23 charlie stubbs being murdered by tracy barlow   coronation street 2007  24 tiffany is run over and killed by frank   eastenders 1998  25 the minibus crash   coronation street 2014  26 sarah lou's teen pregnancy   coronation street 2003  27 sonia gives birth not knowing she's pregnant   eastenders 2000  28 cindy hires a hit man to kill husband ian   eastenders 1996  29 den is murdered by chrissie in the queen vic   eastenders 2005  30 tom king killed by his son carl   emmerdale 2006  31 dean raping linda   eastenders 2014  32 who killed archie   eastenders 2009/2010  33 steve murders saskia with an ashtray   eastenders 1999  34 katie dying   emmerdale 2015  35 beth and margaret's lesbian kiss   brookside 1994  36 kathy beale coming back from the dead   eastenders 2015  37 nick tries to kill dot   eastenders 1990  38 kat and alfie's wedding   eastenders 2003  39 dennis rickman stabbed on new year's eve   eastenders 2005  40 the return of nick cotton   eastenders 2014  41 phil mitchell becoming a drug addict   eastenders 2010  42 stella abusing ben mitchell   eastenders 2010  43 jackson walsh's assisted suicide   emmerdale 2011  44 nick cotton's death and dot cotton going to prison   eastenders 2015  45 paedophile tony abusing whitney   eastenders 2009  46 katie's affair with robert after marrying his brother andy   emmerdale 2001  47 kim tate's faked death   emmerdale 1997  48 pauline fowlers death   eastenders 2006  49 nat and georgia's incest   brookside 1996  50 alfie setting fire to the house in an insurance scam   eastenders 2014 
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the dramatic scene topped poll of 2,000 fans  eastenders was responsible for over half of the top 50 plots listed 