The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 1986, by order of first appearance.
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| John Fisher | |
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| EastEnders character | |
| Portrayed by | Dave Dale |
| Duration | 1986 |
| First appearance | 28 January 1986 |
| Last appearance | 27 February 1986 |
| Classification | Former; guest |
| Profile | |
| Occupation | Drag queen |
John Fisher, played by Dave Dale, is a drag queen hired by publican Angie Watts (Anita Dobson) in January 1986 to perform for the premier drag night at The Queen Victoria. Following the publicity over Angie's drink driving case, she and her husband, Den (Leslie Grantham), worries that the brewery who owns the pub might find cause to cancel their tenancy, and 'free entertainment' was seen as a way to bolster the evening trade.
The first drag night is a success until Pete Beale (Peter Dean) starts heckling the performer. John mistakes Pete's intent, thinking he wants to join in with the act. John playfully takes Pete's pint on-stage and Pete leaps after it, causing a tussle to ensue. Seconds later, Den finds himself on the floor breaking up the pair. The surprise arrival of Den's mistress, Jan Hammond (Jane How), prompts Den to close the pub early, so the act is halted prematurely.
Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) is quite impressed with the drag artiste and thought him to be a caring and sensitive person. When he mentions that his other job is delivering 'kiss-o-grams', she hatches a plan for starting her own business. John performs several more drag evenings in The Vic. His last appearance was on 27 February 1986.
| Jan Hammond | |||||||
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| Portrayed by | Jane How | ||||||
| Duration | 1986–87, 2002, 2003 | ||||||
| First appearance | 30 January 1986 | ||||||
| Last appearance | 26 September 2003 | ||||||
| Classification | Former; recurring | ||||||
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| Occupation | Art gallery worker | ||||||
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Janet "Jan" Hammond, played by Jane How, appeared in 1986 as the long-term mistress of Den Watts (Leslie Grantham). Jan is a posh upper-class sort of woman and worked at an art gallery. Den had an affair with her while he was still married to Angie Watts (Anita Dobson). She was always hated by Angie and Den's adopted daughter Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) but she tried her best to get along with her. She moved into The Queen Victoria at one point with Den's insistence but wasn't much of a landlady so moved out soon after. Den tries to leave Angie for Jan so he tells Angie he was leaving her. Angie grows desperate and in order to stop him from leaving her she lies to him by saying she has six months to live. Den believes her but discovers many months later that she was lying while they were on holiday in Venice. In one of EastEnders most famous storylines he divorced her on Christmas Day 1986. Eventually Jan grows tired of Den not having a proper relationship with her so she ends their affair after he refuses to leave Walford with her. She leaves Walford in 1987 and then went on to marry a man called Dario Chimisso (Marino Mase) on a gondola in Venice. She makes a brief return in 2002 for Angie's funeral. She returned to give Sharon a portrait that Den had left with her many years earlier. She briefly returns again in 2003 in a lead-up to Den's return 14 years since he has been shot and presumed dead by an employee of the gangland organisation The Firm. Den's long lost son Dennis Rickman (Nigel Harman) tracks Jan down and she revealed that Den had survived the shooting and came to her for help. With her help, Den was able to flee to Spain to protect himself and his family.
| Brad Williams | |
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| EastEnders character | |
| Portrayed by | Jonathan Stratt |
| Duration | 1986–89 |
| First appearance | 4 March 1986 |
| Last appearance | 23 February 1989 |
| Profile | |
| Occupation | Gangster |
Brad Williams, played by Jonathan Stratt, is a mobster heavy for the East End gangster organization known as The Firm. He was of low importance within the organization and was generally used as an errand boy. He was first seen in March 1986 and over the next two years he would show up occasionally to inform Den Watts (who was working in league with the Firm) of his bosses orders.
Towards the end of 1987 Brad was instructed to scare graphic designer, Colin Russell, who was a jury member in a trial for an associate of the Firm. Brad and Den put pressure on Colin to give a verdict of 'not guilty' at the trial, and when he refused Brad stole his keys and vandalized his flat, causing all sorts of problems for Colin.
During 1988 Brad was seen more frequently, turning up to aid the running of the Firm's business in Walford, Strokes winebar, which was being managed by Den and was really a front for an illegal gambling den. The petty criminal Darren Roberts managed to get on the wrong side of Brad when he tried to play him off against the owner of The Dagmar, James Wilmott-Brown. The Firm's money lending business, 'Walford Investments', were in the process of securing the take over of James' ailing winebar, albeit against his wishes. Darren, sensing an opportunity, promised to provide James protection against the Firm, whilst all the while attempting to get onto the Firm's payroll via Brad. Incensed by Darren's audacity, Brad took him aside and gave him a severe beating, and Darren left Walford shortly after.
In July 1988, Den discovered Kathy Beale after she had been raped by James Wilmott-Brown, and instantly sought revenge. He demanded retribution from his contacts within the Firm, Brad and Joanne Francis, and was enraged when they refused to act. Den managed to persuade Brad to help him anyway by conning him into thinking that James' downfall would please his bosses, and Den watched with glee as the Dagmar burnt down in flames. However the resulting police investigation put the Firm's business in serious jeopardy. They then decided that in order to put a halt to the investigation either Brad or Den had to take the blame for the arson attack. Neither Brad or Den was willing to take the blame, and both were then involved in a personal war to persuade the other to take the rap.
Brad immediately called on the services of Rod Norman (via threats), and forced him to give the police a tip off about Den. The police began questioning Den and realising that he had gotten in way over his head, he decided that he would accept the blame for the arson, but instead of serving time in prison, he decided to flee the country to avoid arrest. The Firm agreed to this and Den was taken into hiding. However the Firm subsequently set up a hit on Den, which failed when he escaped custody and turned himself into the police to avoid the Firm's heavies.
As the Firm busied themselves with ways in which to silence Den from inside, Brad caused more grief by doing a bit of moonlighting; breaking into several people's houses on the Square with an accomplice who worked as a cab driver for Ali Osman. The burglaries resulted in a greater police presence in the area. The Firm were not impressed and Gregory Mantel — a superior member of the Firm — threatened Brad with serious repercussions should his deviance continue. Brad stopped the burglaries, but his accomplice continued without him and was eventually caught by the police and was quick to implicate Brad. The investigating officer, D.I. Ashley, decided to use this piece of information to manipulate the dimwitted Brad. He threatened to put him in prison unless he acted as an informant. Brad was forced to relay information on The Firm. Strokes was closed down as a result and various members of the Firm were arrested. With the Firm under threat from the police, Gregory Mantel decided that Den had to be the informant and made arrangements to have him eliminated.
On the day of Den's trial, Mantel's heavies broke Den out of custody and took him to the Firm's headquarters, where he was greeted by Brad. Brad imprisoned him in a room to await the arrival of Mantel. However, Den was not about to go down without a fight and knowing how easily influenced Brad was, he made one last attempt to secure his freedom. He played upon Brad's fears, relaying that he had heard that Brad was to be the next victim on the Firm's hit-list. Brad was easily swayed and he decided to help Den escape. He lured the other gang member, Marco, into the cell where an awaiting Den jumped him and threw him to the floor, whilst Brad locked him up in Den's place. The two then escaped from the headquarters, and Brad sped off in his car, leaving Den to fend for himself.
Brad immediately went to the police and handed himself in. He promised to confess everything he knew regarding the arson, Den, and the Firm. Meanwhile, Mantel, who was furious with Brad's betrayal, tracked Den down, he was shot and presumed dead for over 14 years. However he returned to Walford in 2003, revealing that he had faked his own death to secure his survival. It was also revealed that a man named Brad had been charged for the arson attack of the Dagmar. Subsequently, Den was no longer wanted by the police.
Charles "Charlie" Cotton, played by Christopher Hancock, is a semi-regular character, introduced in March 1986 as the estranged husband of Dot Cotton. He appeared in stints until producers made the decision to kill the character off-screen in 1991, to aid development of characters connected to him. June Brown, who plays Dot, was openly against the killing of Charlie. Charlie appeared one last time, in October 2000, as an apparition, warning his son Nick to change his ways. Charlie Cotton, the husband of Dot Cotton (June Brown), was a semi-regular character who came and went throughout his duration in the show; he joined 13 months after the soap's launch in 1986.[1] Depicted as bigamous and a conman, Charlie typically would reappear in the show whenever he needed money or temporary accommodation and, because of Dot's Christian ideals regarding forgiveness, Charlie would always be permitted to return. According to Christopher Hancock, Charlie was "a truly revolting character, a loser" and the character has been described as a "despicable small-time villain [...] lazy and pathetic".[1] Author Kate Lock has described Charlie as a "sly, shifty, weaselly man".[2] In order to become the character of Charlie, Hancock wore stick on sideburns.[1]
James Sebastian Willmott-Brown, played by William Boyde ,is an ex-army officer, arriving in Albert Square in March 1986 as area manager for 'Luxford and Copley', the brewery that owned The Queen Vic. By December, he had decided to move to the square and bought Debbie Wilkins's house at 43 Albert Square when she sold it following her fiancé, Andy's, death. He and Debbie later had a fling, but it didn't progress into anything serious. Pat Wicks took a shine to him and tried seducing him on several occasions, but was rebuffed each time. During the early years, he was friendly with Colin Russell.
Victoria Louise "Vicki" Fowler was played by Emma Herry from the character's birth in 1986 to 1988, Samantha Leigh Martin from 1988 to 1995, and Scarlett Johnson from 2003 to 2004. The character was born in the serial, conceived in a controversial storyline about teenage pregnancy. She is the daughter of original characters Michelle Fowler and Den Watts. She was written out in 1995, after the actress who played Vicki's mother decided to leave the soap. After an 8 year absence, she was reintroduced by Executive Producer Louise Berridge in 2003 as a rebellious teenager. Exploiting a whodunnit angle, viewers were not initially told who was the father, and press interest in the fledgling show escalated as journalists attempted to guess. The audience finally discovered his identity in October 1985 on episode 66. Written by series co-creator/script-editor Tony Holland and directed by co-creator/producer Julia Smith, it was considered a landmark episode in the show's history. 4 possible suspects were seen leaving the Square early in the episode: Tony Carpenter (Oscar James), Ali Osman (Nejdet Salih), Andy O'Brien (Ross Davidson), and Den Watts (Leslie Grantham). As Michelle waited by their rendezvous point, a car pulled up and the fluffy white legs of the soap landlord's poodle Roly leapt out of a car and gave it all away: Den Watts had fathered Michelle's baby.[3] After this storyline the programme started to appear in newspaper cartoons as it moved more and more into the public mainstream.[4]
Carmel Jackson (née Roberts), played by Judith Jacob, is a health visitor, introduced in a recurring, minor role in 1986. Producers saw potential in the character. Script writers were asked to develop more promienent storylines, and Carmel became a regular character. She was portrayed as a well-meaning, caring individual who was forever getting everyone's problems dumped on her. She was featured in storylines about domestic violence and various family and career upsets. Jacob remained in the role until 1989, when she opted to leave. Off-screen, the character was the subject of criticism regarding the portrayal of her profession from the Health Visitors Association. In July 1984, before EastEnders went to air, the show's creators, Tony Holland and Julia Smith, attended an opening evening at the Anna Scher Theatre School in North London, in order to find actors for roles in their upcoming serial. According to Holland and Smith, Anna Scher's school was unlike many other drama schools, where students were "ironed out", all looking and sounding the same. At Anna Scher's school, students' natural personalities and accents were encouraged, "her students aren't taught how to act, they're helped to dig inside themselves and be." In Holland and Smith's own words, this was "just the sort of non-acting that [EastEnders] was looking for".[4]
Harry Reynolds was a college friend of Kelvin Carpenter who first appeared along with Tessa Parker in June 1986. Both Harry and Tessa had radical Marxist beliefs and it wasn't long before they managed to recruit Kelvin to the same way of thinking.
Tessa Parker was a college friend of Kelvin Carpenter and Harry Reynolds who first appeared in June 1986. Both Harry and Tessa had radical Marxist beliefs and it wasn't long before they managed to recruit Kelvin to the same way of thinking. Tessa soon discovered that she and Kelvin had more in common than their beliefs. She found him attractive and they started dating.
Pat Evans (occasionally referred to in the British media as Fat Pat[5][6][7]) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She has been played by Pam St. Clement since 12 June 1986, just over a year after the show first aired. Pat is also played by Emma Cooke in a soap 'bubble' Pat and Mo: Ashes to Ashes, delving into her past with sister-in-law Mo Harris, which aired in 2004. Pat is the second-longest-running character in the soap, coming after Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt), who has featured in the soap since it first aired. The character of Pat was conceived by the creators of EastEnders, Tony Holland and Julia Smith, in 1984. Although not one of the serial's original protagonists, Pat is referred to in the character outline of Pete Beale, who appeared on-screen in EastEnders first episode, as written by Smith and Holland in their book, EastEnders: The Inside Story: "[Pete] married very young to Pat — it turned out to be a total disaster. They were too young, rushing into a difficult life for all the wrong reasons, and truthfully, [Pat] was a vicious shrew...[Pete] divorced [Pat] and married Kathy when he was 24...His two sons by his first marriage are nineteen and twenty and he hardly sees them..."[4] On 7 July 2011, it was announced that St. Clement had quit EastEnders.[8] The actress revealed that she wanted to try other things, saying "I have enjoyed 25 and a half wonderful years in EastEnders creating the character of Pat but feel it's time to hang up her earrings. Leaving the EastEnders 'family' will be akin to a bereavement. But I'm looking forward to the other work and life opportunities that I will have the time to pursue."[8] Pat will leave later in the year and executive producer Bryan Kirkwood said her departure would be a "fitting" storyline.[8] Pat's son David Wicks will return for her departure.[9]
Eddie Hunter was a flamboyantly dressed friend of Simon Wicks and he was first seen in Albert Square in June 1986. Eddie and Simon were part of a band, and before Simon came to Walford, he had borrowed money from loan sharks and was left owing them huge amounts of money that he couldn't pay back. Eddie was happy to leave Simon with the debt and disappeared to work as a redcoat in Clacton, so the band dissolved. However, when the debts were finally repaid, Simon decided to regroup and he contacted Eddie to rejoin the band. The reformed group, known as "The Banned", consisted of Simon, Eddie, Kelvin Carpenter, Sharon Watts, Ian Beale and Harry Reynolds. Eddie was the lead guitarist.
| Irene | |||||
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| Portrayed by | Katherine Parr | ||||
| Duration | 1986–87 | ||||
| First appearance | 3 July 1986 | ||||
| Last appearance | 16 June 1987 | ||||
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| Date of birth | 1919 | ||||
| Date of death | 18 June 1987 | ||||
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Irene[10] was the aunt of Lofty Holloway — his mother's sister. Lofty did not have a close relationship with his stern mother, but he doted on his auntie Irene and she was the only relative he had contact with.
Auntie Irene first appeared in July 1986, when her nephew Lofty and his fiancée Michelle Fowler visited her in the nursing home where she lived. She had been told that she only had six months to live, as she had terminal cancer. She told Michelle that she had been in love with a man in 1938, but he was killed in an accident and she had never married.[11]
She attended Lofty and Michelle's wedding in September 1986, only to see her beloved nephew jilted at the altar. Later in the year Lofty and Michelle sorted out their differences and finally got married. Irene worried that Michelle was merely using Lofty, but Michelle promised she would not hurt him. Satisfied, Irene gave their union her blessing and also paid for their honeymoon as a wedding gift.
Irene visited Lofty and Michelle in March 1987, giving Lofty instructions about her funeral.[12] Irene worried that Lofty would not cope once she was gone and tried to make him accept that she would soon be dead. Lofty was distressed at the prospect of losing his aunt and cried into her lap. In June 1987 Lofty went to visit Irene at the hospital. She was in obvious pain and could no longer see. The following episode Lofty heard that his aunt had finally succumbed to the cancer that had been slowly killing her for years. He attended her funeral on 23 June 1987.
Colin Russell, played by Michael Cashman, is a middle-class yuppie described as an amiable chap with a kind heart who often ends up being used by the less considerate locals. He is Walford's first on-screen gay resident and when his sexuality was eventually revealed it caused shockwaves around the Square. Colin was EastEnders' first homosexual character. Introduced in August 1986, Colin was one of the more popular characters in the early years of the programme.[3] At first the audience and the residents of Walford were kept in the dark about the fact that Colin was gay. This changed by the end of the year, at which time Colin acquired a young boyfriend named Barry Clark (Gary Hailes). Colin was one of the most controversial characters of his time — mainly because gay-orientated content was still relatively rare on prime-time television during the mid 1980s. Gay characters that existed were usually farcical, camp parodies, created purely for comic relief, such as Mr Humphries in the situation comedy, Are You Being Served?.[13]
| Tom Clements | |
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| EastEnders character | |
| Portrayed by | Donald Tandy |
| Duration | 1986–88 |
| First appearance | 26 August 1986 |
| Last appearance | 21 April 1988 |
| Classification | Former; regular |
| Profile | |
| Date of death | 21 April 1988[14] |
| Occupation | Potman |
Tom Clements, actor Donald Tandy between 1986 and 1988, [15] is an army war veteran. Tom was first seen in Albert Square in August 1986. He lived with his spinster sister in the council house at Number 25 Albert Square and he initially worked for the council as custodian of the community centre. He was also a member of the Walford Allotments where he competed with Arthur Fowler (Bill Treacher) in the growing of leeks and marrows. He managed to win first prize for the best leeks at the Walford & District Allotment Society Show, when he actually stole them from Arthur — the leeks he had been hoping to enter were damaged by Roly the poodle the night before the competition.[15] After his sister died, Tom sought the female company of Dot Cotton (June Brown) and Pat Wicks (Pam St. Clement), but Dot remained faithful to her marriage vows and Pat thought Tom was too old for her boisterous lifestyle.[16] In 1986, Tom accepted an offer to work as potman at The Queen Vic. He worked for pints and the occasional cash-in-hand. Later on Tom swapped lodgings with Dot and moved next door to the flat at Number 23A Albert Square. He died at his post in the pub toilets of a heart attack on 21 April 1988. As he had no close relatives or friends surviving, Dot took it upon herself to arrange his funeral and dispose of his personal belongings. She was shocked to find that he carried a small picture of herself in his pocket. Dot was later furious when only she and Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) turned up at his funeral.[3]
| Jaggat Singh | |
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| Portrayed by | Amerjit Deu |
| Duration | 1986–87 |
| First appearance | 6 November 1986 |
| Last appearance | 31 December 1987 |
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| Occupation | General Practitioner |
Doctor Jaggat Singh first arrived in Albert Square in November 1986. He was employed by Dr. Harold Legg to cover the surgery for him several days a week.
Naima Jeffery showed a romantic interest in Jaggat and they went on several dates. Naima's cousin Rezaul Gabir was furious as Jaggat was a Sikh and Naima was Muslim and he tried to provoke Jaggat into a fight in The Queen Vic one night. However, Jaggat just laughed off Rezaul's aggression and they eventually became friends. In the end nothing serious ever developed between Jaggat and Naima anyway, as Naima ended the relationship to marry Farrukh - a suitor from Bangladesh.
Having Lou Beale, Ethel Skinner and Dot Cotton as patients sharpened his interest in the elderly and Jaggat left the Square in December 1987 for full-time work with old people in a Northern home. Shortly before leaving, he persuaded Ethel to move into sheltered housing at Prosper Estate.
Barry Clark, played by Gary Hailes, is a cockney barrow-boy, and an unlikely partner for the gay, middle classed yuppie, Colin Russell. He was much younger than his middle-aged boyfriend and as such Colin's role was almost paternal. Barry was open about his sexuality to everyone except his volatile father — and when he was finally told he took the news so badly that Barry turned straight just to appease him — although he was never very successful at it. Barry was one half of Walford's first homosexual couple. His boyfriend, Colin, had already been introduced to the show several months prior to Barry's arrival and he had proven to be an extremely popular addition to the cast.[3] Both the audience and the residents of Walford had been kept in the dark about the fact that Colin was gay. This changed upon Barry's first scene on-screen, whereby the audience learnt that he had spent the night with Colin after picking him up the night before (off-screen) at a gay club. Colin and Barry were two of the most controversial characters of their time — mainly because gay-orientated content was still relatively rare on prime time television during the mid 1980s. Gay characters that existed were usually farcical camp parodies, created purely for comic relief, such as Mr. Humphries in the situation comedy, Are You Being Served?.[13]
| Rezaul Gabir | |||||
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| Portrayed by | Tanveer Ghani | ||||
| Duration | 1986–88 | ||||
| First appearance | 11 December 1986 | ||||
| Last appearance | 7 January 1988 | ||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||
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| Occupation | Shopkeeper | ||||
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Rezaul Gabir arrived in Albert Square in December 1986. He was Naima Jeffery's (Shreela Ghosh) cousin and had been sent by Naima's family to help her run her grocery store, First Til Last. Naima was extremely angry about Rezaul's arrival, but her family were adamant that he had to stay, so she begrudgingly put up with his presence. Rezaul was rather bossy, pretentious, chauvinistic and arrogant, and instantly tried to take over the running of the shop. On his first night, Rezaul put forth a scheme to increase the shop's profits and asked for a month's trial. Naima agreed to the trial. Rezaul then proceeded to mark up the shop's items to unreasonably high prices as well as steal money from the till. Naima was furious and to make matters worse it soon became clear that Rezaul had amorous intentions towards her. Naima wasn't remotely interested in Rezaul so she set about finding herself a new boyfriend to put him off. She started dating the Square's new doctor, Jaggat Singh. Rezaul, a Muslim, became very envious when he saw them together and told Naima that she was making a fool of herself, smiling and fawning over a Sikh. This culminated in Rezaul trying to pick a fight with Dr. Singh in The Queen Victoria one night, almost getting himself barred in the process. In April 1987, Naima and Rezaul got into a shouting match when he told her that her family had decided she had to marry him. He was furious when she flatly refused, but later admitted that he was actually relieved and told her he didn't want to marry her either. Naima's defiance displeased her family and they subsequently broke all ties with her. Rezaul, it seemed, was rather impressed with Naima and told her that she was no ordinary Bengali girl as he'd first thought. Things between Naima and Rezaul improved after this, and when Naima's family eventually sent over another of her cousins for her to marry, he went out of his way to help their blossoming romance. After Naima left England to live in Bangladesh, Rezaul ran The First Til Last in her place for a while. Whilst managing the shop, he caught Charlie Cotton (Christopher Hancock) shoplifting and made a citizen's arrest. Charlie then had to appear at the Magistrates' Court and was given a hefty fine. When Naima's family sold the shop to Ashraf Karim at the end of the year, Rezaul left Walford to resume his studies. His last appearance was January 1988.
| Character | Date(s) | Actor | Circumstances |
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| Neville Agard | 28 January | Gordon Case | A corporate lawyer who began a relationship with Hannah Carpenter. Hannah and her daughter Cassie moved in with Neville and despite the fact that Neville admitted beating Cassie for misbehaving, Hannah planned to marry him. Hannah was unaware of the extent of Neville's aggression towards Cassie, but when she discovered that he'd beaten her with a riding whip, she confronted him and he turned violent towards her. Hannah left him and returned to her former husband, Tony. Tony confronted Neville off-screen, and returned home covered in his blood after giving him a severe beating.[17] |
| "Uncle" | 13 February 1986– 28 July 1988 |
Leonard Maguire | A Jewish pawnbroker and friend of Albert and Lou Beale from the Second World War years, whose real name was never mentioned. He was a semi-regular character and his first appearance on screen was in February 1986, when he visited Lou after 20 years to return Albert's watch, which Lou had recently given to her grandson, Simon Wicks. Simon had pawned it to pay loan sharks after he borrowed £1,500 for his failed band and after he could pay no more, he came to Walford to hide from them. However, they followed him and he was subsequently forced to pay twice that amount. While Lou's son-in-law Arthur Fowler was in prison, Uncle loaned his wife Pauline money and he later helped Lou on her will. His last appearance was in July 1988 when he attended Lou's funeral. |
| Nigel Dean | 17 April | Anthony Jackson | a carpet salesman who visited Pauline Fowler and her mother Lou Beale at number 45 Albert Square on 17 April 1986.[18] |
| Jestis Scanlon | 6 May | Unknown | A protection gang leader.[19] |
| Lizzie Burton | 29 May | Sharon D. Clarke | A patient on the maternity ward along with Michelle Fowler. She was having her fourth child. Michelle, who was facing the future as a single mother, asked Lizzie if she had ever contemplated life without her husband. Lizzie said she had thought about it, but it scared her too much to dwell upon it. |
| Elaine | 5 June | Michele Winstanley | Single mother on Michelle Fowler's maternity ward. She gave both her children up for adoption, and told Michelle she was arrogant for thinking she could bring up a baby on her own. |
| Trevor Smith | 8–9 June | George Irving | Wanted by the police for the armed robbery of a bank in Walford. Trevor had the protection of the East End criminal organisation known as The Firm. They contacted publican, Den Watts, and instructed him to hide Trevor in his pub for several days, in order to escape the police. Den was against this, but he had little choice in the matter. |
| Johnny Earthquake | 24 June | G.B. Zoot Money | When Simon Wicks decided to form a band, he auditioned several musicians to join. Johnny Earthquake was one of the hopefuls and he had once had his own band called "Johnny Earthquake and the Tremors." Simon and the other members of the band weren't impressed with Johnny's audition or his obvious penchant for alcohol, so he was not asked to join. |
| Owen Hughes | 22–31 July | Philip Brock | Mark Fowler's Welsh friend who returned to Albert Square with Mark after they worked together on a farm in Wales. He was first introduced sleeping rough in the Fowlers' doorway with Mark, waiting for the family to wake up and let them in. Owen's most notable characteristics were his obsession with the band Pink Floyd, his 'out there' conversations (particularly about marrows) suggesting he was permanently stoned, and the fact that he had body odour. Owen and Mark were soon hounded out of Albert Square by Tony Carpenter, after he discovered his 11-year-old daughter Cassie smoking cannabis, which she stole from them. They left in a hurry on Owen's motorbike and Owen was never seen again. |
| Sandra Marsh | 19 August | Erin Geraghty | A nurse who worked at the same hospital as Andy O'Brien. When she was informed that Andy had been killed in a motor accident, she identified his body and contacted his parents in Glasgow to inform them of his death.[20] |
| Sam Sangers | 4 September | Alan Ford | A conman who was tried to con Debbie Wilkins out of her deceased boyfriend, Andy O'Brien's possessions, until Pauline Fowler got involved and sent him away.[21] |
| Monty Krietman | 16 September | Charles Rea | A solicitor who was blackmailed by Dr. Harold Legg to handle Dot Cotton's shoplifting case.[22] |
| Wally Ashton | 18 September | Unknown | The local councillor in 1986, who appeared on the judging panel at The Queen Vic for a 'Glamorous Granny' competition. He and his fellow judges, Dr. Legg and James Willmott-Brown declared Pauline Fowler the winner, and Sicily Barnes and Sonia Marples second and third place, respectively. |
| Sonia Marples | 18 September | Unknown | A competitor in a 'Glamorous Granny' competition at The Queen Vic. Judges Wally Ashton, Harold Legg and James Willmott-Brown put her in third place, after Sicily Barnes (who came second) and Pauline Fowler, who won. She won a bottle of wine. |
| Sicily Barnes | 18 September | Unknown | A competitor in a 'Glamorous Granny' competition at The Queen Vic. Judges Wally Ashton, Harold Legg and James Willmott-Brown put her in second place, before Sonia Marples (who came third) and after Pauline Fowler, who won. She got a trophy for coming second, and the compère, Den Watts commented on Sicily's gold-coloured jacket. |
| Dario Chimisso | 18 November | Marino Mase | An Italian lawyer — was the romantic interest of Jan Hammond. He took her away on a business trip to Venice, Italy so she could get over her recent split from Den Watts. Here she accidentally bumped into Den, who was there on a second honeymoon with his wife Angie. Den was jealous of Jan's friendship with Dario, even though she claimed it was platonic on her part. However, in August 1987, Jan sent Den a letter informing him that she and Dario had got married on a gondola in Venice. This news upset Den, although it amused his ex-wife, Angie. |
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