1992
- In June 1992 Mark and Gill Fowler — who was confined to a hospice as she was dying from AIDS — married away from Walford and then spent their honeymoon at Waverly Hotel. Mark's sister Michelle and his ex-girlfriend Rachel Kominski attended the ceremony. However, after only one night together Gill fell ill, and was taken back to the hospice. She died on the same day as she became terribly ill. The episodes were written by Debbie Cook and directed by Leonard Lewis. Although in many ways the episodes were sad and "downbeat", they were not without positive aspects, as Mark was able to discuss his own mortality on-screen, educating the audience about the subject of HIV. Susanna Dawson, the actress who played Gill, found the experience of playing a person living with—and dying from—Aids so intense that she co-produced an educational video based on the subject for use in schools and wrote a book, The Gill and Mark Story, to accompany it.
- In September 1992, Arthur Fowler took Michelle, Vicki and Martin Fowler on a caravan holiday to Leigh-on-Sea. Arthur's wife Pauline joined, having returned from a several month trip to New Zealand to discover none of her family at home. Pauline and Arthur found that they had changed in their time apart.
- In November 1992 Michelle Fowler introduced her friend Sharon Mitchell to her student life when she invited her to a college gig. They were chatted up by two students, including Jack Woodman. However Sharon's husband Grant and Michelle's boyfriend Clyde ruined the night by following them there. Grant suspected Sharon was cheating on him, but he and Clyde were both shocked when they discovered not Sharon but Michelle in bed with Jack. Clyde and Michelle split and when Sharon found Grant they had a huge row and she told him they were finished after Grant confessed to Sharon that he was responsible for the arson attack on the Queen Vic.
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