Others
| Character | Date(s) | Actor | Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neville Agard | 28 January | Gordon Case | A corporate lawyer who had 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 discovers that he'd beaten her with a riding whip, she confronts him and he turns violent towards her. Hannah leaves him and returns to her former husband, Tony. Tony confronts Neville off-screen, and returns home covered in his blood after giving him a severe beating. |
| "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 is never mentioned. He is a semi-regular character and his first appearance on screen is in February 1986, when he visits 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 is in prison, Uncle loans his wife Pauline money and he later helps Lou with her will. His last appearance is in July 1988 when he attends Lou's funeral. |
| Nigel Dean | 17 April | Anthony Jackson | A carpet salesman who visits Pauline Fowler and her mother Lou Beale at number 45 Albert Square on 17 April 1986. |
| Jestis Scanlon | 6 May | Unknown | A protection gang leader. |
| Lizzie Burton | 29 May | Sharon D. Clarke | A patient on the maternity ward along with Michelle Fowler. She is having her fourth child. Michelle, who is facing the future as a single mother, asks Lizzie if she had ever contemplated life without her husband. Lizzie says 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 tells Michelle she is arrogant for thinking she can 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 has the protection of the East End criminal organisation known as The Firm. They contact publican, Den Watts, and instruct him to hide Trevor in his pub for several days, in order to escape the police. Den is against this, but he has little choice in the matter. |
| Johnny Earthquake | 24 June | G.B. Zoot Money | When Simon Wicks decides to form a band, he auditions several musicians to join. Johnny Earthquake is 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 aren't impressed with Johnny's audition or his obvious penchant for alcohol, so he is not asked to join. |
| Owen Hughes | 22–31 July | Philip Brock | Mark Fowler's Welsh friend who returns to Albert Square with Mark after they worked together on a farm in Wales. He is first seen sleeping rough in the Fowlers' doorway with Mark, waiting for the family to wake up and let them in. Owen's most notable characteristics are his obsession with the band Pink Floyd, his 'out there' conversations (particularly about marrows) suggesting he is permanently stoned, and the fact that he has body odour. Owen and Mark are soon hounded out of Albert Square by Tony Carpenter, after he discovers his 11-year-old daughter Cassie smoking cannabis, which she stole from them. They leave in a hurry on Owen's motorbike and Owen is never seen again. |
| Sandra Marsh | 19 August | Erin Geraghty | A nurse who works at the same hospital as Andy O'Brien. When she is informed that Andy had been killed in a motor accident, she identifies his body and contacts his parents in Glasgow to inform them of his death. |
| Sam Sangers | 4 September | Alan Ford | A conman who tries to con Debbie Wilkins out of her deceased boyfriend, Andy O'Brien's possessions, until Pauline Fowler gets involved and sends him away. |
| Monty Krietman | 16 September | Charles Rea | A solicitor who is blackmailed by Dr. Harold Legg to handle Dot Cotton's shoplifting case. |
| Wally Ashton | 18 September | Unknown | The local councillor in 1986, who appears on the judging panel at The Queen Victoria for a 'Glamorous Granny' competition. He and his fellow judges, Dr. Legg and James Willmott-Brown declare 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 comes second) and Pauline Fowler, who wins. She wins 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 comes third) and after Pauline Fowler, who wins. She gets a trophy for coming second, and the compère, Den Watts comments on Sicily's gold-coloured jacket. |
| Dario Chimisso | 18 November | Marino Mase | An Italian lawyer — is the romantic interest of Jan Hammond. He takes her away on a business trip to Venice, Italy so she can get over her recent split from Den Watts. Here she accidentally bumps into Den, who is there on a second honeymoon with his wife Angie. Den is jealous of Jan's friendship with Dario, even though she claims it is platonic on her part. However, in August 1987, Jan sends Den a letter informing him that she and Dario had got married on a gondola in Venice. This news upsets Den, although it amuses his ex-wife, Angie. |
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