1978 saw several characters making their debuts on the British Soap Opera Coronation Street, including Ed Jackson, Ida Clough and Brian Tilsley, among others.
Ed (known then as "Tommo") and his friend Dave followed Mike, and his wages clerk Ernest Bishop (Stephen Hancock) to the bank and then to the factory.
Mike began to wonder what was taking so long and opened the door, knocking Ed, causing him to shoot Ernest, who later died in hospital.
Over the years she worked alongside Ivy Tilsley (Lynne Perrie), Vera Duckworth (Liz Dawn), Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) and Shirley Armitage (Lisa Lewis).
The son of Bert (Peter Dudley) and Ivy Tilsley (Lynne Perrie), he married Gail Potter (Helen Worth) in 1979 and they had two children: Nick (Warren Jackson), born in 1980, and Sarah-Louise (Lynsay King) in 1987.
Despite this, Ivy then wrote the cause of her will that Nicky could only gain her house and the entire estate on the condition of changing his name from Platt back to Tilsley.
Years later, Nick (now a teenager), was shocked by an accidental meeting with Darren Whateley (Ian Aspinall), the man who had killed his father.