Soap characters you'd like to see return

[soapfan]

If you could bring back any 1980s characters to Coronation Street, who would you bring back?

Personally, i'd bring back the following:-

1980s Coronation Street characters
Alan Skidmore (Dean Harris)
Alec Dewhurst (Ken Burgess)
Arlene Jones (Geraldine Moffatt)
Doreen Lovell (Sally Grace)
Dr Crawford (Paul Lally)
Dr Edwards (Anthony Schaeffer)
Harry Newton (Christian Rodska)
Andy McDonald (Nicholas Cochrane)
Jim McDonald (Charles Lawson)
Johnny Webb (Jack Smethurst)
Karen Oldfield (Sally Jane Jackson)
Kathy Lane (Rosemary Williams)
Keith Salder (Richard Kay)
Lorna Ferguson (Annie Hulley) - we can forget about Gwen Davies and bring back Lorna. Similarly, actor Ian Mercer played a character in the 1980s, as well as Gary Mallett in the 1990s onwards.
Louise Clayton (Janet Rawson)
Martin Cheveski (Jonathan Caplan)
Mrs Fletcher (Sue Wallace)
Paul Sidall (Steve Dixon)
Pauline Stringer (Patricia Browning)
PC White (Martin Fisk)
Sharon Fletcher (Wendy Bacon)
Tony Watkins (John Jardine)
Wayne Fletcher (Martin Bacon)

 

[soapfan]

If you could bring back any 1980s characters to Emmerdale, who would you bring back?

Personally, i'd bring back the following:-
1980s Emmerdale characters
Alan Stevenson (Peter Ivatts)
Alice Jerome (Gillian McCutcheon)
Andy Longthorn (David Clayforth/Mark Botham)
Angie Norton (Karen Drury)
Annette Stevenson (Wenda Brown)
Bill Mead (Michael Holt)
Carol Longthorn (Jane Hollowood/Jane Cunliffe)
Danny Moorcock (Paul Jerricho)
Derek Warner (Freddie Fletcher/Dennis Blanch)
Esmeralda Eckersley (Debbie Farrington)
Grace Tolly (Margaret Stallard)
Hannah Tolly (Alison Ambler)
Harry Moore (Walter Sparrow)
John Tuplin (Malcolm Raeburn)
Kathy Merrick (Malandra Burrows)
Paul Hilleley (Jonathan Carr)
Richard Anstey (Carl Rigg)

 

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I’d bring back Sandie Merrick, Matt, Dolly & Sam Skilbeck and Kathy Bates

 

[soapfan]

Who would be your Top 10 Coronation Street Characters to return? Obviously, a soap should only have 25-35 characters maximum at all times, and 2 episodes a week.

Anyway, without further ado, my Top 10 Characters to return:-
Jim McDonald - (The old Jim McDonald brought back as a full-time regular with a moustache and a brown leather jacket, except his hair and moustache would NOW be grey in colour and how the character would be more of a grandfather type like Bill Webster/Peter Armitage was, and Jim being advisory and protective to his granddaughter Amy and some of the younger men like Gary Windass and Jim sharing his old Army stories from the 1980s Falklands war, and Jim also being advisory to Andy, and the more intense friction, tension and animosity from his other wayward son Steve, should ever Liz become ill and passing away eventually.)

Andy McDonald - (One of Andy's ex-partners from his past could return to give him a storyline as such.)
Curly Watts - (A possible love triangle with Curly stuck between Raquel and Emma.)
Emma Watts - (A possible love triangle with Curly stuck between Emma and Raquel.)
Fiona Middleton - (She can reclaim the hairdressers back from Audrey, where Audrey would become a bit redundant as a character when her daughter Gail (Helen Worth) leaves the show later in the year.)
Natalie Horrocks/Barnes - (A partnership with Jenny Bradley and Raquel Wolstenholme with the day-to-day running of The Rovers Return.)
Raquel Wolstenholme - (She could take over The Rovers Return as the new landlady, a partnership with her, Jenny Bradley and/or even Natalie Horrocks/Barnes as a trio would be similar to Bet Lynch/Annie Walker/Betty Turpin.)
Sharon Gaskell/Bentley - (Sharon could take over The Kabin as the owner when Rita/Barbara Knox retires or passes away.)
Terry Duckworth - (Either Terry or Vinny would make a good landlord of The Rovers Return too.)
Vinny Sorrell - (Either Vinny or Terry would make a good landlord of The Rovers Return too.)

 

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I'd like to see:

Becky return.
Lloyd from the taxi service.
Liz McDonald was a great character.
Pat Phelan was a pleasure to watch.

And of course Rosie Webster.

 

[soapfan]

Emmerdale characters to bring back:-
Matt Skilbeck,
Joe Sugden,
Tom Merrick,
Archie Brooks,
Marian Wilks,
Janie Harker,
Sandie Merrick,
Dolly Skilbeck,
Lynn Whiteley/Fionnuala Ellwood.

Soap characters you'd like to see return

Hollyoaks
Most of the alive characters who appeared between 1995-1999.

Family Affairs
Characters from Family Affairs if ever brought back.

Brookside
Characters from Brookside if ever brought back.