I am amazed how much of his era I generally liked because when I read at the time Paul Marquess had axed Derek Conway I was on the verge of stopping support for this show. His cruel ending was hard to watch and has been more so since Ben Roberts passed away a few years ago. With the fire soon after his exit felt quite pointless and a huge disrespect to an actor who served the series with comedic quips and no-nonsense management on screen for 14 years. There were strong plots that came out of the soap era like Eva Sharpe's daughter disappearing, Terry Perkins reliving his childhood and Mickey Webb's attack but Marquess had no respect for the established and talented icons he inherited. Conway, Monroe, Boyden, Carver, all wasted under his reign. The premise of this episode is quite comedic with Des losing his shiny new motor to armed robbers but I just don't like this episode at all.
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