List of minor EastEnders characters (1992)

The following is a list of minor characters that first appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 1992, by order of first appearance.

Anne Howes
Anne Howes met Phil Mitchell while he was on a stag night in a curry house. Phil brought her back to his home at the Queen Vic and they slept together. A romance was quick to develop, but Anne turned out to be a habitual liar. She refused to give Phil her home telephone number or allow him back to her house and when Phil questioned her on this, she became defensive and hostile. By this time Phil had fallen for her, so he persevered, but he began to grow suspicious when he spotted her arguing with a strange man in the middle of Bridge Street market. Anne claimed that the man was merely an ex-boyfriend, but when Phil confronted him he was told that Anne was his wife and a serial adulterer.

Phil was angered by her dishonesty, but Anne claimed that her marriage was over, which her husband, Terry, refused to accept. She portrayed Terry as suicidal and needy and promised that her feelings for Phil were genuine. Phil eventually accepted her explanation and confessed to loving her, but Anne remained uncertain about leaving her husband, fearing that he would kill himself if she did. After days of ignoring Phil, Anne agreed to discuss their relationship over dinner, but she turned up to the restaurant late, claiming that her husband had locked her in their bedroom. Terry followed them there and was shocked to discover that Anne had claimed he was suicidal, dismissing this as one of her lies. He pleaded with Phil to finish with Anne for the sake of their young daughter—another secret that Anne had been keeping. Phil ended the affair after realising that Anne had been lying to him all along.

Family

 * Husband: Terry Howes

Terry Howes
Terry Howes was the husband of Phil Mitchell's girlfriend, Anne, although this was not revealed straight away. Originally Anne claimed that Terry was a former lover, who had taken their separation badly. Phil became suspicious when he saw Anne and Terry rowing and, later that evening, Terry was spotted lurking outside Phil's house. Furious, Phil went to warn him off, but Terry stunned him by revealing that he and Anne were actually married.

Anne convinced Phil that her marriage was over, but she was unable to leave Terry as he had threatened to kill himself if she did. When Phil confronted Terry with this, he discovered that Anne had been lying—she'd had numerous affairs in the past, but always came back to him in the end. Terry then shocked Phil by telling him that he and Anne had a young daughter. He begged him to end the affair for her sake. Phil did so after realising that Anne had been lying all along.

Family

 * Wife: Anne Howes

Jonathan Hewitt
Jonathan Hewitt was the layabout son of Christine Hewitt — who employed Arthur Fowler to tend to her garden. Jonathan had been unemployed for a while after dropping out of college, and when Christine saw Arthur advertising for a gardening assistant she approached him and recommended Jonathan for the post. Arthur agreed and he and Jonathan spent several weeks tending to gardens in Albert Square.

Arthur's love for plants rubbed off on Jonathan, and he seemed extremely keen on the job, even helping Arthur sell his plants at the May Day fête on the Square. However as the weeks went by Johnathan started to shirk his responsibilities, leaving work early and then failing to show up at all. After a few days of absence, Arthur contacted Christine to complain. According to Christine, Jonathan had left London to attend a festival in Scotland with his hippy friends. Christine took over the job in his place, which was the precursor to her affair with Arthur. Jonathan never appeared again, but in March 1993 Christine visited him in Scotland because he had suffered an injury.

Family

 * Father: Greg Hewitt
 * Mother: Christine Hewitt

Andonis Papadopoulos
Andonis Papadopoulos known commonly as Mr. Papadopoulos, is the owner of the launderette on Bridge Street. In a long-running joke, employee Dot Branning has difficulty pronouncing his surname, and for much of the show's history he has been referred to as Mr. Oppodopolus, Oppydoppy, or varying other mispronunciations; some of which are used by other characters, including Yolande Trueman who calls him Mr. P.

Andonis was not the original owner of the launderette. From the show's inception until May 1992 the property was owned by his father, until he died while holidaying in his native Athens. The character is of Greek descent, but the Papadopouloses were apparently based in Walthamstow, East London.

Despite being referred to regularly throughout the entire serial, the Papadopouloses have not been seen often on-screen. Andonis made his first appearance in May 1992, when he came to Walford to assess the business following his father's death. Dot noticed him taking a keen interest in the launderette and feared he was a murderer. She spent several days in a terrified state until Andonis made a formal introduction the following episode, revealing his first name. He made several alterations to the way the business was managed, much to Dot's dismay.

Over the next two years he showed up in Walford occasionally. He was featured in the programme's 1,000th episode on 12 July 1994, where he discovered that his employee, Carol Jackson, was faking an illness in order to get out of work. Carol was actually attending the wedding of Nigel and Debbie Bates, which Andonis witnessed. The following day he fired Carol as well as long-time employee, Pauline Fowler, who had been covering up for her. He employed a relative to work in their place, but the launderette fell into chaos, so both were eventually offered their jobs back. Pauline made him grovel before accepting and managed to get a 75 pence per hour payrise. This was Mr. Papadopoulos' last appearance to date, though he is still mentioned often in the programme.

Jack Woodman
Jack Woodman first appeared in November 1992 as a student friend of Michelle Fowler. Michelle went to a student gig on campus and spent the night being chatted up by Jack. Unbeknown to Michelle, her boyfriend, Clyde Tavernier, followed her there and found her in bed with Jack, which ended their relationship.

Jack reappeared in December 1992 when he showed up unexpectedly at the Fowler house on Christmas Day, to visit Michelle. Jack soon revealed that he wanted to continue his fling with Michelle, although she was adverse to this and gently but firmly declined. Jack was not perturbed and he would continuously show up in Walford with various different excuses in a bid to get close to Michelle. He secretly took photos of her; arranged to be privately home tutored by her landlady Rachel Kominski and interfered with her lingerie; had numerous fights with Clyde; began to spend time with her mother Pauline so he could pry into Michelle’s private life and then smashed his head against a brick wall and turned up at Michelle’s looking for sympathy.

When Michelle’s daughter, Vicki, was kidnapped in March 1993, Jack became prime suspect in the police investigation. When the police questioned him and discovered that his room was littered with pictures of Michelle, they decided to keep him under surveillance. The real kidnapper was eventually caught, but Jack was furious with Michelle’s betrayal. He continued to stalk her until she decided to take action - enlisting the help of Phil Mitchell to scare him away – but in the end she had to contact Jack’s father and step-mother and confront them with his irrational behaviour. It was revealed that Jack had a history of stalking girls and, after Jack broke down and confessed to everything, his father took him home away with him.

Donald Cameron
Donald Cameron was a blind, Scottish ex-army sergeant who helped Dot Cotton with her Christmas carol concert in December 1992, by playing the piano. His fee was a bottle of malt whisky, provided by Nigel Bates. Ethel Skinner also thought he was attractive, and joked with Dot about telling him that she had the body of a young woman, due to his blindness.