Episode 1145 (30th April 1987)

Plot
As Phil Pearce goes out for the evening, a drunken Eric Pollard breaks into Mill Cottage and terrorises Sandie for getting him sacked. He threatens her with a poker. He then pours his heart out to her saying at 42 years old he has hardly achieved anything in life. Sandie takes him home.

Regular cast

 * Annie Sugden - Sheila Mercier
 * Matt Skilbeck - Frederick Pyne
 * Amos Brearly - Ronald Magill
 * Henry Wilks - Arthur Pentelow
 * Jack Sugden - Clive Hornby
 * Joe Sugden - Frazer Hines
 * Dolly Skilbeck - Jean Rogers
 * Rev Donald Hinton - Hugh Manning
 * Sandie Merrick - Jane Hutcheson
 * Jackie Merrick - Ian Sharrock
 * Alan Turner - Richard Thorp
 * Mrs Bates - Diana Davies
 * Seth Armstrong - Stan Richards
 * Phil Pearce - Peter Alexander
 * Eric Pollard - Christopher Chittell
 * Jock McDonald - Drew Dawson
 * Archie Brooks Tony Pitts
 * Nick Bates - Cy Chadwick
 * Sam Skilbeck - Benjamin Whitehead
 * Robert Sugden - Richard Smith

Guest cast

 * Surveyor - Nicholas Fry
 * Telephone Survey - Tony Havering