List of Coronation Street characters introduced in 1978
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1978 saw several characters making their debuts on the British soap opera Coronation Street, including Ed Jackson, Ida Clough and Brian Tilsley.
Ed Jackson
Thomas Edward "Ed" Jackson was one of two robbers who staged a robbery on Mike Baldwin's (Johnny Briggs) factory. 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. They began to menace Ernest out of the wages he had been preparing. 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.
Ed returned in 2005. He befriended Emily Bishop (Eileen Derbyshire) at church and began dating Eileen Grimshaw (Sue Cleaver). Ed divulged to Emily his prison background and subsequently revealed that he was responsible for the death of Emily's husband, Ernest. Emily expressed her disgust at this revelation and born again Christian Ed dramatically contemplated suicide, but Emily forgave him when he asked her for forgiveness. She gave him Ernest's old camera, and made him promise to send her Christmas cards, with a photograph of himself every year to show her he was alive and well.
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