Coronation Street in 1992 1992 was " Coronation Street " ' s thirty - third year . Production . Carolyn Reynolds assumed the role of producer at the start of the year . Reynolds came to the job having just produced Granada ' s daytime soap opera " Families " , which shared its executive producer David Liddiment with " Coronation Street " . Liddiment remained at the " Street " until November , when he was appointed Director of Programmes at ITV . Reynolds was the programme ' s main creative force over the following thirteen years , working as both producer and executive producer in much the same manner as Bill Podmore had ( except for two notable periods in 1997 and 2000 - 2001 ) . After six years playing Alec Gilroy , Roy Barraclough quit the programme to return to the stage . Barraclough wished for Alec to be killed off but writers instead chose to have him leave Bet . Meanwhile , Nigel Pivaro made a return as Terry Duckworth for a major storyline which ran over two years . Caroline Milmoe was cast as Lisa Horton , Terry ' s fiancée and eventual wife , and Darryl Edwards as Tom Duckworth , who was born while Terry was in prison for GBH , with Jack and Vera taking care of Lisa and Tom . Other new cast members included Brian Hibbard as bankrupt mechanic Doug Murray , and Denise Black as Denise Osbourne , a hair stylist in the Elsie Tanner mould who converted No . 2 into its familiar form as a salon . Her assistant there was Fiona Middleton , a character played by Angela Griffin whose role would grow significantly over the next few years . Lastly , Mike Baldwin ' s illegitimate son Mark Redman returned , now played by Chris Cook . Mark was aged up by two years as storylines required that he be the same age as Nicky Platt . The third and last ITV Telethon was held , and again " Coronation Street " was featured . This time , a full - length episode was made specially for the event : a comedic piece centring around a Bettabuy staff outing , at which Brendan Scott tries to thwart Reg Holdsworth ' s attempts to impress Bettabuy supremo Lord Walter Morgan . In October , the Broadcasting Standards Council attacked the " Street " for its lack of ethnic faces compared with rival soaps " EastEnders " and " Brookside " . The press defended " Coronation Street " from the claim , referring to the figures from the 1991 census showing that Manchester was 97 . 8 % white , while David Liddiment replied , in the official response from ITV : " The idea that serial drama is there to directly reflect real life is a false one . It is there to entertain , not provide a demographic reflection of Britain . " Viewing figures . By the beginning of the year , only Granada and UTV were showing the omnibus edition of " Coronation Street " . Only BARB ' s combined ratings are available for this year . With 21 . 6 million viewers , Episode 3329 on 8th January was the highest - rated episode of 1992 . The average was 18 . 34 million viewers , an increase of over a million viewers on the aggregated figure from 1991 . 27 episodes reached number one , while no episodes dropped out of the top twenty . On 6th July , for the first time in its history " Coronation Street " transmitted an hour - long episode . This was in fact two separate episodes edited together to be shown opposite the premiere of the BBC ' s new soap opera " Eldorado " . The move was ordered by ITV executives , determined to kill the competition at birth . In any case , " Eldorado " was a commercial and critical disaster for the BBC , and was cancelled after one year . Who lives where . Coronation Street Rosamund Street Others