Pat Phelan (Coronation Street) which revealed Phelan to have survived his fall, reached a peak audience of 8,500,000. Phelan’s final episodes also achieved high ratings, with the 1st June episode in which he was killed receiving an average audience of 8,660,000 on 28 day data. Phelan has been rated one of the best soap villains of all time and in the programme itself, alongside the likes of Richard Hillman (Brian Capron) and Tony Gordon (Gray O'Brien). Pat Phelan (Coronation Street) Pat Phelan is a fictional character from the British soap opera "Coronation Street", portrayed by Connor McIntyre. The character first appeared on-screen during the
Compact (TV series) Compact (TV series) Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC from 1962 to 1965. The series was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who together subsequently devised "Crossroads". In contrast to the kitchen sink realism of "Coronation Street", "Compact" was a distinctly middle-class serial, set in the more "sophisticated" arena of magazine publishing. An early "avarice" soap, it took the viewer into the business workplace, and aligned the professional lives of the characters with more personal storylines. The show was scheduled for broadcast on Tuesdays and Thursdays, thus avoiding a clash with ITV's "Coronation Street"