This episode from 1987 contains language and attitudes of the time.

Damon and Debbie, on the run from Liverpool find themselves in York. The romantic medieval city becomes the backdrop to their love affair - where Damon enters a world of Dick Turpin and fast food to support Debbie's education. But when Debbie finds new and exciting friends on the campus, the runaways begin to drift apart.


Episode 1 (04/11/1987)

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Damon and Debbie is the landmark three-part 'soap-bubble' that follows two of Brookside's most popular early era characters, teen sweethearts Damon Grant and Debbie McGrath, as they abscond to York to escape their disapproving parents in Liverpool who object to their relationship because of the class divide between them.

Damon and Debbie

Series 1

Brookside's most popular early era characters, teen sweethearts Damon and Debbie

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They then move to Bradford and stay with friends. Throughout the episode, Debbie, who has kept her diabetes secret from Damon, tries to locate a pharmacy to obtain insulin, having left her own supply on the boat in York. When she finds her medical bag and injects herself with her medicine, Damon wrongly concludes that she is a drug addict, and he leaves the house.


Episode 2 (11/11/1987)

Debbie's uncles continue their search for the couple, finally tracking them down after they return to York. The series concludes when, after a mock marriage in a hotel room, Damon is stabbed by an unknown assailant on a dark riverbank and dies in Debbie's arms.
