Dave (Episode 3238)

Dave Wallace was a salesman who encountered Audrey Roberts while staying at the Postgate Hotel in June 1991.

Audrey was living it up at the five-star venue at Alf's expense after leaving her husband following a row over Ivy Brennan working at the Corner Shop. She'd been there for several days when Dave entered the deserted bar and, finding Audrey on her own, chatted her up while he waited for his Scotch and soda on the rocks. Before they'd got further than introducing themselves, Dave's mobile phone rang and he was forced to leave Audrey to go help out his colleague Nigel, quickly downing his Scotch.

Once he was finished with Nigel, Dave went back to the bar and he and Audrey picked up where they left off. Dave had left a good first impression on her; the suit, the mobile phone and being on first-name terms with the bartender of a posh hotel suggested wealth. However, his conversation was banal, with Dave prattling on about his job selling household hardware items, commenting that his wife didn't understand how fascinating it was. Audrey decided that her only option was to scare him off and to that end she told Dave that her husband would soon be meeting her at the hotel after he completed his manoeuvres with the marines. Her gambit worked and Dave beat a hasty retreat.


 * Credited as "Dave", the character's surname was given in TV Times.