over the next two years he shows up in walford occasionally. he is featured in the programme's 1,000th episode on 12 july 1994, discovering that his employee carol jackson (lindsey coulson) is faking an illness to get out of work when he sees her attending the wedding of nigel (paul bradley) and debbie bates (nicola duffett). the following day he fires carol, as well as long-time employee pauline fowler (wendy richard), who had been covering up for her. he employs a relative to work in their place, but the launderette falls into chaos, so both are eventually offered their jobs back. pauline makes him grovel before accepting and manages to get a 75-pence-per-hour payrise. he returned on 10 august 2009, although his face is not seen on screen, he does not speak and he is not named in the credits. he arrives at the launderette looking for dot, and later finds her at her house, giving her a parcel. in 2012, mr. papadopolous' nephew, nico papadopoulos (aykut hilmi), makes an appearance as the manager of mcklunky's, a local fast food restaurant. in 2016, it is mentioned that he has passed the launderette on to his son, apostolos papadopolous (tarrick benham).