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| Mel Morton | |
| Occupation | Police officer |
| Born | 10th April 1989 |
| Father | Jerry Morton |
| Mother | Teresa Bryant |
| Sibling(s) | Jodie Morton Darryl Morton Kayleigh Morton Finlay Bryant (half brother) |
| First appearance | 18th March 2007 |
| Last appearance | 3rd October 2008 |
| Duration | 2007-2008 |
| Played by | Emma Edmondson |
Melanie "Mel" Morton made her first onscreen appearance on 18th March 2007, and is portrayed by Emma Edmondson.
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During the casting for Mel Morton different actresses were called in for auditions for the role. Actress Emma Edmondson revealed in an interview with Digital Spy that she kept being called back into each stage of audtioning where hopefulls had to audition as sets of twins. Emma continually met fellow actor Jonathan Dixon who plays her onscreen brother Darryl Morton. In the final audition the two were paired up, and went on to be cast as twins Mel and Darryl.
Mel is the more responsible member of her roguish family, and ITV describe her as 'gobby, serious-minded but sensible. During Emma Edmondson's interview with the media website Digitalspy she said the same of her character's personality: Mel is definitely a Morton in that she's brash and gobby, but out of the whole clan she's the most sensible. Definitely more sensible than Darryl. They're very close, but very different, I think Darryl brings out a bad side of Mel.
Some of the characters earlier minor storylines involved David Platt developing a crush on Mel, but she stood him up. To get his revenge, he spread gossip that he had slept with Mel, but was forced to apologise by his mother. As with the rest of the Morton Family, they never really had many storylines to begin with, upon Mel's axe, actress Emma stated that her hopes of getting more 'gritty storylines' had been granted.
In February 2008, Mel became WPC Morton, joining her friend Abi Sharpe in the police force where she began training to become a full time Police Constable. At the time the storyline also saw her onscreen Grandfather put his own obituary into the local paper thinking that Mel’s chances of joining the police force would be improved if the local police thought he was no longer alive to get involved in dodgy dealings.
Mel later argued with her mother Teresa Bryant upon her return in May 2008, portraying the rocky relationship between mother and daughter. After Mel returned from holiday in August 2008, she discovered that Teresa had been lying in a deliberate attempt to lengthen her stay in the house, this prompted Mel to make her farther choose between herself and her mother, when Jerry chose her Mother she went to stay at Abi's.
It was later announced that Mel would be involved in a controversial storyline that would depict the violence that is currently on the streets of Britain. More so that the storyline reflected an attack that happened in Rochdale when thugs booted an unconscious man in the head, in the soap opera the latter was depicted happening to fellow cop mate Abi, who came to her assistance during the fight.
The episode was screened on 3rd September 2008, Mel and Abi went out on the town to celebrate the end of their police training. Outside the bar they witnessed a gang of girls fighting on the street, Abi called the police and told Mel to stay out of it as they were both off duty but she intervened. Upon seeing her friend being punched and kicked by the girls, Abi attempted to break up the fight but sustained a blow to the head with a glass bottle and received blows to the head after being stamped on. Before the episode where Mel's scenes aired there was public backlash and complaints to Ofcom, stating they are giving the youngsters of today ideas. The attackers could not be charged due to lack of evidence, seeing Mel trying to take the law into her own hands. Later in the week, Mel tried to seek revenge on the girls but instead she is being confronted by Teresa and they reconciled. Later, she got the revenge she needed as Teresa secretly went behind her back and visited one of the girls in the ladies toilets in the bar partly where the attack happened, and Teresa gave her a blow to the head with a heel of her shoe. Teresa and Mel later fell out yet again after Mel discovered Teresa's scheme and arrested Teresa for attempted murder. Mel was furious when Jerry refused to back up her story, which not only freed Teresa, but damaged Mel's reputation on the force.
Jerry, Kayleigh and Finlay left the street on 29th September for Spain; however, Mel didn't want to go as she has only just qualified in police force. She departed on 3rd October when she saw Darryl bringing a drunken Teresa back to the house. Unable to cope with the situation she left to stay with Abi.
Ian Wylie of Manchester Evening News said upon the axing of the Morton clan he had become to like the character, even though she and her onscreen family 'failed to fit the weatherfield jigsaw'. Various blog sites ran polls to get the publics opinion over who was the best character in the Morton clan, Corrie Blog writer stated that Mel was the character with most potential comparing her to former teenage characters Katy Harris, Lucille Hewitt, Jenny Bradley.
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| Melanie Bush | |
| Also known as: | Mel |
| Race: | Human |
| Home Planet: | Earth |
| Home Era: | 20th century |
| Appearances: | Full List of Appearances |
| Actor: | Bonnie Langford |
Melanie Bush, or simply Mel, was a computer programmer from the 20th century and a companion of the Sixth and Seventh Doctors.
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Mel was a computer programmer from the 20th century who came from the village of Pease Pottage in West Sussex, England. She had an eidetic memory, and a cheery, almost perky personality. She greeted most situations with a warm smile and good humour, and was an optimist whose views extended to believing the best of people's natures, but could also scream with the best of them. She was a health enthusiast and a vegetarian, often encouraging the slightly portly Sixth Doctor to exercise more. She was present (albeit unconscious at the time) when the Sixth Doctor regenerated into his seventh incarnation, and continued to travel with him.
The Doctor first met Mel in Brighton in 1989. (PDA: Business Unusual)
Mel first appeared when she and the Sixth Doctor had been travelling together for some time. The events of which were shown as part of a Matrix projection of future events being shown to the Sixth Doctor, so from his point of view, he was seeing an adventure he would have with Mel even before he met her in his own timeline. (DW: The Trial of a Time Lord)
Following his trial the Doctor returned Mel to her original timeline with his future self during an adventure on the planet Oxyveguramosa. (MA: Time of Your Life)
She decided to stay on Iceworld with the galactic confidence trickster, Sabalom Glitz, leaving the Seventh Doctor to travel on with his new companion, Ace. (DW: Dragonfire)
Encountering the Seventh Doctor he revealed to her that he manipulated her to depart his company on Iceworld because he knew what was coming (as Time's Champion) and couldn't have her as a companion. (NA: Head Games)
Following this encounter she returns to Pease Pottage. (PDA: Business Unusual)
At some point in the future Mel may have ended up on the planet Heritage, where she dies in the 61st Century. However during this point in the Doctor's adventures many enemies were attempting to eliminate his companions from the timeline, thus she may not have died here. (PDA: Heritage)
Mel also encountered the Valeyard in an alternate version of the timeline, here she was much more cynical and hard than she had been originally. (DWU: He Jests at Scars...)
| Companions of the Sixth Doctor |
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| Television Peri Brown • Melanie Bush Other media Frobisher • Jason • Crystal • Zog • Grant Markham • Evelyn Smythe • Will Hoffman • Emily Chaudhry • Charley Pollard • Jamie McCrimmon • Zoe Heriot |
| Companions of the Seventh Doctor |
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| Television Melanie Bush • Ace Other media Frobisher • Olla • Ly-Chee • Bernice Summerfield • Chris Cwej • Roz Forrester • Wolsey • Antimony • Catherine Broome • Hex • Elizabeth Klein (announced) |
Mel Nis was a Bajoran security guard serving on the USS Enterprise-D, holding the rank of Ensign in 2371. She was one of the team assigned to provide security during the inauguration ceremonies for Governor Ra'ch B'ullhy of Damiano. She was assigned to the entrances to the dining hall with Wong and Murphy. When Data attempted to crash the Enterprise as he was being taken over by the Chova, she was the only security guard on scene. (TNG comic: Perchance to Dream: "By a Sleep to Say We End", "Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment")
Mel is one of the quartet of monsters featured in the Monster Clubhouse segments on Sesame Street. He has blue fur, with a wild mop of hair and two small horns. His speech sounds like gibberish to the home viewer, but his Monster Clubhouse friends Phoebe, Googel, and Narf can understand him with no trouble.
The puppet used for Mel bears a striking resemblence to the members of the Shagri-Las.
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Mel is a character in Grand Theft Auto 1. He runs a re-spray shop in Liberty City, similar to Pay 'n' Spray from the GTA III era games. Mel has two rivals in the city, Crazy Bob and Chink.
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