1980, Meg Mortimer takes the motel into a new decade	Benny with just one of his many pets, this is Moses the dirty dog	Wally Sopper and Sid Hooper hatch another money making scam, 1983	1985, Kath Brownlow ponders her future with Stephen Fellows..
..John Line as Stephen Fellows, who wooed Kath Brownlow	1986, she's at it again - Jill Chance has an affair with Micky Doyle	1987, Daniel Freeman celebrates his 5 year deal to stay on at Crossroads	1981, wedding bells for Kevin Banks and Glenda Brownlow
1982, The Pollard family bitch-up the Crossroads motel..	..1980, Miranda Pollard and Adam Chance decide to get married, but not for long	1986, goodbye Shughie, hello Andy and Paul, the new kitchen-team	Nina, who ended up being cared for by Sharon Metcalfe, 1983
1985, Nicola Freeman arrives as the new motel boss..	..bringing with her, her step-son Daniel Freeman..	..and his sister Joanna Freeman - both troublesome for Nicola	By the 1980s mechanic Joe MacDonald had progressed to garage manager

An artists impression of what the new Crossroads Motel would look like after the 1981 fire	John Maddingham and his son Jamie moved into Kings Oak's village pub, The Stag, 1986
1981, Meg suffers the side effects of switching on Emmerdale Farm	Christmas 1980, Doris Luke, Sandy Richardson and Marian Owen
Motel manager David Hunter survives being shot, and later in the same year marries Barbara Brady, 1980	1987, The spice of Grice, Jason, Beverley, Ray and Margaret, the Grice family
The Crossroads couple of the later end of the 1980s, the on-off marriage of Jill and Adam Chance	1985, David can't change his ways and has a fling with Sarah Alexandre, Barbara wasn't amused