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==Creation and Development==

</ref>{{Quote_box |width=20%|align=right|quote="Pam Coker is the sort of woman who seems physically incapable of not talking. A chatterbox who speaks at a million miles an hour, she constantly has her nose in everybody’s business."<ref name="BBC Profile">{{cite web|title=Pam Coker - Character Profile|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/wHkW8h0b5nrQ05gv9ndTJq/pam-coker|website=EastEnders Website|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=30 November 2016}}</ref>|source=—BBC character profile description.}}

The character and casting was announced on 4 April 2014.<ref name="Introduction">{{cite web|last1=Dainty|first1=Sophie|title=EastEnders to introduce Les Coker's wife Pam for new funeral parlour|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/news/a562319/eastenders-to-introduce-les-cokers-wife-pam-for-new-funeral-parlour/|website=[[Digital Spy]]|publisher=[[Hearst Magazines UK]]|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref> Pam is the wife of established character [[Les Coker]] ([[Roger Sloman]]) who was made a regular in April 2014.<ref name="BBC Introduction Blog">{{cite web|title=New funeral parlour opens on Albert Square|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/eastenders/entries/516c9e6c-c815-3d02-a577-fa34928043d8|website=EastEnders Website|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=29 November 2016}}</ref> Pam made her first appearance on 14 April 2014.<ref name="bbc.co.uk">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0419ccl BBC One - EastEnders, 14/04/2014<!-- Bot generated title -->]. Of her casting, Blakley said "Being part of EastEnders is like going to work and being with another family. I'm really enjoying myself. Working with Roger has been wonderful from the word go, we have a laugh together and I feel like I have known him forever." <ref name="digitalspy.co.uk"/> Executive producer [[Dominic Treadwell-Collins]] said "Les and Pam are part of our plans to rejuvenate the show's older generation. It's already so exciting to watch the chemistry between Roger and Lin on set, playing characters who have been together for so long, they know each other inside out. Or so they think."<ref name="digitalspy.co.uk"/> It was announced on 28 July 2016 that Pam and Les would leave later in 2016 after the both of them were axed by the new executive producer [[Sean O'Connor (producer)|Sean O'Connor]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/eastenders-cross-dressing-funeral-boss-8515516|title=EastEnders' cross-dressing funeral boss Les Coker and wife Pam to leave soap|last=Methven|first=Nicola|date=28 July 2016|work=[[Daily Mirror]]|accessdate=29 July 2016}}</ref> Pam and Les made their final appearances on 14 October 2016.

===Blackmail===

In May 2016, Les and Pam become the victim of blackmail by [[Babe Smith (EastEnders)|Babe Smith]] ([[Annette Badland]]).<ref name="Blackmail 1">{{cite web|last1=Kilkelly|first1=Daniel|title=Pam Coker breaks down as Aunt Babe's blackmail over Les causes shockwaves|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/news/a793099/eastenders-catch-up-pam-coker-breaks-down-as-aunt-babes-blackmail-over-les-causes-shockwaves/|website=[[Digital Spy]]|publisher=[[Hearst Magazines UK]]|accessdate=29 November 2016}}</ref> Babe begins to send anonymous demands for cash via e-mail to Les, and in return, she will keep his secret alter ego Christine to herself. It was already revealed to viewers that Babe was the culprit however, Pam desperately tries to seek out the culprit.

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