he had been returning home from an affair, cheating on his wife Rita (Barbara Knox). Adamson claimed this was motivated by sheer spite on Granada's part, to turn viewers against Len. Adamson celebrated the character's death by delivering an obituary on TV-am dressed as an undertaker and delivered a bitter parting shot towards both Coronation Street and Granada in a poem he wrote. On 30 July 1985, Adamson appeared on TV, talking about the trial and its aftermath in a TVS programme called Regrets. Granada refused to air the episode, because Adamson criticised Granada over his dismissal. They threatened TVS with legal action for using the Coronation Street theme and photographs from the series. Work after Coronation Street Post-Coronation Street, Adamson starred as Inspector Hubbard in a West End production of Dial M for Murder at the Vaudeville Theatre from November 1983 to March 1984 which also featured Simon Ward and Hayley Mills. The play was successful. In June 1984, Adamson was in a play in Croydon, and in summer 1984 he read short stories on BBC Radio 4. He was in a play in Harlow, Essex, when his wife fell seriously ill in September 1984 and he had to quit to return north. In February and March 1985, Adamson was based in Cambridge, where he had a part in Entertaining Mr Sloane, and in spring and early summer 1985 he was in Darlington playing Tommy Beamish, the leading role of an actor-manager of a troupe of music-hall entertainers on the eve of the First World War, in Empires by J.B. Priestley. In 1986, he was in a touring production of A Taste of Honey. Later that year, Adamson briefly settled in Canada, appearing in weekly repertory in Toronto and Vancouver. He appeared in Run for Your Wife, a Ray Cooney farce at the Bayview Playhouse in the former city. He returned to the UK in the spring of 1988 and played Sir Tunbelly Clumsy in a revival of The Relapse at the Mermaid Theatre from September to December that year. From February to April 1989, Adamson starred in the play Comedians in Belfast. Acting roles became increasingly rare after that. He was declared bankrupt in July 1991, with debts of £32,000, largely due to legal fees from the 1983 court case. Adamson retired from acting after being declared bankrupt. In the final decade of his life, he lived on