Craig was yet to land his breakthrough role in Our Friends in the North when he was cast as the hapless Peter Begg in a 1993 storyline entitled A Chilly Reception Part One in the third series of the show. A very young Craig is first seen by viewers sinking a pint in the pub when Pc Nick Rowan – played by Nick Berry – pinches one of his crisps. Craig’s character, who has moved to Birmingham, has come back to the village for his grandmother’s funeral, after she was found dead in her cottage by one of Begg’s old flames. Finding his former girlfriend about to get married, he breaks into her home in a fit of jealous rage and steals her wedding presents before damaging floral displays in the church.