Radio Times interview

I know that, unlike most series that are three decades on from their start, RD still has all its regulars alive but how many of the guest cast have died? Noel Coleman and Don Henderson are two.

Ken Morley

Ken Morley in Allo Allo: “The candle! It was a stick of dynamite! Is my head on the right way ’round?”

Von Klinkerhoffen: “Contact the Hospital! Fruitcake Ward!”

Geraldine McEwan’s probably the biggest.

Robert Addy too.

And then there’s Graham Chapman who was booked and then died. Really strange time capsule to see Rob & Doug interviewed in TV Zone from the set of Backwards plugging that Chapman’s due to guest star.

Blimey, both of us said that at the same time.

Well, if we’re going for people who weren’t ultimately cast, Alan Rickman.

Francine Walker-Lee

The cat that played Frankingstein and various other aminal performers, presumably.

Re: Chapman.

Did Doug and Rob realise how sick Graham was when they booked him?

Did *anyone* realise that Chapman was dying or was it kept private?

The most disturbing thing I got from a charity shop was David Hasselhoff’s ‘Making Waves’ which was signed to Tommy ‘Get well soon’.

Guessing, since it turned up in the charity shop, Tommy showed no sign of improvement.

Rob Grant wrote Red Dwarf. Then he rewrote Red Dwarf and called it Colony.

It is Prince Charles, who has of course been playing Rimmer since the character returned in series VIII.

Princess Di was replaced as Gordon by Camilla Parker-Bowles for the Remastered version, anyway.

My copy of Last Human is signed by Rob and my copy of Backwards is signed by Doug.

I met Danny J-J at a convention around the time Napster was popular and I was ranting about the copyright mafia and Danny just said “you won’t be saying that when it’s your stuff getting pilfered!”.

“Radio Times interview” is the title of this thread. It says so up there, look. ^

So, speaking of interviews, there’s a fairly decent one appeared on Den of Geek yesterday.

https://t.co/JfPI9mEpkT

“Den of Geek” and “fairly decent” are not terms that typically get used in the same sentence, but that was a surprisingly enjoyable read.

Depends on the article and who’s writing it, there’s some good stuff on there, and some lazy stuff. I enjoyed the Bond retrospective a few years ago.

Good interview that. My favourite bit was Chris trying to get a rise out of Craig by mentioning Captain Butler and Craig completely ignoring him.

>“Den of Geek” and “fairly decent” are not terms that typically get used in the same sentence, but that was a surprisingly enjoyable read.

As someone who’s been writing for Den of Geek since it was founded, albeit less so these days: oi.

HATTIE

I want Hattie back for XIII please, powers-that-be. Ta.

Given that, because he’s tired of answering questions about it, Norman is now super-keen to get onboard again, I wonder if he’ll be part of XIII.

Fascinated to learn that the first four shows of X also had to be heavily rewritten because of the lack of location filming – I don’t think we knew that before, did we? Is the Series X we got totally different from the one Doug planned?