Appendix 3

My CV

 The Media Show—My Back Catalogue

As Edina said in Ab Fab, ‘Names, names, names….’

Only Fools and Horses (right from the start); Blackadder (Series 2–4); Absolutely Fabulous (Series 1–3); Bottom; One Foot in the Grave; Parkinson; Saturday and Sunday Night Clive; Yes, Prime Minister; As Time Goes By; KYTV; ’Allo ’Allo!; French and Saunders; Alas Smith and Jones; Just Good Friends; Hi-de-Hi!; Not the 9 O’Clock News; Joking Apart; So Haunt Me; May to December; Butterflies; Terry and June; Open All Hours; A Kick up the Eighties; Dear John; Agony Again; The Magnificent Evans; Heartburn Hotel; In Sickness and in Health; The Brittas Empire; Clarence; Tonight at 8:30; Goodnight Sweetheart; Fist of Fun, Ever Decreasing Circles; Mulberry; Brush Strokes; 2.4 Children; Goodness Gracious Me; Waiting for God; Next of Kin; Bread; The Vicar of Dibley (Series 2); The Val Doonican Music Show; a couple of Royal Variety Shows, and numerous other music specials with the likes of Stéphane Grappelli, Karl Richter, James Galway, Kiri Te Kanawa, Yehudi Menuhin, and Nana Mouskouri.

 On the Dark Side—It Wasn’t All Comedy

Amongst the laughs were other programmes like a drama series called Maggie and the coverage of the Advent Service from Salisbury Cathedral called From Darkness to Light. In addition, there was lots of sport and current affairs, with a sprinkling of Albert Hall Promenade concerts thrown in for good measure.

 The Roads to Freedom—Working outside the BBC

I left the BBC in 1998 to go solo. The production world was changing with the formation of many independent production companies, such as Alomo, Watchmaker, Tiger Aspect, DLT Entertainment, Hat Trick, and many others. Some BBC shows like Saturday Night Clive moved to ITV, so you had, for the first time, an ITV show made by a mostly BBC team.

The BBC itself started to become more of a commissioner of programmes, so it made more sense for me to go freelance. The series happily kept on coming in my direction, such as High Stakes and Teenage Kicks for ITV, Time Gentlemen Please for Sky, and back to the BBC for My Family; Roger, Roger; Dad; Lee Evans; and My Hero.

In more recent years, I have worked on five series of Parkinson for ITV, four series of The Green, Green Grass, three series of The Catherine Tate Show; two series of The Old Guys; a John Sullivan comedy drama called Rock n’ Chips, two series of Mount Pleasant for Sky, along with The Apprentice—You’re Fired for the BBC.

More recently still I have worked on Count Arthur Strong for the BBC, Vicious for ITV, and most recently Birds of a Feather and Still Open All Hours. Those last two sound slightly familiar, don’t you think?

At the time of writing I have just finished a series called Mountain Goats for BBC Scotland.