It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.

I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.