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

Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it.

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.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

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.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

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.