His last screen role, as a prison inmate making claims of brutality by wardens, was in The Bill in 1999. If tonight's momentum can be maintained over the month's to come then Gary Holton should get a second shot at the kind of success that eluded his last, turbulent incarnation. Hutchison himself was football-mad, regularly playing in goal for Dennis Waterman’s charity celebrity team – and breaking a leg in a 1983 game. Such was his friendship with the Sweeney star that he lent him his Scottish home when Waterman left his wife for the actress Rula Lenska, to help them to escape from the media glare. I haven’t been acting much, but I did dabble with stand-up comedy again last year, which was fun. I do miss acting, so would love to do something else again at some point…

Poseur's night at the Nashville" as the waggish Holton christened it. This evening saw the return of the one time Heavy Metal Kid supremo (that group now one year's rust encrusted) on a new year with a new band. A year later he appeared alongside Hollywood star Robert Mitchum in Wrath of God, striking up a friendship that lasted until Mitchum’s death in 1997. The Crowd was a "supergroup" formed specifically to produce a charity record for the Valley Parade football disaster, in which 56 people died on 11 May 1985. The group consisted of singers, actors, television personalities and others. This occasion being one of the first public try-outs prior to the new act's formal launching, judgements might be premature; allowances must be made and all that. Just the same, by the set's conclusion, it was a relieved Mr. Holton, who took his leave of a well won crowd...the audition had been passed. But Hutchison was on the other side of the law playing a police sergeant in the film epic Gandhi (1981), and a sinister superintendent on television in the second series (1990) of The Justice Game.As a friend of Waterman and his partner, Rula Lenska, Ken lent the couple his house in Leslie to allow them to escape the media glare and pursuit by tabloid reporters. After a few years he gravitated towards the West End where he met Peter O’Toole and a friendship was formed.” Gerry Marsden of Gerry & The Pacemakers had decided to make a charity record to aid the families of the victims of the disaster. The re-recording of the hit song "You'll Never Walk Alone", already a football anthem for Liverpool F.C. supporters, entered the UK charts at No. 4, and reached Number 1 on 1 June 1985. The ambiguity of the first rape is given context by the second rape,” declared the British Board of Film Classification in 2002, “which now makes it quite clear that sexual assault is not something that Amy [Susan George] ultimately welcomes.”

Cassidy was wonderfully played by the great character actor Milton Johns, who is probably best known to millions in his later role as Brendan Scott in Coronation Street. He was a pantomime style villain played to perfection. He didn’t like the kids. The kids didn’t like him. I can’t really remember what Mr Cassidy’s role was, but he certainly seemed to be Rasputin Jones’ right hand man and ran his arcade. Not someone to get on the wrong side of, but did he actually have a right one?! Ken Hutchinson, a Scot, who played Dunmore’s downtrodden manager Mac Murphy was tremendous. Snarly and an Alex Ferguson in the making – mannerisms wise at least, if not in terms of managerial success! The mentioning of Wurzel here brings me to my third most memorable and my favourite character from the series. For me, the star of the show.As a teenager growing up in Thatcher’s Scotland of the 1980’s, you needed as much joyous TV escapism as you could get and it didn’t come much better than rushing home from school twice a week to watch Murphy’s Mob, to see their latest scrapes and escapades, which of course were always more exciting than your own! Dancing at a party one evening with Rita Hayworth, who was taking her last film role in The Wrath of God, he expressed surprise at her dancing skills. “Well, after all, I have danced in movies with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire,” she retorted. AFTN: WHY DO YOU THINK THERE’S NEVER BEEN A DVD RELEASE OF THE SERIES? DO YOU THINK THERE EVER WILL BE ONE?