BACK IN TIME WITH COLIN BAKER

BoB's very own Time Lord recalls growing up with Granada, literally flooding the engine of his Mini, and getting ready for a return Holmes

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Most of my television work in the 1970s and 80s was for the BBC at Shepherds Bush or Pebble Mill in Birmingham, but I did make a couple of programmes for Thames Television, including, in 1970, an episode of Happy Ever After (not the Terry Scott and June Whitfield sitcom – but an anthology series of the same name, made by Thames). It was called The Ambassador and starred the late, great Peter Bowles.

It was on this production that I made the mistake of parking my car on the road that led down to the River Thames beside the studios in Teddington. I was amazed to find a parking place so close to the studio and the reason became apparent when I returned to my car later that night to find it semi-submerged under the waters of the spring tide that seemingly everyone else but me knew was due that day.

That saw the demise of my beloved black Mini Cooper. So not that Happy Ever After for me.