Discuss, review and rate What the Butler Saw, produced late December 1965 to early January 1966.
Teleplay by Brian Clemens
Directed by Bill Bain
4.22 - What the Butler Saw
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Re: 4.22 - What the Butler Saw
Vice Admiral Willows is played by Humphrey Lestocq.
https://www.warmemorialsregister.nsw.go ... ial-tablet
It's not clear if the apparently adventure-oriented series bore any relation to the real-life person. The series are all sadly lost, it seems.
Does anyone know any more about these intriguing series, or indeed about Lestocq, who died in 1984, but stopped acting on TV in 1966 (in his late forties)?
This seems to have been his final TV role. However, intriguingly he played "Ex-Flight Lieutenant Peter Potts" in several different BBC series in the 1950s:
There was a real life Peter Potts, a Flying Officer with the Royal Australian Air Force:https://www.warmemorialsregister.nsw.go ... ial-tablet
It's not clear if the apparently adventure-oriented series bore any relation to the real-life person. The series are all sadly lost, it seems.
Does anyone know any more about these intriguing series, or indeed about Lestocq, who died in 1984, but stopped acting on TV in 1966 (in his late forties)?
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