4.22 - What the Butler Saw

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4.22 - What the Butler Saw

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Discuss, review and rate What the Butler Saw, produced late December 1965 to early January 1966.

Teleplay by Brian Clemens
Directed by Bill Bain
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I gave 7
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8 from me, really enjoyed this one.
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8 - probably should have rated it a 9, but the wacky old General is a bit overdone for my tastes.

Immensely entertaining. Love Steed with the big mustache having a conversation in acronyms. And Mrs. Peel discovering that the ladies' man would prefer a quiet night of board gaming.
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Steeds three "incarnations" of the armed forces stereotypes is one of the best Steed bits from the entire series. (A lot more entertaining than his butler.)
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The Honorable Flegghorn wrote: Immensely entertaining. Love Steed with the big mustache having a conversation in acronyms.
In that regard, nothing has changed in the services since! Still alphabet soup.
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Re: 4.22 - What the Butler Saw

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Vice Admiral Willows is played by Humphrey Lestocq.
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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:
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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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