to discover that John Tracy and evil genius The Hood were the same man!

I was saddened to read today that I'd missed the recent passing of Ray Barrett, who, like Rolf, familiar of this parish, was another sixties Oz import who found a niche here on screen and stage that he filled with admirable aplomb and a good deal of self-deprecating humour.

We were blessed with imported antipodean talent back then, weren't we?

Thanks Ray, for all the fine roles you played, even those when we got nothing of you but that gravelly statement of authority that quickened a youngster's sinews in anticipation of the excitement to come; 'Anything can happen in the next half-hour!'.