Emlyn Price Jones MP (Ronald Lacey)
was a drunken, red-haired Welsh MP who happened to be staying at The
Coaching Inn at the time of its grand opening ceremony. After the Mayor
turned down Harry’s invitation to attend the opening, Emlyn Price Jones was
persuaded to do the honours. His fiery, rambling speech was not quite
what Harry had anticipated!
Texas Rangers
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Shandy Tremblett (Camille Coduri)
was a platinum-blonde Page 3 girl who was staying at the Coaching Inn
while trying to “improve her education”. Dressed in a Union Jack robe,
she stages a publicity stunt with Ken on top of a fire engine to raise
public awareness after a firm of American asset-strippers tries to take
control of the company that makes the fire engine.
Taken For A Ride
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Alberry House receptionist (Amanda
Noar) was a doe-eyed secretary who took an instant fancy to Rocky
when he arrived to collect a package that she wanted Texas Rangers to
deliver.
During the filming of her brief appearance as the man-eating secretary,
she got a bit carried away and made Neil an offer
that he couldn’t refuse!
Amanda Noar used to be married to Neil Morrissey.
Wheels Of Fortune
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Jo Daly (Emma Davies) was Margaret’s
rather haughty, precocious teenage daughter. In order to entrap Barry
Drinkwater, a maker of pornographic films who is suspected of “importuning
minors”, she meets him in a nightclub wearing this strapless cocktail dress.
Before long Drinkwater is chatting her up. No prizes for guessing what
he’s got his eyes on in this picture!
A Ride On The Wild Side
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Alison Crawford (Georgina Hale)
was Harry’s mutton-dressed-as-lamb ex-wife, who had a girlish voice and
liked to wear fur coats and coloured bows in her hair. They got divorced
after she left him to go live in Spain with a hairdresser. After Alison
mislays the money that her current boyfriend brought across to pay a
wine dealer, Harry offers to settle the debt on Alison’s behalf, despite
convincing himself that “That part of my life is over”.
A Fistful Of Pesetas
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James McGillivray (James Ellis)
was a genial Irish gipsy whose daughter’s wedding was held at The
Coaching Inn.
Fiddler Under the Roof
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Yvonne Temple née Higgins (Anne Reid)
was an old flame of Harry’s, “the first girl I ever proposed to”. Realising
that he still fancied her after all these years, Harry tried to persuade her
to leave her bullying husband. Unfortunately when Yvonne confronted her
husband, they ended up closer together than before – not at all what
Harry had planned!
Beef Encounter
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Rebecca Patterson (Pamela Bellwood)
was a Texan woman who was renting a cottage next-door to Woodcote Park. Ken
met her after she asked him to mend a fuse in the cottage. He fell in love
with her and was planning to “make a few changes to my life” – he may even
have been considering going to live with her in Texas. But, as so often
with Ken, he discovered that Rebecca was not all that she seemed. She
asked him to track down her ex-husband, ostensibly so he could sign some
papers connected with the divorce. But when Ken met Rebecca’s husband,
she turned up with a shotgun and killed her husband in front of Ken.
The Eyes Of Texas
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Contessa Jean di Cesare (Gemma
Craven) was one of Ken’s old flames. Harry’s ex-wife, Alison, once
described Ken and Jean as “the Siamese twins – joined at the lips”.
Jean left Ken ten years ago and later married an Italian Count,
Vincenzo di Cesare. Now she has returned with her daughter. They are
running a scam based on a fake fashion business. After several nights
of passion at Ken’s house, Jean realises that she can’t go through with
her original plan to con him as well – but it is too late: Ken has
realised that Jean is not what she seems and that he can never trust
her again.
The Barefaced Contessa
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In “The Night Before Christmas” (90-minute
Christmas episode), Harry, Laura and Rocky are press-ganged into
appearing in the Nativity play which is being organised by Joyce
Campbell, a notorious local busybody. Harry gets out of it by pleading
pressure of work but Laura and Rocky throw themselves heart and soul
into their roles as Angel and Wise Man (!) respectively.
The Night Before Christmas
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Sheila Green (Barbara Flynn)
was a bored and bigamously-married housewife. Ken was guarding her
husband, Joe Green, after he had received death threats. When she
tried to seduce Ken and invited him to stay the night with her, he
was very tempted, but it turned out that she was simply keeping him
occupied while Joe’s real wife, Karen Verdi, planned her revenge for
Joe’s bigamy.
Queen’s Gambit
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Mary O’Haren (Britta Smith) was a
fiery Irish woman, whom Harry met while he and Ken were investigating
the theft of a priceless figurine belonging to her daughter and son-in-law,
Rebecca and Donald Blake. After impressing her by pretending that it was
he, not Ken, who was the private detective in CBS, Harry and Mary fell in
love. At the end of “Shot In The Dark”, Harry proposed to her and later
confessed to Ken, as they walked off into the sunset, that he had
“something to tell you”.
Shot In The Dark
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After Ken had been shot by Stephen Alwyn in “Shot In The Dark”, Alex
went to visit him in hospital and tenderly read him love poetry. Here
she is seen kissing his forehead as he recovers from his injuries.
Shot In The Dark
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Ken and Harry pose as hotel guests in order to solve
a jewellery theft from the hotel’s strongroom. Alex works as a chambermaid
and Rocky works as a porter and then a security guard.
Thieves Like Us
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