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
staged a publicity stunt with Ken on top of a fire engine to raise public awareness
after a firm of American asset-strippers tried to take control of the company
that made 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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