25. I was wide awake for more than three quarters of Rebus.

I was wide awake for more than three quarters of Rebus.
Trouble is, television cops and robbers used to run for an hour. Now they have been extended by half an hour - even an hour - and however good the actors may be I do tend, sadly, to run out of steam once they have outlasted my cncentration span.
I believe the good baddy/bad goody did for his father and Rebus eventually had him arrested, but I was slipping in and out of oblivion by the end and not even Ken Stott could remedy the situation.

I cannot put it all down to age. Many years ago, travelling on a boat to the mainland, I passed the actor Ian Bannen on deck. He was alone and looked rather sad.
Out of a combination of shyness and uncertainty as to whether my eyes were deceiving me (I was not aware at the time that he had an Island home), I did not speak.
Later I told my Leader I had seen him.
'He had the leading part in that play on television last night,' she said.
'I expect he would have liked somebody to talk to him about it.'
'You're right. Perhaps I should have spoken,' I said.
She grinned. 'What, and told him you fell asleep half way through?'
Islanders who knew the late Ian Bannen, a thoroughly nice man, have told me that he would have loved that story.

I was in my late thirties at the time.

It was a bloody awful play.

Dennis Barnden