ENGLAND v MACEDONIA SATURDAY 7TH OCTOBER
At about twenty past six in the evening the cat Shadow demanded his dinner.
I went to the kitchen and fed him. I couldn't see any likelehood of a goal being scored in my absence.
By half past six he was pushing his way out through the catflap.
'You're going then,' I shouted, needlessly. 'I thought the Macedonians were quite good.'
'No they weren't,' he shouted back. 'The English team was rubbish.'
Oh dear...
NCIS.
Also on Saturday, Channel 5 screened another couple of episodes of this well scripted series.
A regular member of the excellent cast is English actor David McCallum.
Those old enough to remember the sixties will remember him in a series called The Man From Uncle.
In NCIS he plays a character with the unlikely name of Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard and the best line of an episode called The Meat Puzzle was given to team boss Gibbs (Mark Harmon).
When team member Caitlin (Sasha Alexander)asked him: 'What do you think Ducky would have looked like when he was young, Gibbs?'
Gibbs replied: 'Ilya Kuryakin.'
I was transported back forty years.
Nice one, script writers.
WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAYS.
The acting was outstanding in this morose drama and I speak as one who has always regarded Shane Richie as something of an unfrocked redcoat.
He and his co-stars worked their (probably rather sweaty) socks off in the Malta sun.
They won.
The end was a shocker.
Roger Lloyd Pack had the pivotal part and made the most of it.
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