Mr. Lucas?
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mpe-indeed — 17 years ago(April 20, 2008 08:11 PM)
I heard that Trevor Bannister(Mr. Lucas) was too busy with other projects to particpate in this series, but still! Any other gig must surely have paled in comparison to this show. And besides, the success of AYBS around the world by the 90's must have been clear to him, so I've just got to wonder if he was at least tempted to return? He would probably have saved the show from cancellation at that.
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fang123horn — 17 years ago(May 09, 2008 06:34 PM)
I think so as well and it would've been interesting if there was a thing between Mavis, Humphries, and he. Unfortunately I read in the official Making of book that Trevor thought he was too old to play the playboy type and thought he would look like a perv if he chased down younger women at his age so he declined, which was a shame, indeed.
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mpe-indeed — 17 years ago(June 11, 2008 02:02 AM)
I don't think he would have had to been a playboy. He could have been a married millionaire with kids, who buys the house and runs it to everyones chagrin. This would have worked beautifully if he could have pushed Miss Lovelock and Mr. Rumbold off their high horses and made them relate to the others better. I think I may write David Croft and ask permission to write a fan-fic!
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jamma_man69 — 17 years ago(July 22, 2008 07:52 PM)
I saw an interview in America with Bannister and he said that they just had no idea of what to do with his charicter to help his charicter developmen(there a catch phrase of read into what you like) and that he had other things on the go and was not put out by not joining with the gang. Iman had a different version of things that Bannisters kept putting ideas out(either him or his agent or someonewhere his charicter would come out on top)
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ritamilo — 13 years ago(October 26, 2012 03:03 PM)
It seems that a BBC telly season is about 6 episodes. If true, that would mean that the actors would most likely work on other projects in the off season, as their salaries may not have been very high.
Bannister probably had other projects (long-running play, perhaps) that precluded his appearing in the rest of the series. But with Lucas gone, I think the show began treading water as far as replacement "juniors" went - no one played with his style.
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