"the series, and no explanation was provided. Roland 'Vaseline' Cartwright Vaseline was a brash male chauvinist with three wives (each named Marion) and a string of mistresses, none of whom could ever find him, as he was often moonlighting. In the movie, Vaseline was portrayed as racist and sexist, particularly towards Ethnic and Josie respectively, but his racism and sexism became less prominent during the series. He had a son with the third Marion, and found a softer side when he was forced to babysit him. Vaseline drowned when his breathing apparatus malfunctioned underwater whilst rescuing the occupant of a"
"in Roland's sewer home, now converted into a high-tech media centre called the Ratcave the show would intersperse the chat show segments with a storyline involving some sort of situation ""behind the scenes"". These series also featured Roland's parents, Iris and Freddie, his pet flea Colin, Fergie the Ferret, Eric the Eagle and his agent D'Arcy De Farcy. His girlfriend Glenis was joined by another female character called Roxanne Rat. The series purported to be broadcast from Roland's personal channel BBC3, complete with ""THREE"" ident spoofing BBC2's ""TWO"" ident of the period. Roland also made two spoof drama series, ""Tales"
"thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene). He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts) who built the ranch house; the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric ""Hoss"" Cartwright (Dan Blocker); and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or ""Little Joe"" (Michael Landon). Via exposition (S01:E01 – ""Rose for Lotta"") and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ancestry: English (S02:E65 – ""Elizabeth My Love""), Swedish (S03:E95 – ""Inger My Love"") and French Creole (S04:E120 – ""Marie My Love"") respectively. The family's cook was the"
"and fireworks display which ended the first series, but this has never been confirmed. Brian O'Green (Robins) was an ""inter-nerd"" Richard knew from the local pub quiz team. His obsessions included Star Trek, the Nazis and conspiracy theories and unlike Mr. Morgan, he featured as a semi-regular character throughout all three series. The name Brian O'Green was also used as a character name in Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World. Brian O'Green's semi regular feature in which he reveals his own conspiracy theories to a cynical Herring; all of which are completely nonsensical. During the series, a complex love triange formed between"
"of the Rodent Sherlock Holmes"", in which he played Holmes with Kevin as Dr Watson, and ""Ratman"", a ""Batman"" spoof with Kevin as his sidekick, ""Pink Bucket Man"". During Christmas 1985, British Telecom operated a free ""ratphone"" number on 0800 800 800 where fans could listen to Roland's prerecorded Christmas message. Roland would also host the children's game show entitled ""Roland's Rat Race"", where child contestants answered general knowledge questions in a race car setting. In the late 1990s he made a series for Channel 5, called ""L.A. RAT"", which featured Roland and friends living in Los Angeles. In 2003"
"Rod Norman Rod Norman is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"", played by Christopher McHallem from 28 July 1987 to 27 February 1990. Rod the roadie, is a modern-day hobo. He dosses in squats and never settles anywhere for long, although he does return to Albert Square several times. Rod is a sucker for female hopeless cases and he tries to help out several 'women in need' over the years, although he is rarely thanked for his efforts. Rod is first seen in Albert Square in July 1987 as an acquaintance of fellow punk, Mary Smith (Linda"
"Real London Ensemble starring Eva Gray, Edward Law, and Math Sams Schaal appeared in British soap Hollyoaks in September 2013, playing the role of Ken who is falsely accused of sexually interfering with Robbie Roscoe (Charlie Wernham). David Schaal (actor) David Schaal (born 27 May 1963) is an American-English actor best known for his roles in the English sitcoms ""The Office"" (as Taffy) and ""The Inbetweeners"" (as Terry Cartwright). Schaal was born on an air force base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the son of a Dutch-American father and an English mother. The family relocated to England when Schaal was young"
"after his late mother and who was born in the last episode; ""Sleepless in Peckham"", resulting in a very moving and emotional ending to the show. Rodney's full name is Rodney Charlton Trotter. In ""Little Problems"" it is revealed that Rodney is named after Rod Taylor and Charlton after Charlton Athletic, his mother's favourite football team. Before the series began, Rodney attended a year's course at art college in Basingstoke but was expelled after three weeks when he was caught smoking cannabis in a fellow student's room. He was fined £300 and given an eighteen-month suspended sentence for possession of"
"Ryan Cartwright Ryan Cartwright (born 14 March 1981) is an English actor. Cartwright was born on 14 March 1981 in Erdington, West Midlands. He has an older brother, Che Cartwright, who is also an actor. He began acting with the Central Junior Television Workshop. His first major role came at the age of 15 in the British ITV comedy-drama ""The Grimleys"". He has also appeared in such other British television programmes as ""Seriously Weird"", ""Hardware"", ""Donovan"", ""Microsoap"", ""Look Around You"" and ""All About Me"". Since moving to the US, Cartwright had a recurring role on the television series ""Bones"" as"
"extreme pressure from other gang members. Coffee ends up showing the town that youth and a fast gun don't replace experience. Guy Williams was slated in 1964, the year that ""Bonanza"" hit #1 in the ratings, to replace Pernell Roberts upon Roberts' departure, enabling the series to preserve the four-Cartwright format for the run of the series. His character, Ben's nephew Will Cartwright, was introduced and was the lead character in five episodes, receiving ""Starring"" billing after the four original rotating Cartwrights during his second appearance going forward, but Roberts changed his mind later and decided to stay for one"
"goes round, rips out the kitchen and sets fire to it outside the family’s house."" fellow actress Debbie Rush said of their entrance and choice of surname for the family, that they would be prepared for the public taunts they would receive for their surname. The character was originally called ""Carl Windass"" but was changed last minute to ""Gary Windass"" after a series of name changes to all the members of the family since their inception, but before appearing on screen. Upon their on-screen arrival it panned out almost as planned seeing him arrive as the son of Eddie and"
"advent calendars, with Roland opening each door with the viewers at 7.20am every day, The final door had Roland and his friends in the snow. Roland last appeared on TV-am at the end of August 1985, when the last summer holiday slot was broadcast. On 3 October 1985, he transferred to the BBC, for a three-year contract, which ended up being extended to six years. Roland said, ""I saved TVam and now I'm here to save the BBC."" Roland made a number of series during his time at the BBC, most notably ""Roland Rat the Series"", a chat show set"
"Wood to entertain younger viewers during the Easter holidays, which boosted the station's audience. Roland is generally regarded as its saviour, being described as ""the only rat to join a sinking ship"". During the summer, when ""Breakfast Time"" hosts Frank Bough and Selina Scott were off, Roland helped take the audience from 100,000 to over a million. In early April 1983, David Frost was moved to the Sunday slot, and was replaced by sports presenter Nick Owen to front the ""Good Morning"" show, with Anne Diamond joining from the BBC to become his co-presenter, six weeks later. At the same"
"taxi driver who says the line, """"It puts you in mind of the days of the old demon barber of Fleet Street, doesn't it?"""" in response to the recent wave of murders around London. He has also proved himself a comic actor. He was involved in the Armando Iannucci production ""Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge"", playing a boxing promoter called Terry Norton; and he worked again with Iannucci playing the 'East End Thug' in ""The Armando Iannucci Shows"". He later appeared as a priest in every episode of ""Snuff Box"". In 2015, he played former Thotch band manager"
"Let's Roll with Roland Butter Let's Roll with Roland Butter is a TV series on CITV made in 2004 but for only one series. The show was written by and starring Justin Fletcher as a tubby teenager who is obsessed with sport and tries out many different activities every week. Naturally, none of this goes according to plan. The episodes were supposedly filmed by Roland's best friend, Keef (played by Karl Sedgwick). Since the show stopped broadcasting in 2004, it hasn't been repeated. The star of the show was Justin Fletcher who also played other characters with the BBC like"
"of Bacchus King of Mardi Gras. Greene was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2015. Lorne Greene Lorne Hyman Greene, (born Lyon Himan Green; February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987) was a Canadian actor, radio personality, and singer. His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western ""Bonanza"", and Commander Adama in the original science fiction television series ""Battlestar Galactica"" and ""Galactica 1980"". He also worked on the Canadian television nature documentary series ""Lorne Greene's New Wilderness"", and in television commercials. Greene was born Lyon Himan Green in Ottawa, Ontario, to Russian Jewish immigrants, Dora (née Grinovsky) and"
"a politically correct and racially tolerant man he is. Brenda (Julie Fernandez): Brenda naturally brings out the worst in Brent; she is not impressed by his patronising behaviour. She highlights the gap between Brent's vision of himself as a modern enlightened man and the reality of his ignorance and thoughtlessness. She uses a wheelchair, which results in her being stranded on a stairwell during a fire drill when David and Gareth decide they can't be bothered carrying her all the way down. Rowan (Vincent Franklin): A training facilitator who is progressively frustrated by Brent's attempts to undermine and take control"
"foolish). The Bulman character proved popular with viewers, and, with Willis, was given a spin-off series ""Strangers"", which saw the formerly London-based detectives transferred to the north-west of England. During the five-year run of ""Strangers"", Bulman's eccentricities were increased, and included such traits as a propensity for keeping his belongings in plastic carrier bags and his keeping of a pet hamster named Flash Gordon. His middle name was revealed to be Kitchener. Increasingly his erudition was used less to make him look pretentious and a joke figure, but instead underlined a zen-like wisdom and otherworldliness. He also leapt in rank,"
"They did, however, still own their flat at Nelson Mandela House. Adding to their woes, Albert died a few days later, and the Trotters mistakenly attended the funeral of Albert Warren, who also happened to be a World War II veteran - they found out only when the family mentioned his nickname ""Bunny"" and that he was in the Royal Air Force instead of the Royal Navy. Nonetheless, Del had inadvertently defended both Alberts when, whilst still believing that himself to be at the correct funeral, Roland - one of Bunny's relatives - laughed inappropriately at the late veteran's constant"
"Lorne Greene Lorne Hyman Greene, (born Lyon Himan Green; February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987) was a Canadian actor, radio personality, and singer. His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western ""Bonanza"", and Commander Adama in the original science fiction television series ""Battlestar Galactica"" and ""Galactica 1980"". He also worked on the Canadian television nature documentary series ""Lorne Greene's New Wilderness"", and in television commercials. Greene was born Lyon Himan Green in Ottawa, Ontario, to Russian Jewish immigrants, Dora (née Grinovsky) and Daniel Green, a shoemaker. He was called ""Chaim"" by his mother, and his name is shown"
"in which she learns that her mother has been paying her castmates to be friends with her, and finds herself suddenly friendless when that month's payment fails to arrive. As hostess, McGlade played the role of straight man, frequently dealing with annoyances and interruptions from chatty sidekick Lisa Ruddy, affectionately nicknamed ""Motormouth"" and stage director Ross Ewich (Les Lye). Ross enjoyed putting the hapless McGlade in unfortunate situations, which often resulted in her being green-slimed (after being tricked into saying the trigger phrase, ""I don't know""), pied, or watered. However, she was known to turn the tables on him every"
"for; she declared that the family referred to him as ""Laurel"" after the film comedian. With his gangling figure and awkwardness, Orwell's friends often saw him as a figure of fun. Geoffrey Gorer commented ""He was awfully likely to knock things off tables, trip over things. I mean, he was a gangling, physically badly co-ordinated young man. I think his feeling [was] that even the inanimate world was against him."" When he shared a flat with Heppenstall and Sayer, he was treated in a patronising manner by the younger men. At the BBC in the 1940s, ""everybody would pull his"
"host a cartoon show or even a horror show, as Floyd did. Floyd Robertson Floyd Robertson is a fictional news anchor and reporter, portrayed by Joe Flaherty on the Canadian sketch comedy series ""SCTV"" in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a co-anchor, with Earl Camembert (another fictional newscaster, played by Eugene Levy), of the ""SCTV News"". In addition, he doubled as the long-running horror host Count Floyd on ""Monster Chiller Horror Theatre"". Floyd Robertson's name was originally derived from that of CBC news anchor Lloyd Robertson. Shortly after Floyd Robertson debuted, Lloyd Robertson changed networks, and became the longtime"
"simply as Grandma. Another recurring favourite was Chalkie, the tyrannical school teacher who Giles claimed was modelled on one of his childhood teachers, and Larry, the mop-haired child from next door, often seen with a camera. Giles was born in Islington, London, the son of a tobacconist and a farmer's daughter. He was nicknamed ""Karlo"", later shortened to ""Carl"", by friends who decided he looked like Boris Karloff, a lifelong nickname. He was actually registered with that name when he died in 1995. After leaving school at the age of 14 he worked as an office boy for Superads, an"
"Roth and other young British actors of the late 1980s, such as Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bruce Payne, and Paul McGann, were dubbed the Brit Pack. Roth was cast as ""Mr. Orange"" in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film ""Reservoir Dogs"". In 1994, Tarantino cast him as a robber in ""Pulp Fiction"". They also collaborated in the 1995 film ""Four Rooms"", where he played Ted. His role as Archibald Cunningham in ""Rob Roy"" earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and a Golden Globe"
"French origin. Roland also reveals his sinister nature by stating he turned down the chance to have Leon Brittan as MP for Haltemprice due to him being Jewish, preferring to consume South African produce (South Africa was an apartheid state at the time), and Sarah later reveals that he knew Hitler socially, although they never discussed politics. Roland is seen in only series 1 but after Alan's shooting Sarah is seen on the phone to her father, the two of them asking each other if they were responsible for the crime. Norman Bormann is Alan's accountant and personal confidante during"
"an unprecedented number of positive phone calls to the radio studio, many asking for a return of the women as a regular on the show. Linehan invented the name and the character by ad libbing — the first name being that of his mother-in-law and the surname being that of an Antrim hurler by the name of Olcan McFettridge, whose exploits in a National Hurling League game had made headlines in the local newspaper, The Irish News, which happened to be beside Linehan when put on the spot. The character became a regular on Downtown Radio. Since that time, Linehan"
"Roland Rat Roland Rat is a British television puppet character. He was created, operated and voiced by David Claridge, who had previously designed and operated Mooncat, a puppet in the Children's ITV television programme ""Get Up and Go!"" He worked for Jim Henson, then the second series of ""The Young Ones"". Claridge would later operate and voice Brian the Dinosaur for BBC's ""Parallel 9""; create and direct ""Happy Monsters"", a preschool series for Channel 5; and shoot a CGI series ""Mozart's Dog"" for Paramount Comedy. Roland lives beneath King's Cross railway station in The Ratcave and also in Ratcave2 under"
"Paul McGrath, who did not keep the ""Raymond"" name and was known only as ""Your Host"" or ""Mr. Host"". (Berry Kroeger had substituted earlier for a total of four episodes.) McGrath was a Broadway actor who turned to radio for a regular income. Beginning in 1945, Lipton Tea sponsored the series, pairing first Raymond and then McGrath with cheery commercial spokeswoman Mary Bennett (aka the ""Tea Lady""), whose blithesome pitches for Lipton Tea contrasted sharply with the macabre themes of the stories. She primly chided the host for his trademark dark humor and creepy manner. The program's familiar and famed"
"real estate broker instead. George's last name comes from Michael Costanza, a college classmate of Seinfeld. ""Louis"", George's middle name is a homage to Lou Costello, whose 1950s television series ""The Abbott and Costello Show"", inspired ""Seinfeld""s writing style. Although he is often asked whether he wanted to play the character, Larry David has said that he was only interested in writing the show, that not only did he not want to act on the show, but it had never occurred to him and, even if it had, he highly doubted that NBC would have approved of his being cast."
"influence and pursue the office of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. According to series producer Beau Willimon, the change in last name stemmed from the ""Dickensian"" feeling and ""more legitimately American"" sounding resonance of the name 'Underwood'. Whereas Urquhart is an aristocrat by birth, Underwood is a self-made man, having been born into a poor Southern family with an alcoholic father. Urquhart was one of television's first antiheroes, whereas Underwood follows the more recent rash of antiheroes that includes Tony Soprano of ""The Sopranos"", Walter White of ""Breaking Bad"", and Dexter Morgan of ""Dexter"". However, unlike most other antiheroes,"
"[that] colour. Jocks, we used to call them."" He goes on to suggest that ""Jock"" might be a good choice, and so the title character gets his typically Scottish name, and is painted in the distinctive pale green livery of the Highland Railway. In ""The Railway Series"" and in ""My Thomas Story Library"", Donald and Douglas were painted NWR blue when Sir Topham Hatt (the Fat Controller) decided to keep them that colour; however, in the television series they remained black instead of being changed to blue. Donald and Douglas are both based on the Caledonian Railway 812 Class. In"
"sprinkling ""incest"" (incense) on their congregation, whereas he referred to incest itself as ""committing 'insects' in the family"". Archie repeatedly called Richard M. Nixon ""Richard E. Nixon"". By the show's second season, these had become dubbed ""Bunkerisms"", ""Archie Bunkerisms"", or simply ""Archie-isms"". The actor who played Bunker, Carroll O'Connor, is Irish Catholic, and Norman Lear modeled the character on his Jewish father, but Bunker's own ethnicity is never explicitly stated, other than identifying him as a WASP; over the course of the series, he mocks or belittles not just most minorities (including blacks, Hispanics, Latinos, Jews, and Asians), but also"