R I P Dennis.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61372712
loved Minder and the Sweeney.

[Arksided]

I was too young to watch Sweeney, but loved Minder

RIP Dennis Waterman

[goodgoalie]

'Top bloke'? I don't think his ex-wife Rula Lenska would agree. He admitted this about her when interviewed by Piers Morgan:

'It's not difficult for a woman to make a man hit her. She certainly wasn't a beaten wife; she was hit and that's different'.

[choux]

You foreshortened that quote:

'She certainly wasn’t a beaten wife,’ he told Piers Morgan on ITV’s Life Stories. ‘She was hit and that’s different. It’s not difficult for a woman to make a man hit her'.

It seems both of them liked their alcohol.

[choux]

My mistake, gg, you turned the quote around ;)