I saw him on (I think) the One Show a couple of years ago. Very frail but all the charm was still there. His girlfriend(/wife?) was a very attractive woman and just for once I didn't find myself thinking she was only with him for his money, because even in his 80s there was something about him that attracted you.
I've just watched the short tribute to him at the end of the news and I realised that i was smiling at the screen as it finished, he was just like that, someone to make you smile. I don't think he had a great part in his daughter's upbringing as he left when she was little and I've always got the impression they had not been very close.
Yeah I loved the persuaders too, the way he completely took the mick out of Riger Noore, and he wore some brilliant clothes, he adlibbed a bit in that I reckon