Some more geekery

[mymetalphantom]

This time of the dorky observation kind.

In the comedy series Yes, Minister there is an episode entitled "Skeleton in the Cupboard" (which is brilliant, but I digress). In this the journalist is played by Donald Gee, who also plays Inspector Lestrade in some of the BBC Radio Holmes adaptations.

Now, they also recorded Yes, Minister for radio and I was listening to it the other day only to find that Donald Gee had been replaced...by Clive Merrison.

After I told a few people this I came to the realisation that this was really only interesting to myself.

*facepalm*

In other news, I think I'm getting ill. Yuck.

Comments

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Bwah!! I haven't been able to find out anything about Donald Gee! I can't remember how hard I looked, though... just long enough to find out how to spell his name, maybe ^^;;

I was listening to it the other day only to find that Donald Gee had been replaced...by Clive Merrison.

What are the odds of that? *laughs* Donald Gee will always be my favorite of the radio-Lestrades, because he did the speech in THAT scene, you know.

Aww, I hope you feel better soon! Or fight off the sickness before it takes hold!

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

On looking into I've found that Donald Gee has been in quite a lot of stuff actually. Stuff that I've seen many times and not even realised it was him as well. I'm usually pretty good at the "spot the minor actor/actress" game.

I quite like his Lestrade as well, once I realised how irrational it was to not like a Lestrade based solely on the fact that the actor is not Colin Jeavons. lol.