Series: Saturday Night at the Mill
Episode: S5Ep14
First Aired: 21st June 1980

Description: Simon appeared on this talk show

Series: Star Games
Episode: Easter Star Games
First Aired: 4 April 1980

Description: Simon appeared on this celebrity game show

Series: The Dukes of Hazzard
Episode: Duke of Duke
First Aired: 21 December 1979
Character: Gaylord Duke

Description: A man claiming to be the Dukes’ cousin from England, Gaylord Duke, asks Uncle Jesse for a $30,000 advance to pay off the taxes for a piece of land he claims to have inherited. But there’s more to Gaylord’s story that he isn’t exactly telling.

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Series: Quatermass
Episode: S1Ep4 – An Endangered Species
First Aired: 14 November 1979
Character: Joe Kapp

Description: Quatermass emerges from the car park to find the stadium empty. So many have now been harvested that the particles of dust in the air have turned the sky green. Kapp attempts to repair his equipment in order to contact the alien presence, but the Planet People destroy his efforts. They try to persuade him to join them but he refuses, convinced now that his family are dead. Quatermass, aided by Gurov, who has travelled to London from Moscow, assembles a team of scientists to find a solution. He deliberately selects old people for the task as they are immune to the effects of the alien force. Quatermass decides to set a trap. He plans to fake the presence of a large gathering of Planet People at Kapp’s observatory and, when the force comes, to detonate a nuclear weapon

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Series: Quatermass
Episode: S1Ep3 – What Lies Beneath
First Aired: 7 November 1979
Character: Joe Kapp

Description: Quatermass is rescued by a group of elderly people living in a scrap yard. At the hospital, the doctors are shocked when Isabel levitates off her bed and explodes in a cloud of dust. Elsewhere, the devastated Kapp is left alone in the ruins of his cottage and observatory. More and more young people are joining the Planet People, including the gangs that have been terrorising the cities and the soldiers assigned to keep them away from the Megalithic sites.

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Series: Quatermass
Episode: S1Ep2 – Lovely Lightning
First Aired: 31 October 1979
Character: Joe Kapp

Description: Following the devastation at Ringstone Round, Quatermass hears of similar incidents worldwide and returns to London with district commissioner Annie Morgan and a Ringstone ‘survivor’ Isabel. En route they become separated in a shootout between rival gangs. Meanwhile, the beam of light descends again – near Joe Kapp’s home.

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Series: Quatermass
Episode: S1Ep1 – Ringstone Round
First Aired: 24 October 1979
Character: Joe Kapp

Description: Professor Quatermass comes out of retirement to search for his missing granddaughter and finds a world on the verge of anarchy, and an American-Russian space station destroyed by unknown forces. He is befriended by astronomer Joe Kapp and they witness the obliteration of thousands of Planet People by a beam of light at the stone circle, Ringstone Round.

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Film: The Riddle of the Sands
First Aired: 16th March 1979
Character: Arthur Davies

Description: In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible scheme, but must outwit not only the cream of the German Navy, but the feared Kaiser Wilhelm himself.

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Film: Death on the Nile
First Aired: 29 September 1978 (USA)
Character: Simon Doyle

Description: As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?

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Series: Will Shakespeare
Episode: S1Ep1 – Dead Shepherd
First Aired: 13 June 1978
Character: Sir Thomas Walsingham

Description: Will progresses from ostler to cockerel to ghostwriter – to London’s premier playwright as Kit Marlowe falls from grace.

Series: The Doombolt Chase
Episode: S1Ep1 – Court of Shame
First Aired: 12 March 1978
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Madock

Description: When Commander David Wheeler is arrested for a seemingly motiveless attack on a mysterious vessel, his son Richard, along with two friends, embarks on a search for the top-secret information that might clear his name.

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Series: Within These Walls
Episode: S5Ep6 – Love Me, Love My Bear
First Aired: 25 February 1978
Character: Dr Dady

Description: Dr Mayes and prison psychiatrist Dr Dady are puzzled about Kate Bonney.  Events prove Kate to be a schizophrenic, but a hospital refuses to admit her for psychiatric treatment.

Series: Within These Walls
Episode: S5Ep3 – Raft
First Aired: 4 February 1978
Character: Dr Dady

Description: Problems persist for Marian Pearce, a prisoner at Stone Park who has withdrawn into total silence as a result of her total intimidation by one of the officers.

Series: Just William
Episode: S1Ep12 – William and the Sleeping Major
First Aired: 24 April 1977
Character: Charlie

Description: Williams gets into yet more trouble as he finds a retired Major fast asleep, having been given a tablet by his family to help him sleep off his bad mood

Series: Jesus of Nazareth, Part 2
First Aired: 10 April 1977
Character: Lucius

Description: Jesus meets Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist and continues to perform miracles among his people.

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Series: Jesus of Nazareth, Part 1
First Aired: 3 April 1977
Character: Lucius

Description: After Joseph and Mary’s betrothal, Mary is visited by the angel Gabriel, who tells her she will bear the Son of God. Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem to take part in Herod’s census, where Jesus is born.

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Series: Romance
Episode: S1Ep2 – Three Weeks
First Aired: 9 March 1977
Character: Paul Verdayne

Description: The above photo is the only image we have of Simon from this series

Series: Within These Walls
Episode: S4Ep15 – Islands in the Heartline
First Aired: 11 December 1976
Character: Dr Dady

Description: Sarah, a new arrival at Stone Park, is sent to the hospital wing.  She becomes obsessed with Dr Mayes but Miss Clarke cunningly helps sort out the problem

Series: Beasts
Episode: S1Ep4 – Baby
First Aired: 6 November 1976
Character: Peter Gilkes

Description: A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger.

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Series: I, Claudius
Episode: S1Ep3 – Waiting in the Wings
First Aired: 27 September 1976
Character: Lucius

Description: Whilst Tiberius in exile derives some comfort from hearing of the mysterious death of Gaius, Antonia confesses to Julia her disappointment in Claudius. She chastises his siblings Germanicus and Livilla for shunning him but still feels that he is stupid. However everybody is amazed when an eagle drops a wolf cub into Claudius’s arms and an augur reader interprets this as meaning that in the future Claudius will save Rome in its hour of need. Livia continues her campaign against Julia by proving that she is a serial adulteress, leading to her banishment, a fact which upsets Augustus, who actually loved her. With the news that Lucius has also perished, drowned in a boating accident, Augustus recalls Tiberius from his exile to be his co-heir with his grandson Postumus.

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Film: Romeo and Juliet
First Aired: 22 September 1976
Character: Paris

Description: Romeo falls in love with the beautiful young Juliet, but their warring families spell tragedy for the lovers.

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Series: Hunter’s Walk
Episode: S3Ep1 – Intent
First Aired: 1st June 1976
Character: Houseman

Description: A moment of violence at a wedding reception, between the grom and the bride’s ex-boyfriend.  The groom is injured.  The question Sgt Smith has to answer is one of intent: Did he fall, or was he pushed?

Series: Sutherland’s Law
Episode: S4Ep3 – No Second Chance
First Aired: 10 June 1975
Character: Ian Sutherland

Description: The life of gelignite is short, especially when it is in the wrong place at the wrong time

Film: Terror On The Britannic (Juggernaut)
First Aired: 25th September 1974
Character: No.1 Helmsman

Description: A blackmailer demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he placed aboard the transatlantic liner Britannic.

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Series: BBC Play of the Month
Episode: S9Ep8 – The Skin Game
First Aired: 19th May 1974
Character: Rolf

Description: The rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.