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THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Frank Thornton, comedy actor best known for playing Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served? and Truly in Last of the Summer Wine, was surprised by Michael Aspel at Pinewood Studios.

“Somebody’s betrayed me”

Frank Thornton recalls his experience of This Is Your Life in an exclusive interview recorded in October 2009

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programme details...

• Edition No: 1006
• Subject No: 981
• Broadcast date: Mon 19 Oct 1998
• Broadcast time: 7-7.30pm
• Recorded: Sun 11 Oct 1998
• Venue: Teddington Studios
• Series: 39
• Edition: 7
• Code Name: Bird

on the guest list...

• Beryl - wife
• Dulcie Gray
• Bill Owen
• Peter Sallis
• Kathy Staff
• Jane Freeman
• Jean Ferguson
• Alan Bell
• Roy Clarke
• John & Joan Ball
• Peter Hull
• Margaret Wolfit
• Richard Lyndhurst
• Esther Rogers
• Iris Russell
• Peter Jones
• Johnny Ladd
• Jean Barber
• Clementina Bentine
• Richard Bentine
• Madeleine Smith
• Ursula Smith
• Hugh Lloyd
• Derek Nimmo
• Mollie Sugden
• Wendy Richard
• John Inman
• David Shepherd
• Donald Sinden
Filmed tributes:
• Julian Clary
• June Whitfield
• Danny La Rue
• Trevor Bannister

related appearance...

• Michael Bentine - Apr 1963
• Mollie Sugden - Apr 1975
• Arthur English - Jan 1978
• Sheila Mercier - Nov 1985
• Joyce Carey - Dec 1985
• Denis Quilley - Apr 1986
• Gretchen Franklin - Jan 1995
• June Whitfield - Mar 1995
• Trevor Bannister - Dec 1997
• Charles Stewart - Sep 1998
• Julian Clary - Dec 2001
• Bill Oddie - Jan 2002

external links...

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• Are You Being Served Central

production team...

• Researcher: Emma Dooley
• Writer: Ian Brown
• Directors: John Gorman, Steve Docherty
• Series Producer: Jack Crawshaw
• Producer: Sue Green
• Executive Producer: John Longley