My abiding recollection of Rik Mayall is of his straight-acting turn as the virulently racist PC Bonham opposite George Harris as the black DC Wolcott in the 1981 ITV police drama serial of the latter name. Other cameos by Comedy Store alumni in that opus included Alexei Sayle as a Socialist Worker party-type street orator being heckled by a National Front yob in the person of Keith Allen. Although Wolcott the first UK production to be broadcast in the mini-series format has been rather airbrushed from the history of British television, I tend to remember it because, with Barry Wasserman, I co-wrote it.
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