#Paul Eddington

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An important message from the government...

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"Yes Minister: The Challenge" (1982)

Derek Fowlds: Bernard Woolley Nigel Hawthorne: Sir Humphrey Appleby Paul Eddington: James Hacker

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Save us, Yes Minister HoC crossover Grey Poupon commercial.

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The Devil Rides Out aka The Devil's Bride, US lobby card. 1968

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Paul Clark Eddington was an English actor best known for playing Jerry Leadbetter in the television sitcom The Good Life (1975–1978) and politician Jim Hacker i...

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If you died tomorrow would you be happy with what you did with your life? Bit of a morbid question, I know, but I think it’s important. A few years back now, I created a book called From the Heart of Darkness and I remember feeling back then that if I dropped dead the next day, at least there is one really good thing of me left behind. I guess a lot of people feel that their children are their…

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The Challenge was a series III episode of Yes Minister (1982), in which Jim Hacker’s Department of Administrative Affairs assumes general oversight of local authorities. As Ludovic Kennedy (playing himself as BBC interviewer) points out, Hacker is now ‘Mr Townhall as well as Mr Whitehall’.

Echoing the Thatcher government’s zeal to reform the local government sector, Hacker is determined to make councils more efficient and to curb their extravagance. The Cabinet Secretary and Sir Humphrey are not so keen, worried that any reforms, such as direct financial accountability for the success or failure of council projects, could be extended to the civil service as a whole.

To deflect his attention, Jim Hacker is urged to tackle the largely ridiculed and tricky business of civil defence, in particular the provision of public fall-out shelters by local authorities, and is sent to confront the leader of the London Borough of Thames Marsh, Ben Stanley, over their anti-nuclear activism and budget blowouts. Stanley was reportedly based on Ken Livingstone, leader of the ill-fated Greater London Council.

There are a couple of interesting cameos, aside from Ludovic Kennedy, and Moray Watson as a BBC controller. Ian Lavender (Private Pike from Dad’s Army) plays Dr Cartwright, a departmental economics boffin doomed to spend his entire career as a middling undersecretary. “I fear I shall rise no higher,” he explained sadly to Jim Hacker, “Alas, I��m an expert.”

Ben Stanley, the unilateralist leader of Thames Marsh Council is played by Doug Fisher (Man About the House), and is unimpressed by Cartwright’s suggestions on how to save ratepayers' money, which include closing the feminist drama centre, abandoning plans for a leisure centre featuring an artificial ski slope and jacuzzi, closing the gay bereavement centre, selling the Mayor’s second Daimler, and cancelling a councillors’ fact-finding junket to the Caribbean.

The episode lampoons the council’s hypocrisy in taking an anti-nuclear stance while providing fall-out shelter space solely for the leader and some senior councillors. Paul Eddington himself (Jim Hacker) was a Quaker pacifist, and in a later interview recalled that he was very uncomfortable with the way the writers (Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn) had ridiculed the anti-nuclear issue and peace activism, and that they had allowed their own political bias to influence the story. Eddington objected, and some moderating changes were made to the final script.

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John D. Collins, Richard Davies, Paul Eddington, and Brian Hawksley in Yes Minister (1980) Jobs for the Boys

S1E7 Season finale

The Minister goes on the BBC to extol the virtues of a public-private partnership project but when he learns that the private firm involved may soon go bankrupt, it is up to Sir Humphrey to see exactly what can be done to salvage the situation. He approaches a banker, Sir Desmond Glazer, who also happens to be interested in a part-time government appointment. The Minister's political advisor however is advising that all such Ministerial patronage appointments be abolished.

*Richard Davies' character of Joe Morgan appears to be a vague impersonation of 1970's union leader Clive Jenkins.

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Results: A Michael Sheen bf/gf for a David Tennant character

I made a result post for the GO3 wishes. So here are the results for the Good Omens Extended Universe shipping polls as well. These are the results for David's characters. Here are the results for Michael's characters. It doesn't mean to be the end: I am still open for requests for other characters...

1. The Doctor -255 votes-

Most popular match: Aziraphale (32.5%)

2. Miles Maitland (19.2%), 3. Castor/Zuse (11.4%), 4. Arthur (10.4%), 5. House (7.5%), 6. Bill Masters (6.7%), 7. Aro (5.9%), 8. Lucian (3.1%) 3.9% voted for other characters: Tony Towers and Martin Whitly (both platonic)

2. Phileas Fogg -178 votes-

Most popular match: Will Charity (31.5%)

2. Miles Maitland (16.3%), 3. William Boldwood (14%), 4. Aziraphale (11.2%), 5. Robbie Ross (10.7%), 6. Lucian (5.6%), 7. Blair Mudfly (5.1%), 8. Aro (3.4%) 2.2 % voted for other characters (not specified)

3. Peter Vincent -143 votes-

Most popular match: Aro (35.7%)

2. Lucian (34.3%), 3. Throne Jamison (12.6%), 4. Miles Maitland (11.9%), 5. Aziraphale (4.9%), 0.7% voted for other characters (not specified)

4. Barty Crouch Jr. -136 votes-

Most popular match: Aro (47.8%) again!

2. Lucian (31.6%), 3. The Bat (8.1%), 4. Aziraphale (6.6%), 5. Malcolm Howe (3.7%), 2.2% voted for other characters (not specified)

5. Alec Hardy -129 votes-

Most popular match: Bill Masters (44.2%)

2. Martin Whitly (24.8%), 3. Aziraphale (13.2%), 4. Roland Blum (8.5%), 5. Joe (3.9%), 6. Bill Caroll (1.6%) 3.9% voted for other characters (not specified)

6. Campbell Bain -119 votes-

Most popular match: Miles Maitland (45.4%)

2. Joe (33.6%), 3. Aziraphale (7.6%), 4. Throne Jamison (5.9%), 5. Bill Masters (3.4%), 6. Bradshaw (2.5%), 7. Lucian (0%) 1.7% voted for other characters (not specified)

7. Kilgrave/Kevin Thompson -104 votes-

Most popular match: Martin Whitly (48.1%)

2. Lucian (23.1%), 3. Roland Blum (16.3%), 4. Steven Arthur Younger (8.7%) 3.8% voted for other characters (not specified)

8. Davina -65 votes-

Most popular match: Mrs. Robinson (61.5%)

2. Aziraphale (12.3%), 3. Bill Masters (7.7%), 4. William Boldwood (6.2%), 5. Malcolm Howe and Harry Jones (3.1% each), 6. Bradshaw (0%) 3.8% voted for other characters: Roland Blum

9. Giacomo Casanova -48 votes-

Most popular match: Robbie Ross (60.4%)

2. Aro (18.8%), 3. Lucian and Lord Oliver (10.4% each)

10. Walt Jodell -41 votes-

Most popular match: Austen Blume (29.3%)

2. Roland Blum (22%), 3. Wesley Snipes (17.1%), 4. Harry Jones (14.6%), 5. Craig Fisher (7.3%), 3.8% voted for other characters (not specified)

11. Cale Erendreich -41 votes-

Most popular match: Martin Whitly (75.6%)

2. Steven Arthur Younger (9.8 %), 3. Roland Blum (7.3%), 4.,5., Malcolm Howe and The Bat (2.4 % each) 2.4% voted for other characters (not specified)

12. Roderick Peterson -40 votes-

Most popular match: Thorne Jamison (30%)

2. Paul Bates (20%), 3. Tony Blair (17.5%), 4. The Bat, Austen Blume and Tony Towers (10% each), 2.5% voted for other characters (not specified)

13. Peter Carlisle -35 votes-

Most popular match: Colin Lawes (34.3%)

2. Thorne Jamison (25.7%), 3. Mark Furness (14.3%), 4. Harry Jones and Wesley Snipes (8.6% each), 8.6% voted for other characters: Malcolm Howe

14. Aiden Hoynes -35 votes-

Most popular match: Roland Blum (71.4%)

2. Tony Blair (14.3%), 3. David Frost (5.7%), 4. Craig Fisher (2.9% each), 5.7% voted for other characters (not specified)

15. Arthur Eddington -31 votes-

Most popular match: Robbie Ross (35.5 %)

2. Kenneth Williams (22.6 %), 3. William Boldwood (19.4%), 4. Will Charity (12.9%), 5. Thorne Jamison (6.5%), 3.2 % voted for other characters: Miles Maitland

16. Jean-François Mercier -27 votes-

Most popular match: Tommy Atkins  (37 %)

2. Miles Maitland and Bill Masters (18.5 % each), 3. Steven Arthur Younger, 4. Robbie Ross and Aziraphale (3.7 %) 3.7 % voted for other characters (not specified)

17. Simon Yates -25 votes-

Most popular match: Slavkin O'Hara (40%)

2. Austen Blume (20%), 3. Andrew Lloyd and Colin Lawes (16% each), 4% voted for other characters (not specified)

18. James Arber -25 votes-

Most popular match: Harry Jones (28 %)

2. Austen Blume and Wesley Snipes, 3. Colin Lawes (16 %), 4. Mark Furness and Slavkin O'Hara (8% each)

19. John Helm -21 votes-

Most popular match: Thorne Jamison  (57.1 %)

2.Austen Blume and Tony Towers (19 % each), 3. Harry Jones (4.8 %)

20. Donald Peterson -19 votes-

Most popular match: Colin Lawes (42.1 %)

2. Tony Towers and Wesley Snipes (21.1 % each), 3.Mark Furness and , Slavkin O'Hara (5.3 %) 5.3% voted for other characters (not specified)

If you scrolled until here you deserve this fact: Until now we have 6 mutual couples where the character won the other ones poll and vice versa: Aro x Peter Vincent, Alec Hardy x Bill Masters, Campbell Bain x Miles Maitland, Roland Blum x Aiden Hoynes, Giacomo Casanova x Robbie Ross and Peter Carlisle x Colin Lawes!

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Birthdays 6.18

Beer Birthdays

William Lassell (1799)

Thomas M. Dukehart (1835)

Sigmund O. Mitler (1850)

Brad Klipner (1976)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Paul Eddington; English actor (1927)

James Montgomery Flagg; illustrator, artist (1877)

James Mallory; English mountaineer, explorer (1886)

Paul McCartney; rock bassist, songwriter (1942)

Chris Van Allsburg; writer, illustrator (1949)

Famous Birthdays

Brian Bebben; actor (1956)

Richard Boone; actor (1917)

Barbara Broccoli; film producer (1960)

Lou Brock; St. Louis Cardinals LF (1939)

Sammy Cahn; songwriter, lyricist (1913)

Roger Ebert; film critic (1942)

Henry Clay Folger; philanthropist (1857)

Gail Godwin; writer (1937)

Carol Kane; actor (1952)

Kay Kyser; bandleader (1897)

Edouard Le Roy; French philosopher, mathematician (1870)

Jeanette MacDonald; actor, singer (1903)

E.G. Marshall; actor (1914)

Ray McKinley; jazz drummer (1910)

Robert Mondavi; winemaker (1913)

Alison Moyet; pop singer (1961)

Sylvia Field Porter; economist, journalist (1913)

Isabella Rossellini; actor (1952)

Frithjof Schuon; Swiss metaphysician, poet, artist (1907)

E.W. Scripps; journalist, publisher (1854)

Blake Shelton; country singer (1976)

Joseph-Marie Vien; French artist (1716)

Alexander Wetmore; ornithologist (1886)