Writer's Block: Brush with stardom

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When I was a kid, we went to London for the summer regularly. We were in a cafe or something near the South Bank, when my sister looked round and said "That's Dempsey from Dempsey and Makepeace!"[1]

Despite the fact I only watched Dempsey and Makepeace because she did, I was so taken aback by the presence of a Real TV Star in the same place as I was that I had a mild panic attack. My sister and cousin went to speak to him, and said "hello!" from me as well.

I've gone out of my way to meet the Doctor on a couple of occasions (Tom the first time, Colin the second), and one of my ambitions at DWCons is to actually speak to Pterry, but by and large celeb-hunting doesn't interest me (although, if it happens, I'm just as overcome as I was that day in London).

Edit: Oh, and a couple of years back, Mum and I saw Gerard Kelly in the car park at Tesco's (he was appearing in The Odd Couple at Eden Court. He looked like he had a lot on his mind, so even though we'd met him before[2], we didn't say hello.

[1]Dempsey and Makepeace was a 1980s "odd couple" detective show about an easy-going male American detective partnered, for reasons that now escape me, with a by-the-book British female detective. It was on for years, we watched it frequently, and the only thing I remember about it now is the throwaway line "Your chips aren't chips." "No, my chips are crisps."

[2]The first time he was in The Odd Couple at Eden Court, my uncle the journo introduced us, and he'd spoken to us again at Edinburgh.

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The only bit I remember about Dempsey and Makepeace (apart from the fact that Makepeace was in Blake's 7 as Soolin), is the bit when they are arguing about who is going to drive the car. Dempsey (the American) decides that he is going to drive and promptly gets in the passenger side of the car - not being used to right-hand drive cars. :-)