Buster Merryfield and Horses" in January 1985, as the former seafaring Albert Gladstone Trotter, known as Uncle Albert, who was Grandad Trotter's globetrotting long-lost younger brother, and who was known for Uncle Albert's catchphrase of "During the war..." The character took over the role of senior citizen member of the Trotter family from Lennard Pearce, who played Grandad, after Pearce died unexpectedly in December 1984. Coincidentally, nine months earlier, in March 1984, Merryfield appeared in two episodes of a "Shroud for a Nightingale" alongside Lennard Pearce. He did much work for various charities, notably the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He wrote his
And Then There Were None nezostal už nik" ("And Then There Were None") mid-run. The 1930 novel "The Invisible Host" by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning has a plot that strongly matches that of Christie's later novel, including a recorded voice announcing to the guests that their sins will be visited upon them by death. "The Invisible Host" was adapted as the 1930 Broadway "The Ninth Guest" by Owen Davis, which itself was adapted as the 1934 film "The Ninth Guest". The 1933 K.B.S. Productions "Sherlock Holmes" film "A Study in Scarlet" follows a strikingly similar plot; it includes a scene where Holmes is shown