Derek Royle "Confessions of a Sex Maniac" (1974). He appeared in a children's TV comedy series, "Hogg's Back" (1975) as Doctor Hogg, an eccentric general practitioner (GP); in 2016 this series has appeared on Talking Pictures TV. Royle acted with Wendy Richard and Pat Coombs over two series. (Hog's Back is an area in Surrey in Britain.) Royle played an unfortunate guest in a "Fawlty Towers" episode, "The Kipper and the Corpse", wherein he played the eponymous corpse. He also was the second actor to portray Monsieur Ernest LeClerc in the sixth series of "'Allo 'Allo!", and had a supporting role in
Kipper too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …". For instance Thomas Nashe wrote in 1599 about a fisherman from Lothingland in the Great Yarmouth area who discovered smoking herring by accident. Another story of the accidental invention of kipper is set in 1843, with John Woodger of Seahouses in Northumberland, when fish for processing was left overnight in a room with a smoking stove. These stories and others are known to be untrue because the word "kipper" long predates this. Smoking and salting of fish—in particular of spawning salmon and herring which are