Bruce Forsyth with ITV, hosting the game show "Play Your Cards Right", which was the UK version of the US original "Card Sharks", from 1980 to 1987, 1994 to 1999, and a brief period from 2002 to 2003, before the show was cancelled mid-run due to low ratings. In 1986, he went to the United States to host a game show on ABC, "Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak", which ran for 65 episodes from January to April that year. Forsyth starred in the Thames Television sitcom "Slinger's Day" in 1986 and 1987, a sequel to "Tripper's Day" which had starred Leonard Rossiter, whom
Edward Rossiter Edward Rossiter Colonel Sir Edward Rossiter (1618–1669) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1660. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War. Rossieter was the son of Richard Rossiter of Somerby by Bigby, Lincolnshire and his wife Elizabeth Bourchier, daughter of Sir John Bourchier of Beningbrough, Yorkshire. He was educated at Kirton and Beverley grammar school and was a student of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1636. He was a soldier in the Parliamentarian army and fought alongside Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Naseby in