Slinger's Day Slinger's Day Slinger's Day is a British sitcom that aired for two seasons from 1986 to 1987, made by Thames Television for the ITV network. It was a continuation of "Tripper's Day", which had originally come to a natural end after Leonard Rossiter's death, and, despite the overwhelmingly negative response it had drawn from reviewers and a section of the viewing public, was revived this time with Bruce Forsyth as a different character to Rossiter but fulfilling the same role, that of the manager of a London supermarket with largely incompetent staff. Like "Tripper's Day", it was created by Brian
Leonard Cracknell Leonard Cracknell Leonard Cracknell (20 January 1941 – 13 March 1998) was a British actor. Raised in Hornchurch, Essex, Cracknell was a television, radio, film and theatre actor, mainly during the 1960s and 1970s. He first came to the attention of the British public in the late 1950s when he starred in one of the first BBC television costume dramas, the 1956 production of "David Copperfield". He played the lead role as the young David Copperfield, appearing on the front cover of the "Radio Times". As his acting career developed, he starred in the BBC television soap opera "199 Park