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
Clinton Rossiter married Mary Ellen Crane in September 1947. They had three sons (all Cornell graduates): David Goodrich Rossiter (1949), Caleb Stewart Rossiter (1951) (Caleb also attended Westminster), and Winton Goodrich Rossiter (1954). Years later, his son would state that his father suffered a lifetime of debilitating clinical depression. He could no longer extract himself from it and overdosed on sleeping pills. External events had much to do with the last stages of this depression. His beloved Cornell was convulsed with racial conflict, including the infamous armed seizure of the student union building in April 1969. Rossiter became prominent as a moderate