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
James Patrick Rossiter James Patrick Rossiter James Patrick Rossiter (September 13, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – September 26, 1943 in Erie, Pennsylvania) was a prominent politician in Pennsylvania. He was the second of seven children of Louis T. Rossiter, an insurance company superintendent, and his wife Elizabeth C. "Lizzie" (Griffin) Rossiter. The family moved to the Philadelphia suburbs in New Jersey after James was born and by 1900 was living in the town of Wenonah in Gloucester County. His father brought the family to Erie in 1903, where he again worked in the insurance field. By 1910, the family lived at 439 West