Robin Houston Television, for a number of other ITV companies and for BBC Television. As an announcer he provided the voiceovers for the ITV television shows: For BBC Television he also announced Clive James' New Year specials and "Dame Edna Live at the Palace". As an actor he played the radio announcer warning of a nuclear attack in the 1986 animated film "When the Wind Blows", the newsreader in Kenny Everett's science fiction radio and television serial "Captain Kremmen" and has performed in a number of television dramas, including "Kavanagh QC", "Thursday the 12th", "Holby City", "Dempsey and Makepeace" and "The Gentle
Captain Blue (Captain Scarlet) editor Tony Barwick, who commented on what he perceived as the series' "quite formalised writing", wrote Blue as "the foil, the nice guy" of "Captain Scarlet". In a 1982 interview for "Starlog" magazine, Captain Blue voice actor Ed Bishop described his casting by the Andersons: "There was an actor in the series named Cy Grant [voice of the Lieutenant Green character]. We happened to have the same agent and Sylvia Anderson had called to ask about him. The girl at the agency said, 'You people use a lot of Americans on your shows and we have this American actor.' Sylvia