Colin Gilbert he began working as a producer and director. His credits during this period include "A Kick Up the Eighties" with Tracey Ullman, Miriam Margolyes Roger Sloman, Ron Bain and Robbie Coltrane, "Naked Radio", "Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee" with Robbie Coltrane and John Sessions, "Naked Video" with Gregor Fisher, Jonathan Watson, Helen Lederer, John Sparkes, Andy Gray, Tony Roper and Elaine C Smith, "I Lovett" with Norman Lovett, "Kevin Turvey the Man Behind the Green Door" which he co-wrote with Rik Mayall, "City Lights" with Gerard Kelly and "Rab C Nesbitt" with Gregor Fisher, created and written by
The Professionals (TV series) popular TV comedy series "The Two Ronnies", Ronnie Corbett played a bungling version of Martin Shaw's Doyle in a sketch called "Tinker Tailor Smiley Doyle" (Series 11; broadcast February 1985 - March 1985). This was a joint send-up of "The Professionals" and the "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" TV drama, with Ronnie Barker playing George Smiley along the lines of Alec Guinness' portrayal in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy". Corbett's Doyle provides the brawn to the brains of Barker's Smiley and actually comes out the worse. The sketch guest-starred Frank Williams from "Dad's Army". In 1984 some of the team behind "The