As It Occurs To Me whispering something and at one point exits pursued by a bear; a reference to a stage direction in "A Winter's Tale". Tiny Andrew Collings is also famous for exclaiming his own compliments and pretending they came from the audience, with the faux self-effacing phrase "Be quiet, you people in the crowd saying those things". Despite having died at the end of Series Two (reciting the poem "Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep"), Tiny Andrew returned on the Edinburgh special, claiming responsibility for most of the bad things that had occurred to Richard over the previous month (with the
The Bear Dances the rich were powerful might be replaced by a régime where the powerful are rich." Despite approval of its subject-matter ("Any study of conditions in Soviet Russia is certain at the moment to command attention," noted "The Spectator") and praise for the directing, acting, and designs, the reviewers found "The Bear Dances" "overladen with pamphleteering argument, on both sides". "The play's weakness lies in its tendency to repeated pleading," observed Ivor Brown in "The Week-end Review". "Heavy blue pencilling would have given this play a chance of life," agreed John Pollock in "The Saturday Review". "The Stage" conceded that the