Jimmy Nail and aired in 2002, with audience figures of over 12 million. Another series saw the brickies holed up in Cuba, and the final two-hour instalment, set in Laos, broadcast over Christmas 2004 attracting over seven million viewers. After the first two series of "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet", Nail found himself typecast before creating the detective series "Spender", which he co-wrote with Ian La Frenais. The show ran for three series from 1991 to 1993 and also produced a tele-film and a novel. This was followed in 1994 by "Crocodile Shoes", which he also created and starred as musician Jed Shepherd. In
Jimmy Nail setting fire to curtains. When he was 13, his older sister, Shelagh, died at the age of 20. Feeling lost and confused, he spent time drinking, fighting, and rebelling against authority. He got into a fight after a football match and was sent to prison. After prison he worked in a glass factory. While sweeping glass he stood on a six-inch spike that went through his foot and thereafter was called "Nail", a name he later adopted professionally. Also at that time he played guitar in a rock band called the King Crabs. His other sister Val McLane was Head