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 was very much looking forward to appearing in Sting's The Last Ship, particularly here in my home city, Sadly that's not to be." Nail played Parson Nathaniel in "War of the Worlds" at the Dominion Theatre, London in 2016. He appeared with Madonna and Antonio Banderas in the film "Evita" (1996), directed by Alan Parker and adapted from the musical. Two years later, he co-starred in the film "Still Crazy". He played the role of gamekeeper Rabbetts in the film "Danny, the Champion of the World", based on the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. In 2004, Nail