Clive Mantle "The Return of Shelley" and had a small role as Johnny Ladder in the Menahem Golan-directed film "Mack the Knife", a 19th-century set crime comedy which starred Raúl Juliá, Richard Harris, and Julia Migenes in the leading roles. He also appeared in the radio plays "Farewell, My Lovely"; "Frozen Assets"; and "The Rise and Fall of the Romanov Autocracy". In 1990, Mantle had a small role as an electric meter reader in the "One Foot in the Grave" episode "The Return of the Speckled Band", and played Harry, a man who "gave Clint Eastwood a pounding" in "White Hunter Black
One Foot in the Grave Grave" were produced and directed by Susan Belbin, the exceptions being "Love and Death", which was partly directed by veteran sitcom director Sydney Lotterby, and "Starbound", for which Gareth Gwenlan (who in fact had originally commissioned the series in 1989) stepped in to direct some sequences after Belbin was taken ill. Afterward, Belbin retired owing to ill-health, and the final series was produced by Jonathan P. Llewellyn and directed by Christine Gernon. Wilson and Renwick felt that Gernon's experience of working with Belbin on earlier series of "One Foot" as a production secretary and assistant, as well as other shows,