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 gives the location of an emotionally disturbed girl that abducted a baby and stole Margaret's pearl earrings, which resulted in the girl getting picked up by the police. However, because the girl was a friend of Margaret's and knowing she meant a lot to her, Victor never said anything. Victor has also shown a vast amount of loyalty to Margaret as, throughout their entire 42 years of lifelong marriage together, not once has the thought of infidelity ever occurred to him. In "Rearranging the Dust", Victor and Margaret recollect the days of their courtship at a party after which Victor