Oh, Brother! success and only lasted a single series of seven episodes. Oh, Brother! Oh, Brother! is a British situation comedy show on BBC television starring Derek Nimmo, which was broadcast between 1968 and 1970. The series was set in a monastery, with Nimmo cast as the well-meaning but inept novice Brother Dominic. It was basically a successor to "All Gas and Gaiters", where Nimmo had played a very similar role, the main difference being that Brother Dominic was working-class, whereas Nimmo's previous character, Rev. Mervyn Noote, had been upper-class. "Oh, Brother!" was not quite as successful or as affectionately remembered as
Mervyn Cowie financial director. Cowie wrote the books "Fly Vulture" (1961), "I Walk with Lions" (1964), and "African Lion" (1965). The 1951 British-made film "Where No Vultures Fly" (renamed "Ivory Hunter" in the United States) was a fictionalised account of Cowie's work. Mervyn Cowie Mervyn Hugh Cowie CBE (13 April 1909 – 19 July 1996) was a conservationist who pioneered wildlife protection and the development of tourism throughout East Africa. Cowie was a descendant of Scottish farmers who migrated to South Africa. Cowie's father resigned as Chief Magistrate of Johannesburg, South Africa to settle in Kenya. Cowie was born in Nairobi on