Carmen Munroe 1967 "Doctor Who" story "The Enemy of the World"; a part in "General Hospital", in "The Persuaders" (1971), Barry Reckord's "In the Beautiful Caribbean" (BBC 1972), Alfred Fagon's "Shakespeare Country" (BBC 1973), "The Fosters" (LWT, 1976–77), Michael Abbensetts' "Black Christmas" (BBC, 1977), "Mixed Blessings" (1978–80), Horace Ové's "A Hole in Babylon" (BBC, 1979), and Caryl Phillips' "The Hope and the Glory" (BBC, 1984). Munroe became best known, however, for her regular appearances between 1989 and 1994 in the Channel 4 sitcom "Desmond's" (written by Trix Worrell) as Shirley, wife of the eponymous barber Desmond Ambrose, played by Norman Beaton. Her
Tell it to the Marines He "warns" of the invincibility of the German war machine and instructs the Americans to be sure to tell the Army and the Navy and, above all, "Tell it to the Marines!!" Naturally, the Nazis don't get the reference. The phrase was used in the 1942 serial "G-Men vs the Black Dragon" (it is a captured American agent's response to a sneering Japanese villain's account of Axis victories) The phrase is the title of a British sitcom, "Tell It to the Marines", which aired on ITV from 1959 to 1960. In a 1972 episode of "Doctor Who" ("Day of the