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| TP as Sir Lionel Phelps |
"I've made it at last!", TP told John Thaw on his first day of filming for the final Inspector Morse - The Remorseful Day. "What do you mean?", asked Thaw.
TP explained that he had always wanted to appear in an episode of the series and as it was the last one ever he had made it just in the nick of time.
He had been invited to appear in the drama once before but only in a support role. For this script however, he was one of the prime suspects in the part of Sir Lionel Phelps, a distinguished surgeon whose nocturnal recreations went a little further than a rubber of bridge.
In the climactic conclusion of the drama, TP's character is the final suspect Inspector Morse will interview before succumbing to a fatal heart attack. Closing scenes which are made all the more poignant by John Thaw's own passing some eighteen months later.
** This was TP's third time in front of the cameras with John Thaw having also worked with him on Kavanagh QC and The Sweeney.
** The Remorseful Day was directed by Jack Gold who had also directed TP in The Devil's Disciple at the RSC in 1976.
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| TP with 'Morse' composer Barrington Pheloung who appeared in a cameo role. |
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