Originally Posted by Doghouse Riley:
“Maybe the dog was originally introduced, like other characters as I suggested, to make both John Nettles and now Neil Dudgeon, look less one dimensional.
However, the dog is acting the pants off Dudgeon, so it looks as if it's backfired.”
“Maybe the dog was originally introduced, like other characters as I suggested, to make both John Nettles and now Neil Dudgeon, look less one dimensional.
However, the dog is acting the pants off Dudgeon, so it looks as if it's backfired.”

Sykes is this "incarnation" of Nettles Cully, in for the comedy alone.
And it works too, so the producers got it right in their inclusion of the magnificent Sykes.....




She had a big bump in the Christmas episode.