For your bonus can you please name the actor who played the title character (I have a suspicion he hails from your neck of the woods), how did he refer to his wife & his favourite tipple in the wine bar. Please also say who wrote & created the series.
Greetings, Lady Penelope,
Your suspicion was correct. Reginald was born in Sydney, New South Wales. He attended Sydney Technical High School. On leaving school, he initially worked in a factory, where at the age of 15, he suffered an accident which resulted in the removal of his left eye. He first worked as an engineering apprentice, then as an artist, followed by service as a sapper with the Australian Army's Royal Australian Engineers during World War II. Having fallen in love with Australian actress Jane Holland, he moved to the United Kingdom to be with her; they married in 1946.
However, the character he played was very English because an Australian would never believe anybody
must be obeyed. The expression he used was not original. The phrase
She Who Must Be Obeyed originally derives from the lead character of Henry Rider Haggard 's 1886 novel
She: A History of Adventure. It is slang for "
my wife", implying she is in charge.
He described his favourite tipple in the wine bar variously as "Cooking Claret", "Pomeroy's Plonk", "Pomeroy's Very Ordinary", "Chateau Thames Embankment", or "Chateau Fleet Street".
The series was created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer.
You nailed my puzzle. Until I researched it I never Gnu that it was also called a wildebeest. So live and learn.
We are having an early dinner tonight, so I am going to end the post here. I will try to make up for it when we get home tomorrow.