David Troughton


Such a shame they replaced him as Wellington after this episode. He was fantastic. Hugh Fraser just doesn't have presence to pull of the role as well as Troughton did.
I loved the scene with Simmerson after he lost the colours.

"MAJOR LENNOX ANSWERED WITH HIS LIFE! AS YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE IF YOU HAD ANY SENSE OF HONOUR! You lost the colours of the king of England! You disgraced us sir! You shamed us sir! You will answer!"

The glare he gives Simmerson at the end of this is spine-chilling.

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He wasn't replaced so much as he wouldn't go back to film in the Ukraine after he got extremely ill there.

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