Well I must have been cast by one of the casting directors down at Thames Television. In all honesty I can't remember who it was. They would have contacted my agent and then I must have had an interview. I think Stan Woodward was the director. He alas is no longer with us. He died a few years ago. He worked a lot down at Thames.

JC: The interesting person is Roger Price. Did you meet him when you worked on the TP?

AC: Yes, of course I did. But it is a long time ago.

JC: He has completely disappeared. The last time he was seen was when they made the 90's series. He came over from Canada to see Philip and helped make the first season and that's the last anyone heard of him. It's a shame because I'd like to know what he thought of the show, after all these years.

7. What did you think of the TP being a children's show and it being Sci-fi?

AC: It had a huge following, as you said. And it was very escapist. Certainly I remember that once the episodes I was in were going out. I'd be taking my daughter to school, and I wasn't driving in those days so I used to cycle. She was on the seat on the back of the bike. There used to be these lads form the local school shouting out "Oh there goes the Tomorrow People." It was obviously very popular.

8. What did you think when you first heard about it?

AC: I was just glad to be working actually. It was very convenient, it was filmed locally. I didn't have to travel too far. It was just very nice.

9. Had you seen it before you were in it?

AC: No, No.

10. Was it difficult doing sci-fi type special effects? Was there a lot of sitting around waiting for things.

AC: As I remember, yes. Nick pointed it out at the DVD commentary recording. In one of the episodes there was an explosion and it set fire to the set. I don't think we were really aware of what was going in. It was quite amusing. We did laugh a lot, we did have a good time.

11. How did the other people working with you on the show strike you?

AC: We got on very well, but they were all regulars and I wasn't. So we didn't socialise together. Except in one of the stories there is an actor called Bryan Stanion playing?

JC: Professor Cawston?

AC: Yes that's it. I was at drama school with him and we also worked together at the Belgrade theatre Coventry a long, long time ago. It was nice meeting up with him again and we did a bit of socialising.

JC: He's someone I'd like to interview.

AC: He's given it up! I think he's a social worker now.

12: Were you offered the opportunity to play the part of Tricia regularly?

AC: I think I was but I wasn't available. I was certainly offered more episodes. I don't know how many. Perhaps another story. I'm not sure but I was too busy working on Rooms at the time.

JC: I wonder what that extra story would have been?

AC: I don't know. I think they brought in another actress who was given the part.

JC: There wasn't another female Tomorrow Person after you, apart from the Japanese girl Hsui Tai.

Here is my opinion of what happened. The story Ann is referring to is the one with Pavla. It was Tricia who was meant to play the part of the British Agent helping the TP's track down Pavla. How she was meant to do this when she was a fully-fledged TP is not clear. Perhaps the jaunt she did at the end of Revenge was not meant to be her break out after all! Roger must have adapted the story somewhat to accomodate a new actress being brought in to play the part.

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