John Leeson Quotations

Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic.

No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.

It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.

But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for.

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not.

I worked with Hannah Gordon, whom I've seen today, and reminded her of an episode of My Wife Next Door that we did way back in the late 70s.

I don't think the pilot worked particularly well, because the setting was terrestrial rather than otherworldly, in space or whatever.