but he said it for me. 'Trouble is, at the moment it's too like every other dick you see in every movie. Maybe you could come up with something more off-centre.' ���"I said that the script was obviously based on Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. In that novel the detective Javert is far more obsessive, so perhaps I could bring that to it. Anyway, we went ahead and shot the pilot in Tucson, Arizona. I remember dear old David Janssen walking down the main street of Tucson, and he said to me, 'What do you think of this thing?' I said 'Well, it has good roots, it comes from a high quality source, based on a classic novel. But all the people I talk to, my agent and everyone else, tell me it can't possi- bly succeed because it doesn't have an ending.' ���"He said, 'That's what everybody tells me. Nobody believes in it, do they?' 'No, but at least it's good quality writing'. 'Sure, but you know what? They're not even paying me my standard fee.' I said, 'Oh dear, really?' 'No, they're giving me a piece of it. We all know what ten per cent of nothing is, don't we?' Well he did indeed have a percentage of the whole shooting match. So he, and now his heirs, have profited enormously." ���The Fugitive created problems for Barry, since many people took it upon themselves to defend Dr. Kimble when they met Barry Morse. "They'd raise hell with me. Old ladies beat me over the head with their umbrellas and handbags, big guys loomed over me in bars saying 'lis- ten, you dumb copper, don't you under- stand, he's innocent.' ���"Of course, Lt. Gerard was a policeman, an upholder of the law. I'd say all this fel- low is doing is carrying out his job for which you, the rest of society, employ him. It had a particular relevance to be because my own brother was with the Metropoli- tan Police here in London, so I always had a good inside view of what a really dedi- cated policeman ought to be." Zoo Gang ���With the success of The Fugitive behind him, Barry went on to appear in a number of feature films, as well as becoming a regular in various adventure series made by Lew Grade's ITC. ���"I'm not sure what the next series I did was. It might have been The Adventurer with Gene Barry. I played a very pukka British Foreign Office type called Mr.

Parminter, quite a chinless twit, and I di- rected quite a few of those. ���"Then, of course we did the rather good quality mini-series, as it would be called nowadays, The Zoo Gang. It was a very good quality series, based on a book by Paul Gallico, who also wrote the pilot script. The difficulty was that all of us, Lilli Palmer, John Mills, Brian Keith and my- self, were to some extent locked into other things, so it was only possible to do a lim- ited number of episodes. It was whatever we could shoot in the space of about two- and-half months. ���"We had a lovely time down in the South of France. We were rather rueful that we weren't going to be able to do any more, because it was better than most of the other things we'd been doing. It was certainly better than The Adventurer, where the quality of the writing was poor." Space: 1999 ���There were similar problmes with Barry's best known ITC series, Gerry Anderson's Space: 1999, in which he played Professor Victor Bergman. Barry, along with husband and wife stars Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, were all bank- able names in the US, vital for interna- tional sales. However, Barry says they all felt the series suffered from poor plots and character development. ���"I remember an early production meet- ing, the first time we all sat down with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. They started to talk about the fact that Rudy Gernrecih was going to do the costumes, as if this was the greatest thing surrounding the whole project. ���"Martin and I had worked together be- fore. We looked at each other and then