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The theatre and the musical stage have been far more perceptive in employing the talents of Robert Lindsay than has British television. One of the great underused TV actors, he has spread himself across various small screen genres with only a handful of peaks-of-performance to mark his passing.

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The bafflingly popular domestic sitcom My Family (BBC, 2002-) may be seen as something of triumph etched on a tombstone.

The Thames TV sitcom Get Some In! (ITV, 1975-78) was his big break in TV. In the vein of brash service comedies like Carry On Sergeant (d. Gerald Thomas, 1958) and ITV's The Army Game (1957-61), its setting was an RAF training camp during the post-war period of national service, and it provided Lindsay with an opportunity to excel as a cockney wide boy with a persuasive line of patter.

He left in 1977 to become the inept urban revolutionary Wolfie Smith in John Sullivan's well-liked Citizen Smith (BBC, 1977-80).

Played with touching exuberance, the role allow