He's not on location that week, and he's booking a foreign holiday!' 'Morag, what are you doing? You've given Frazer a week off.' I later learned that what she had done was to jump into her car, scoot round the corner and phone Morag. 'You know what,' she said, 'I must just pop down to the shops.' And off she fled. We've been working hard, and you could do with a break as well, Liz.'
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I was so full of enthusiasm that I didn't notice how dismayed she looked. We could go here.' I waved a brochure at her, '.or here, this looks marvellous.' Sounds grand to me.) Now, I had a week off, so I went to a travel agent on my way home and returned laden with brochures and stuff. You explore it and talk about it, and tell the viewers what to do and what to see. (I've always thought the best job in television is Wish You Were Here. I'm a keen traveller – if ever I have three or four days off, I want to go somewhere. What I also didn't know was that she was planning my This Is Your Life. You don't always leap immediately to the damning conclusion.
She would take a phone call and then tell me it had been a wrong number, even though she hadn't announced our number to the caller. So Liz was behaving a little bit strangely. But when it happens, you don't always see it in that light. I always thought I would know if my wife was ever having an affair – the secret phone calls, the wrong numbers, the hanging up if I walked in on her, the unexplained absences, the general air of guilt and furtiveness that surrounds it.
Frazer Hines recalls his experience of This Is Your Life in his autobiography, Films, Farms and Fillies.