Peter Bowles stars as likeable rogue
The final episode of “Tales of the Unexpected” (One, Wednesday, 9.30 p.m.) will be screened this week. In this slot next week will be a new comedy series, “The Bounder.” The popular, much-in-demand actor. Peter Bowles, stars a£> Howard Booth — suave,) sophisticated, elegant and Eloquent — bearing all the haltmarks o,f the perfect gentlefrian. has also just completed a spell in jail for embezzlement, and is temporarily out of funds. Howard is a black sheep in white kid gloves — one of
those likeable rogues with a vivid imagination, a not-too-scrupulous attitude to money, and a mind razorsharp enough to provide him with a ready answer to get him out of any awkward situation. Well, almost any awkward situation. Peter Bowles is joined in “The Bounder” by another of Britain’s most popular stars, George Cole, fresh from his " highly-successful series, “Minder,” and two leading .British stage and television actresses, Rosalind Ayres and Isla Blair.
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