| 1 | * How old is Bernard supposed to be? He's portrayed as callow and naive, but is obviously in his mid forties at the beginning of the show's run (and if ActorSharedBackground holds with him as is does for Hacker and Sir Humphrey, he shares Creator/DerekFowlds' 1937 birthdate). The only explanation I can think of is that it was a midlife career change, but that's never hinted at in the show. |
| 2 | ** According to the novelisations, Bernard is supposed to be in his late twenties-early thirties and a rising young star in the Civil Service building his career fresh from university. So it is a variation of DawsonCasting. The poorer picture quality of television sets and broadcasts in the 1980s did much to hide the actor's real age. |
| 3 | * All three of the principal characters are married, but none of them ever wear wedding rings. This could be an oversight, or simply a cultural norm from the Eighties. |
| 4 | ** It's reflective of a cultural norm; married men wearing wedding rings, while not completely unheard of back then, was less of a practice in the 1980s (and certainly so in the 1960s and 1970s, when the main characters would likely have gotten married to begin with). |
| 5 | *** It's still not the cultural norm in the UK. A recent survey by a large jewellery concern found that only 45% of married English men wear a wedding ring |
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