Creator / Trevor Bannister

"In fairness, as much as I loved the show and loved everybody, it had spread its wings in rather broad directions. I mean, we were forever doing songs and dances and having people getting out of the lift in a frogman's outfit saying, 'The traffic was terrible, so I had to swim up the Thames', all that sort of stuff, and it began to get a bit silly. I think it lost direction a bit."

Trevor Gordon Bannister, (14 August 1934 — 14 April 2011), was a British actor best known for playing Mr. Lucas in Are You Being Served?.

His career began on TV in The '60s, with some of his earliest roles in The War of Darkie Pilbeam as Darkie Pilbeam and in The Dustbinmen as "Heavy Breathing". Shortly after, he was asked to play Mr. Lucas in Are You Being Served?.

AYBS? was originally intended as a vehicle for him, but as the series continued, Mr. Lucas was given less to do in favour of other characters such as Mr. Humphries and Mrs. Slocombe. Bannister left the series after its seventh series, as filming clashed with a play he was to appear in.

In 2001, he was cast as the Golf Captain in Last of the Summer Wine. In 2009, his character became a regular and was given the name "Toby Mulberry-Smith".

He died of a heart attack at the age of 76 while working in his garden.

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Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:

Film

• Reach for the Sky (1956) — Man Listening to Radio (Uncredited Role)
• Are You Being Served? (1977) — Mr. Dick Lucas
• Doomsday Gun (1994) — Ballard

Series

• Z Cars, 4 episodes:
  • "The Five Whistles" (1962) — Boy
  • "One Good Turn" (1965) — Billy Dunn
  • 2 episodes^{show list} "The Soft Touch: Part 1", "The Soft Touch: Part 2" (1969) — Ned Corby
• The Avengers, episode "Something Nasty in the Nursery" (1967) — Gordon
• Coronation Street, 10 episodes:
  • 1 episode (1967) — Harry Lester
  • 4 episodes (1972) — Richie Levitt
  • 5 episodes (2010) — David the Solicitor
• Dixon of Dock Green, episode "The Climber" (1967) — Eddie Farrell
• The Saint, episode "Portrait of Brenda" (1969) — Johnny Fox
• Doomwatch, episode "Public Enemy" (1971) — Dr. Anthony Lewis
• It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling..., episode "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1971) — Eldred
• Steptoe and Son, episode "A Star Is Born" (1972) — Rupert Ffaines-Muir
• Are You Being Served?, 48 episodes (1972-79) — Mr. Dick Lucas
• Crossroads, 1 episode (1974) — Keith Willet
• The Tomorrow People, 4 episodes^{show list} "Secret Weapon: Lost & Found", "Secret Weapon: Not Quite a Sleeping Beauty", "Secret Weapon: Whose Side Are You on Professor", "Secret Weapon: A Present from Russia" (1975) — Colonel Masters
• Last of the Summer Wine, 25 episodes:
  • "Who's Got Rhythm?" (1992) — Tailor
  • 24 episodes (2001-10) — Toby Mulberry-Smith, the Golf Captain
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, episode "Prague, August 1917" (1993) — Installer
• Woof!, episode "The Great Demento and Rex" (1994) — Theatre Manager
• Keeping Up Appearances, episode "Angel Gabriel Blue" (1994) — Mr. Merryweather
• Silent Witness, episode "Buried Lies: Part 2" (1996) — Gary's Solicitor
• CASUAL+Y, episode "Midday Sun" (2009) — Mr. Walter
• New Tricks, episode "Old Fossils" (2011) — Bob Ruxton

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