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I loved Touche in the 1980s!

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Another new one!

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"Hero work done cheap: all major credit cards accepted," read his business card.

It's very unusual for an American television series to be retrofitted for Britain; usually they come over unchanged, if they do at all. But I imagined it was determined that this was necessary in this case. Likewise the fact that he was more popular in Britain than America- he obviously had less competition for viewers than he did in the U.S.

Dum Dum was portrayed in the U.S. by Alan Reed, better known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone.

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