Nigel Plaskitt has written this tribute to George Woodbridge, the actor who played Inigo Pipkin and who sadly died during the recording of the second series.

He was a charming grandfatherly man who made us all at our ease and he would tell us stories of the ATV Studios at Elstree, now BBC Elstree, where we were shooting the programme, as it was during the days when it was a film studio, pointing out the lawn by the canteen where he had 'swash buckled' in a pirate film. He loved the idea of making a childrens programme and he said to me "We could be on to a winner here, I think this will run and run". His prediction was true but sadly he never lived to see it as he died five weeks into the shooting of series two on the 30th March 1973.

Last updated 2009.