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I've had great pleasure of working with some of the nicest comedians in the business including Steve Martin who came out to Melbourne to test drive his first play. Picasso at the Lapin Agile was wonderful. I worked with John Cleese more recently on Fawlty Towers Live on stage which was a hugely-wonderful thing.

I suppose it's quite an unusual show in as much as we've never had a historical, lavish melodrama that A Place to Call Home is, ever in this country.

Every time you work with people of that calibre and see how humble they are and yet how rigorous and self-critical they are, it's a real lesson, I suppose, in what it takes to make comedy work.

And it's been fantastic, an absolute highlight of my career in terms of television. To have the opportunity to create a character from the 1950s and travel with her for six years and see where she ends up. It's been the best crew I've ever worked with, wonderful writing, good directors ...everything you could possibly hope for, really!

I'm hoping to assemble a lot more information and try and get them in to the record books. Neither of them are known in Australia even though they travelled over to America and made their careers there all those centuries ago,

Everyone knew this is Bevan's (Lee, writer) last chapter in the story. So it's come to a logical end. We would have had to have lurched ourselves into the '60s and that would have been a totally other show, because things started to change quite rapidly then.

But the producers always maintained the very high quality of the cinematography, the settings, the vintage cars, the wonderful costumes and all of that. No one dropped their game.

We did have some rather difficult times without him around in that series. Without him it wasn't the same, it wasn't up to the standard that it had been, so it was great that he came back and finished it.