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Nigel Plaskitt

Actor and puppeteer

Jul 29, 2026

0:26
Yes.
0:26
I first met Ronnie in about 1960 or '61.
0:29
I was 10 or 11, and he was 13 or 14.
0:33
He was three years older than me.
0:35
That was a, something I never let him forget when, uh, whenever we met.
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[laughs] And it all kind of became a running gag whenever we did an interview together, and he played up to it very well, so that was good.
0:45
Anyway, yeah, so we were basically kids together and, uh, exploring the world of puppets.

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14:40
What's your, what, you know, what would your lasting memory of, be of, of Ronnie?
Chris Dale
Chris DalePANELIST
8:21
Mm, it is.
8:28
Although already I've noticed that it does suffer from some of the other, well, issues with new Captain Scarlet in that there's very little traffic on the road.

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speaker_0HOST
16:40
Yeah.
16:47
It's just the look of the, um, the, the '60s series, all of those '60s series were so, were so brilliant.

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