I was rather saddened to see that the actor Edward Woodward had passed away today at the age of 79.

I have to say that I remember him as Robert McCall from the American television series The Equalizer, I remember as a child watching the programme and thinking that Robert McCall was great and even the premise of the programme was good with The Equalizer helping the people who had nowhere else to turn. The programme was aired in the UK in 1987 so I was under 10 but could still remember the iconic theme tune.

It was only a few months ago that I bought the season 1 box set to relive some of my old memories and have to admit that I was rather disappointed with the programme as it was not as good as I remembered, I suppose that is the problem about watching adult programmes that you remember as watching and enjoying as a child. Adults will have a completely different understanding of the programme. They do say that sometimes it is better to leave memories as they were and not try to relive them.

Of course Edward Woodward had been in a lot of other films and television programmes and of course had a successful stage career.

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