Special with Michael Barrymore - Live From The Palladium with Roy Orbison Magpie - Celebrity Snooker and Fish o'Mania with Steve Davis - Pebble Mill At One - Saturday Night At The Mill - That's Entertainment with Kenny Everett and Julian Clary - Crosswits - The Tom O'Connor Show - The Parkinson Show with Tommy Steele and many more. He received a BAFTA Nomination as TV Entertainer Of The Year. He came to more public attention as a regular turn on the popular Sunday evening Live from... (Her Majesty's/the Piccadilly/the Palladium) variety series (produced by LWT for ITV) and also on Summertime Special, a variety showcase of the 1980s. He is known for his television one-hour specials, starting in 1985 with A Dabble of Digance. Abracadigance was a series of four shows in 1988. The 1992 show, Richard Digance's Greatest Bits, recorded at the Brighton Dome, included some of his most popular routines from stage and screen, including the "Nursery Rhymes", "Remembers" and "Jungle Cup Final". Appearances on TV Specials included HRH The Prince of Wales Princes Trust Galas at the London Palladium with Elton John and Robin Williams - All At Sea, again before HRH The Prince of Wales - Christmas Eve Forces Special from The Berlin Wall and The Zeebrugge Disaster Concert at The London Palladium. In the next decade he made two series for Carlton Westcountry TV visiting villages in a Morris Traveller and using locals as guests and remains the only entertainer to perform a TV show from a prison, Dartmoor. Digance also had a BBC Radio career through the 1980s with his show 'A Digence Indulgence' which had a year 7 run up until the summer of 1987. He has released 43 albums and 20 published books. He is a regular guest in 'Dictionary Corner' on the Channel 4 game show Countdown, nearly 200 appearances. In October 2003, he received the Gold Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for his services to music. He appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013,[9] performing a solo show, and also his children's musical, War of the Worms, narrated by his daughter, Rosie. He performed 32 completely different shows across 32 nights. Personal life Richard has two daughters, Polly and Rosie and two grandchildren, Izzy and Ellie. He now lives just outside Salisbury, Wiltshire. He semi-retired from live performance in 2021 and now only