 This was broadcast as 26 one-hour episodes between 1978 and 1981; Johnson played the novel sequence's narrator Nicholas Jenkins, while the younger Nicholas was played by Gareth Johnson in the first 18 episodes.In the last quarter of the series – in which Jenkins is in late middle-age – Johnson plays Jenkins alone.His movie career included roles in "Frenzy", "The First Great Train Robbery", "Withnail & I", and "For Your Eyes Only", and numerous television dramas, including "Dixon of Dock Green", "Coronation Street", "Out of the Unknown", "Doomwatch", "Death of an Expert Witness", "Colditz", "Rumpole of the Bailey", "Doctor Who" (in the serials "The Underwater Menace" and "Invasion of the Dinosaurs"), "Inspector Morse" and "A Touch of Frost", amongst many others.