 The series was cancelled by the BBC after the first episode had been broadcast.He was awarded an MBE in 1970, as part of Harold Wilson's Resignation Honours.In his book British Film Character Actors 1982, Terence Pettigrew wrote that Fowler 'was as English as suet pudding...his characters were neither honest nor irretrievably delinquent, merely wise in the ways of the streets, surviving through a combination of wit and stealth.