The Day Today: Season 1, Episode 3

Meganews (2 Feb. 1994)

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Cast

Episode credited cast:
Christopher Morris ...
Christopher Morris / Ted Maul / Jonathan Sizz
...
Chapman Baxter / Jaques-'Jaques' Liverot / Guy - The Bureau / Swimming Pool Attendant
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Hennety - The Bureau / Alan Partridge / Spartacus Mills / Alvin Holler / Keith Mandemant
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Alex - The Bureau / Brant / Sylvester Stuart / Swimming Pool Attendant
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Valerie Sinatra / Ange - The Bureau / Barbara Wintergreen / Swimming Pool Manager
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Maria - The Bureau / Collately Sisters / Charlene Gray / Katrina Parfitt / Vicky - Swimming Pool Receptionist (as Doon MacKichan)
Michael Alexander St John ...
Announcer (voice)
Alan Kerrigan
Lindsey MacRae
Alan Stocks ...
Bob Mariner
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Himself
John Fashanu ...
Himself (archive footage)
Chris Patten ...
Himself (archive footage)
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Herself (archive footage)
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Keith Mandement: This pool's been open nearly 40 years, and, in all that time I only slipped up once, to my mind. I was engaged in a particularly tricky word puzzle and 40 people had broken in and were in the pool, playing around, ducking, bombing and doing all manner of prohibited activities, and eventually someone was killed.
Interviewer: But given that your sole responsibility is to maintain the security of the pool, isn't that an indictment against yourself?
Keith Mandement: Well, I would say this - I've been working here for 18 years, ...
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