Does anybody know why Sykes was written out?
Has he died in real life? He was a lovely clever little dog. Mind you as soon as I saw the new dog I knew that the owner was going to be murdered and that the Barnaby's were going to adopt him!
It was announced some months ago:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118401/board/thread/261672918
Thanks for the article! Has the poor dog never had a proper owner, then? He was just a working dog all those years and now gets a "foster family?!" Gosh, that's a sad life for a modern dog in the first world.
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good. i found the dog annoying. I hope the new one will be less twee, and that we don't have any more of that stuff with barnaby talking to it as if it's a person.
shareCan't you even spell properly ???
sharewhat's that got to do with anything? What do you care how i spell? You've been a member of imbd for eleven years, and this is the first time you've felt moved to write anything, and it's about my spelling, Doesn't that strike you as somewhat pathetic? I mean, it shows a very limited imagination, doesn't it? You've seriously joined a site that discusses films and Tv programmes and waited eleven years to make a comment, and it's about my spelling. Good grief.
shareI feel bad for Sykes because it seems like they never pet him. They talk to him, but they never pet him!
shareI never finished watching the episode where they say he was in a fight with a bigger dog and Barnaby was taking him to work with him.
shareHopefully he will continue doing adverts under his alias Harvey. He was wonderful, best thing in the show since Dudgeon arrived along with silly plots and the mandatory appearance of a non-white actor in each show to appease the PC brigade. Still the new dog seems quite cute. Love Jack Russells.
shareThat! Are there many people of colour in the English countryside? It all seems rather forced, like they are only doing it because of those complaints about not including minorities.
sharelast time i checked, not many. they're trying to be pc
sharenot many. In the village I live in (population 1400 approx) there's one black family, and the indian couple who run the village shop, and that's it. it had always irritated me that this show in particular should have been singled out for criticism for lack of black characters, when one considers for instance the sparsity of ethnic characters in Morse (set in oxford) and taggart (set in Glasgow) - both places with large ethnic populations.
shareSo they've "retired" Sykes. A real shame especially since the advent of the current boring cast as he was the only one worth watching. Buried and replaced all in the one episode. And how come the real life dog had to go to a foster family? Did no one own him? Did no one want him? Surely a member of the cast or crew would have liked to keep him even if he was getting on in years. Sad that he apparently meant nothing to his trainer or anyone else associated with the series and I can't understand why. 😖
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