Actor Jack Docherty has told how he had gone into “performing retirement” until he was offered the part of Scot Squad chief Cameron Miekelson.
The 59-year-old, from Edinburgh, shot to fame in the late 80s in Channel 4 sketch show Absolutely before hosting a chat show on Channel 5.
But after taking on a string of writing and producing roles he hadn’t been on screen for nearly a decade when he was offered the part of Miekelson in BBC Scotland’s cop mockumentary.
Speaking ahead of the seventh series, which starts on Thursday, he said: “I hadn’t really done much for about 10 years and I’d kind of taken a back seat, gone backstage and done a bit of writing and producing.“Cameron Miekelson intrigued me enough to come out of performing
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