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5 unusual facts about Sandra Dickinson


Button Moon

The show's theme tune was composed and performed by Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson, who were married at the time.

Sandra Dickinson

Her father, Harold S. Searles, was a psychoanalyst and her mother, Sylvia, was a nurse.

Zelda in Cover, a 1981 drama series from Thames Television, set in a recruitment and testing agency for the spy service.

She has played Queen Camilla in Carlisle pantomime production of Snow White & the Seven Dwarves in 2007, and in 2008 she played Fairy Godmother at the Towngate Theatre Basildon's production of Cinderella & once again in the 2009 Harlow Playhouse theatre production of Cinderella alongside her now husband Mark Osmond.

However, during the screen test, Douglas Adams was sufficiently impressed with her acting skills that when Dickinson suggested wryly, "I've got to get my Union Jack lenses in" (i.e., practice my English accent), Douglas Adams asked her to use her natural voice and accent.


The Great Pursuit

BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 4-part adaptation of The Great Pursuit in 2005, with Sandra Dickinson as Baby Hutchmeyer, Mark Heap as Frensic, Laurel Lefkow as Sonia Futtle and Adam Godley as Peter Piper.


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