From dangling hundreds of feet above the English Channel from a car’s exhaust pipe to roller-skating beneath a moving lorry, Michael Crawford ’s death-defying stunts in Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em are TV legend.
But now, on the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of the much-loved sitcom, the star has revealed that one feat very nearly killed him.
Michael, who devised and performed all of hapless character Frank Spencer’s stunts himself, was almost suffocated by a pile of sand – just a few seconds longer and he would have been a goner, he admits.
