Even if you pardon his well-known expression - warm-eyed and slightly smiling - it's obvious that Ronald Allen's the Peter Pan of telly.

 

He's hardly changed at all in the 16 years separating these two photographs.

 

He is seen, top, as heart-throb woman's magazine editor Ian Harmon in the BBC's soap opera Compact which ran on and on in the 1960s and has just been dusted off for the nostalgic Festival '77 series.

 

He is seen, below, as heart-throb motel partner David Hunter in ATV's soap opera Crossroads.