The Bill
1984
David Dixon (born 28 October 1947) is an English actor and screenwriter. He was born at the Nightingale Maternity Home in Derby, near his father's shop in London Road, and brought up there before the family moved to Normanton in 1959. His most notable role was in the 1981 BBC TV series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams, in which Dixon starred as Ford Prefect. Wikipedia