This period in Alan's life is documented in his autobiography Bouncing Back, which Alan claims has been described as " lovely stuff " by entertainer Shakin ' Stevens.

She is also extensively referred to in Alan's second autobiography ( the first to be actually published ) I Partridge: We Need to Talk about Alan.

One of Alan's most notable works was one he modeled after Boethius ’ Consolation of Philosophy, to which he gave the title De Planctu Naturae, or The Plaint of Nature, and which was written most likely in the late 1160 ’ s.

" One of his ex-wives reportedly said, " Marriage is Alan's way of saying goodbye.

One of his guests was the ( fictional ) director of programming at the BBC, Tony Hayers ( later to become Alan's nemesis, played by David Schneider ).

One of Alan's daughters, Dervorguilla, had married John, 5th feudal lord Balliol, he and Dervorguilla being parents of King John I of Scotland ( 1292 – 1296 ), and the people, out of affection for Alan's daughter, were lukewarm in support of Robert the Bruce.

# Waste Not, Want Not ( October 4, 1987 ) – One of Alan's old moneymaking schemes comes back to haunt him when Norman, his transsexual accountant, tells him that the depot in Hull where he left a shipment of Argentine nuclear waste he was hired to dispose of is scheduled for demolition.

One column mentioned how after Alan's divorce from his wife ( a sub-plot of the original stage show ), the ex-Mrs B ' Stard " came over all dead ".

In 1994 and 1995, Davies hosted Alan's Big One for three series on Radio 1 before appearing in Channel 4's spoof travel show One for the Road ( made by Channel X in 1994 / 5 ).

One of the kidnappers opened Alan's bag, and it turns out that it wasn't the Armour of God.

Meanwhile, Brains ' efforts to produce a satisfactory design concept for Jeff's proposed Thunderbird 6 collide with fate when Skyship One is damaged and Alan's old Tiger Moth biplane appears to be the only hope of saving the International Rescue group and their impostor hosts.

Three series were made ( although by Series Three, Tommy was gone — his absence explained by his having decided to join the Navy ), with several former Grange Hill cast members reprising their roles for the spin-off ( such as Linda Slater as Susi MacMahon, Alan's former school girlfriend, in Series One ; and Michelle Herbert as Tucker's old class enemy Trisha Yates in the final episode of series three ), although the programme never came close to matching the popularity of Grange Hill.

Julius's wife, Alan's mother, was Ethel Sara ( née Stoney ; 1881 – 1976 ), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.

The Garner family had passed on " a genuine oral tradition ", teaching their children the folk tales about The Edge, which included a description of a king and his army of knights that slept under it, guarded by a wizard, and in the mid 19th century, Alan's great-great grandfather Robert had carved the face of a bearded wizard onto the rock of a cliff next to a well that was known in local folklore as the Wizard's Well.

Alan's own grandfather, Joseph Garner, " could read, but didn't and so was virtually unlettered ", but instead taught his grandson the various folk tales about The Edge, with Alan later remarking that as a result he was " aware of Edge's magic " as a child, when he would often play there with his friends.

In the reality of Superman & Batman: Generations, the Guardians revealed that Alan Scott's power ring was actually a Green Lantern ring despite its apparent weakness to wood after Hal Jordan successfully harnessed it against Sinestro, realising that the ring actually had no weaknesses except what the user believed it possessed ; the Green Lantern Corps were vulnerable to yellow only because they believed the Guardians when they were told about this weakness, and Alan's ring's weakness to wood was caused when he was taken by surprise and struck on the back of the head with a wooden block during his first time using the ring.

This was because of " poor scheduling " ( the show was aired at the same time as the News at Ten ) and Alan's PA, Lynn, claimed that " the ratings started poorly and went downhill from there ".

Alan's next appearance was in a 1999 half-hour special filmed for Comic Relief in which Alan started to lose the plot, foreshadowing his mental breakdown in the second series of I'm Alan Partridge.

This was presented by Ray Woollard ( Peter Baynham, who had appeared previously in I'm Alan Partridge as the voice box using executive from the boat holiday company in " Watership Alan ") and " Digital Dave ", and was basically a sycophantic look at Alan's career, past and present ; the credits listed it as being executively produced by Alan himself and produced by his company, Apache Productions.

Alan's younger brother Colin Clark was a writer and filmmaker.

Alan's main producer for his music, Keith Stegall, was notably absent from this album.

The subsequent plot follows Singleton's effort to regain her past, and Alan's efforts to find out what the real story of the murder was.

Alan's death brings nearly the entire town together, in a way that could not have happened while he was still alive.

In the stage show, Alan's involvement in the death of David Kelly was also hinted at.

Piers was essentially a very kind-hearted and hard-working MP, albeit one who rarely spoke in the house and was completely under Alan's control.

Usually Piers was conned into Alan's schemes through trickery or bullying although he would inevitably cock up the simplest of instructions.

It was Piers ' intervention in Alan's fake shooting that led to B ' Stard being sentenced to death and his ability as a lover that helped persuade Sarah to rescue Piers and abandon Alan in Siberia.

( In the first series, Sarah was having a lesbian affair with Alan's constituency agent and public relations manager, Beatrice Protheroe, whom she had known at school.

Without legitimate sons to succeed him, Alan's lands and dignities were divided between the husbands of his three daughters, so Roger acquired Alan's position as Constable of Scotland, and one-third of the lordship of Galloway ( although the actual title of Lord of Galloway went through Helen's half-sister Devorguilla to her husband John I de Balliol ), and part of the de Morville lands in Lauderdale.

At last, within a few seconds of the end of the bomb countdown, the children break through Alan's defenses, the explosives detonate, destroying the barn and killing everyone, including Alan.

In 2009, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. started to carry the " Alan Jackson Collection " which included a special release CD available exclusively at Cracker Barrel, cowboy style shirts and t-shirts, baseball caps, home goods ( candles, kitchen goods ) including an old-fashion wooden rocking chair that has a metal plate of Alan's autograph on the headrest ; toys, spices and BBQ sauces / rubs and a replica of his own personal cowboy hat.

The story of the king and the wizard living under the hill played an important part in the young Alan's life, becoming " deeply embedded in my psyche " and heavily influencing his novels, in particular The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

Described by the BBC as a ' generation-gap comedy ', it starred George Cole as Brian Hook, Kevin McNally as his son Alan Hook, and Toby Ross-Bryant as his ( Alan's ) son Vincent Hook and Julia Hills as his ( Alan's ) wife Beryl Hook.

Brian then takes Alan to ' Mr Nigel's shop ', where Alan's middle-aged style crisis goes from bad to worse as he purchases an extremely bold Hawaiian shirt.

Madge follows Hal to Alan's car and gets in with him.

Hal drives back to Alan's house to return the car, but Alan has called the police and wants Hal arrested.

After trying to talk things out, Hal flees the house in Alan's car with the police following close behind.

* Salina, where Hal jumps off a train in the opening scene and meets Alan ( Cliff Robertson ) at Alan's father's large house.

Alan's son and his family live on the island today as well.

The next references to Alan's children are made in I'm Alan Partridge, in which Fernando hangs up on one of Alan's rambling go-nowhere telephone conversations, and in which a staff member at the Travel Tavern mentions that Denise has an oddly similar appearance to Alan.

The final mention of Alan's children is an offhand comment in the second episode of the second series of I'm Alan Partridge, in which Alan glibly states that he has access to his children, but that they have no desire to see him.

The same student also dropped Alan's swimming trunks into a urinal one day at school, despite Alan being his scout pack leader.

He later married Carol, who gave birth to Alan's son Fernando and daughter Denise.

Alan's comeback refers to the correct time ( 7. 01am ) and that it is Dave's show and he is merely a guest whom Dave has failed to control, he then says " Read the smallprint on your cone-tract ".

In the final episode, Tony Hayers died after a fall from a roof, and one of Alan's old friends, Chris Feather, took over as head of programmes at the BBC.