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For many years Frazer Hines was deeply involved with two major television programmes that grabbed the nation’s attention and made him one of the best known faces throughout the latter part of the 1960s and for a good couple of decades after that. The longevity of an actor within the consciousness of the television viewing habits of the audiences can be seen to rest on the programme they are in. In Fraser Hines’ case being cast as Jamie in Doctor Who under the guidance of Patrick Troughton’s time as the Doctor and then striking gold as the gentle farmer Joe Sugden in the Yorkshire Television soap opera Emmerdale Farm was perhaps the most incredible and fortuitous time for him. As the actor relates though in his autobiography/digital release, Hines Sight, there is so much more to him than wearing a kilt for three years and defeating the Daleks and the Cybermen or enjoying immense popularity as one of Yorkshire’s favourite sons.