Drop the Dead Donkey (TV Series)

The Strike (1994)

Robert Duncan: Gus Hedges

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Quotes 

• Gus Hedges : I'm setting you free. Free to roam the high seas of enterprise as the buccaneers of our broadcasting future.

• Gus Hedges : My place is here, with my family of co-achievers.

• Gus Hedges : D'you know who I'm basing my tactics on? Isn't it obvious? John Major. The Iron Man, banishing those rebels to the wilderness.

• [the news team discovers that the Senior Staff's shares in Merchant Communications have substantially increased in value, just before Gus walks in] 

  Gus Hedges : Morning newsbusters. Have we struck gold?

  Henry Davenport : I don't know. You tell us.

• Damien Day : Slight hitch with the autocue.

  Gus Hedges : What sort of hitch?

  Damien Day : The script's in English, the operator's Russian and the newsreader's a moron.