"Halloo, halloo," the stranger shouted, coming toward us with outstretched, empty hands.

The black stranger shouted something and Jackson was dragged towards the ashes of the fire.

"Put these people in the other car," shouted the stranger to Clayton.

I didn't say it at the end of the programme and it became a catchphrase that complete strangers still shout at me in the street".

The stranger, recognizing his village's accent, shouted, "General Ching!"

"Never claimed I was," the stranger shouted back.

The stranger shouted again, this time with a questioning note in his voice.

Soon he made the strange discovery that as he walked down Michigan Avenue, strangers were smiling and shouting at him.

"Council's over," a stranger in a patched shipsuit shouted eagerly.

But a stranger answered the telephone and they heard noises and shouting in the background, so they quickly hung up.