He became part of the established line-up with BillOwen and Peter Sallis - Compo and Clegg - until 2000, when Compo died in the series following the real-life death of Owen.
Lord Owen argues that the bill is now so fiendishly complicated, and so encrusted with amendments, that some sections of it simply cannot be sorted out by a process of adversarial amendment on the floor of the House.