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We haven't been able to take payment You must update your payment details via My Account or by clicking update payment details to keep your subscription. Act now to keep your subscription We've tried to contact you several times as we haven't been able to take payment. You must update your payment details via My Account or by clicking update payment details to keep your subscription. Your subscription is due to terminate We've tried to contact you several times as we haven't been able to take payment. You must update your payment details via My Account, otherwise your subscription will terminate. Saturday May 4 2024 Terry Carter was approaching 50 and already had several lives behind him as a merchant seaman, a jazz pianist, a law student, a newsreader and an actor in sitcoms when he landed the signature role that made him a household name. As Colonel Tigh in the 1978 sci-fi television series Battlestar Galactica, he was second in command of a fleet of starships defending human civilisation from a robotic race known as the Cylons. He owed his prominence in the series to a roller-skating accident in which he fractured his ankle. He had originally been cast to play a lieutenant but while he was hors de combat he was replaced in the role by Herbert Jefferson Jr. Once he was able to walk unaided again,
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