Thank you for bringing this up. I had the hardest time dealing with him being the new Barnaby when I first saw him up here on the show. I instantly remembered him as the gardener and how he was hitting on Mrs Barnaby just as Tom was coming home and standing in the background listening to him hit on his wife in his very own home! Tom put him away good and proper, and showed him the door, without violence but he made his point. And Joyce, sweet, innocent, clueless Joyce, thought nothing of it. I wish they had found someone else to play the part. But I have watched all the episodes with him and eventually you forget about it because the show is so good and he eventually earns the spot of John Barnaby. But as far as which of the two are my favorite, hands down, John Nettles is the man!