Host: David James Elliott

(JAG Music plays)

Host: Gee, I worked with a guy named Tony Ronaldson on Hey Hey last night and he was about 6 foot 10 or so, how tall are you?

DJE: 4 foot 1

Host: Oh yeah, I'm sure.  You're very very tall indeed.  But you have an interesting background, I was trying to keep up when you told me yesterday that your granparents were from Scotland or something, and your parents went to the Bahamas and you were born somewhere else....

DJE: Yeah, we went from Scotland to the Bahamas to Canada and I now live in Los Angeles.

Host: You don't know a guy named Mal Colsten do you because thats a lot of travelling, thats incredible.  No no you wouldn't know him.

DJE: No

Host: The series is doing very well here.

DJE: So I understand.

Host: And its a very expensive series because you know you've got aircraft carriers, in fact its funny 'cos when I looked out before I thought you'd brought some of your crew with you because if you can get a shot from over the side, all the waiting staff are in these white suits they look as if they're just fresh off your aircraft carrier or something.

DJE: Yeah, I never leave home without a waiting staff.

Host:  Yeah.  But its very expensive, how much per episode.

DJE: Oh we spend about 2 million dollars an episode.  Its not my money but....

Host: How much of that do you get?.... You don't have to answer that.  But they're comprable prizes almost with our industry.  You know we used to do a show here called Homicide, we could do that for the cost of two slabs.  Thats incredible, two million per episode.  And what about, are you in all of the stunts and things, do you have to do a lot of stunts?

DJE: Yeah, well I have a stunt man, I mean they get dangerous you know.  I mean last year I broke my hand, you know, thats the worst injury i've had.  We're on our fourth or fifth stunt man at the moment I think.

Host: Oh I see, they've all come to some awful....

DJE: Well they, yes.

Host: But you've only broken your hand once, and thats good, thats terrific.  Listen with that hand if its okay now I'd like you to lift up this envelope and it has the nominations for the first category.

DJE: The nominations for the most popular male actor are...

(DJE reads nominations etc)

Host: Can I ask you about fan mail, you're a big hunk of a guy, a lot of the girls here would be thinking wow what a spunk, you know, do you get a lot of fan mail?

DJE: Yeah, I get a lot of fan mail from Australia too.

Host: You do?  Thats great, any particular ones that you can remember?

DJE: My favourite was from a 90 year old lady, she...

Host: 90 year old lady?

DJE: 90 years old.  She said that if she was 30 years younger she would eat me with a spoon.  Not all the mails are from the 90 year olds you know, some are from the younger.....

Host: No, of course she'd have to put her teeth in if she wanted to do you know...

DJE: (clears his throat)

Host: I wanted to ask you if you weren't doing JAG, if you weren't into acting, would it be a sporting pursuit, what would you be doing if you weren't doing JAG?

DJE: I'd probably go back to my root, music.

Host: Yes?

DJE: Yeah.  I play a lot of instrument.  I think I have an instrument with me as a matter of fact.

Host: A comb and a gumleaf? No.

DJE: Yes there you go, a comb and rolling paper.

(DJE Takes out his harmonica and plays it)