Became gravely ill with meningitis during the filming of the final
series of
Wycliffe (1993). He says he owes his life to
Jack Shepherd with whom he was
sharing a house while on location, and who rushed him to hospital in
the middle of the night. When the production company sacked Yuill "for
insurance reasons" as a result of the meningitis, and refused to
reinstate him even though he made a full recovery, the rest of the cast
and crew felt so betrayed that they decided not to make any more
episodes once filming of the current series had finished.
