Editing Ian Carmichael (section)

===Semi-retirement, 1979–2009===
In 1979 Carmichael published his autobiography ''Will the Real Ian Carmichael&nbsp;...'', which marked what Fairclough calls his "semi-retirement" in Yorkshire.{{sfn|Fairclough|2011|p=263}} He continued to work periodically, including providing the voice for Rat in the 1983 film ''[[The Wind in the Willows (1983 film)|The Wind in the Willows]]''{{sfn|Fiddick|1983|p=2}} and as the narrator for the television series [[The Wind in the Willows (TV series)|of the same name]] between 1984 and 1990.{{sfn|"Ghost at Mole End (1984)". British Film Institute}}{{sfn|"Happy Birthday (1990)". British Film Institute}} He revisited the works of Wodehouse in the late 1980s and early 1990s, providing the voice of [[Galahad Threepwood]] for two radio productions, ''[[Pigs Have Wings]]'' and ''[[Galahad at Blandings]]''.{{sfn|"Pigs Have Wings". ''BBC Genome Project''}}{{sfn|"Galahad at Blandings". ''BBC Genome Project''}}

In 1992 and 1993 he played Sir James Menzies in two series of ''[[Strathblair]]'', a BBC family drama set in 1950 broadcast on Sunday evenings.{{sfn|Fairclough|2011|p=277}} He undertook his last stage role in June 1995, playing Sir Peter Teazle in [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]]'s ''[[The School for Scandal]]'' at the [[Chichester Festival Theatre]].{{sfn|Fairclough|2011|p=292}} From 2003 he took his final role: that of T. J. Middleditch in the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] hospital drama series ''[[The Royal]]''.{{sfn|Fairclough|2011|pp=300, 305–307}} He continued filming with ''The Royal'' until 2009.{{sfn|Brooks|Woods|2010}}