The show was very successful and at its height attacked 18 million viewers, Malikyan appeared in 29 episodes from 1977 to the series conclusion in 1979. In the series Malikyan played Maximilian (Max) Papandrious, a Greek shipping worker from Athens. Roger Moore went on to say of the film that it was his favourite role, “It was a film I actually got to act in.” In 1977 Malikyan embarked on his most notable role on British television, in the ITV sitcom Mind Your Language, which was about an Adult education centre and followed the story to the ‘English as a foreign language’ class. Malikyan got his big break in the British film The Man Who Haunted Himself in 1970, staring Roger Moore, in which Malikyan played Luigi the butler of the Pelham family.

Though out the last years of the 1960s Malikyan made other numerous television appearances including Doctor Who, The Saint, and The Avengers. Malikyan made his first television appearance in an episode of the British Historical drama The Portrait of a Lady in 1968 playing the role of ‘servant’.

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