Mr Hendry

Mr Hendry is a non-canonical character created for the ITV's 1992 adaptation of the novel One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. He is the porter of Lichfield Court where Mrs Sylvia Chapman had an apartment. Hendry met Mabelle Sainsbury Seale when she arrived at Lichfield Court looking for "Gerda Blunt" who she said was staying with Mrs Chapman. Hendry showed her to the apartment. Subsequently he read in the newspaper that Mabelle had disappeared and remembered her when she came to Lichfield Court. He discussed this with his wife Alison and then notified the police. As he didn't have a passkey, Sergeant Evans had to break the door down.

In the original novel there is also a porter at the equivalent location, King Leopold Mansions in Battersea but he is not named. In this case, after meeting Mabelle Sainsbury Seale, the porter had been hospitalised and only read about her disappearnace a month later when he came back, so there was a fairly long delay. In the adaptation, the time delay is not mentioned. Also, in the novel, there was no need to break the door down as the police obtained a search warrant and got a passkey from the manager.