David Yip is a British actor of Chinese ethnicity, born in Liverpool on 4 June 1951. Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough on Merseyside in north west England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary. ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

He is best known for his role as the eponymous The Chinese Detective in the 1981 BBC drama, notable for its frontlining an ethnic British cast. He also played Michael Choi in the soap opera Brookside between 1989 and 1990. The Chinese Detective was a British television series, transmitted by the BBC between 1981 and 1982 and created by Ian Kennedy Martin, who had previously devised The Sweeney. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Brookside was a soap opera based in Liverpool, which was introduced with the new British television channel, Channel 4. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Other roles include a small part in the 1979 Doctor Who story Destiny of the Daleks. This page refers to the year 1979. ... Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television on November 23, 1963. ... Destiny of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two weekly parts from September 1 to September 22, 1979. ...