Career
He began his career as an English teacher at Holland Park School in London. When the comedy duo split up, Walling moved into situation comedy, appearing in several series—"Just Liz", "Bootle Saddles" and then the very successful "Brush Strokes". He was also starting to get more work as a screenwriter when he teamed up with Tony Millan.
The two of them wrote screenplays for a number of different shows, as well as their own series.
In the early 1980s Walling teamed up with session bass player Mo Foster for various comedy music projects, with Walling writing the lyrics and Foster writing the music and producing the resulting songs. One of their songs, "The Papadum Song", a novelty song revolving around two men visiting an Indian restaurant (one of them for the first time) was repeatedly played on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 1 and featured them live on several television shows (including the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Blue Peter) and was very popular at the time, but fate and industrial action decreed that it would not sell.
A three-week strike at the distributors (Phonogram Records) meant that the records never actually got to the shops. The song was eventually re-released in 2006 as part of a collection of comedy/parody songs called Make Tea, Not War by the imaginary, but ill-fated and tragic, R.J. Wagsmith Band.
Another song from the same album, "Chalk Dust", which was written for Roger Kitter who released it under the pseudonym "The Brat", did hit the top ten all over Europe.
Walling has recently appeared in shows such as "The Smoking Room", "Coronation Street" and My Family. He wrote or co-wrote scripts for the following comedy shows: Maine and My Girl, television, 1984 Relative Strangers, television, 1985 A Small Problem, television, 1987 ChuckleVision, 1987 Ep. - "Breakfast Telly" Valentine Park, television, 1987 Birds of a Feather, television, 1989 Ep.
– "In at the Deep End" Ep.
– "First-Time Caller" Ep. – "Suspicious Minds" Not with a Bang, television, 1990 Ep.
– Number.1.3 Ep. – Number.1.4 Ep. – Number.1.5 Ep.
– Number.1.6 Ep. – Number.1.7 The Brittas Empire, television, 1991 Ep.
– "The Disappearing Acting" Ep. – "Reviewing the Situation" Ep. – "Surviving Christmas" Ep.
– "A Walk on the Wildside" Ep.
– "Body Language" Trouble in Mind, television, 1991 A Prince Among Men, television, 1997.