 He spent the next two decades in variety theatre, before getting his TV break on "Sunday Night at the London Palladium" in the late 1950s.After appearing in over a dozen pantomimes, often in unremarkable or unfulfilling roles, Dainty was finally persuaded, in 1964, to play the Pantomime dame opposite Harry Worth's Old King Cole at the Bristol Hippodrome, where he was hailed a huge success.He also played the dame at the London Palladium in "Dick Whittington" with the then rising star Tommy Steele.