Frank(and Nesta) re-surfaced to do the odd bit of travel reporting for the BBC's Holiday programme, as well as a show on radio station LBC.
For 30 years he graced our screens, mainly presenting much of the BBC's sport output, but also fronting the popular magazine programmes of the day, such as Nationwide, and numerous TV award ceremonies.
But the beginning of the end came in the late 1980s with lurid newspaper reports of Franks involvement in bizarre and kinky goings-on with - ahem - 'ladies of the night'.
His career prospects were not enhanced by his admission(again in a newspaper) that he was addicted to cocaine. These days such 'revelations' are commonplace, but in the late 1980s, this was career suicide.
But apart from a one-off appearance on Shooting Stars and a 40th anniversary reunion Grandstand show in 1998, nothing much has been seen of him since then.
He is still alive and kicking