Police Surgeon (British TV series)
Police Surgeon | |
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Created by | Sydney Newman |
Starring | Ian Hendry John Warwick Ingrid Hafner |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of episodes | 13 (12 missing) [1] |
Production | |
Producers | Julian Bond Leonard White |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | ABC Weekend TV |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 10 September 3 December 1960 | –
Police Surgeon is a
Episodes
- Easy Money
- Under the Influence...?
- Lag on the Run
- Smash But No Grab
- Wilful Neglect
- Diplomatic Immunity
- A Home of Her Own
- You Won't Feel a Thing
- Sunday Morning Story
- Three's a Crowd
- Man Overboard
- Operation Mangle
- The Bigger They Are
Production
The series was created for ABC by
When Police Surgeon was cancelled, Newman took both Hendry and co-star Ingrid Hafner to this series, and this may be why it is sometimes mistakenly claimed that The Avengers was a direct sequel to Police Surgeon, with Hendry playing the same character in both. Although there were similarities, this was in fact not the case. This myth has possibly been encouraged because material relating to Police Surgeon is scarce, and that the first episode of The Avengers aired only one month after the final episode of Police Surgeon.
Cast and crew
Scriptwriters included Julian Bond, who was also story editor and, initially, producer. He was succeeded as producer by Leonard White, who went on to produce The Avengers.
Archival status and availability
Only one episode of the series, "Easy Money", featuring Crawford, is known to exist. This episode was shown as part of Channel 4's TV Heaven season, introduced by Frank Muir, on 28 March 1992 and is included on the season 2 box-set of The Avengers as an extra.[clarification needed]
References
- ^ "Police Surgeon - Episode Guide". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
- ^ Kempton, Martin. "Teddington (early film days, ABC, Thames)". TV Studio History. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
Further reading
- Phillips, Michael Scott (2018). Quite Quite Fantastic! The Avengers for Modern Viewers. ISBN 9781532375163.
- Westthorp, Alex (14 October 2014). "Looking Back at The Avengers (the TV Series)". Den of Geek.
- "Leonard White, producer – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 18 February 2016.
- "The enduring genius of The Avengers and Patrick Macnee". The Daily Telegraph. 26 June 2015.