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Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Publicity : When PC George Dixon and the rest of the staff of the Dock Green manor went on holiday earlier this year, the atmosphere was anything but gay. For PC Bob Penney, in the course of trying to make an arrest, had been killed and the gap left by his sudden death seemed impossible to fill. Many viewers wrote in to criticize author Ted Willis for his cold-blooded "murder": many pleaded for the return of Bob when the series started again - but these criticisms and these pleas fell on deaf ears. Ted Willis is quite unrepentant. "But I am impressed," he says, "and gratified to find that the public reacts so strongly to this kind of thing. For policemen are killed and injured while on duty - and the more the public appreciates these dangers, the better for all concerned". The new series, which begins on Saturday, is the sixth and will see the one-hundredth edition take the air in a few weeks' time. All the old familiars will be back - and one or two newcomers - including a young Cadet, Jamie MacPherson, from Kirkintilloch, played by David Webster. Many of the more popular supporting characters, too, will be there again, while in the first episode viewers should have no difficulty in recognizing "Trotter Kelly" - for he is played by the actor who gave such a brilliant performance as Abel Magwitch in Great Expectations -Jerold Wells. (Radio Times, September 4th, 1959). Additional Cast : Jerold Wells, Freda Bamford, James Raglan, Richard Burrell, Harold Goodwin, Bernadette Milnes, Lionel Wheeler and Clive Baxter.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Evelyn Kerry, Dorothy Casey, Ernest Butcher, Glyn Houston (Alf Morgan), Marion Mathie and Leslie Weston.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Alaric Cotter, Amy Dalby, George Bishop, Bruce Wightman and Michael Brennan.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Synopsis : Jamie MacPherson may still be a little "wet behind the ears", but he's learning. With Additional Cast : Violet Gould and Michael Barnes.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast: Frank Sieman, Rose Power, Christopher Hodge, Robert Raglan (Superintendent), Brian Rawlinson (Sergeant Chivers), Frank Hickey, David Cole, Harold Scott, Violet Gould, John Boxer and Anthony Wilson.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Shay Gorman (Patrick Mulligan) and Stanley Platts (PC Bedlow).
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Emrys Leyshon, Billy Thatcher, Diana Hope, Pearl Winkworth and Gino Melvazzi.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Michael Stainton, Norman Pierce, Joan Newell, Arnold Diamond, Terence Knaff and Carole Boyer.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Winifred Hindle, Ballard Berkeley (Charles Devenish) and Jill Williams.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Zoe Hicks, Sherryl Griffin, Mary Hignett (Chairman of Magistrates), Aubrey Danvers Walker, Brian Dent, Paul Fainty, Guy Middleton and Frank Hawkins.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Patrick Cargill (Hollis), Kenneth Cope, Joyce Marlow, Garth Harrison, John Lewis and Sydney Keith.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Josephine Gordon, Glyn Dearman, Geoffrey Wincott and Gillian Lind.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Publicity : Just An Ordinary Copper - Though it isn't the cricket season a notable century is about to be notched on BBC Television's scoreboard. This Saturday's episode in Dixon Of Dock Green is the hundredth since the programme began in 1955. Bill Evans takes a look at the story behind the stories: This Saturday's episode of Dixon of Dock Green is entitled A Toast For Sandy Brownrigg, though it also calls for a toast to the five men who have been concerned with every production of the programme since it was first televised in 1955. They are Ted Willis, creator and writer of the series, producer Douglas Moodie, Jack Warner, who plays the inimitable George Dixon, Arthur Rigby, and Peter Byrne. Did Ted Willis think there would be a hundred "Dock Greens" when he started? "Yes, I did. We felt absolutely confident, after the first three programmes, that we were on to a winner. I could see then it was the kind of thing that could go on for many years, and I always had tremendous confidence in the idea and in Jack Warner," he says. Ted created the part of Dixon for The Blue Lamp film, basing him on a real policeman who has now retired. He keeps close contact with the police while writing. "Before each series - we are now in the sixth - I meet the Public Relations Office at Scotland Yard who outlines the main points they would like put over. He doesn't interfere with the programme in any way, but he mentions such things as `can you put in a bit about locking your car when you leave it?' and `don't forget to lock the kitchen if you're in another room watching television'. This advice keeps things topical. We are constantly asked by other organizations - including the blood donors, ambulance services and road safety - to feature them. On the other hand we get unwelcome requests from cranks!". Never Looked Back: Ted spent a moment reminiscing. "I think one of the best `Dock Greens' we've ever done was The Story Of Johnnie Mayo, the boy with the mark of doom who was always getting into trouble and ended by thinking he had murdered his father - but hadn't. I also remember well the first appearance of Duffy Clayton - moulded on a character I knew years ago at Tottenham - and what an immediate response he had! That final episode in which Bob Penney died still sticks out, so does the third episode in the first series. It was called Night Beat and merely dealt with the night in the life of a policeman - but after that we didn't look back". George Dixon has almost meant a change of name of Jack Warner. "A lot of my fan-mail is addressed to him personally - Jack Warner is fading into the background," he says. "I've even had letters addressed `George Dixon - England'. Not that I mind him taking over. I always like to get right inside the characters I play, and it nindicates what the public thinks about him," reflected Jack. Versatile Douglas Moodie - he also produces Whack-O! - says frankly, "We all have to work very hard. For though we have a fine following, the longer a programme goes on, the greater is its responsibility. Not for one moment can we rest on our laurels. My job is helped by always having practical scripts, `Dixon' is never a chore to produce, because sometimes we go out of the studio - and also bring in other characters. From my side it has much more variety than, say, a family series". To date the Dock Green "nick's" greatest moment came when the programme was mentioned in the House of Commons. "It was stated that the police could trace an increase in recruitment due to Dixon of Dock Green," says Douglas Moodie. "We were all very delighted - and proud of our mention in Hansard". If Saturday is a busy day at Dock Green it's an even busier one at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, where the programme originates. The artists arrive soon after 10, change into their uniforms, and are on the studio floor by 10:30. Jack Warner's uniform and boots are his own - relics from The Blue Lamp. That uniform is the same as worn by real policemen with one exception - the "O" Division indicated on the shoulder doesn't exist. Rehearsals usually consist of two "walk-throughs", in which frequent interruptions are made so that everyone knows his exact place before the cameras, followed by a timed "run-through" that, with few alterations, is what viewers will see. Letters from viewers - Jack Warner alone averages one hundred a week - are always gratifying. Many come from children, including the one which started: "Dear Mr Dixon, I like seeing you on television very much. But when they start hurting you I go out until the nasty party is over". "Sometimes," says Jack Warner, "they want me to tell off their little brothers. `He'll take more notice of you than Dad', they write". The Actors: What do the three actors who have appeared in every "Dock Green" episode feel about the series? Says Arthur Rigby (whose Sergeant Flint is as warmly received as George Dixon): "It's heartening when someone stops you in the street and says `You don't know me … I'm detective-sergeant So-and-So … you're doing a fine job for the police '". I feel we carry a message - and give information". Peter Byrne, who plays Dixon's son-in-law Andy Crawford, has good reason to be glad he's a plain-clothes man. "In the earlier episodes I was uniformed - and did I feel hot all day? I was glad to get a transfer to C.I.D! We are pals outside Dock Green as well as in - for we all share a similar sense of humour. We live in each other's pockets so much we have to!". Jack Warner pin-pointed another factor in the "Dock Green" success - the producer. "Douglas Moodie really keeps us on the ball. He puts us through the hoop every week - and we expect him to go on doing so," he says. For many viewers Dock Green is a real thing. Hence the story about the old lady, standing at a bus stop, who said to a member of the BBC staff: "I say, I know I can ask a policeman - but can you tell me the way to Dock Green?". (Radio Times, November 27, 1959 - Article by Bill Evans). Additional Cast : Dorothy Turner, Irene Richmond, Jill Hyem (WPC Jean Bond), Ganith Billington (WPC Vera Croxley), Noel Howlett and Robert Raglan.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Derek Tansley, Tony Sympson, Anthea Holloway, Philip Howard, George Betton and Dorothy Casey (Nancy).
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Olwen Brooks, Terence Soall, Dorothy Casey, Maise MacFarquhar, Sydney Keith, Brenda Peters and Margaret Elliott.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Sydney Keith, Diane Clare, Betty Cardno, Marion Collins, Joyce Donaldson and Jack Holloway.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Stanley Van Beers and Nora Gordon.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Stephen Portch, Charles Lamb, Dorothy Turner, John Carol and Dorothy Casey.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : John Graham, Marion Diamond, Irene Sutcliffe, Robert Brown, Jane Grahame and Sally Lewis.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Wilfred Babbage, Lane Meddick, Yvette Rees and John Gabriel.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : John Downing, Harvey Hall, Eric Dodson, Michael McStay (PC Wyman), Carole Allen and Gladys Young.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : JJoan Young, Michael Brennan, Michael Crawford (Chris Kelly), Frank Hawkins, Keith Taylor, Jill Hyem (Frankie) and Oliver Johnston.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Anthony Wager, John Lewis, Malcolm Knight, Edna Morris, Veronica Turleigh, Bryan Drew, David Phethean (PC Nightingale), Patrick Newell (Bill Jordan) and Walter Randall.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Laidman Browne, Rio Fanning, Evelyn Scott-Patton, David Phethean (PC Nightingale) and Bartlett Mullins.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : David Hemmings, Douglas Ives and Margaret Flint.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Not listed.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Richard Gale, Violet Gould, Margaret Withers, Jane Grahame, Anita Peynne, Kristin Helga and Rosamund Woodward.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Patrick Cargill (Donald Pettigrew), June Ellis, Judy Cornwell, Charles Farrell and Sheila Robins.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Publicity : There can surely be no character in television "fiction" who has established himself so firmly with the British public as PC George Dixon of Dock Green, alias Jack Warner. Emerging as he did from the Ted Willis film The Blue Lamp, he transferred to the television screen with all the ease and self-assurance of the man who knows he has the sympathy and understanding of his fellows, but who will never exploit either himself or his personal qualities. Now, after thirty weeks of the current series in which he has been telling, with the aid of his colleagues at Dock Green, a new story every Saturday, George Dixon is taking a rest, and this week's episode, extended to forty-five minutes, will be the last until the series returns in the autumn. "But it'll be no rest for me," said Jack Warner when we spoke to him about it. "I start almost at once in a new Huggetts series in the Light Programme". Nor in fact will it mean much of a rest for author Ted Willis, who is already at work on the stories for the autumn. (Radio Times, March 26, 1960). Additional Cast : David Phethean (PC Nightingale), Gregory Scott, Dorothy Casey, Frank Atkinson, Desmond Llewellyn (Detective Inspector Jones), Ross Hill, John Dearth, Patricia Wilson, Harold Scott (Duffy Clayton), Freddy Mayne, Bernadette Milnes, Camilla Hasse and The Metropolitan Police Service Choir (Conducted by Malcolm Parker).
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Publicity : PC George Dixon and DS Andy Crawford, back from holiday, are up to their ears in trouble with Mrs Dunn's (Mary Kenton) difficult daughter Myra (Carole Allen). A new series of stories about Dock Green begins at 6:30pm. Back To Duty In Dock Green: Yes - they're back at the Manor. Sergeant Flint, George Dixon, PC Lauderdale and Cadet Jamie MacPherson - they all return this Saturday when a new series of stories about a London policeman begins its long run through the winter months. Things haven't changed much round the Green during the summer, but viewers will remember that at home, Mary Crawford, still looking after her father George, and husband Andy, is now preparing for her first child. Sergeant Grace Millard is back, too, and the creator of this astonishingly successful group of characters, the prolific Ted Willis, knows that the last thing the Dixon devotees would want is violent change. But that's not to suggest that there won't, in the next few months, be plenty of surprises, plenty of laughs, and plenty of tension. (Radio Times, September 23, 1960). Additional Cast : Charles Leno, David Grahame, Rita Webb, Barbara Keogh and Coral Atkins.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Robert Raglan (Superintendent), Ronald Mayer, Joanna Rigby, Mark Shurland, Glyn Dearman, Jack Lambert and Nan Braunton.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Publicity : I'd like to tell you a little bit about the background to tonight's episode of Dixon Of Dock Green. In the first place, the locale is an unusual one for PC George. All the previous episodes, one hundred and twenty of them, have been firmly rooted in the familiar soil of the Dock Green manor. On this occasion, you will see our indomitable father-figure pounding the pavement of Paris. Paris, as a matter of fact, was chosen as a sort of compromise. When I first suggested a change of locale to Eric Maschwitz, the Head of Television Light Entertainment, he smiled and proposed a round-table conference. The principal members of the cast were called in, together with Douglas Moodie, the producer. Peter Byrne, who plays Andy Crawford, and who, like all good CID men, likes to get to the heart of the matter quickly, asked if it would mean sending the actors to the new location to secure background shots. Douglas Moodie said this would be essential. Peter then suggested, a trifle too quickly I thought, that either Tokyo or Hong Kong would provide an unusual setting for the episode. Arthur Rigby, who plays old Stone-me-Whack Sergeant Flint, put in a powerful plea for Perth, in Western Australia. The weather would be excellent for filming, he said, and he had some friends there who ran a restaurant and who would see that everyone's stomach was well looked after. Moira Mannion (Sergeant Grace Millard) was in favour of Johannesburg. Her home was near there, and she hadn't seen her parents for ages. It would save the BBC money because she could stay at home instead of a hotel. Jack Warner thought New York would be more suitable. His wife had a lot of contacts there, and if she came along she would be very useful. And so it went on for hours. Atlases were brought out, boat and airline schedules were studied. Eventually Paris was chosen as the location. When, however, I suggested to Eric Maschwitz that perhaps I ought to go too, to get the atmosphere and background for the story, he put his arm around my shoulder and smiled. "You're a creative writer, old boy," he said. "You can use your imagination". (Radio Times, October 8, 1960 - Article by Ted Willis). Additional Cast : Kenneth J Warren (Ames), Patricia Salonika, William Mervyn, Richard Statman, Peter Elliott, Elizabeth Broom, Joseph Levine and Henry Rayner.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Michael Logan, Norman Mitchell, Carole Ward, Ken Parry, John Clayton and William Thornley.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Mary Merrall, Meg Ritchie, Simon Prebble and Joan Newell.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Kevin Stoney (Tom), Jill Thompson and Clive Colin Bowler.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Leslie Perrine, April Olrich, Sidney Monckton, Richard Dean and Katherine Page.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Tracy Reed, Linda Searle, Mary Butler, Freda Bamford, Edward Evans, John Scott, Joan Haythorne, Betty Cardno and Dorothy Casey.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Publicity : Of all the characters resident in the Dock Green area, few have won their way into the hearts of viewers as warmly as the colourful old music-loving tramp Duffy Clayton, whose life is divided between listening to the gramophone, taking a drink, and defending himself against his landlady. Tonight he reappears, played as always by Harold Scott. We asked scriptwriter Ted Willis some time ago just who had given him the idea of Duffy - and it's worth recalling here what he said. "He's based very largely on an old intellectual tramp I knew when I was a kid living in Tottenham. He used to send me on errands, and always have me pennies, though no one ever knew where he got his money from. He kept me in raptures with his readings and his stories, and it was he who first introduced me to the works of Dickens, and probably influenced me to become a writer". (Radio Times, November 18, 1960). Additional Cast : Veronica Page, Bryan Drew, Betty Cardno, Violet Gould, Tommy Duggan and Cara Stevens.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Harold Scott (Duffy Clayton), Tommy Duggan, Violet Gould, Sydney Arnold, Derek Ware, Dorothy Casey and Rhonda Greene.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Richard Vernon (Mr Pascoe), Jane Grahame, William Sherwood, Margaret Withers, Barbara Everest, Jill Hyem and Anthony Wager.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Publicity : The millions of regular viewers who watch BBC Television on Saturday evenings don't need reminding that things have been happening recently in and around Dock Green. Mary has made George a grandfather - (in tonight's episode he pays his first visit to Bideford to see his twin grandchildren) - Jennie Wren has taken up duties at George's house to look after him while Mary's away, and to the particular delight of Cadet Jamie MacPherson, there's a pretty new policewoman at the station - one Kay Shaw. It has been, as you might guess, a fairly nerve-wracking time for all concerned, and particularly for Andy. Tonight, however, his worries come chiefly from matters not domestic, and he finds himself in the unpleasant situation of being offered a bribe. To a policeman this is like showing a red rag to a bull, and Andy has very decided views about anyone who thinks he can buy himself out of trouble. (Radio Times, December 8, 1960). Additional Cast : Harold Scott (Duffy Clayton), Leon Cortez, Richard Burrell and Ian Keill.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Gwen Lewis, Ronald Mayer, Robert Weedon, Mollie Maureen, Dorothy Casey, Roger May, Robert Raglan (Superintendent), Geoffrey Wincott, Kenneth Cope, Hilda Barry, Owen Berry, Kristin Magnus, Eva Wishaw, Brian Dent and Betty Cardno.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Ballard Berkeley (Mr Briggs), Mary Kerridge, John Breslin, Roy Patrick, Arthur Goullet, Roderick Lovell and Kenneth Kove.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Edward Palmer, Andrew Faulds, Michael Caridia, Michael Barnes, Brian Alexis, Alan Rolfe and Cara Stevens.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Ivan Samson, Jess Conrad, Melvyn Hayes, Lorna Henderson, Jill Tracey, Patrick Connor, Harold Berens and Valerie Stilwell.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Stanley Meadows, Charles Lamb, Hazel Hughes, John Caesar, Muriel Zillah and Charles Lloyd Pack (Ben Waterfield).
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Publicity : There's been a brighter look around the Dock Green Police Station for the past ten weeks or so - certainly for young Cadet Jamie MacPherson, and PC Lauderdale. The arrival of WPC Kay Shaw, in fact, has made the policeman's lot a considerably happier one. "I'm enjoying it enormously," said Jocelyne Rhodes when we spoke to her about her new role, "and it all seems remarkably authentic". (Radio Times, January 26, 1961). Additional Cast : Aimee Delmain, Lloyd Pearson, Marion Mathie, John Norman and John Dearth.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Eddie Malin, Jane Masters, David Robinson, Judith Geeson, Gretchen Franklin (Mrs Bright), Dennis Castle and Sidney Sloth.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Norman Pierce, Terence Knapp and Eric Dodson.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Publicity : Every now and then the postman delivers to my house a letter or postcard addressed to me at Dock Green Police Station. It is a strange and perhaps flattering fact that, to some people, Dixon's manor actually exists. There was one lady, for example, who wrote to say that she remembered when the land on which the police station now stands was a part of Dock Green Common, and that she often played there as a girl! In my mind, Dock Green is a cross between Tottenham (where I was born), Paddington (where I lived for many years and where the film, The Blue Lamp, was shot), and Wapping, an area I know very well. This might help to explain why Dixon is such an ardent supporter of Tottenham Hotspur and why there is fairly regular mention of a canal. Yet it is strange that while Dock Green is supposed to be on the river Thames, we have not yet had an episode which brings in the River Police. The Thames is a public thoroughfare, and cargoes and ships worth many millions of pounds are carried on its waters every day. The guardian of this wealth is the Thames Division of the Metropolitan Police. The River Police are quietly proud of the fact that their history goes back beyond that of the police force proper. They were in fact first organized in 1798, under the name of the Marine Police Force, and in one form or another, they have been operating ever since. George Dixon is never tired of saying that the work of a policeman is ninety-nine-percent routine. The men of the Thames Division will tell you the same thing. They have their excitements, of course, but they are not involved every day in pitched battles with smugglers on the mud-flats, or in gun duels with dope-peddlars. There are smugglers and dope-peddlars, but not on any large or organized scale, and this in itself is a tribute to the quiet efficiency of the River Police. At any rate, you will see a glimpse of their work in tonight's episode. The Thames is a wonderful background for stories, and I am hoping that you will like this one sufficiently to encourage me to take Dixon on the river a bit more often. (Radio Times, February 16, 1961 - Article by Ted Willis). Additional Cast : John Baker (Sergeant Ross), Anthony Woodruff (Chief Superintendent Collins), Harry Hutchinson, Hamlyn Benson, Walter Randall, Mellan Mitchell, Carol Ann Ford (Helen Layton), Alexis Chesnakov, Margo Mayne and Peter Zander.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Synopsis : At long last the doctor at the Bideford nursing home where Mary and the twins have been for so long has announced a definite date for their return home. Andy and Dixon are naturally delighted, but their domestic happiness does not prevent them from becoming involved in a case of assault and theft. Additional Cast : Betty Cardno, Michael Balfour, Brian McDermott, William Ingram, Diana Hope, Alan Stevens, Adrina Huggard and Roy Barnet.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Synopsis : The familiar ramshackle character of Dock Green, Duffy Clayton (Harold Scott), shows up again tonight. Additional Cast : Joan Young, Anthony Newlands and Joy Stewart.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Jack Melford, Gordon Waine, Susan Lyall-Grant, June Ellis, Charles Carson, Raymond Hodge, Joan Ismay, Frank Sieman and Paul Elliott.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Dorothy Casey, Madge Brindley, Jack Allen, Wensley Pithey, Barbara Keogh, George Betton and Richard Burrell.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Thomas Gallagher, Maureen Davis, Tony Garnett, Miki Iveria, Malcolm Hayes and John Slavid.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Lynn Marsh, Anita Prynne, Barry Cookson, Patricia Roc, Olwen Brookes, Doris Hare, Tom Clegg and Peter Madden.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Additional Cast : Betty England, David Phethean (PC Nightingale), Leon Shepperdson (PC Bush), Robert Raglan (Superintendent), Jack Stewart (PC Whinn) and Gillian Ferguson.
Director : Douglas Moodie Script : Ted Willis Publicity : Good-Bye For Now To All At Dock Green: Tonight brings the present Dixon of Dock Green series to a close. This programme, which began with a modest run of six weeks, has proved so popular with viewers that for the past five years the run of each series has been for anything from six to seven consecutive months. An eighth series will return to BBC Television in the autumn; and so, "Until we meet again," says Douglas Moodie, the producer, "I should like to wish George Dixon - a fine summer so that he can tend his garden, also clear warm nights for his pet hobby of star-gazing; Sergeant Flint - plenty of good food to build him up for his return; Andy Crawford - peaceful nights, undisturbed by calls from the station or cries from the twins; Mary, his wife - some days by the sea, and the thrill of seeing her children laugh at the sight of their first summer. To all the station office regulars, Grace Millard, Tommy Hughes, Lauderdale, Jamie, and WPC Kay Shaw, a happy well-earned holiday - and to all the other Dock Green characters, especially Duffy Clayton, Nancy Murphy and Jennie Wren - all they wish themselves". (Radio Times, April 20, 1961). Additional Cast : Bernard Kay, Paul Farrell, Dorothy Casey, Marjorie Forsyth, Ann Bassett, David Phethean (PC Nightingale), Betty Cardno, Ann Murray and David Lyn. Notes : This episode ran to 45 minutes. |
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OF DOCK GREEN EPISODE GUIDE:
Devised and created by Ted Willis. Series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 were produced by Douglas Moodie. Series 9 was produced by Douglas Moodie (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18), G B Lupino (Parts 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25) and Ronald Marsh (Parts 26, 27 and 28). Series 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 were produced by Ronald Marsh. Series 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 were produced by Joe Waters. |