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Director : Terence Dudley Cast : With Doel Loscombe (Inspector Mole), Frank Pettit (The Duty Constable), John Rolfe (Constable Barker), Susanna Carroll (Mona Harris), Allan McClelland (Whitaker), Robert Fyfe (The Young Clerk), David Kirk (The Elderly Clerk), Jeanne Watts (Mrs Cockshott), Margaret Ward (Mrs Whitaker), Polly Murch (Miss Hewson), Michael Gower (Harris), John Kirkby (Johnson), Margaret Carlisle (The Waitress), Anna Wing (Annie Croft), James McManus (The Police Constable), Derek Benfield (Doctor Hamm), Doris Rogers (The Cleaner) and Mary Fouracres (The Nurse). Synopsis : Rupert Davies as Maigret introduces Detective Sergeant Cluff played by Leslie Sands in Gil North's The Drawing. The second play of this new series by Gil North whose hero is Detective Sergeant Caleb Cluff. Embodying the law in the North-country moorland town of Gunnarshaw, he finds violence and passion seething under its dour surface. Cluff is played by Leslie Sands who appears from time to time in Z-Cars - as a Detective Superintendent: Michael Gover plays Harris, a councilor of Victorian strictness, whose daughter Mona gives Cluff and Inspector Mole a great deal of trouble. Notes : Episode was originally transmitted 9:45pm to 10:35pm. The signature tune for the Detective pilot episode was composed by John Addison. Incidental Music for the Detective pilot episode was provided by Dudley Simpson. Gil North was a pseudonym for Geoffrey Horne.
Director : Terence Dudley Cast : Michael Aldridge (Bill Wickham), Naomi Chance (Moira Dix), Maurice Hedley (Wickham), Ronald Lacey (Smith), Michael Gover (Seth Harrison), Ray Roberts (Tim Thwaite), Sally Lahee (Sarah Harrison), Cameron Hall (Josh Tupman) and Doris Rogers (Mrs Whalley). Publicity : Leslie Sands plays Sergeant Cluff in a six-part series featuring the North-country sleuth: Among the least flamboyant but by no means the least effective of the investigators who showed off their paces in the "Detective" series was Sergeant Caleb Cluff. In "The Drawing" viewers of that series saw how Cluff sets about fighting crime in his rock-ribbed, windswept Yorkshire division of Gunnershaw; he studies the ways of his fellow Northerners, says as little as possible, and keeps his eyes and ears constantly open. Now this "commonplace type with a stick and a pipe and a half-bred black and tan" (except that Cluff's dog Clive boasts a better pedigree than the one in the Gilbert and Sullivan song), can be seen at work in his own six-episode series. The stories have all been adapted for television by the creator of Sergeant Cluff, Gil North, who is the alter ego of Geoffrey Horne - novelist, anthropologist, former colonial administrator, and Yorkshireman. As in "Detective", the Sergeant is played by Leslie Sands, who comes from Bradford and is a prolific author as well as an actor. He has written several scripts for Z-Cars - in which series he also appeared regularly as Superintendent Miller - a number of plays including one which became the Bette Davis screen vehicle Another Man's Poison, and some novels, the latest of which is a thriller scheduled for publication soon. Tonight's story is called "The Vagrant", and the wanderer of the title is swiftly moved on by Cluff when he shows up in Gunnershaw. But he moves only as far as the neighbouring village of Monksmoor, where in due course he meets an untimely end. All Cluff's human understanding as well as his detecting skills are needed to discover how he died. (Radio Times, July 30, 1964). Notes : Episodes were originally transmitted 8:20pm to 9:10pm on BBC 1.
Director : Paul Bernard Cast : Glynn Edwards (Bruce Butcher), Stephanie Bidmead (Mrs Butcher), Patrick Jordan (William Mally), Terence Taplin (Eric Yewdal), Yvonne Walsh, Michael Bird (Yewdal), Howell Evans (Willie Turner), George Little (The Railwayman) and Kitty Attwood (Mrs Potter). Publicity : Cluff And The Case Of The Amorous Builder: Up in Gunnershaw people tend to call Sergeant Caleb Cluff a busybody. Even his colleagues sometimes think he is more nosey than his job requires him to be, what with his habit of listening to intimate conversations and keeping tabs on all the irregular love-affairs going on in town. What they fail to realize is that he does not act like this out of idle curiosity. Cluff knows from long experience that petty quarrels and small deceptions can build up until they burst into crimes of violence, and that a sharp word in a pub may be a useful indication that there is trouble brewing. One Gunnershaw resident who has been favoured with Cluff's careful attention for some time is Bruce Butcher, the builder. Apart from the fact that he is an outsider - which in itself is a suspicious circumstance to a proper Yorkshireman - he is a philanderer who though married makes not the least effort to cover up his affairs. So the Sergeant waits patiently for the case of "The Amorous Builder" to mature. Sooner or later such a man will do someone an injury - or someone will injure him. Fort a start there is that lad Eric Yewdal, the barber's son. Wasn't he almost engaged to Kathleen Butt before Butcher (played by Glynn Edwards) took a fancy to her? And what about Mrs Butcher, who seems so complaisant about her husband's infidelities …? (Radio Times, August 6, 1964).
Director : Michael Hayes Cast : David Lodge (Frank Foley), Renny Lister (Annalise Carson), Rodney Bewes (Jack Carson), Howell Evans (Willie), Charles Carson (Mr Carson), Simone Lovell (Alice), Charles Rea (The Police Constable) and Mary Chester (Catherine Wallace). Publicity : Caleb Cluff is not a particularly dynamic detective. He tends to work patiently and to let events follow their natural course. He enjoys his comforts and likes to doze off at odd moments - as he does at the beginning of tonight's episode when traveling back to Gunnershaw by train. In Cluff's compartment are two local people (played by David Lodge and Renny Lister). There is obvious affection between them. They talk while Cluff slumbers on, apparently oblivious of their highly interesting conversation … (Radio Times, August 13, 1964).
Director : Terence Dudley Cast : Basil Dignam (Gainsford), Joseph O'Connor (Dewar), Marian Spencer (Mrs Horton), John Stone (Simon), Pauline Williams (Madge), Anne Brooks (Rose Cope), Meriel Hobson (Molly), Morris Perry (Worsley), Frank Summercastle (The Boy) and Dennis Castle (The Police Constable).
Director : Paul Bernard Cast : Wilfrid Lawson (Bateson), Jeremy Young (Billy Lamb), Alethea Charlton (Miriam Bateson), Eileen Way (Mrs Bateson), James Bolam (Jacob Bateson) and Maggie Fitzgerald (Fred Bateson). Publicity : Leslie Sands the man who plays Cluff: Thoughtful, cautious, perhaps a little slow-moving, but very methodical. Such a description exactly fits Sergeant Caleb Cluff, guardian of the peace of Gunnershaw; but it can be applied almost equally well to the man who plays him. Yorkshire-born actor and writer Leslie Sands comes from the canny town of Bradford and got his first education at the local High School. (Wilfrid Lawson, who also appears in tonight's Cluff episode, went to the same school). Then he read English at Leeds University, where he opened his dual career by taking part in amateur productions and also writing his first play, before the R.A.F claimed him for five years' war service. At the war's end he found himself with Peter Sallis, running the station theatre at Cranwell and made his final decision to risk the professional stage. Within two days of demobilization he had fixed a small part in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, in London's West End, and he followed this with Michael Redgrave's Macbeth. Two years with the Bristol Old Vic polished his classical technique yet further, and he then decided to move to commercial repertory. His reasons were, of course, carefully worked out; on the one hand he could enlarge his professional range, on the other he could get on with some writing. "It's obvious that acting's a precarious business," he says. "And I wanted to make sure I had a solid second string". Eight years' repertory yielded much experience and four plays. The first, Intent To Murder, was filmed with Bette Davis as Another Man's Poison, and Something To Hide achieved a West End run. (Mr Sands has recently turned it into a novel, due to come out shortly). The other two, Beside The Seaside and A Basinful Of The Briny, were both farces and both achieved Brian Rix productions. All four are still staple material for amateur and repertory companies. Subsequently he adopted Z-Cars, still in his dual author-actor capacity. He wrote three episodes, appeared in six as Superintendent Miller. But then caution told him to let it go at that. "Miller's a strong character," he says, "a bit too memorable - and I didn't want to become identified with him". Now reasonably confident that his career is safe, he lives in Surrey with his family, which includes two well-loved dogs and a daughter who is a stage director. "I'm glad she doesn't want to be an actress," he says. "It's too chancy". (Radio Times, August 27, 1964). Synopsis : Cautiously and methodically Cluff probes the problems created by Miriam Bateson. Notes : This episode attracted 5.9 million viewers and ranked as the eleventh most popular programme of that particular week. Music for the series was composed by Harry Dexter.
Director : Eric Hills Cast : Donald Morley (Ralph Landless), Dorothy Gordon (Doris Spence), Janina Faye (Margaret Landless), Alistair Hunter (Doctor Binns), Richard Butler (Spence) and The Skylarks (The Beat Group).
Director : Terence Dudley Cast : Pauline Williams (Mrs Mole), Wilfred Pickles (Spencer Lawton), Sylvia Coleridge (Cissie Lawton), Roy Hepworth (Cass), Jeanne Watts (Dolly Bullock) and Fred Ferris (Fred Moon). Publicity : Cluff - The bluff detective returns to cope with crime in the Yorkshire Dales in a new series written by Gil North: He first appeared on the screen during the "Detective" series, returned last July in a series of his own which won a weekly audience of twelve million - and now Caleb Cluff, the taciturn Yorkshire policeman from Gunnershaw, is back again. Written by Gil North, alias Geoffrey Horne - novelist, anthropologist, former colonial administrator - Cluff is something more than a series of stories about a countryman-detective. It reflects the unique atmosphere and character of the Yorkshire Dales, and the fierce independence of the Dalesmen - men like Caleb Cluff, who has lived in Gunnarshaw all his life, preferring to remain rather than be promoted elsewhere. His methods are casual, even disogranised, and the despair of the punctilious Inspector Mole, but he knows everything worth knowing about everyone in the district, and his is a rare flair for detection. Leslie Sands, who created the role, comes from Bradford and divides his time between acting and writing. He is well known to viewers as Superintendent Miller of Z-Cars and for his performances in many other BBC Television productions - as, for example, the publican in The Four Seasons Of Rosie Carr. Among other regular members of the cast are Michael Bates as Inspector Mole (a part originally taken by Eric Barker, unfortunately prevented by illness from appearing in this new series), John McKelvey as Police Constable Harry Bullock, John Rolfe as Detective Constable Barker, Cluff's young disciple, and Olive Milbourne as his daily help, Annie Croft. Terence Dudley is producer and director of the series, which begins tonight with a story in which Cluff finds himself involved with an invalid and her husband. (Radio Times, May 13, 1965).
Director : Philip Dudley Cast : Gordon Gostelow (Albert Sowden), Pauline Munro (Ruth Rudge), Anton Darby (Luke Sowden), Neville Smith (Abel Snowden), Derek Benfield (Josh Tupman), Michael Gover (Seth Harrison), Sally Lahee (Sarah Harrison), Joe Gladwin (Barney Bannister) and Ann Penfold (Lizzie Bannister). Publicity : All is dead quiet when Caleb Cluff makes a tour of inspection to Monksmoor, Fellside, Markham and Bowes. If there is gossip aplenty in Monskmoor about the rivalry of Luke and Abel Sowden (Neville Smith) and Ruth Rudge (Pauline Munro), the girl at the local pub, that's hardly police business. "Nothing can be as peaceful as this," Inspector Mole protests when he reads Cluff's report - and events prove him right. The trouble that has been building up between the Sowden brothers and their grim, fire-and-brimstone-preaching father reaches a climax with what seems to be a clear case of murder. Cluff's intimate knowledge of local people provides a surprising answer, which might well have escaped a more orthodox detective working "by the book". (Radio Times, May 20, 1965).
Director : Terence Williams Cast : Pauline Williams (Mrs Mole), Geoffrey Hibbert (Silas Smart), Bernadette Milnes (June Hirst), Joe Greig (Charlie Tiptoe), Robert Flynn (Pete Hirst), Bill McLean (Dennis Saddler), Anna Turner (Mrs Saddler), Derek Murcott (Orritt), Simon Taylor (Fred Parsons) and Joby Blanshard (Police Constable Barnoldswick). Publicity : Cluff: The methodical Inspector Mole tends to shake his head sadly over Detective Sergeant Caleb Cluff's habit of "going walkabout" - strolling around Gunnershaw, picking up a scrap of information here, mentally noting a slightly unusual circumstance there. To the Inspector's mind this is not proper police work but merely "browsing", and he feels that Cluff would be better employed if he spent more time in his office doing things by the book. But the Cluff system - or non-system - seems nevertheless to get results. Young Detective Constable Barker is rapidly coming to appreciate its value, and tonight's episode called "The Cigarettes" sees him applying Cluff's principles to good effect. Barker just happens to pop into Silas Smart's tobacconist's shop, ostensibly to buy a new pipe but mainly to chat up the attractive assistant June. The tobacconist seems rather less than delighted to see him, and as he leaves he notices that a window has been broken. A break-in? But Smart has made no report about it. Very odd - in fact just the kind of oddity that Cluff likes to hear about. And so, with Inspector Mole's capacity for interference temporarily reduced by a providential toothache, Cluff sets out to clear up the case of "The Cigarettes" at his own pace and in his own way. For a start, what harm is there in increasing Mr Smart's turnover to the extent of "two ounces of the loose and a couple of boxes of matches?". (Radio Times, May 27, 1965).
Director : Terence Williams Cast : Pauline Williams (Mrs Mole), William Dexter (Len Swinbank), Dennis Chinnery (Jack Ramsey), Jean Trend (Hilda) and Edward Evans (Bob Fletcher).
Director : Philip Dudley Cast : Pauline Williams (Mrs Mole), Donald Morley (Pell), Geoffrey Hinsliff (Willie Gann), Elizabeth Bell (Sally Gann), Joby Blanshard (Police Constable Barnoldswick) and Alan Foss (Detective Superintendent Patterson).
Director : Terence Dudley Cast : Leonard Rossiter (Wilkie), Jack Smethurst (Sammy Shaw), Eric Longworth (Fred Robson), Kate Coleridge (Polly Stirk), Charles Carson (Benjamin Stirk), Jane Fergus (Harriet Cobb) and Diana Scougall (April Cobb).
Director : Eric Hills Cast : Terence de Marney (Moses), Stephanie Bidmead (Pearl Core), Pauline Letts (Peggy Swann), Alan Browning (Don Swann), Norman Mitchell (John Cluff), Hilary Mason (Alice Cluff), Judy Geeson (Joan Cluff), David Robinson (Jim Swann), Graham Rigby (George Wilkinson) and Stan Jay (Tom Drew).
Director : Philip Dudley Cast : Peter Jeffrey (Reader), Joseph O'Connor (Hubert Pencarron), Timothy Harley (Tom Town), Yootha Joyce (Flo Darby), Artro Morris (Frank Darby) and Alan Foss (Detective Superintendent Patterson).
Director : Terence Williams Cast : Geraldine Moffatt (Dorothy Horrisey), Barry MacGregor (Judd Bristow), Will Stampe (Thatcher Horrisey), Eileen Way (Amy Horrisey), Elizabeth Knight (Robina Leigh) and Arnold Bell (Mr Leigh). Synopsis : While investigating a robbery at the time of the Gunnarshaw Annual Fair, Cluff faces unusual physical danger.
Director : Eric Hills Cast : Pauline Williams (Mrs Mole), Brian Peck (David Porritt), Derek Fowlds (Jake Winter), Malcolm Patton (Stewart Johnson), Bobbie Oswald (Vicky Bevin), Judith Bradshaw (Gwen Porritt), Nora Hordon (Mrs Porritt) and Harry Hacklock (Boston).
Director : Terence Williams Cast : Pauline Williams (Mrs Mole), Robert Sansom (Bob Wheatrick), Richard Carpenter (Fowler), Paddy Kane (Rosie), Kristine Howarth (Maggie), Bartlett Mullins (Judy), Maggie Lambert (Mary Croft) and Mervyn Pascoe (Walters). Synopsis : The eccentric behaviour of an old man involves the Gunnarshaw police in an unusual hue and cry.
Director : Alan Sleath Cast : Pauline Williams (Mrs Mole), John Barron (Mr Liddler), Yvonne Bonammy (Mrs Liddler), Michael Craze (Eric Liddler), Judi Bloom (Elsie Childs), Edna Morris (Beattie Rawmarsh), Alan Gerrard (Fred Bland), Stephen Jack (George Roberts) and Maggie Lambert (Mary Croft). Synopsis : Cluff discovers that there is more to a broken window and a petty theft than meets his eye.
Director : Terence Williams Cast : Pauline Williams (Mrs Mole), Douglas Livingstone (Police Constable Chris Ripon), Diana Coupland (Lucy Heathercote), Philip Madoc (Saul Farrer), Ivor Salter (Rufus Heathercote), Alan Lake (Tod Meller), Alethea Charlton (Liz Meller) and Maggie Lambert (Mary Croft). Publicity : Tonight's adventure of the canny North-country detective might well be subtitled Cluff's Last Case, since it will be his farewell appearance - at least for the time being. And it is a charactertistic Cluff case - one which calls for all his deep understanding of the ways of human nature. The "village constable" of the title is young Chris Ripon, stationed out at Langhawmead. He is a keen lad and highly thought of by Inspector Mole, but Cluff has some doubts as to whether he is really what a rural copper should be: "a farmer in uniform". So the Sergeant decides to keep a fatherly eye on him, and finds himself caught up in an ugly little affair whose main features are more emotional than criminal. In the two series in which he has appeared, Caleb Cluff has established himself as one of television's most popular investigators - with his dog Clive running him a close second in public regard. The moorland setting of the stories has also endeared itself to a great many viewers, particularly to North-country exiles in the south; one lady, pining for her north-Yorkshire home and reminded of it each week, wrote to say that she could not wait for her husband to retire so that she could go back for good. (Radio Times, August 13, 1965). |
The series was created and wrutten by Gil North. The Detective pilot episode was produced by David Goddard. Series 1 was produced by Terence Dudley. Series 2 was produced by Terence Dudley (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) and Alan Sleath (Parts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13). Script Editors for the Detective pilot episode were Max Marquis and John Gould. Story Editor for the series was Bill Barron. |
| Please note synopsis are taken from the original Radio Times listings for the day of transmission. |
