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Director : Sebastian Graham-Jones Cast : Lynne Miller, Trevor Ray, John Carr, Anthony Havering, Rodney Litchfield, Michael Melia, Alan Meadows, Morag Hood, Peter Faulkner, Paul Williamson, Renny Krupinski. Synopsis : Former Detective Inspector Lomax, recently released from prison after serving a two-year sentence, uses his narrow boat as his headquarters in his search for his missing son on and around the canals of northern England. Notes : The season was originally transmitted 9:00pm to 10:00pm on ITV.
Director : Eugene Ferguson Cast : Michael Feast, Veronica Clifford, Edward Clayton, Graham Colclough, Gillian Kerrold, Ivor Roberts, Sue Elliot. Synopsis : Lomax, an ex-policeman, recently released from prison after serving a two-year-sentence, has set up his headquarters on a narrow boat but when he has to go to London his friend Andrea is the victim of a sadist who believes that she knows the whereabouts of a lot of money that Lomax is supposed to have stashed away.
Director : Laurence Moody Cast : Meg Wynn Owen, Freddie Jones, Con O'Neil, Veronica Smart, Tim Wylton, Hubert Rees, Ian Hart, Davyd James, John Graham Davies, Norman Jones, Don Vines, Aubrey Richards. Synopsis : Lomax, with a positive clue to the whereabouts of his missing son, follows a lead to a remote Welsh village where strangers are treated with hostility - especially when a child is reported missing - and he becomes the number one suspect. Notes : This episode attracted 13.2 million viewers and was ranked as the fourteenth most popular programme of the week. This was also the highest-rated episode of the entire series.
Director : Sebastian Graham-Jones Cast : Paul Chapman, Desmond McNamara, Kim Braden, Kathy Hytner, Tom Sharkey, Tracey Wilkinson, Sean Wilson, Alan Hulse, Greta Mikaelsen, Andy Hay, Howard Crossley, Malcolm Raeburn, Phil Hearne, David Savile, John Keyworth. Synopsis : Lomax, in his search for his son, crosses the path of the mysterious Thomas who is in reality an assassin on the trail of a defector who is spilling the beans in a safehouse.
Director : Charles Kitchen Cast : Colin Jeavons (Pember), Kate Hardie, Freddie Boardley, Jeffery Hardy, Richard Ireson, Dickie Arnold, Al Gillyon, Martin Stone, Simon Wallis. Synopsis : The mysterious death of a blind professor leads the duo into a world of drugs, murder and high finance.
Director : Sebastian Graham-Jones Cast : Colin Jeavons (Pember), Tony Doyle, Alan Cumming, Patrick Godfrey, Michael Wardle, Glynn Grain, Norman Mills, Mike Haywood, Bobbie Brown, Johnathan Jaynes. Synopsis : On his return from London where he attended his mother's funeral, Lomax meets a frightened Pember who can provide the information that will clear Lomax's name.
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Director : Gareth Morgan Cast : Sandra Gough, Patti Love, John Labanowski, John Malcolm, Barry Gunner, Ken Humphreys. Synopsis : Lomax is left to play host to a married couple when he calls on an old friend and, later, becomes involved in a mystery when the wife is abducted.
Director : Charles Kitchen Cast : Terence Rigby, Adam Richardson, Mary Healey, Judy Loe. Synopsis : A birthday barbecue party at a Cheshire country house is gate-crashed by a motorcycle gang. Meanwhile, Lomax, working as a part-time barman, attracts the attention of a gin-swilling woman, who demands that Lomax drives her home. The woman is the mother of the party girl and they arrive back at the country house as the police are completing their enquiries into the gate-crashing gang.
Director : Gareth Morgan Cast : John Bird, Sean Scanlan, Matthew Taylor, Kelly Lawrence, Zall Anthony, Patrick Baldwin, Mary Cunningham, Ted Morris, Robert Booth, Peter Lorenzelli, Jane Hazelgrove, Mollie Maureen. Synopsis : Lomax and Steve spend a week together on the canals. Steve knows his father needs money in order to find the man that framed him and makes a generous offer. But this offer brings the heavies down in a big way.
Director : Sebastian Graham-Jones Cast : Tom Wilkinson, G B 'Zoot' Money, Julian Glover, Susan Fleetwood, Tony Haygarth. Synopsis : It is winter and Lomax, moored in remote farmland, becomes a prime suspect in a rustling case. But an old prison acquaintance gives Lomax the lead to the real thieves.
Director : Charles Kitchen Cast : Tony Doyle, Sumar Kahn, Jane Booker, Peter Calpadi, Ian Bleasdale, Sallyann Webster. Synopsis : Lomax is coming closer to the man who framed him. A Fleet Street hack thinks he may be able to help, but most assistance comes from Lomax's girlfriend, Maureen.
Director : Sebastian Graham-Jones Cast : John Bird, Sean Scanlan, Tony Doyle, Jane Booker, Gawn Grainger, Tyrone Huggins, Helen Atkinson Wood. Synopsis : Lomax has at last caught up with Len Martin, the man who framed him, causing his prison sentence and eventual disgrace. |
 Public Eye's Roger Marshall returned to Granada Television to pen all thirteen episodes of Travelling Man, which spanned two seasons in 1984 and 1985 and featured Leigh Lawson as former Detective Inspector Alan Lomax. The series opened with Lomax being released from prison having served a two-year sentence for accepting a bribe, for which he had been framed and which had cost him his marriage and, ultimately, the close contact he once had with his son, Steve, who was now missing. Returning to his narrow boat, Harmony, he cruised the canals of Northern England in search of both his runaway son and the man who had framed him. To further complicate matters, a gang of unsavoury mobsters are in pursuit of Lomax for the one-hundred-thousand pounds he hasn't got, but which they believe he squirreled away as the proceeds of his acceptance of bribes. As a detective on the wrong side of the law, Lomax was virtually a modern-day equivalent to Alfred Burke's Marker, treading in and outside of the law in the pursuit of the man responsible for his humiliation whilst in the police force. Whilst the programme sustained a thread concerning this pursuit, and the search for his son (ala Survivors and Abby Grant), each individual episode found Lomax becoming involved with people and situations which required his obvious talents to unravel mysteries or bring parties to justice, such as it was without a warrant card. Leigh Lawson provided a likeable turn as Lomax, with Lindsay Duncan prominently featuring as his girlfriend Andrea during the first season (which also featured a memorable appearance by Derek Newark as Detective Chief Superintendent Sullivan). As an interesting take on the classic gumshoe genre, Travelling Man was diverting fare. If nothing else, the series demonstrated Roger Marshall's capacity to deliver interesting television to the middle class masses. To date, the series has not been made commercially available on DVD in any region, and the limit of the programme's general commercial releases is a television tie-in novelisation, published by Star Publications and penned by Peter James.
The series was created and written by Roger Marshall. The series was produced by Brian Armstrong. Text © Matthew Lee, 2006. |