Dixon of Dock Green (1955–1976)

Creator:

Ted Willis

Stars:

Jack Warner, Peter Byrne, Geoffrey Adams

Cast

Series cast summary:
Jack Warner	...	PC George Dixon (432 episodes, 1955-1976)
Peter Byrne	...	Det. Sgt. Andy Crawford (424 episodes, 1955-1975)
Geoffrey Adams	...	Det. Con. Lauderdale (298 episodes, 1958-1972)
Arthur Rigby	...	Station Sgt. Flint (253 episodes, 1955-1965)
Jeanette Hutchinson	...	Mary Crawford (213 episodes, 1956-1969)
Nicholas Donnelly	...	Sgt. Wills (200 episodes, 1961-1976)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

1960s | 1950s | police | based on film | 1970s | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 July 1955 (UK)

Filming Locations:

Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

45 min 25 min (142 episodes) 45 min (288 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White (1955-1969) Color (1969-1976)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Only 30 stories exist all the other episodes have been wiped.

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Quotes

[repeated line]
PC George Dixon: Good evening, all.

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Connections

Referenced in How TV Changed Britain: Cops (2008)

User Reviews

The proto TV cop show

This was British TV's original police series. I'm not old enough to remember the early days of this show, but I grew up with it in the sixties and seventies. At the time, Dixon of Dock Green already seemed old fashioned compared with Z-cars or US shows like Ironside. It was a cozy and faintly sentimental representation of policing. Despite this, it retained a certain authenticity that other shows lacked. The police officers that I had met had more in common with Dixon than any other TV character. Jack Warner's perennial character George Dixon oozed calm authority and respectable self-assurance. Each programme was introduced by the whistled theme tune after which George Dixon would always begin a spoken introduction direct to camera with the words "Evening all". He would make dry observations about "villains" and the frailties of human nature. The episode's drama would then be played out. By the seventies Dixon himself rarely played a huge part in the story; he was pretty old. The programme would end with Dixon again; this time proposing a moral for the story. He invariably signed off with the words "'Night all". They don't make shows like this any more. Pity.