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Release Date:
September 1955 (UK) See more »
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Cast

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Peter Wyngarde ... Garry Essendine / ... (11 episodes, 1955-1967)
Charles Lloyd Pack ... Bishop Proudie / ... (11 episodes, 1955-1961)
Derek Francis ... Behrend / ... (11 episodes, 1959-1967)
Alfred Burke ... Captain Bitterger / ... (10 episodes, 1957-1964)
Jill Bennett ... Masha / ... (9 episodes, 1956-1965)
Patrick Wymark ... Alfred / ... (9 episodes, 1962-1967)
Laurence Hardy ... Bishop of Buenos Aires / ... (9 episodes, 1957-1965)
Laurence Payne ... Captain Carvallo / ... (8 episodes, 1956-1967)

Michael Hordern ... Andrew Crocker Harris / ... (8 episodes, 1956-1966)
Clive Morton ... Colonel Shepherd / ... (8 episodes, 1956-1967)
Alan Gifford ... Bancroft / ... (8 episodes, 1958-1965)
Zena Walker ... Agnes / ... (7 episodes, 1955-1965)
Nora Nicholson ... Avdotva / ... (7 episodes, 1959-1967)
Anthony Newlands ... Chiaretti / ... (7 episodes, 1959-1963)
Tony Quinn ... Dooley / ... (7 episodes, 1958-1964)

Patrick McGoohan ... Charles Castle / ... (7 episodes, 1958-1961)

William Sylvester ... Ben Hubbard / ... (7 episodes, 1957-1967)
Richard Vernon ... Dr. James Cresswell / ... (7 episodes, 1957-1966)
John Tate ... Bludgeon / ... (7 episodes, 1961-1966)
Douglas Wilmer ... Attwater / ... (7 episodes, 1956-1964)

Michael Goodliffe ... Edward / ... (7 episodes, 1957-1966)
Georgina Cookson ... Edwina / ... (7 episodes, 1958-1966)
Viola Keats ... Angustias / ... (7 episodes, 1958-1965)
Frazer Hines ... Andy / ... (7 episodes, 1960-1967)
Arthur Hewlett ... Colonial Secretary / ... (6 episodes, 1959-1967)
Isabel Dean ... Elizabeth Hollis / ... (6 episodes, 1957-1963)
Joan Benham ... Eleanor Lavish / ... (6 episodes, 1956-1966)

Maggie Smith ... Dixie Evens / ... (6 episodes, 1957-1966)
Brian Smith ... Alan Mills / ... (6 episodes, 1955-1966)
Kenneth Griffith ... Alain, a countryman / ... (6 episodes, 1956-1963)
John Bailey ... Cardinal of Budapest / ... (6 episodes, 1955-1965)
John Phillips ... Cromwell / ... (6 episodes, 1957-1965)

Judi Dench ... Dido Morgan / ... (6 episodes, 1959-1966)
Pamela Brown ... Hedda Gabler / ... (6 episodes, 1957-1964)
Ann Bell ... Beatrice / ... (6 episodes, 1963-1965)
Cyril Luckham ... Arthur Mounteney / ... (6 episodes, 1956-1966)
Marian Spencer ... Charlotte Bartlett / ... (6 episodes, 1958-1967)

Donal Donnelly ... Christy Mahon (The Playboy) / ... (6 episodes, 1958-1965)
Joan Newell ... Georgette, a countrywoman / ... (6 episodes, 1958-1964)
Norman Bird ... Bell / ... (6 episodes, 1959-1967)
Jane Eccles ... Lady Saltburn / ... (6 episodes, 1958-1964)
Madeleine Christie ... Anna / ... (6 episodes, 1957-1973)
Oliver Johnston ... Alexei / ... (6 episodes, 1957-1966)

Denholm Elliott ... David / ... (6 episodes, 1956-1965)
Gwen Watford ... Mrs. Arbuthnot / ... (6 episodes, 1957-1965)

John Wood ... Dr. Gilbert Canning / ... (6 episodes, 1963-1967)
Lee Montague ... Mr. Black / ... (5 episodes, 1960-1966)
Reginald Marsh ... Albert Tufton / ... (5 episodes, 1957-1966)

Peter Copley ... Cardinal Ricci / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1967)
Helen Cherry ... Linda Cosgrove / ... (5 episodes, 1960-1967)
Richard Pearson ... Ernest / ... (5 episodes, 1960-1966)
Noel Dyson ... Laura Priolleau / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1964)
James Dyrenforth ... Dean Forsythe / ... (5 episodes, 1958-1960)
Noel Howlett ... David Lancaster / ... (5 episodes, 1958-1964)
Jack Austin ... Club porter / ... (5 episodes, 1963-1967)
Patrick Allen ... Guest / ... (5 episodes, 1961-1966)
Lyndon Brook ... Dan Hughes / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1966)
Barbara Chilcott ... Cassandra / ... (5 episodes, 1957-1960)
Joseph Fürst ... Bertheimer / ... (5 episodes, 1961-1965)

Nigel Davenport ... Dandridge / ... (5 episodes, 1962-1966)
Nicholas Pennell ... Cedric / ... (5 episodes, 1963-1964)
Noel Hood ... Lady Peasmore / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1965)
Bryan Pringle ... Ajax / ... (5 episodes, 1960-1967)

Jane Asher ... Jennifer Simpson / ... (5 episodes, 1961-1967)
Stratford Johns ... Engineer / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1961)
Jennifer Daniel ... Daphne / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1966)
Alan MacNaughton ... Captain Bean / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1967)

Patrick Troughton ... Jacob Manning / ... (5 episodes, 1961-1966)
Kevin Brennan ... Berkeley Ogden MP / ... (5 episodes, 1960-1967)
Basil Henson ... Major Tom Elton, M.C. / ... (5 episodes, 1963-1967)
Michael Robbins ... Bill Walker / ... (5 episodes, 1962-1966)
George Ghent ... BTC Police Sergeant / ... (5 episodes, 1964-1967)

Helen Christie ... Babakina / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1966)
Jennifer Wilson ... April / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1963)
Wensley Pithey ... Detective Inspector Pember / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1967)
William Lucas ... Ernest O'Shea / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1966)
Mary Merrall ... Hannah Kennion / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1965)
William Mervyn ... Harry / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1962)
Clive Marshall ... 1st Boy / ... (5 episodes, 1957-1967)
Jack Hedley ... Gerald / ... (5 episodes, 1958-1974)
Jack Woolgar ... Henry Thomas / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1967)
Philip Latham ... Clifford Leeper / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1966)
Barbara Lott ... Anne Harrison / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1966)
Hilda Barry ... Antissa / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1964)
Marie Hopps ... Ellie / ... (5 episodes, 1960-1966)
Tenniel Evans ... Derek Harvey / ... (5 episodes, 1960-1965)
Justine Lord ... Claire Goode / ... (5 episodes, 1962-1967)
Pauline Devaney ... Hazel Conway / ... (5 episodes, 1962-1966)
Jo Rowbottom ... Beryl Miller / ... (5 episodes, 1962-1966)
Philip Anthony ... Soldier / ... (5 episodes, 1962-1964)
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Series Directed by
John Llewellyn Moxey (19 episodes, 1955-1966)
Cyril Coke (16 episodes, 1956-1967)
Tania Lieven (14 episodes, 1956-1966)
Joan Kemp-Welch (14 episodes, 1959-1966)
Silvio Narizzano (13 episodes, 1956-1963)
John Jacobs (12 episodes, 1964-1967)
David Boisseau (11 episodes, 1956-1964)
Henry Kaplan (11 episodes, 1957-1963)
Robert Tronson (11 episodes, 1958-1964)
Julian Amyes (10 episodes, 1958-1965)
Claude Whatham (10 episodes, 1960-1966)
Graham Evans (10 episodes, 1961-1967)
Peter Graham Scott (9 episodes, 1956-1962)
George More O'Ferrall (9 episodes, 1960-1964)
Cliff Owen (8 episodes, 1957-1961)
Ronald Marriott (7 episodes, 1958-1964)
Michael Currer-Briggs (7 episodes, 1960-1966)
Derek Bennett (7 episodes, 1962-1967)
Peter Moffatt (7 episodes, 1964-1967)
Cyril Butcher (6 episodes, 1956-1959)
Peter Wood (6 episodes, 1958-1963)
Lionel Harris (5 episodes, 1956-1963)
Peter Potter (5 episodes, 1957-1965)
Stuart Latham (4 episodes, 1955-1962)
Bill Hitchcock (4 episodes, 1959-1967)
Caspar Wrede (4 episodes, 1960-1966)
Alvin Rakoff (4 episodes, 1961-1967)
Toby Robertson (3 episodes, 1960-1964)
Wilfred Eades (3 episodes, 1960-1961)
Stuart Burge (3 episodes, 1961-1966)
Mark Lawton (3 episodes, 1961-1963)
Gordon Flemyng (3 episodes, 1964-1967)
Christopher Hodson (3 episodes, 1964-1967)
Vivian Matalon (3 episodes, 1964-1965)
John Nelson-Burton (3 episodes, 1965-1967)
John Frankau (3 episodes, 1965)
Gerard Dynevor (3 episodes, 1966)
Robert Hamer (2 episodes, 1955)
Philip Saville (2 episodes, 1956-1973)
Peter Cotes (2 episodes, 1956-1964)
Peter Brook (2 episodes, 1956-1957)
Desmond Davis (2 episodes, 1956-1957)
Eric Fawcett (2 episodes, 1957-1960)
Christopher Morahan (2 episodes, 1958)
John Knight (2 episodes, 1959)
Geoffrey Hughes (2 episodes, 1960-1964)
Herbert Wise (2 episodes, 1960-1963)
John Hale (2 episodes, 1962-1964)
Howard Baker (2 episodes, 1965)
David Cunliffe (2 episodes, 1966)
Quentin Lawrence (2 episodes, 1967)
 
Series Writing credits
Gerald Savory (20 episodes, 1958-1965)
Giles Cooper (10 episodes, 1956-1965)
George Bernard Shaw (7 episodes, 1956-1966)
Leo Lehmann (7 episodes, 1958-1966)
Noel Coward (7 episodes, 1959-1967)
D.H. Lawrence (7 episodes, 1966-1967)
Hugh Leonard (6 episodes, 1960-1965)
John Bowen (6 episodes, 1963-1966)
Denis Webb (5 episodes, 1956-1961)
Arthur Miller (5 episodes, 1957-1966)
John Glennon (5 episodes, 1957-1961)
Henrik Ibsen (5 episodes, 1957-1961)
Stanley Mann (5 episodes, 1957-1960)
Barry England (5 episodes, 1963-1967)
Anton Chekhov (4 episodes, 1956-1966)
W. Somerset Maugham (4 episodes, 1958-1966)
William Fairchild (4 episodes, 1959-1974)
James Bridie (3 episodes, 1956-1973)
William Shakespeare (3 episodes, 1956-1964)
J.B. Priestley (3 episodes, 1957-1963)
Ken Hoare (3 episodes, 1957-1959)
Elspeth Cochrane (3 episodes, 1957)
Robert Tronson (3 episodes, 1958-1959)
Jean Anouilh (3 episodes, 1959-1963)
Mike Watts (3 episodes, 1960-1965)
Paul Jones (3 episodes, 1961-1967)
George Ross (3 episodes, 1961-1967)
Campbell Singer (3 episodes, 1961-1967)
Alun Falconer (3 episodes, 1962-1964)
Ken Taylor (3 episodes, 1963-1966)
Kitty Black (3 episodes, 1963-1965)
James Saunders (3 episodes, 1964-1966)
Philip Mackie (3 episodes, 1965-1967)
Anthony Steven (3 episodes, 1965-1967)
Fay Weldon (3 episodes, 1966-1967)
Terence Rattigan (3 episodes, 1966)
Barbara S. Harper (2 episodes, 1955-1957)
Alwyne Whatsley (2 episodes, 1955-1957)
Ayn Rand (2 episodes, 1956-1960)
Edgar Wallace (2 episodes, 1956-1960)
Rodney Ackland (2 episodes, 1956-1959)
Juan Cortés (2 episodes, 1956-1958)
Denis Cannan (2 episodes, 1956-1957)
Warren Chetham Strode (2 episodes, 1956-1957)
Arthur Macrae (2 episodes, 1956)
Aldous Huxley (2 episodes, 1957-1963)
Christopher Fry (2 episodes, 1957-1960)
Patrick Hamilton (2 episodes, 1957-1960)
Lillian Hellman (2 episodes, 1957-1958)
Hugh Forbes (2 episodes, 1958-1966)
Hazel Adair (2 episodes, 1958-1960)
William Bast (2 episodes, 1958-1960)
Oscar Wilde (2 episodes, 1958-1960)
Allan Monkhouse (2 episodes, 1958-1959)
Caspar Wrede (2 episodes, 1958-1959)
John Whiting (2 episodes, 1959-1964)
John Wiles (2 episodes, 1959-1963)
Elizabeth Jenkins (2 episodes, 1959-1961)
Nicholas Palmer (2 episodes, 1959-1961)
Eve Martell (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Ivor Dean (2 episodes, 1959)
Jessica Morton (2 episodes, 1959)
Ronald Gow (2 episodes, 1960-1967)
Harold Pinter (2 episodes, 1960-1966)
Robert Urquhart (2 episodes, 1960-1963)
Margaret Vyner (2 episodes, 1960-1963)
Hugh Williams (2 episodes, 1960-1963)
Harold Brighouse (2 episodes, 1960-1962)
Arden Winch (2 episodes, 1961-1966)
E.Y. Bannard (2 episodes, 1961-1964)
N.J. Crisp (2 episodes, 1961-1963)
John Van Druten (2 episodes, 1961-1963)
Maurice McLaughlin (2 episodes, 1962-1964)
Joan Morgan (2 episodes, 1962-1963)
Peter Nichols (2 episodes, 1963-1965)
Julian Symons (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Keith Watson (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Peter Van Greenaway (2 episodes, 1963)
Stanley Miller (2 episodes, 1964-1966)
Rhys Adrian (2 episodes, 1964-1965)
Marc Brandell (2 episodes, 1964-1965)
Allan Prior (2 episodes, 1964-1965)
Tennessee Williams (2 episodes, 1964)
Jacques Gillies (2 episodes, 1965-1967)
Troy Kennedy-Martin (2 episodes, 1965-1966)
Vian Smith (2 episodes, 1965-1966)
Edward Albee (2 episodes, 1965)
Dario Bellini (2 episodes, 1965)
Paul Lee (2 episodes, 1965)
Thomas Middleton (2 episodes, 1965)
Ronald Harwood (2 episodes, 1966-1967)
Peter Eckersley (2 episodes, 1966)
John Hale (2 episodes, 1966)

Series Produced by
Cecil Clarke .... producer (16 episodes, 1965-1967)
Antony Kearey .... executive producer (11 episodes, 1964-1965)
Derek Bennett .... producer (7 episodes, 1965-1967)
Gerald Savory .... producer (6 episodes, 1961-1964)
Margaret Morris .... producer (6 episodes, 1966)
Lionel Harris .... producer (5 episodes, 1956-1957)
Claude Whatham .... producer (5 episodes, 1964-1965)
John Clements .... producer (4 episodes, 1955-1957)
Peter Willes .... executive producer / producer (4 episodes, 1967-1974)
Joan Kemp-Welch .... producer (3 episodes, 1964)
John Jacobs .... producer (3 episodes, 1966-1967)
Harry Alan Towers .... producer (2 episodes, 1955-1956)
Dennis Vance .... producer (2 episodes, 1956-1957)
Silvio Narizzano .... producer (2 episodes, 1957)
George More O'Ferrall .... producer (2 episodes, 1959-1962)
Philip Mackie .... producer (2 episodes, 1965)
 
Series Original Music by
Derek Hilton (4 episodes, 1964-1967)
Johnny Gregory (4 episodes, 1965)
Wilfred Josephs (3 episodes, 1965-1966)
Julian Slade (2 episodes, 1956-1963)
Norman Kay (2 episodes, 1964-1965)
 
Series Cinematography by
Brendan J. Stafford (1 episode, 1955)
Lionel Banes (1 episode, 1956)
Douglas Slocombe (1 episode, 1957)
 
Series Film Editing by
John Seabourne Sr. (1 episode, 1955)
 
Series Production Design by
Frederick Pusey (29 episodes, 1955-1967)
John Clements (16 episodes, 1956-1965)
Peter Phillips (13 episodes, 1960-1966)
William Brodie (12 episodes, 1957-1962)
Darrell Lass (10 episodes, 1958-1963)
Reece Pemberton (9 episodes, 1959-1967)
Michael Wield (7 episodes, 1958-1967)
Richard Negri (6 episodes, 1958-1962)
Michael Yates (5 episodes, 1957-1964)
Michael Grimes (5 episodes, 1962-1967)
Terry Pritchard (5 episodes, 1963-1964)
Henry Federer (4 episodes, 1959-1963)
Paul Bernard (4 episodes, 1960-1965)
Roy Stonehouse (4 episodes, 1962-1965)
John Emery (4 episodes, 1963-1964)
Timothy O'Brien (3 episodes, 1956)
Tom Spaulding (3 episodes, 1958)
Frank Gillman (3 episodes, 1961-1964)
Frank Nerini (3 episodes, 1962-1967)
Disley Jones (3 episodes, 1962-1963)
Henry Graveney (3 episodes, 1965-1967)
Alan Pickford (3 episodes, 1965-1967)
George Haslam (2 episodes, 1956-1958)
John Dilly (2 episodes, 1958)
Stanley Mills (2 episodes, 1958)
Stephen Doncaster (2 episodes, 1964)
Anthony Waller (2 episodes, 1966)
 
Series Art Direction by
Frank White (1 episode, 1955)
Duncan Sutherland (1 episode, 1956)
 
Series Set Decoration by
George Haslam (1 episode, 1956)
William Brodie (1 episode, 1959)
John Clements (1 episode, 1959)
Michael Yates (1 episode, 1959)
Malcolm Pride (1 episode, 1960)
City Display (1 episode, 1964)
Harry Solomons (1 episode, 1967)
 
Series Costume Design by
Elizabeth Haffenden (1 episode, 1955)
Sophie Devine (1 episode, 1956)
Ernest Hewitt (1 episode, 1960)
Sheila Jackson (1 episode, 1964)
Peter Phillips (1 episode, 1965)
 
Series Makeup Department
Wendy Liley .... makeup artist (1 episode, 1961)
 
Series Production Management
Leigh Aman .... production manager (1 episode, 1955)
 
Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Douglas Hickox .... assistant director (1 episode, 1955)
Percy Hermes .... assistant director (1 episode, 1957)
 
Series Art Department
Paul Mayo .... set designer (2 episodes, 1958-1959)
 
Series Special Effects by
Edward Shankster .... special effects (1 episode, 1956)
 
Series Stunts
Charles Alexis .... stunt arranger (1 episode, 1959)
 
Series Camera and Electrical Department
Jeff Shepherd .... camera operator (3 episodes, 1959-1962)
Andy Andrews .... lighting technician (2 episodes, 1959-1961)
 
Series Costume and Wardrobe Department
Ernest Hewitt .... costumes / wardrobe (2 episodes, 1959-1964)
 
Series Editorial Department
Lewis Morley .... montage sequence by (1 episode, 1962)
 
Series Music Department
Marcus Dods .... conductor / orchestrator (2 episodes, 1964-1965)
 
Series Other crew
Pauline Grant .... dance arranger (2 episodes, 1965)
 

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Runtime:
UK:90 min (with commercials)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White | Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Granada TelevisionSee more »

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