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Mike Gwilym | ... | |
Mick Ford | ... |
Chico Barnes
5 episodes, 1979
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James Maxwell | ... |
Charles Roland
2 episodes, 1979
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Susan Wooldridge | ... |
Jenny Halley
2 episodes, 1979
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Sid Halley, a champion jump jockey, had his hand and his career destroyed by a fall in a race, when a horse stepped on his hand. His ex-wife's father pulls him out of his depression by asking him to investigate some fishy deaths at Seabury race course, and the possibility that someone's planning a takeover. Sid, together with his friend, judo expert and ex-thug, Chico Barnes, start poking about and their success in the Seabury case lead to other race course cases: possible fixed races, shady insurance claims, betting scams, and a kidnaped stud. Six one-hour episodes: Odds Against, Trackdown, Gambling Lady, Horses for Courses, Horsenap, and Needle. Written by Kathy Li
I like the two leads and the horse racing gimmick. I was stranded in some jerkwater Kansas town with nothing to read and in a motel room with a 13" black and white TV with a wire coat hanger for an antenna. The local PBS station ran this and other Mystery! programs over and over the week I was there.
It was a life saver.
It's nothing major, but it was there when I needed it.
I found the two disk complete series while thumbing through the DVDs at my local library.
Wow, a full color 70s flashback.