Duffy Calls the Tune
- Episode aired Mar 21, 1959
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
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Music lover, Duffy Clayton winds up in a spot of trouble by keeping the wrong company. Can Dixon help his old friend?Music lover, Duffy Clayton winds up in a spot of trouble by keeping the wrong company. Can Dixon help his old friend?Music lover, Duffy Clayton winds up in a spot of trouble by keeping the wrong company. Can Dixon help his old friend?
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Tommy Duggan
- Charlie Thomson
- (as Thomas G. Duggan)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn February 2024 it was announced that a film print of this episode, long believed lost, had been loaned to the BBC Archives for copying by a film collector. UK broadcasters Talking Pictures TV, giving the series (or rather, the surviving editions) its first ever repeat run, aired it on March 30th 2024.
- Quotes
Nancy Murphy: Mind you, it's not that I love a bluebottle more than the next person, but we don't need foreigners to teach us our business. If anyone's going to do you, Mr Dixon, let it be one of the locals!
Featured review
Duffy Calls the Tune
Dixon of Dock Green goes back in time. Duffy Calls the Tune is a lost episode that only recently showed up at the BBC archives.
It had led to a rapid transmission. So we are back to stories written by Ted Willis. Shows that were recorded live going by some of the fluffs.
PC Dixon talks about old lags like the classical music loving Duffy Clayton or his friend Charlie Thomson who has just been released from prison. The latter is a habitual burglar but not the type who uses violence even though he has muscles like Tarzan.
However Charlie is in trouble. He stole from a gangster called McDonald. He is one of those roughhouse types. He has figured out that Charlie has stolen from him because of his modus operandi.
Now PC Dixon needs to sove him before McDonald's animals cut Charlie up.
A simple story balanced with some cosy homeliness. Another police officer is seeing a girl and wants to get engaged.
It had led to a rapid transmission. So we are back to stories written by Ted Willis. Shows that were recorded live going by some of the fluffs.
PC Dixon talks about old lags like the classical music loving Duffy Clayton or his friend Charlie Thomson who has just been released from prison. The latter is a habitual burglar but not the type who uses violence even though he has muscles like Tarzan.
However Charlie is in trouble. He stole from a gangster called McDonald. He is one of those roughhouse types. He has figured out that Charlie has stolen from him because of his modus operandi.
Now PC Dixon needs to sove him before McDonald's animals cut Charlie up.
A simple story balanced with some cosy homeliness. Another police officer is seeing a girl and wants to get engaged.
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- Prismark10
- Mar 29, 2024
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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