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The character of Police Constable George Dixon was based on an old-style British "bobby"—a slang term for policeman. Dixon first appeared in the Ealing Studios film The Blue Lamp (1950) as a typical bobby on the beat, an experienced constable working out of the Paddington Green police station and nearing retirement.
This is a list of Dixon of Dock Green television episodes from the series that ran from 1955 until 1976. It had twenty-two series of original episodes. Series one to fifteen aired in black and white, series sixteen to twenty-two were aired in colour. A total of 432 episodes were produced; 399 are missing.
In the sixties after writing some single dramas, Crisp moved to writing for serials and turned out scripts for many BBC series including Compact, R3, Dixon of Dock Green, Dr Finlay's Casebook, Colditz and Secret Army. In 1968, he co-created The Expert, a serial about a forensic scientist, with its producer Gerard Glaister.
Jack Warner (born Horace John Waters; 24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was a British actor.He is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon, which he played in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp and later in the television series Dixon of Dock Green from 1955 until 1976, but he was also for some years one of Britain's most popular film stars.
Haines was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire. [5] She is best known for her television work. Her credits include: Dixon of Dock Green, Steptoe and Son, The Avengers (in which she appeared in four episodes: "Girl on the Trapeze" [uncredited], [6] "The Nutshell", "The Master Minds", and "Who's Who???"), Danger Man, Public Eye, The Baron, Softly, Softly, Adam Adamant Lives!, The ...
Dixon is a classic Ealing "ordinary" hero, but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of Tom Riley. Called to the scene of a robbery at a local cinema, Dixon finds himself face-to-face with Riley, a desperate youth armed with a revolver. Dixon tries to talk Riley into surrendering the weapon, but Riley panics and fires.
Arthur Rigby (born Arthur Turner; 27 September 1900 – 25 April 1971) was an English actor and writer. [1] [2] He was best known for playing Sgt Flint on the TV series Dixon of Dock Green, appearing in 253 episodes from 1955 to 1965. [3]
His passion for drama first manifested in plays he wrote for the Unity Theatre, based in a former chapel near St Pancras, during the war.He was best known for writing the television series Dixon of Dock Green, based on the stories of Gordon Snashall, a local Chislehurst policeman with whom he was great friends; the series ran for more than twenty years.