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Dixon of Dock Green is a BBC police procedural television series about daily life at a fictional London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding. It ran from 1955 to 1976.
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.
The main scriptwriter for many years was Jonquil Antony, and her first collaborator (under a pseudonym) was Ted Willis, later to create Dixon of Dock Green. The lead character, Mrs Dale, was played by Ellis Powell until she left the show in 1963 and was replaced by Jessie Matthews.
The film became the inspiration for the 1955–1976 TV series Dixon of Dock Green, where Jack Warner continued to play PC Dixon until he was 80 years old (even though Dixon is murdered in the original film). The screenplay was written by Ealing regular T. E. B. Clarke, who had been a war reserve constable.
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 ...
Green and Griffin had previously guest starred on Dixon of Dock Green. Each screenwriter wrote one four-episode story. The first story was written by Crisp who, at the time of the series, had written over a dozen original television plays and was a regular contributor for Doctor Finlay's Casebook and Dixon Of Dock Green.
[9] Maddern also appeared in an episode of Dixon of Dock Green which has since been lost, save for an outtake reel in which he repeatedly failed to pronounce "Dock Green Nick". Besides acting, Maddern ran a script printing business, and in 1991 opened a public speaking school. [3]
2 Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis (13 January 1914 – 22 December 1992) was an English playwright , novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He created several television series, including the long-running police drama Dixon of Dock Green .