

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

Jack Warner

Jimmy Hanley

Dirk Bogarde

Robert Flemyng

Bernard Lee

Peggy Evans

Patric Doonan

Bruce Seton