''The Hanged Man'' is a British
crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definit ...
drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...
series
Series may refer to:
People with the name
* Caroline Series (born 1951), English mathematician, daughter of George Series
* George Series (1920–1995), English physicist
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
* Series, the ordered sets used i ...
that aired on
ITV
ITV or iTV may refer to:
ITV
*Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of:
** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
in 1975. It was created and written by
Edmund Ward.
Cast
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Colin Blakely
Colin George Blakely (23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) was a Northern Irish actor. He had roles in the films '' A Man for All Seasons'' (1966), ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'' (1970), ''Murder on the Orient Express'' (1974), and '' Eq ...
– Lew Burnett
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Michael Williams – Alan Crowe
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Gary Watson
Gary Watson (born Garrowby Watson, 13 June 1930) is a British retired actor. Early in his career he appeared in Friedrich Hebbel's 1962 play '' Judith'' at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, with Sean Connery. He made more than 40 appearances i ...
– John Quentin
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David Daker
Colin David Daker (born 29 September 1935) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Harry Crawford in the hit series ''Boon''. He also played Tommy Mackay in ''Only Fools and Horses'' and Jarvis in '' Porridge''.
He has made two ap ...
– Piet Hollander
*
John Rees – Brian Nelson
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Angela Browne
Angela Browne (14 June 1938 – 20 June 2001) was a British actress. She had a recurring role in the early 1960s crime series '' Ghost Squad''. She also appeared in episodes of shows such as ''Danger Man'', ''No Hiding Place'', ''The Saint'', ' ...
– Elizabeth Hayden
*
Brian Croucher
Brian Croucher (born 23 January 1942) is an English actor and director best known for his role as Ted Hills, which he played from 1995 to 1997, in the soap opera '' EastEnders''. Croucher also had a regular role in the science fiction series ' ...
– Sammy Grey
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William Lucas – George Pilgrim
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Frank Wylie – David Larson
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Julian Glover
Julian Wyatt Glover (born 27 March 1935) is an English classical actor with many stage, television, and film roles since commencing his career in the 1950s. He is a recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award and has performed many times for th ...
– Joe Denver
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Jenny Hanley
Jenny Hanley (born 15 August 1947) is an English actress. She remains best known for being one of the presenters of the ITV children's magazine programme ''Magpie''.
Early life and education
Hanley is the daughter of actors Dinah Sheridan and J ...
– Druscilla
*
Peter Halliday
Peter Halliday (2 June 1924 – 18 February 2012) was a Welsh actor.
Early life
The son of an auctioneer and estate agent, Halliday was brought up in Welshpool in Montgomeryshire, and attended Oswestry School in Shropshire. On leaving school ...
– Jean-Claud de Salle
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John Bay
John Marshall Bay (November 30, 1928 – November 7, 1982) was an American actor and playwright.
Personal
Bay was born in Chicago, the location of his family's company, Bays English Muffins.
He was married to the actress Elaine Stritch for nine ...
– Sam Lambert
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William Russell – Peter Kroger
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Michael Coles – Hans Ericksen
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Gareth Hunt
Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 – 14 March 2007), known as Gareth Hunt, was a British actor best remembered for playing footman Frederick Norton in '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' and Mike Gambit in '' The New Avengers''.
Early life
Alan Leona ...
– Eddie Malone
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Jack Watson – Douglas McKinnon
*Bill Mitchell – Harry Friedman
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Alan MacNaughtan
Alan MacNaughtan (4 March 1920 – 29 August 2002) was a Scottish actor, born in Bearsden, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy, trained at RADA, and graduated in 1940 with the Bancroft Gold Medal. An experienc ...
– Charles Galbraith
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Naomi Chance
Naomi Chance (born Naomi Freeman, December 1927 – 18 March 2003) was an English film and television actress. Chance was at one time married to the film director Guy Hamilton.
She appeared in many television shows, including The Plane Makers, ( ...
- Jane Cowley
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Tenniel Evans
Walter Tenniel Evans (17 May 1926 – 10 June 2009) was a British actor and, latterly, clergyman.
Family
Walter Tenniel Evans was born in Nairobi, Kenya. His middle name derived from the illustrator Sir John Tenniel, a distant relation. - Joseph
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Victor Brooks - Nightwatchman
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Fred Feast
Frederick Feast (5 October 1929 – 25 June 1999) was a British television actor, best remembered for playing the role of Fred Gee in ''Coronation Street''.
Early life
He attended the Scarborough High School for Boys, Scarborough, North Ridin ...
- Josef
Plot
Lew Burnett is a
self-made man
"Self-made man" is a classic phrase coined on February 2, 1842 by Henry Clay in the United States Senate, to describe individuals whose success lay within the individuals themselves, not with outside conditions. Benjamin Franklin, one of the Foun ...
who owns a huge construction company. However, his success has bred resentment and after his wife is killed in a plane crash a third attempt is made on Lew's life. He then decides to pretend to be dead to avoid any more attempts on his life and find out who is trying to kill him and why. He is helped by Alan Crowe, an old friend. Burnett travels around the world to trace the nine potential suspects. In each episode, Burnett is caught up in a fight of some sort.
Episodes
#"Wheel of Fortune" (15 February 1975)
#"Tower of Destruction" (22 February 1975)
#"Knave of Coins" (7 March 1975)
#"Chariot of Earth" (14 March 1975)
#"The Bridge Maker" (14 March 1975)
#"Grail and Platter" (21 March 1975)
#"Laws of Fortune" (28 March 1975)
#"Ring of Return" (5 April 1975)
Turtle
The series also introduces a shady thief called Turtle played by
John F. Landry. This character would later have his own series called ''
Turtle's Progress
''Turtle's Progress'' is a British television series, created by Edmund Ward and broadcast between 1979 and 1980. The offbeat humour of the show attracted a small but cult audience, and the show ran for two series. The theme music was written ...
''.
Music
Music for the show was written by
Alan Tew
Alan Tew is a British composer and arranger.
He got his start in the 1950s as the pianist and arranger for the Len Turner Band based in London.
Tew is known as a composer of library music, including the theme tunes for British television prog ...
. The same score would turn up on such programs like ''
The Two Ronnies
''The Two Ronnies'' is a British television comedy sketch show starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It was created by Bill Cotton and aired on BBC1 from April 1971 to December 1987. The usual format included sketches, solo sections, seria ...
'', ''
The People's Court
''The People's Court'' is an American arbitration-based reality court show, featuring an arbitrator handling small claims disputes in a simulated courtroom set. Within the court show genre, it is the first of all arbitration-based reality styl ...
'', ''
SpongeBob SquarePants
''SpongeBob SquarePants'' (or simply ''SpongeBob'') is an American animated comedy television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. It chronicles the adventures of the title character a ...
'' and the 2009 film ''
Black Dynamite
''Black Dynamite'' is a 2009 American blaxploitation action comedy film starring Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, and Salli Richardson. The film was directed by Scott Sanders and co-written by White, Sanders, and Byron Minns, who also co-star ...
''.
References
*Jim Sangster and Paul Condon, "TV Heaven",
HarperCollins
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, 2005
External links
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1975 British television series debuts
1975 British television series endings
1970s British drama television series
British crime television series