Stratford Johns

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Barlow at Large

Barlow at Large (1971) Reviews

Barlow at Large

Barlow at Large marked a bold and ambitious shift for one of British television’s most enduring and complex police characters, working as a roving investigator for the Home Office, tackling complex and often politically sensitive cases

Brond

Brond (1987) Reviews

Brond

Glasgow set thriller starring Stratford Johns as the amoral leader of the Scottish Liberation Army who is witnessed murdering a small boy on a bridge by a university student, who gradually gets drawn into a sequence of violent events...

Destination Downing Street 1957

Destination Downing Street (1957) Reviews

Destination Downing Street 1957

Lost short-lived BBC spy thriller in which a team of experts in various fields are brought together by the Prime Minister to defeat ruthless saboteurs

Jack the Ripper

Jack The Ripper (1973) Reviews

Jack the Ripper

Two fictional detectives go off in search of clues to one of the world's greatest unsolved cases.

Jemima Shore Investigates

Jemima Shore Investigates (1983) Reviews

Jemima Shore Investigates

TV investigative journalist Jemima Shore turns amateur detective to uncover blackmail and murder among the upper classes in this 1980s blend of cozy mystery and conventional crime thriller

Second Verdict

Second Verdict (1976) Reviews

Second Verdict

Two fictional policemen scrutinise six real life historical murder cases and present evidence for and against the verdicts

Softly Softly

Softly, Softly (1974) Reviews

Softly Softly

Spin-off from Z Cars in which two leading detectives are seconded to the Regional Crime Squad.

Starr and Company

Starr and Company (1958) Reviews

Starr and Company

'Lost' British soap opera launched by the BBC in 1958 in an attempt to rival ITV's 'Emergency-Ward 10'