Call the Gun Expert (original) (raw)

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1964 British TV crime series

Call the Gun Expert
Genre Police procedural
Written by Macdonald Hastings
Directed by Jack Gold
Starring Wensley Pithey
Narrated by Macdonald Hastings
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language English
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 6
Production
Producer Jack Gold
Running time 30 minutes
Production company BBC
Original release
Network BBC 1
Release 2 July (1964-07-02) –6 August 1964 (1964-08-06)

Call the Gun Expert is a British crime television series which first aired on BBC 1 in 1964.[1] It consisted of a single series of six episodes featuring Wensley Pithey as Robert Churchill, a ballistics expert who solves a number of crimes based on real-life historical cases. Pithey frequently starred in police procedurals, and was well known to audiences for his role as Detective Superintendent Charlesworth. The scripts were written by journalist Macdonald Hastings who also narrated he series.

Other actors who appeared in individual episodes of the series include Petronella Barker, Kenneth Benda, Paddy Joyce, Robert Cawdron, David Swift and Norman Mitchell.

  1. ^ Pitts p.308