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Charlesworth (1959)

Charlesworth poster
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 22 episodes
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A follow-up series to Charlesworth at Large. It follows Detective Superintendent Charlesworth and his sergeant as they solve crimes in a police procedural format.

detectiveinvestigativepacedseriousretrodialogue-drivenmethodical

What happens

Charlesworth is a British crime television series which first aired on BBC in 1959. A police procedural, it starred Wensley Pithey as Detective Superintendent Charlesworth, with Tony Church as Detective Sergeant Spence. It followed on from the previous year's Charlesworth at Large. Other actors who appeared include Terence Alexander, Alfred Burke, Sheila Burrell, Naomi Chance, George Coulouris, Ina De La Haye, Edward Evans, John Forbes-Robertson, Willoughby Goddard, Jack Hedley, Mary Kerridge, Sam Kydd, Justine Lord, William Mervyn, Norman Mitchell, Lana Morris, Wally Patch, Leslie Perrins, Frank Pettingell, James Raglan, Robert Raglan, Arnold Ridley, Leonard Sachs, Barbara Shelley, Elizabeth Shepherd, Olive Sloane, Josephine Tewson, Austin Trevor, and Patrick Troughton. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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