Category Archives: Dixon of Dock Green

Radio Times 1963 Jan 12 – 18

BBC TV Listings magazine for Jan 12 – 18th 1963. Contains listing for many classic TV shows of the period.
This issue contains:
Two page Z cars text story.
Features on Steptoe & son, The Rag Trade, Lance Percival(TW3), Patrick Troughton (Pre-Dr Who).
Listings include: Z Cars, Steptoe & Son, Perry Mason, The Rag Trade, Compact,TW3, Dixon of Dock Green, Laramie, The lucy Show (Lucile Ball), Blue Peter.

David Tomlinson / Richard Vernon Autograph

Autographed photograph from an episode of  “Playhouse” entitled “A Friend Indeed” dating from 1973. Produced by Anglia TV.  

David Tomlinson was best known as Mr Banks in Mary Poppins, he did very little TV work mostly working in Disney movies, he did guest however in an episode of Hawaii Five-0.

 While Richard Vernon was possibly best known as the planetary designer Slartibartfast (designer of fjords) in the BBC radio and TV series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He had small roles in both the James Bond movie Goldfinger. The Intelligence Men with Morecambe and wise, and guest starred in The Avengers, The Saint, Department S, William Tell, Emergency Ward 10, No Hiding Place, Hadleigh, Dixon of Dock Green, Maigret, Z cars, U.F.O., The Persuaders, The Adventurer, to name just a few of his many appearences. 

Radio Times November 20- 26th 1971

Dixon of Dock Green cover feature to this 1960’s issue of the British television guide contains details and listings for many different television shows of the period.
Shows being broadcast this week included: Dixon of Dock Green, Steptoe and Son, Alias Smith and Jones, Z cars, Star Trek, Softly Softly. There is also a large feature on Dixon of Dock green in this issue.
Original Price 5p

BBC Detectives Themes LP

BBC Records 1980. REH378
Side 1:
Shoestring
Kojak
Quiller
Sexton Blake
Softly Softly
Piggy Malone and Charley Farley (Two Ronnie’s serial)
Adam Adamant
The Third Man
Dick Barton

Side 2:
The Rockford Files
Starsky and Hutch
Gangsters
Lord Peter Wimsey
Paul Temple
Z Cars
Maigret
Dixon of Dock Green

TV Crimebusters (c) 1962

TV Crimebusters (c) 1962 TV Publications Ltd.

Annual sized hardback book. Features an Avengers strip story “The Drug Peddler”. This is the only know publication to contain an Ian Hendry Avengers story. It is also interesting in the combined use of photographs and illustrations, in the production of this strip story.

Also features Danger man, 77 Sunset Strip, Dixon of Dock Green.

Original Price 8/6d