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Softly, Softly: Task Force: Better Than Doing Porridge

BBC One
on BBC One London

by Tony Hoare
with Stratford Johns as Det Chief Supt Barlow, Frank Windsor as Det-Supt Watt, Julie Hallam as PW Det-Con Forest

Porridge. (Esp 'a bit of porridge'). Imprisonment; a term in prison: since ca 1930... (A Dictionary of the Underworld)

(Colour)

Contributors

Write:
Tony Hoare
Task Force format:
Elwyn Jones
Script Editor:
Gerry Davis
Designer:
Geoffrey Patterson
Producer:
Leonard Lewis
Director:
Keith Williams
Det Chief Supt Barlow:
Stratford Johns
Det-Supt Watt:
Frank Windsor
PW Det-Con Forest:
Julie Hallam
Ernie Johnson:
Patrick Troughton
Georgie Benson:
Billy Murray
Harry Grant:
Ralph Watson
David Morgan:
Frank Jarvis
Mrs Johnson:
Gabrielle Hamilton
Principal Officer Madox:
Glynn Edwards
Desmond Wetherby-Jones:
Michael Lees
O'Halloran:
Len Saunders
Prison Officer Crab:
Stanley Stewart
Prison Officer Smith:
Kit Daniels
Prison Officer Todd:
Emmett Hennessy
Prison Officer Blakey:
Stuart Anderson
Source: Radio Times

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