Stand By For West

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Drama: Crime

Vintage crime drama featuring Chief Inspector Roger West of Scotland Yard.

Gripping vintage crime drama serial featuring Chief Inspector Roger West of Scotland Yard.

Stand By For West: Battle for Inspector West: 1. Honeymoon Spells Danger

1. Honeymoon Spells Danger

Battle for Inspector West

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The young chief inspector has an old score to settle with a notorious blackmailer.

Scotland Yard’s youngest chief inspector has an old score to settle with a notorious blackmailer. Stars Patrick Allen.

Chief inspector Roger West has an old score to settle with a notorious blackmailer.

Starring Patrick Allen as Scotland Yard’s youngest, smartest chief inspector. 

Created and written by John Creasey.  

Dramatised in seven parts by Maurice Travers. 

Chief Inspector Roger West …. Patrick Allen
Janet West …. Sarah Lawson
Sir Mortimer Grant …. Humphrey Morton
Michael Grant …. Philip Bond
Christine Grant …. Denise Buckley
Sir Guy Chatworth …. Hamilton Dyce
Prendergast …. John Cazabon

John Creasey wrote over 600 novels, using over 20 pseudonyms. More than 40 Roger West novels were written between 1942 and 1973 with the basis for this first series, first published in 1948.

Producer: John Fawcett Wilson 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1967.

Stand By For West: Battle for Inspector West

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Chief Inspector Roger West of Scotland Yard is led into a web of terror, murder and evil.

Chief Inspector Roger West of Scotland Yard is led into a web of terror, murder and evil. Stars Patrick Allen.

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