Crime Buster (television series)

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Crime Buster is a 1968 UK crime drama television series made by Associated Television. [1] The series starred Mark Eden as Ray Saxon, a newspaper columnist with the Sunday Globe and a former champion cyclist, who investigates and exposes sports racketeers. Other regulars on the series included Ray Mort as Jimmy Vine and Sonia Graham as Madge Raynor. The series only ran for one season with a total of 13 episodes which aired from August 8, 1968 through October 31, 1968. [2] Occasionally the program would feature real athletes and other sports figures like broadcaster John Rickman in episodes. [3]

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References

  1. The Stage Year Book. The Stage . Digitized by Pennsylvania State University Press. 1969. p. 125.
  2. Paul Gambaccini, Rod Taylor (1993). Television's Greatest Hits: Every Hit Television Programme Since 1960. Indiana University Press.
  3. Crime Buster. televisionheaven.co./uk.