Probation Officer | |
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | Julian Bond Peter Yeldham Phillip Grenville Mann |
Directed by | Peter Sasdy Christopher Morahan Royston Morley Josephine Douglas |
Starring | John Paul John Scott Jessica Spencer David Davies Henry Oscar A. J. Brown Jack Stewart Humphrey Heathcote Derek Benfield [1] |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 4 |
No. of episodes | 109 |
Production | |
Producers | Antony Kearey Rex Firkin |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | Associated Television |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 14 September 1959 – 14 September 1962 |
Probation Officer was a British TV series that ran from 1959-62 about probation officers. [2] It was made by Associated Television and starred John Paul, Jessica Spencer, David Davies and John Scott. [3] [4] Other actors who appeared in the series include Henry Oscar, Honor Blackman, Windsor Davies and Billy Milton. [5]
It was created by Julian Bond and was the first ever one-hour TV drama to screen on ITV. [6] Bond spent months researching the show from real life cases. [7]
Like many British TV series of the same vintage, the archive holdings of Probation Officer are incomplete, with approximately three-quarters of the episodes missing.
In 2017 Network DVD release "Volume One" containing twelve extant episodes from the first series (1-3, 5-8, 13-16 & 22 - #8 is missing one courtroom scene) as a three DVD boxset. No further releases followed.
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