Spooner's Patch

Spooner's Patch
Created by	Ray Galton Johnny Speight
Directed by	William G. Stewart
Starring	Ronald Fraser Peter Cleall Norman Rossington Patricia Hayes John Lyons Donald Churchill
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	19
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	ATV/Central
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	9 July 1979 (1979-07-09) – 24 August 1982 (1982-08-24)

Spooners Patch is a British television sitcom, written by Ray Galton and Johnny Speight. ^[1] It ran for 3 series and 19 episodes and was first broadcast from 9 July 1979 to 24 August 1982 on the ITV network, by ATV. ^[2]

Plot

It is set in a police station in the fictional London suburb of Woodley. The title character of Spooner is the inspector in charge who is engaged in various corrupt ventures and lives above the station. The other main characters are the officers who work under him, including a detective who thinks he is from Starsky & Hutch and drives around in a Ford Anglia in the same red and white colour scheme as their Ford Torino. ^[3]

Cast list

• Ronald Fraser as Inspector Spooner
• Donald Churchill as Inspector Spooner (1980–1982)
• Peter Cleall as Detective Constable Bolsover
• John Lyons as PC Killick
• Patricia Hayes as Mrs Cantaford
• Norman Rossington as PC Goatman
• Dermot Kelly as Kelly
• Lynn Farleigh as Mrs Webster
• John Clegg as vicar
• Donald Morley as mayor
• Ronnie Brody as man in police station
• Roy Barraclough as landlord
• Amanda Barrie as Spooner's girlfriend
• Ballard Berkeley as bank manager
• Barrie Rutter as the psychiatrist
• Harry Fowler as Jimmy the con
• Reginald Marsh as Senior Police Officer
• James Villiers as film producer
• Jonathan Cecil as Captain Jim
• Wendy Richard as girl
• Stuart Saunders as golf club secretary
• Bob Bryan as Mr. Webster
• Mary Conlon as Bulsover’s girlfriend
• Chris Cunningham as Dutch dailor
• Jack Douglas as man in car
• Frank Coda as Jimmy’s friend
• Jeffrey Segal as bank manager
• Lee Whitlock as boy
• John Barron as the golf club president
• Willy Bowman as Dutch dailor
• Sarah Carthy as Killick’s girlfriend
• Anthony Sharp as the doctor
• Ruby Buchanan as old lady
• John Louis Mansi as waiter
• Ava Cadell as Greta, au pair girl
• Mavis Pugh as woman
• Terry Gurry as Dutch sailor
• Bill Treacher as car owner
• Debbie Linden as film girl
• Bella Emberg as the mayor’s wife
• Richard Fraser as TV reporter
• Richard Sheekey as Dutch sailor
• Stan Van as 2nd waiter
• Billy Gray as postman
• Richard Speight as clapper boy

References

1. "Spooner's Patch (1980)". BFI. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017.
2. "BFI Screenonline: Speight, Johnny (1920-1998) Credits". www.screenonline.org.uk.
3. Lewisohn, Mark (1998). Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy. BBC Books. p. 723. ISBN   978-0-563-36977-6.

External links

• Spooner's Patch at IMDb
• Spooner's Patch at British Comedy Guide