Call the Gun Expert

Call the Gun Expert
GenrePolice procedural
Written byMacdonald Hastings
Directed byJack Gold
StarringWensley Pithey
Narrated byMacdonald Hastings
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerJack Gold
Running time30 minutes
Production companyBBC
Original release
NetworkBBC 1
Release2 July (1964-07-02) –
6 August 1964 (1964-08-06)

Call the Gun Expert is a British crime television series which first aired on BBC 1 in 1964.[1] It consisted of a single series of six episodes featuring Wensley Pithey as Robert Churchill, a ballistics expert who solves a number of crimes based on real-life historical cases. Pithey frequently starred in police procedurals, and was well known to audiences for his role as Detective Superintendent Charlesworth. The scripts were written by journalist Macdonald Hastings who also narrated he series.

Other actors who appeared in individual episodes of the series include Petronella Barker, Kenneth Benda, Paddy Joyce, Robert Cawdron, David Swift and Norman Mitchell.

References

  1. ^ Pitts p.308

Bibliography

  • Pitts, Michael R. Famous Movie Detectives III. Scarecrow Press, 2004.