Gideon's Way
Total Seasons :1Total Episodes : 26
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as D...
Episodes(26)
1. The V Men
Mirroring the anti-fascist marches of the time and based on a storyline in Gideon's Vote, this features Sir Arthur Vane's fascist V-Party who are opposed by the anything but peaceful Peace Party. Someone is trying to kill Vane (Roland Culver).
Air Date : 1964-10-17
2. The Rhyme and the Reason
Based on a storyline in Gideon's Week. A young couple row and the girl is later found dead. All the evidence points to her biker boyfriend. Gideon, as a friend of his sister, is asked to investigate.
Air Date : 1964-10-24
3. To Catch a Tiger
Based on a storyline in Gideon's Risk. An employee's theft gives Gideon a chance to reopen an old murder case but he finds himself up against a formidable lawyer, Sir Percy Richmond (Raymond Huntley).
Air Date : 1964-10-31
4. The Tin God
Based on storyline in Gideon's Week. Derren Nesbitt plays a violent gangster who has escaped from jail and who is idolised by his son, but hates his wife ,Ruby, for putting him in jail. Before he escapes the country, Nesbitt's character wants to kill Ruby. Also features John Hurt as his accomplice.
Air Date : 1964-11-07
5. State Visit
Based on a storyline in Gideon's March. Alfie Bass portrays an elderly German Jew who has suffered at the hands of the Nazis in WWII. There is a state visit by the German President and, as a chemist, he gets his hands on 10 oz of nitro-glycerine. Enough to kill his target and possibly hundreds more at the parade in Whitehall where Gideon's wife and son are also watching. Also features Gerald Flood as Deputy Commissioner Rae Cox.
Air Date : 1964-11-14
6. The White Rat
Based on a storyline in Gideon's Staff. Something of a love story. Sgt Sid Taylor who walked a beat with Gideon when they were PCs and taught him a lot is after an albino criminal (Ray McAnally) and his gang. A number of things go wrong and the criminal is cornered on a ship but threatens a massive explosion if they try to take him.
Air Date : 1964-11-21
7. The Firebug
Based on a storyline in Gideon's Fire. George Cole plays a man whose wife and young daughter died in a house fire. He starts setting fires to make people take notice of the danger of fire but after killing 4 people (including a PC), he goes onto bigger fires, setting fire to a paint warehouse. He then gets hold of four sticks of dynamite.
Air Date : 1964-11-28
8. The Lady-Killer
Based on a storyline in Gideon's Month. A man marries rich women who die apparently accidentally soon afterwards, so C.I. David Keen investigates. Gideon takes a back seat in this story. Stars Ray Barrett and Rosemary Leach.
Air Date : 1965-04-22
9. The Big Fix
Based on a storyline in Gideon's Risk. Gamblers pay big money to people to dope horses so they lose, and kill them if the horse wins. After a favourite has lost, Gideon tries to stop it happening again. Stars Michael Ripper, Penelope Horner and Maurice Hedley.
Air Date : 1964-12-12
10. Big Fish, Little Fish
Gideon's Risk. Gamblers pay big money to people to dope horses so they lose, and kill them if the horse wins. After a favourite has lost, Gideon tries to stop it happening again.
Air Date : 1964-12-19
11. The Housekeeper
Based on storyline in Gideon's Month. A housekeeper (Kay Walsh) looks after old men and murders them for their money. She has her new victim lined up after electrician and ex-con (Harry Fowler) finds her previous victim. Richard Davies has a small part as a postman.
Air Date : 1965-01-02
12. The Nightlifers
New storyline. Four teens are led into a life of violence by Anton Rodgers who has upper class pretensions and lives on a Chelsea houseboat with parties every night. Rodgers plays a contemptuous sadist whose idea of fun is hurting people, mirroring teen crime at the time. This was the last show and the series ended on a high note. Also starred Derek Fowlds and Annette Andre.
Air Date : 1966-05-10
13. Fall High Fall Hard
Based on storyline in Gideon's Fire. A big construction company is owned by two men. Honest Donald Houston finds out his crooked partner Victor Maddern has hired men to intimidate and kill people to further their business. Houston wants to do something about it so they decide to kill him. Also stars Glyn Houston, Mike Pratt and Michael Robbins.
Air Date : 1965-01-16
14. The Wall
From storyline in Gideon's Night. A number of stories but the main one is that greedy John Barrie accidentally kills Richard Carpenter and hides the body so he can steal his pools win. Carpenter's young wife (Ann Bell) is made to believe he has left her. Also stars Megs Jenkins.
Air Date : 1965-03-27
15. Subway to Revenge
Based on storyline in Gideon's Ride. On a crowded platform, Bryan Pringle tries to push Donald Churchill in front of a train but he is saved by co-worker Anne Lawson. He wants nothing to do with it but she takes it to the police. Another attempt is made to push him in front of a bus. Again he does not seem to be interested that someone is trying to murder him and though she is obviously in love with him, he gets angry with her over it and wants nothing to do with her. Then suddenly they are in love. Pringle it turns out lost a fiancée when she tried to steal £5,000 from a company and when caught, committed suicide by jumping in front of an Underground train so he is now busy killing those responsible. There is a background story about a wages snatch.
Air Date : 1965-04-03
16. Gang War
Based on storyline in Gideon's Night. Jerry Blake (Ronald Lacey) is moving in on Frank Romano's (Ray Brooks) small business protection racket. Both are leaders of gangs of young men and trouble is brewing. But Romano's wife is unhappy with their lifestyle and uses an old boyfriend to arrange the snatch of over £400,000 of old money meant for burning. Romano joins up with Blake to do the robbery while their gangs do a fake rumble to lure the police elsewhere.
Air Date : 1965-04-17
17. The Alibi Man
Based on storyline in Gideon's March. Famous racing driver Jack Hedley has been fiddling the books and is caught by his accountant Geoffrey Palmer, who he kills to keep him quiet. Mechanic James Culliford gives him an alibi because he owes his life to him. Gideon investigates and Hedley's mistress needs to die too. A rare case where the murderer gets away with it.
Air Date : 1965-06-24
18. The Prowler
Based on storyline in Gideon's Night. This occurs in the thick fogs of the time, due to most people using coal fires to keep warm, and the episode tries for a creepy atmosphere. The girlfriend of a young man (David Collings) has committed suicide causing him to become mentally unbalanced and he now attacks girls at night and cuts off some of their hair as a souvenir. One girl fights back and scratches him and as the police close in, he visits an unsuspecting girlfriend to hide at her place.
Air Date : 1965-05-01
19. The Great Plane Robbery
New Storyline. £1,000,000 worth of gold is stolen from a Russian Aeroflot plane at a small airfield. The brains behind it, Barley (George Baker) has an alibi which is just too good. There are complications when the driver of a decoy van is picked up and is obviously in on it. It all begins to fall apart when one of the men,Dobson (Edwin Richfield) is burned by molten gold being recast. Lured by the £100,000 reward, a bent doctor treating him phones the police who follow Barley and others to Tilbury where he plans to escape by boat.
Air Date : 1965-05-08
20. The Thin Red Line
New storyline. The famous Balaclava regimental silver is going missing pieces at a time from the Highlanders London HQ with fakes being put in their place. Gideon is called in by the elderly General (Finlay Currie) to find out who is doing it but comes up against regimental pride and secrecy. Keen goes to Amsterdam and Paris (library shots used) to find out where the silver is being copied and sold off. The result is a shock to Gideon. Also starred Allan Cuthbertson and Gordon Jackson.
Air Date : 1966-02-03
21. Morna
New storyline. Morna Copthorne's (Angela Douglas) body is found by a lake. Gideon is asked to go to the small village of Wendley (this case unusually did not feature London) to sort the matter out as her father is a big name at the M.O.D. She is the girl everyone loved so how did she die? As Gideon and Keen interview witnesses about her past, a new picture emerges of a young rich girl out of control. Norman Bowler plays a black man in this and reflected the racial tensions of the time. Also stars Kay Walsh.
Air Date : 1966-02-24
22. Boy with Gun
New storyline. A tale of boys gone wrong. Chris Kirk (Howard Knight) has been mothered too much but has an overbearing father, Police Surgeon, Doctor Kirk (Anthony Bate). Cornered by 3 leather coated, knife wielding yobs who want to steal the shotgun his father bought him, he shoots one. Believing he has murdered him, he goes on the run and meets a boy who has escaped from Borstal. They go to his brother's place so he can arrange their escape from the country but the shot boy's father (George Sewell) finds out and wants to kill the kid who shot his son. A powerful story filmed mainly around London's East End.
Air Date : 1966-02-27
23. A Perfect Crime
Based on storyline in Gideon's Fire. Patrick Allen plays someone who socially mixes with rich people and finds out when they are away so he and his accomplice (Patrick Bedford) can steal their jewels. Bedford is caught when a cop on a bike sees a car at a rich place where the owners have told him to keep a watch on it as they are away. His wife (Jean Marsh) tries to blackmail Allen so he kills her which leads to Gideon being publicly accused on attacking Bedford by a very nasty lawyer as they close in on Allen who is ready to flee the country. Also starred Alec Mango and Richard Davies.
Air Date : 1966-03-06
24. The Reluctant Witness
Based on storyline in Gideon's Risk. Red Carter (Mike Pratt) and brother Syd (David Gregory) buy wrecked cars then steal new cars of the same make and swap details and after a respray, sell them for lots of money. Tiny Bray who spent 4 years in prison because of them tries to get evidence of this but is seen and is beaten by Syd and dies, but there is a witness (Audrey Nicholson). The police trick Syd into confessing but then the harder job begins of getting brother Red who is trying to kill the witness. Trevor Bannister plays the constable who is assigned to keep her alive for the trial. The climax of the show is when the villains are cornered and pull guns, and the police are unarmed. Gideon says that the average burglary nets only £71 whereas a car theft (2,484 stolen one month in 1965) gets £500.
Air Date : 1966-04-26
25. The Millionaire's Daughter
Based on storyline in Gideon's Lot. A con man, Alan Blake (Don Borisenko), arrives on a ship from America with the millionaire Hendersons (David Bauer and Lois Maxwell) and their daughter who with confederates he kidnaps in London and they hold her for a million dollar ransom. The newspapers get hold of the story and Blake decides to get out while he can, tricking Mrs Henderson out of $500,000 worth of jewellery. This means that the daughter is now left with the homicidal Philip Guest (Donald Sutherland) who wants to kill her as she has seen their faces. Also starred Harold Goodwin.
Air Date : 1966-11-20
26. How to Retire without Really Working
Based on storyline in Gideon's Lot. Gideon defuses a gun siege where a small time crook went out of his league in the hope of a big robbery before retiring. Meanwhile, a couple in their fifties (Eric Barker and Joyce Grant) who have lived a life of petty crime try to do the same thing with a big wages snatch but Gideon has his eye on them. Gideon portrays the friendly cop in this episode, trying to help criminals who are obviously on the downwards path. Also starred William Mervyn.
Air Date : 1967-07-09
Cast
John Gregson
(Commander George Gideon)
Alexander Davion
(Chief Insp. David Keen)
Daphne Anderson
(Kate Gideon)
Richard James
(Matthew Gideon)
Giles Watling
(Malcolm Gideon)
Reginald Jessup
(Det. Superintendent LeMaitre)
Basil Dignam
(Commissioner Scott-Marle)
Hugh Ross Williamson
(Det. Chief Supt. Joe Bell)
Richard Davies
(The Taxi Driver)
Andrea Allan
(Pru Gideon)
Glyn Houston
(Sgt. Carmichael)
Kay Walsh
(Harriet Bright)
Sue Lloyd
(Mary Henderson)
Allan Cuthbertson
(Major Donald Ross)
Peter Reeves
(Scooter Salesman)
Angela Douglas
(Cathy Miller)
Jean Marsh
(Sandra Casey)
Tom Gill
(Veterinarian)
George Merritt
( - )
Mike Pratt
(Jensen)
Jack Rodney
(Shorty Fleming)
Dervis Ward
(Keith Smith)
Ronald Adam
(Mr. Baker)
Brian Weske
(Gerry Adams)
David Gregory
(Yob)
Clive Colin Bowler
(Duke)
Caron Gardner
(Daisy)
Michael Ripper
(Jo Short)
Gerald Harper
(Deputy Commander Rae Cox)
Christine Finn
(Marjorie Bennett)
Alan Rothwell
(Bill Rose)
Patsy Smart
(Mrs. Samuels)
George Cole
(Bishop)
Angela Baddeley
(Mrs. Clark)
Pauline Yates
(Mary Mason)
Bryan Pringle
(John Stewart)
Michael Robbins
(Smith)
Thomas Heathcote
(Det. Chief Supt. Charles Appleby)
Ronald Lacey
(Jerry Blake)
Harry Fowler
(Ralph Maricut)
Edwin Richfield
(Frank Dobson)
Gordon Jackson
(Sgt. McKinnon)
Donald Sutherland
(Philip Guest)
Gretchen Franklin
(Martha Bray)
Royston Tickner
(Charlie Berry)
Margery Mason
(Mabel Short)
Ray McAnally
(Mickey Keston)
Julian Holloway
(Jim Richards)
Duncan Lamont
(Divisional Supt. Smedd)
Michael Cashman
(Syd Benson)
Suzan Farmer
(Ada Lee)
Ian MacNaughton
(Sgt. Greenwood)
Jane Merrow
(Lollo Romano)
Gary Miller
(Len)
Henry McGee
(Mack Martinson)
Alec Mango
(Hartz)
Donald Pickering
('Bookie' Barton Smith)
Lois Maxwell
(Felisa Henderson)
Michael Craze
(Vince Kelly)
Sandra Payne
(Alice Short)
Virginia Maskell
(Rose Lemman)
David Lodge
(Morris)
Meredith Edwards
(Paul Samuels)
Avril Elgar
(Mrs. Tennison)
John Hurt
(Freddy Tisdale)
Sydney Tafler
(Gabriel Lyon)
Ann Bell
(Netta Penn)
Esmond Knight
(Robson)
Ray Brooks
(Frank Romano)
George Baker
(Bailey)
Shelagh Fraser
(Lady Copthorne)
Eric Barker
(Robert Gresham)
Patrick Allen
('Spender Todd')
Finlay Currie
(General Sir Hector McGregor)
Harold Goodwin
(The Shopkeeper)
Trevor Bannister
(PC John Moss)
George Sewell
(Tim Murphy)
Ian Fleming
(Doctor)
Martin Boddey
(Chief Officer Carmichael)
Harry Towb
(Tod Cowan)
John Barrie
(Will Rikker)
Alan Browning
(Wilson)
Victor Maddern
(Charles Randle)
John Martin
(Det. Insp. Marsham)
Charles Lloyd Pack
(Mr. Hunter)
Terence Donovan
( - )
Michael Standing
(Ches Kelly)
Robert Brown
(Bill Campbell)
Jack Gwillim
(Commander Ripple)
Keith Baxter
(Geoffrey Miles)
Raymond Huntley
(Sir Percy Richmond)
Aubrey Richards
(Det. Sgt. Steve Grady)
Arthur Lovegrove
(Uncle Charley)
Jack MacGowran
('Happy' Roden)
Megs Jenkins
(Liz Rikker)
Noel Dyson
(Mrs. Lane)
Barbara Couper
(Jean Henderson)
George Murcell
(Kautsky)
Norman Bowler
(Michael Usher)
Joyce Grant
(Margaret Gresham)
Gloria Paul
(Lucy Sansetti)
Joe Gladwin
(Finny)
Max Bacon
(Bookie Thompson)
Dermot Kelly
(Fingers)
Catherine Lacey
(Sarah Fischer)
Victor Brooks
(Supt. Ridgeway)
Sarah Lawson
(Joan Erickson)
Johnny Sekka
(Chay)
Jo Rowbottom
(Mary Rose)
Norman Bird
(Supt. Fred Lee)
Richard Carpenter
(Michael Penn)
William Mervyn
(Mr. Pater)
Alfie Bass
(Max Fischer)
Roland Culver
(Sir Arthur Vane)
Delphi Lawrence
(Jane Kennet)
John Justin
(Leonard Bright)
Oliver MacGreevy
(The Contact Man)
Patrick Bedford
(Casey)
John F. Landry
(Tom Jenkins)
Clifford Earl
(Sgt. Bailley)
Ann Lynn
(Anne Beaumont)
Philip Ray
(Langley)
Patricia English
(Jean Cox)
Norman Scace
(Warner)
Inigo Jackson
(Leo Samson)
Peter Russell
(John Hamilton)
Dyson Lovell
(Peter Bennett)
Hilda Barry
(Mrs. Critchley)
Norman Wynne
(Mr. Gilliatt)
Joby Blanshard
(Bill White)
Edward Dentith
(Det. Insp. Dillon)
Penelope Horner
(Janet Middleton)
Maurice Hedley
(Colonel Alec Middleton)
Brian Phelan
(Dandy Johnson)
John Glyn-Jones
(Percy Knox)
Griffith Davies
(Jimmy)
Michael Goodman
(Ron Short)
Oliver Johnson
(Percy Whitehead)
Marjie Lawrence
(Della Maricut)
John Dearth
(Det. Supt. Warr)
Middleton Woods
(Geoffrey Carr)
John Marcus Powell
(PC Farley)
Lloyd Pearson
(Doctor Wren)
Ray Barrett
(Robert Carne)
Rosemary Leach
(Marion Grove)
Justine Lord
(Rina)
Timothy Bateson
(Parker)
Howard Lang
(Sergeant Fowler)
Graham Curnow
(PC Awkwright)
Nora Gordon
(Mrs. Harrow)
Kenneth Edwards
(The Coroner)
Howard Douglas
(Harry)
Walter Brown
(John Borgman)
Vanda Godsell
(Charlotte Borgman)
Erica Rogers
(Clare Selby)
John Gabriel
(Cuthbertson)
Maxwell Shaw
(Mark 'Frisky' Lee)
Avis Bunnage
(Mrs. Bessie Cowan)
Wensley Pithey
(Supt. Bill Hemmingway)
Carmel McSharry
(Mrs. Wray)
Alan Baulch
(Peter Wray)
David Davies
(Sergeant Syd Taylor)
Michael Wynne
(Alf)
Roy Hanlon
(Jock)
John Horsley
(Supt. Hopkinson)
Maggie Wright
(Jean)
Richard Beale
(Captain Vanner)
Michael Beint
(Div. Insp. Marsh)
Anne Lawson
(Ellen Winters)
Donald Churchill
(James Lane)
Brian Rawlinson
(Duty Sergeant)
Kenneth Henry
(Sir Edwin)
Don McKillop
(Foreman)
Freda Bamford
(Mrs. Kautsky)
Jeremy Burnham
(Harold)
Reg Lye
(Doctor Hill)
Pamela Conway
(Phyllis Bailey)
David Orchard
(Ace)
Julian Somers
(Cameron)
Peter Williams
(Control Tower Supervisor)
John Hall
(Sid Kautsky)
Frederick Bartman
(Henry Waldo)
Donald Morley
(Supt. Browning)
James Chase
(Cowboy)
Patrick Durkin
(Lefty)
Louis Mansi
(Weasel)
Keith Bell
(Sammy)
Will Stampe
(Tony Mazzo)
James Ottaway
(Sideman)
Derren Nesbitt
(John 'Benny' Benson)
Jennifer Wilson
(Ruby Benson)
Sidney Vivian
(Danny)
Vincent Harding
(PC Lashbrook)
Jack Hedley
(Bruce Carroway)
Sheila Allen
(Mary Calloway)
Jennifer Daniel
(Marjorie Bellman)
James Culliford
(Eric Little)
Nicola Pagett
(Cathy Bellman)
Geoffrey Palmer
(Jeff Grant)
Michael Collins
(Det. Supt. Brown)
John Rae
(The Pathologist)
Elizabeth Counsell
(Veronica Kendal)
Donald Houston
(Tony Erickson)
Gordon Gostelow
(Thompson)
Guy Ross
(Michael Erickson)
Gordon Whiting
(Doctor Cooper)
Walter Horsbrugh
(Jerome)
Bernard Brown
(Ralph Mason)
Dilys Rosser
(Sylvia)
Toni Palmer
(Mrs. Endicott)
David Collings
(Alan Campbell-Gore)
Fanny Rowe
(Lady Campbell-Gore)
Gillian Lewis
(Marjorie Hayling)
Rosemarie Dunham
(Sophie Murdoch)
Richard Burrell
(Det. Sgt. Doug Brown)
Peter Jesson
(Jack)
Gillian French
(Jennifer Lewis)
Arthur Pentelow
(Mr. Lewis)
John Cairney
(Captain Robbie McGregor)
David Hutcheson
(Colonel McAlpine)
Michael Meacham
(Captain James Murray)
Mary Yeomans
(Ann Ross)
Guy Deghy
(The Owner of Krootnings)
John Serret
(Antoine Dubec)
Anthony Baird
(Mr. Barnes)
Robert Sansom
(The Magistrate)
Don Borisenko
(Alan Blake)
David Bauer
(Elliott Henderson)
Georgina Ward
(Erica Townsend)
Lans Traverse
(Nina Henderson)
Charles Carson
(The Professor)
Alec Ross
(Frank Simmons)
Victor Platt
(Chief Insp. Budd)
Alita Naughton
(Lydia Merritt)
Barry Lowe
(Keston)
Anthony Bate
(Doctor Kirk)
Ruth Trouncer
(Helen Kirk)
Howard Knight
(Chris Kirk)
Mary Quinn
(Mary Murphy)
Tony Thawnton
(Det. Insp. Smith)
Roger Foss
(Mick)
Audrey Nicholson
(Rachel Gully)
Patricia Burke
(Mrs. Gully)
Madeleine Christie
(Mrs. Moss)
Frederick Peisley
(Tiny Bray)
Jolyon Booth
(Radio Man)
Edward Evans
(Fred Norton)
Clare Kelly
(Mrs. Norton)
Carol White
(Winifred Norton)
Anton Rodgers
(Peter Sloane)
Derek Fowlds
(Tim Coles)
Annette Andre
(Sue Young)
Pauline Munro
(Alison Clifton)
James Hunter
(Tony King)
Roddy McMillan
(Det. Insp. Caldwell)
Laurence Hardy
(Dr. Coles)
Joyce Carey
(Mrs. Coles)
Richard Hurndall
(Mr. King)
Viola Keats
(Mrs. King)
Harry Locke
(Joe Moss)
John Tate
(Bert Macey)
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