Call Earnshaw (Channel 4 1984 with Trevor Bannister and Diana Rayworth)

UK / Channel 4 Yorkshire TV / 1×30 minute episode / Broadcast Monday 17 December 1984 @ 8.30pm

Writer: Graham White / Production Design: Allan Anson / Producer and Director: Alan Tarrant

Comedy. An ex-policeman is now a down at heel private detective. Intended as a pilot for a series that never made it the episode carried the subtitle “Forget It”.

cast
Trevor Bannister as Earnshaw
Derek Royle as Higgins
Pearl Hackney as Ethel
Peter Spraggon as Chopper Stevens
Keith Marsh as Sergeant Feather
Diana Rayworth as Mavis
Sandra Gough as Rose

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