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Spooner's Patch
Created byRay Galton
Johnny Speight
Directed byWilliam G. Stewart
StarringRonald Fraser
Peter Cleall
Norman Rossington
Patricia Hayes
John Lyons
Donald Churchill
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes19
Production
Running time30 minutes
Production companyATV/Central
Original release
NetworkITV
Release9 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 made and broadcast from 9 July 1979 to 24 August 1982 on the ITV network, by ATV.[2]

Plot

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It is set in a police station in the fictional London suburb of Woodley. The title character of Spooner (Ronald Fraser, then Donald Churchill) 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 played by Peter Cleall 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. Patricia Hayes appeared in the second two series as a traffic warden.[3]

Cast list

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References

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  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.
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