P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Jack Warner
Jimmy Hanley
Dirk Bogarde
Robert Flemyng
Bernard Lee
Peggy Evans
Patric Doonan
Bruce Seton
Meredith Edwards
Clive Morton
Frederick Piper
Dora Bryan
Gladys Henson
Tessie O'Shea
John Adams
Muriel Aked
Arnold Bell
Alma Cogan
Michael Corcoran
Betty Ann Davies
Rowland Douglas
Renee Gadd
Michael Golden
Cameron Hall
Melvyn Hayes
Eric Henderson
Charles Houston
Glyn Houston
Jennifer Jayne
Gerry Judge
Sam Kydd
Duncan Lewis
Arthur Lovegrove
Jack May
William Mervyn
Glen Michael
Arthur Mullard
Richard Neller
Rosemary Nicols
Joe Phelps
Paul Phillips
Sidney Pointer
John Salew
Arthur Sandifer
Stuart Saunders
Charles Saynor
Jack Sharp
Norman Shelley
Campbell Singer
Anthony Steel
Gwynne Whitby
Billy Wilmot
Doris Yorke