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In this British crime series from the late 1950s, Canadian actor Robert Beatty is Detective Inspector Mike Maguire - a ‘Mountie’ assigned to London’s Scotland Yard in order to learn native crime fighting methods. Together with his English colleagues he takes on all sorts of cases ranging from blackmail, robberies, kidnapping and of course bloody murder.
Produced by the one and only Harry Alan Towers, the 39 episodes were directed by Bernard Knowles, Robert Lynn, Alvin Rakoff, Terence Fisher, Don Chaffey and Charles Saunders while an array of then popular actors (Ferdy Mayne, Hugh McDermott, Douglas Wilmer, William Hartnell, Barbara Steele, Patrick Magee, Sam Kydd and Michael Ripper to name but a few) all guest-starred. Some even appeared in more than one episode, like Sydney Tafler who was given ample opportunity to show off his trademark East End spiv characters or Patrick Troughton who plays a criminal ringleader in one episode and a down-on-his-luck tramp in a