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Share with: 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...

Share with: 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...

London’s original minicab wars, 60 years on In these days of Uber ride-hailing, it’s difficult to imagine the excitement of a cheap rival to the capital’s traditional black taxis 5 March 2021 • 4:30pm The vibrant West End of London in 1961 was the battleground between the new minicabs and black taxis Credit: Bettmann Sixty years ago precisely, London experienced a minor revolution thanks to the Wimbledon firm of Carline. Its fleet of  Ford Anglia 105Es became the capital’s first minicabs and they carried 500 passengers in the first week of operation.  Two weeks later, 25 black and...

Share with: Peter Cushing and a host of other much-loved British talent star in this Cold War thriller from 1960, here playing researchers who unexpectedly find themselves ‘silenced’ by government officials who conclude that a newly discovered cure for both typhus and the bubonic plague could be used for biological warfare by enemy states. At London’s Haughton Research Laboratory a hard working team of scientists, led by Professor Sewell (the always dependable Peter Cushing), come very close to developing a certain strain of ‘superbugs’ that could nip world plagues in the bud so to...