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A Bit of Tomfoolery

Detective Series 1
Episode 1 of 13

DS Dave Brook is teamed up with a young DC from Epsom. How will he cope with the mean streets of London? Stars Ray Brooks.

Detective Sergeant Dave Brook is teamed up with young Detective Constable Maxton from sleepy Epsom. How will he cope with the mean streets of his new London patch?

Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr.

Starring Ray Brooks as long-serving, ducking-and-diving DS Dave Brook.

His new side-kick is 23-year-old β€˜grammar school boy’ DC Blair Maxton, played by Christopher Blake.

DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks
DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake
DC Harrison …. Peter Cleall
Chief Inspector Roach …. David Daker
Harry Dean …. George Tovey
Doctor Briggs …. James Taylor
Lady Dennery …. Aimee Delamain
Mr. Stimson …. Martin Friend

Former ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ war correspondent Robert Barr is best remembered writing for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TV’s police dramas β€˜Z-Cars’ and β€˜Softly Softly’.

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in January 1980

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