New Scotland Yard (TV series)

New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television (LWT) for the ITV network between 1972 and 1974.^[1] It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.^[2]

New Scotland Yard
Genre	Crime drama
Created by	Jack Williams
Starring	John Woodvine (series 1–3) John Carlisle (series 1–3) Michael Turner (series 4) Clive Francis (series 4)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	46
Production
Executive producer	Rex Firkin
Running time	50 minutes (series 1) 60 minutes (series 2–4)
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	22 April 1972 (1972-04-22) – 25 May 1974 (1974-05-25)

The first three series ran from 1972 to 1973 and starred John Woodvine as Det. Chief Supt. John Kingdom and John Carlisle as Det. Inspector,^[3] later Det. Sgt.,^[4] Alan Ward. But the series, scheduled on a Saturday night, failed to match the ratings of the similar format but more glamorous midweek counterpart from Thames, Special Branch.^[5]

The programme was resurrected for a fourth series in 1974, with an all-new cast headed by Michael Turner as Det. Chief Supt. Clay and Clive Francis as Det. Sgt. Dexter.^[6]

LWT were considered to have broken the rules of Saturday night broadcasting by showing a tough police drama in place of entertainment, but it was an inspiration for The Sweeney.^[7] Dennis Waterman, who went on to play a lead role in The Sweeney, appeared in a 1973 episode of New Scotland Yard called 'My Boy Robby?'.^[8]

The earlier unrelated Scotland Yard film series (1953–61) was made by Anglo-Amalgamated and was first aired on television by the American Broadcasting Company.^[9]

Main cast members

• John Woodvine as Chief Supt. John Kingdom (series 1–3)
• John Carlisle as Det. Inspector,^[3] later Det. Sgt.,^[4] Alan Ward (series 1–3)
• Michael Turner as Chief Supt. Tom Clay (series 4)
• Clive Francis as Det. Sgt. Dexter (series 4)

Critical reception

Reviewing the DVD release of series 1,myReviewer.com noted "a fairly hard-hitting police drama even by today's standards";^[10] and DVD compare.net called it " a fascinating issue-led series that is consistently good."^[7]

Episodes

Series		Episodes	Originally aired
			Series premiere	Series finale
	1	13	22 April 1972 (1972-04-22)	15 July 1972 (1972-07-15)
	2	13	13 October 1972 (1972-10-13)	12 January 1973 (1973-01-12)
	3	13	23 June 1973 (1973-06-23)	15 September 1973 (1973-09-15)
	4	7	13 April 1974 (1974-04-13)	25 May 1974 (1974-05-25)

Series 1 (1972)

Series No.	Episode No.	Title	Director	Writer	Original airdate
1	1	"Point of Impact"	Tony Wharmby	Don Houghton	22 April 1972 (1972-04-22)
2	2	"The Come Back"	Tony Wharmby	Tony Hoare	29 April 1972 (1972-04-29)
3	3	"Memory of a Gauntlet"	Christopher Hodson	Don Houghton	6 May 1972 (1972-05-06)
4	4	"The Palais Romeo"	Bill Bain	Stuart Douglass	13 May 1972 (1972-05-13)
5	5	"Hard Contract"	Paul Annett	Philip Martin	20 May 1972 (1972-05-20)
6	6	"Shock Tactics"	John Reardon	Patrick Alexander	27 May 1972 (1972-05-27)
7	7	"The Wrong-Un"	Paul Annett	Tony Hoare	3 June 1972 (1972-06-03)
8	8	"Fire in a Honey Pot"	Bryan Izzard	Robert Banks Stewart	10 June 1972 (1972-06-10)
9	9	"Perfect in Every Way"	Paul Annett	Stuart Douglass	17 June 1972 (1972-06-17)
10	10	"The Banker"	James Ormerod	Don Houghton	24 June 1972 (1972-06-24)
11	11	"Ask No Questions"	Oliver Horsbrugh	Lewis Greifer	1 July 1972 (1972-07-01)
12	12	"Reunion"	David Cunliffe	Nicholas Palmer	8 July 1972 (1972-07-08)
13	13	"And When You're Wrong"	Bryan Izzard	Alun Falconer	15 July 1972 (1972-07-15)

Series 2 (1972–1973)

Series No.	Episode No.	Title	Director	Writer	Original airdate
14	1	"Nothing to Live For"	Bryan Izzard	Tony Hoare	13 October 1972 (1972-10-13)
15	2	"A Case of Prejudice"	Oliver Horsbrugh	Stuart Douglass	20 October 1972 (1972-10-20)
16	3	"A Gathering of Dust"	Bryan Izzard	Don Houghton	27 October 1972 (1972-10-27)
17	4	"Evidence of Character"	Bryan Izzard	Peter Wildeblood	3 November 1972 (1972-11-03)
18	5	"Prove It"	Peter Moffatt	Richard Harris	10 November 1972 (1972-11-10)
19	6	"Shadow of a Deadbeat"	Bryan Izzard	Don Houghton	17 November 1972 (1972-11-17)
20	7	"Papa Charlie"	John Reardon	Stuart Douglass	24 November 1972 (1972-11-24)
21	8	"Error of Judgement"	Oliver Horsbrugh	Victor Pemberton	1 December 1972 (1972-12-01)
22	9	"Two Into One Will Go"	Howard Ross	Alun Falconer	8 December 1972 (1972-12-08)
23	10	"The Money Game"	Bill Turner	Basil Dawson	15 December 1972 (1972-12-15)
24	11	"We Do What We Can[11]"	John Reardon	Tony Hoare	22 December 1972 (1972-12-22)
25	12	"Hoax"	John Reardon	Stuart Douglass	29 December 1972 (1972-12-29)
26	13	"My Boy Robby?"	Paul Annett	Tony Hoare	12 January 1973 (1973-01-12)

Series 3 (1973)

Series No.	Episode No.	Title	Director	Writer	Original airdate
27	1	"Where's Harry?"	John Reardon	Tony Hoare	23 June 1973 (1973-06-23)
28	2	"Diamonds are Never Forever"	Oliver Horsbrugh	Tony Hoare	30 June 1973 (1973-06-30)
29	3	"Bullet in a Haystack"	Bill Turner	Don Houghton	7 July 1973 (1973-07-07)
30	4	"Weight of Evidence"	Jim Goddard	Andrew Brown	14 July 1973 (1973-07-14)
31	5	"Crossfire"	Paul Annett	Nicholas Palmer	21 July 1973 (1973-07-21)
32	6	"Property, Dogs & Women"	Paul Annett	Stuart Douglass	28 July 1973 (1973-07-28)
33	7	"Exchange Is No Robbery"	Bill Turner	Peter Hill	4 August 1973 (1973-08-04)
34	8	"Daisy Chain"	John Reardon	James Andrew Hall	11 August 1973 (1973-08-11)
35	9	"Don't Go Out Alone"	Bill Turner	Peter Wildeblood	18 August 1973 (1973-08-18)
36	10	"The Stone"	Bill Turner	James Andrew Hall	25 August 1973 (1973-08-25)
37	11	"Monopoly"	Cyril Coke	Stuart Douglass	1 September 1973 (1973-09-01)
38	12	"Rogues Gallery"	Bill Bain	John Lucarotti	8 September 1973 (1973-09-08)
39	13	"Pier"	Cyril Coke	Peter J. Hammond	15 September 1973 (1973-09-15)

Series 4 (1974)

Series No.	Episode No.	Title	Director	Writer	Original airdate
40	1	"Come-back"	Philip Casson	Peter Hammond	13 April 1974 (1974-04-13)
41	2	"The Trojan Horse"	Colin Cant	Basil Dawson & Frank Williams	20 April 1974 (1974-04-20)
42	3	"Death by Misadventure"	Derrick Goodwin	Peter Wildeblood	27 April 1974 (1974-04-27)
43	4	"For All Their Faults"	Oliver Horsbrugh	Tony Hoare	4 May 1974 (1974-05-04)
44	5	"A Man of His Word"	Oliver Horsbrugh	Peter Hill	11 May 1974 (1974-05-11)
45	6	"All That Glitters"	Bill Turner	Keith Bacchus & Tony Hoare	18 May 1974 (1974-05-18)
46	7	"A Year to Kill"	Philip Casson	Stuart Douglass	25 May 1974 (1974-05-25)