A sly sideways look at the standard '60s police procedural The Man in Room 17 concerns the ponderings of Oldenshaw and Dimmock - two exceptionally clever chaps whose minds are so highly trained that they can solve cases that leave the ordinary authorities baffled. Created by novelist and playwright Robin Chapman (from a concept by Granada supremo Denis Forman) each episode was essentially constructed as a game of two halves with the Room scenes for each episode being solely written by Chapman - who would receive a script and then deconstruct it plan where Oldenshaw... and Dimmock's scenes were to appear and how the crime was to be solved. [show more]
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The complete first series of the 1960s crime drama following events at a top secret government department set up to solve the crimes that baffle the authorities. Ex-Oxford braniac Oldenshaw (Richard Vernon) heads the department, which answers only to the prime minister, and takes charge of a variety of puzzling cases from the comfort of his Whitehall Office. The episodes are: 'Tell the Truth', 'Hello Lazarus', 'The Years of Glory', 'Confidential Report', 'The Millions of Mazafariyah', 'The Seat of Power', 'Safe Conduct', 'A Minor Operation', 'Find the Lady', 'The Bequest', 'Up Against a Brick Wall', 'Out for a Duck' and 'Black Anniversary'.
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