Two teenage boys witness the murder of an old man, only for the old man to turn up alive after the boys notify the police.
The man is an imposter, though, and the two lads spend the rest of the series evading capture from the killers, who are actually spies.
Richard Willis played Istvan Szolda (“Soldier”), a geeky National Health spectacles-wearing Czech outsider in a tough inner-city comprehensive school, and Gerry Sundquist was Jim Woolcott (the ‘me’ of the title), the bigger, tougher, streetwise rough diamond who sticks up for Soldier against the local bullies and then can’t shake him off afterwards.
This popular Granada series aired in 1974 on Sunday afternoons at 4.50 pm. The story took in the less salubrious parts of Manchester and Stockport, as well as the wilds of the Pennines and the Lake District with the boys jumping off speeding trains and crossing stormy lakes to escape their pursuers.
The shoot took a 25-strong unit four months to film.
Gerry Sundquist took his own life in 1993 at the age of 37.
Istvan ‘Soldier’ Szolda
Richard Willis Jim Woolcott
Gerald Sundquist Henchman Smiler
Constantine Gregory Henchman Greasy
Richard Ireson The Boss
Milos Kirek Driver
Derrick O’Connor Mrs Woolcott
Sally Sanders Ron Nixon
Murray Leach Dr Nixon
Richard Wilson Grandpa Nixon
Alan Francis Mrs Nixon
Alison Lloyd Granny
Nellie Hanham
Episodes
Conspiracy | The House of Secrets | Alibi | Jump | Cross Country | Alone | Hunted | Trapped | No Escape
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