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    1970s Television 1980s Television Comedy Shows S 1 Min Read

    Spooner’s Patch

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    1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 2 (UK)
    19 x 30 minute episodes

    This comedy series from ATV was written by Ray Galton and Johnny Speight and featured the goings-on in a small corrupt metropolitan police station.

    Ronald Fraser starred as the constantly spluttering Inspector Spooner but left at the end of the first series.

    He was replaced in the role by Donald Churchill, with Patricia Hayes joining the cast as ticket-waving traffic warden Mrs Cantaford (pictured).

    Inspector Spooner
    Ronald Fraser (1)
    Donald Churchill (2)
    Mrs Cantaford, Traffic Warden
    Patricia Hayes
    Detective Constable Bulsover
    Peter Cleall
    PC Killick
    John Lyons
    PC Goatman
    Norman Rossington
    Kelly 
    Dermot Kelly

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