Wilde Alliance

1 9 7 8 (UK)
13 x 60 minute episodes

The former star of The Main Chance, John Stride, played novelist-sleuth Rupert Wilde, who sallied forth from his apartment in a mansion within the shadow of York Minster to solve comedy whodunnits in the company of comely spouse Amy (Julia Foster).

The Wildes’ extravagant tastes – not to mention regular Income Tax demands – meant they occasionally struggled to make ends meet.

Rupert’s literary agent Christopher Bridgewater was played by John Lee.

The material for this Ho-hum attempt by Yorkshire Television to make an anglicised version of The Thin Man stretched to 13 episodes. Barely.

Rupert Wilde
John Stride
Amy Wilde
Julia Foster
Christopher Bridgewater
John Lee

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