The Hanged Man - Episode Guide
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All the episodes in the series The Hanged Man are named after Tarot cards or their readings.
Regular Cast
- Colin Blakely as Lew Burnett.
- Michael Williams as Alan Crowe
- Gary Watson as John Quentin
- Creator / Writer: Edmund Ward
- Producers: Marc Miller, Edmund Ward
- Executive Producer: Peter Willes
- Composer: Alan Tew
- Music Performed by Bullet
- Yorkshire Television
- 15 February - 5 April 1975
- (New Zealand screenings 11 May - 29 June 1977)
Wheel of Fortune (UK - 15/02/1975)
Directed by Marc Miller
The wheel spins from a wounded scramble across moors to a wages robbery to raise funds for survival.
Additional Cast:
John Rees as Brian Nelson
Angela Browne as Elizabeth Hayden
Brian Croucher as Sammy Grey
It was this episode that was screened at The Main Event
Tower of Destruction (UK - 22/02/1975)
Directed by Marc Miller
The tower is the high skeletal framework above a power station under construction. Burnett and Crowe go back over the private airfield and the ashes of the plane crash that killed Burnett's wife.
Additional Cast:
William Lucas as George Pilgrim
Frank Wylie as David Larson
Julian Glover as Joe Denver
Jenny Hanley as Druscilla
Knave of Coins (UK - 01/03/1975)
A beautiful octoroon deaf-mute. She is the wife of ex-mercenary Simon Hatchett and carries a knife she can use as effectively as any man.
Directed by Tony Wharmby
The Knave is an accountant in Locarno, protected by bodyguards and an electrified fence - the architect of embezzlement. And some of it is Burnett's money.
Additional Cast:
Peter Halliday as Jean-Claud de Salle
John Bay as Sam Lambert
William Russell as Peter Kroger
Michael Coles as Hans Ericksen
?? as Simon Hatchett
Elanie Delmar as Aisha
Chariot of Death (UK - 08/03/1975)
Directed by Tony Wharmby
The chariot drives across the coast of Scotland where North Sea oil and the land where it will devour conflict in a struggle for the world's highest stakes. (sic) This is where one of Burnett's ex-partners realised ambition when he bought a Highland estate and its lairdship.
Additional Cast:
Gareth Hunt as Eddie Malone
Jack Watson as Douglas McKinnon
Bill Mitchell as Harry Friedman
Alan MacNaughtan as Charles Galbraith
Barbara Shelley as Louise Galbraith
From left to right: The much used Hanged Man card, ??, Jack Watson as Douglas McKinnon, Michael Williams as Alan Crow.
The Bridge Maker (UK - 15/03/1975)
Directed by Tony Wharmby
That's what they called Lew Burnett when he ran a contract in a totalitarian police state. If he goes back to find answers he will find himself accessory to corruption, under sentence of death, and will be chained to a prison wall.
Additional Cast:
Beth Morris as Sue Harrington
Gareth Hunt as Eddie Malone
Ray Smith as Milojek
James Maxwell as Frengel
Grail and Platter (UK - 22/03/1975)
Directed by Tony Wharmby
The polished practitioners of organised crime in Detroit learn that Burnett is alive and can still provide something they want.
Additional Cast:
Tony Jay as Laszlo
Gordon Reid as Willie O'Keefe
Frederick Jaeger as Hans Dieter
Naomi Chance as Jane Cowley
Al Mancini as Joe Shapiro
Laws of Fortune (UK - 29/03/1975)
Directed by Marc Miller
The laws are the tricky rules of high finance which Burnett has played all his commercial life and has to play again, on the run and under darkness.
Additional Cast:
Jan Francis as Captain Jane Ashley
Peter Armitage as Sergeant of the Guard
James Grout as Sam McGuire
Laurence Payne as Prendergast
Ring of Return (UK - 05/04/1975)
Directed by Marc Miller
Designer: Alan Pickford
Tons of concrete are poured onto a motorway bridge - and the police want Crowe and Burnett for murder.
Additional Cast:
Richard Shaw as Joe Hennessy
John F. Landry as Turtle
Richard Bebb as Sir Charles Hammond
Colin George as George Seagram
Ann Morrish as Margaret Burnett
Jane Seymour as Laura Burnett