• 1958
  • 30m
Dial 999

Summary Robert Beatty stars as Detective Inspector Mike Maguire, a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman posted to New Scotland Yard, in this popular 1950s series depicting London's fight against crime. View more details

  • 1958
  • 30m

Dial 999

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Robert Beatty Hugh Moxey Richard Bebb John Howlett

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Genres : Crime

Release date : Jun 7, 1958

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : London, England, UK

Production companies : Towers of London Productions ZIV Television Programs

Summary Robert Beatty stars as Detective Inspector Mike Maguire, a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman posted to New Scotland Yard, in this popular 1950s series depicting London's fight against crime. View more details

Details

Genres : Crime

Release date : Jun 7, 1958

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : London, England, UK

Production companies : Towers of London Productions ZIV Television Programs

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jul 05, 1958
The Killing Job
First outing in this series introduces Canadian cop new to London. With his taciturn English counterpart he grapples with a protection war between rival gangs.
Episode 2 • Aug 23, 1958
Special Edition
Robbers snatch a payroll from the Evening News.
Episode 3 • Aug 16, 1958
Illegal Entry
Maguire intercepts a gang smuggling jewels into London on a fishing trawler.
Episode 4 • Aug 30, 1958
The Great Gold Robbery
Villains rob the Edinburgh to London mail train, with the only clue being a footprint left by a track bridge.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
Thames Division
A murder on a boat moored in the Thames starts Mike on the trail of a vicious gang of heroin smugglers.
Episode 6 • Aug 09, 1958
Missing Persons
Maguire hunts down a serial killer who preys on young lonely women.
Episode 7 • Sep 26, 1958
Honeymoon
Frank and Jane, while honeymoon in London, have their pockets picked by Mickey who find an insurance policy for diamonds. Mickey turns the info over to a mobster friends who plans to steal the jewels if McGuire doesn't stop him.
Episode 8 • Sep 27, 1958
Commando Crook
Ex-commando cracks safes and plans to flee the country.
Episode 9 • Oct 10, 1958
77 Bus
Police are baffled by robberies known as "the red rose series". Maguire and his partner suspect a seemingly innocent jeweler.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
Night Mail
A gang tries to steal diamonds from the Glasgow to London postal train.
Episode 11 • Jul 12, 1958
Escape
Bill Killian is caught in the act of opening a safe. His brother springs him from court and attempts to smuggle him out of the country with the police in pursuit.
Episode 12 • Jul 05, 1958
The Big Fish
Maguire and Inspector Dean investigate a scheme to manipulate racing odds by a crooked owner and a firm of bookmakers.
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
Special Branch
A team of assassins seize a taxicab company in order to launch a multi-pronged attempt on the life of a visiting American scientist.
Episode 14 • Dec 31, 1969
The Mechanical Watchman
A silent mechanical alarm alerts to police to a thieves stealing high class furs, removing identifying marks and settling remodeled versions.
Episode 15 • Dec 31, 1969
Ghost Squad
Maguire infiltrates a dockyard gang who are smuggling out freight boxes.
Episode 16 • Dec 31, 1969
50,000 Hands
Two crooks rob an office, but one is badly wounded; they hijack an ambulance to escape. They hide out in the town. It would be very difficult for police to fingerprint everybody in a town of 25,000.
Episode 17 • Dec 31, 1969
Fashions in Crime
Maguire investigates when a London fashion house reports that it's designs are being stolen and copied in New York.
Episode 18 • Dec 31, 1969
Rolling Racketeers
Gang of car thieves hit upon a clever ruse to dispose of their booty under the noses of the police.
Episode 19 • Dec 31, 1969
24 Hours a Day
Maguire spots Caldwell a Canadian criminal whom is planning to rob a bank by breaking in from the little shop next door.
Episode 20 • Dec 31, 1969
Hunter, Hunted
After an international criminal commits murder in Britain, Maguire is assigned the task of capturing him with no support.
Episode 21 • Dec 31, 1969
A Mined Area
A robber is released from prison but is shadowed by police and other criminals who are interested in finding where he hid the loot.
Episode 22 • Mar 14, 1959
The Barge Burglars
A hold-up gang uses a canal sight-seeing barge to make their getaways.
Episode 23 • Sep 20, 1958
Old Soldiers Sometimes Die
A gang of confidence tricksters try to con tourists out of their money.
Episode 24 • Dec 20, 1958
Extradition
Maguire must serve a warrant to an America gangster seeking sanctuary in England to ensure he is sent back to the US
Episode 25 • Oct 17, 1958
Gun Rule
A gang tries to kill one of its members but a policeman gets shot by mistake.
Episode 26 • Dec 31, 1969
Key Witness
A criminal pursues a murder witness through London streets in order to kill him and so stop him testifying.
Episode 27 • Dec 31, 1969
Down to the Sea
Gang of jewelry thieves who smuggle their booty out by ship kill a police detective.
Episode 28 • Nov 01, 1958
The Exception to the Rule
In accordance to the rules, police officers are unarmed; an exception to the rule is deemed essential in this case.
Episode 29 • Dec 31, 1969
Deadly Blackmail
Crooks hijack a serum needed to save the life of a lawyer's daughter and ransom it for £20,000.
Episode 30 • Dec 31, 1969
Payroll Job
Payroll gang are double-crossed by their insider and his accomplice.
Episode 31 • May 15, 1959
The Motorbike Bandits
This episode tells the story of a case in 1950's London, Which the Police have nick-named 'Spaceman'. It starts off with a robbery by gunpoint, where the robber escapes by hanging on the back of a removals lorry, after standing on the top to rob an office's payroll through the first floor window. After their escape the robbers change their van for motorbikes. Maguire is then called in to investigate, he finds the lorry and continues his search for the gang. One of the trio of crooks is Sue a woman (played by Jo Owen)while the two men in the gang are Kemp (played by Neil McCarthy) and Groves (Michael Ely). While checking for evidence around the stolen lorry Maguire notices some holes in the ground made by a woman's high heels.
Episode 32 • Dec 31, 1969
Living Loot
Gang of kidnappers try to extort money from a nouveau riche family.
Episode 33 • Dec 31, 1969
An Inside Job
Maguire changes places with a smuggler of counterfeit plates, members of whose gang pursue him to Battersea funfair.
Episode 34 • Dec 31, 1969
Picture Puzzle
Robbers use the Trojan Horse method to rob warehouses but become unstuck.
Episode 35 • Dec 31, 1969
Rat Trap
Dockland gang murder a policeman but are caught thanks to a sandwich board.
Episode 36 • Dec 31, 1969
Heads or Tails
Convict fresh out of jail plans to kill the three witnesses who had put him away.
Episode 37 • Dec 31, 1969
Radio Active
Thieves steal a car that has a box of radio-active bars in it, and its a race against time to track it down.
Episode 38 • Dec 31, 1969
Robbery with Violence
Gang of robbers hold up a jeweler's shop and hole up in an apartment while the police go to work.
Episode 39 • Dec 31, 1969
Death Ride
Scotland Yard is called in after the wife of a wealthy lawyer is killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances.
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