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Fabian of the Yard is a British police procedural television series based on the real-life memoirs of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, shown by the BBC although unusually for the time produced for them independently by Trinity Productions, and broadcast between November 1954 and February 1956. It is considered the earliest police ...
- Police Procedural
A full episode of Fabian of the Yard originally broadcast in 1955 and repeated as part of BBC 2's Cops on the Box theme night in 1993. Includes an extended i...
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Fabian of the Yard: Directed by Antony Beauchamp, Edward Thompson. With Bruce Seton, Robert Raglan, Diana Beaumont, Margaret Boyd. A feature length compilation from episodes of the TV series of the same name.
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- Crime
- Antony Beauchamp, Edward Thompson
- 1954-10-18
His work was dramatised in the BBC drama series, 1954–56, Fabian of the Yard, based on his book of the same name (in reference to New Scotland Yard). Each episode ended with an epilogue in which Fabian described the real-life case on which the preceding story had been based.
39 x 30 minute episodes. This legendary British police show from the 1950s – the BBC’s first ongoing police serial – fictionalised the cases of Scotland Yard’s real-life Detective Inspector Fabian. Originally transmitted after the ‘toddler’s truce’ in the popular Saturday night slot, Fabian of the Yard was later moved to Wednesday ...
Sep 5, 2020 · Crime drama series Fabian of the Yard followed the cases of Detective Inspector Robert Fabian (Bruce Seton) who was one of British Television’s first bona fide detective heroes. Fabian, based on the real life D.I. Fabian, was a very progressive crook catcher determined to use all the latest modern forensic techniques to bring justice to bear.
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Fabian of the Yard is a British police procedural television series based on the real-life memoirs of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, shown by the BBC although unusually for the time produced for them independently by Trinity Productions, and broadcast between November 1954 and February 1956. It is considered the earliest police procedural to be made for British TV, sharing many points ...
