Rent Public Eye: The ABC Years (1968)
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Alfred Burke stars as down-at-heel inquiry agent Frank Marker in this critically acclaimed, long-running drama series. Always working the lower end of the spectrum - divorces, missing persons, bankruptcies - the highly sympathetic character of Marker found great affinity among the public, and the series was a huge success over its ten-year lifespan. In common with most series made in the 1960's, a large number of 'Public Eye' episodes were junked, with only five shows known to exist from the first three series, made by ABC Television.
- Actors:
- Alfred Burke, Ray Smith, Pauline Delaney, Barbara Keogh, William Moore, Philip Madoc, Margaret Whiting, Stephanie Bidmead, Mona Bruce, Dermot Tuohy, Hilary Mason, Zia Mohyeddin, Anne-Louise Caxton, Sarah Harter, Gary Hope, Gillian Raine, Pauline Jameson, Alex Marshall, Alan Lake, Jessie Evans
- Directors:
- Kim Mills, Basil Coleman, James Goddard, Jim Goddard
- Producers:
- Michael Chapman
- Creators:
- Anthony Marriott, Roger Marshall
- Writers:
- Anthony Marriott, Roger Marshall, Robert Holmes
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Crimes, TV Dramas
More like Public Eye: The ABC Years
Reviews (1) of Public Eye: The ABC Years
Setting a Marker - Public Eye: The ABC Years review by CH
The four episodes on the first disc are from the mid-Sixties, about a small-time private eye called Marker, and they get better (not many survived). Well worth watching. Avaiable for renting are only this two-disc set and those from 1975, when it was coming to an end.
The third of these epsodes is particularly good, about an apparently missing husband. Small casts, fifty-minutes' running time and mostly interiors. All well done, unpredictable.
The second disc contains only one episode - about an exhibition of paintings in a public library which is linked with a blackmail case. Another ingenious episode. The disc also includes on an-location interview with Marks at the time, and it is a surprise to find that his own voice is very different from the one he brings to the character Marker.