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Sergeant Cork

Season 5 1966

  • 1966-06-24T23:00:00Z on ITV
  • 50m
  • 4h (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
John Barrie is Sergeant Cork, one of the early members of London's Metropolitan Police C.I.D. - plain clothes detectives tasked with maintaining law and order in the seething metropolis of Victorian London. Assisted by Bob Marriott (William Gaunt) from his attic at Old Scotland Yard, Cork has to contend with the heavy crimewave created by the massive population boom, industrial expansion and an ever-widening gap between the rich and poor.

4 episodes

Season Premiere

1966-06-24T23:00:00Z

5x01 The Case of Albert Watson, V.C.

Season Premiere

5x01 The Case of Albert Watson, V.C.

  • 1966-06-24T23:00:00Z1h

With the Empire in a state of flux, the Colonial Office need a hero to boost their undertakings. They choose Albert Watson, recipient of the Victoria Cross. But Albert also happens to be a murderer... unless it could be called manslaughter.

5x02 The Case of the Painted Boat

  • 1966-07-29T23:00:00Z1h

A young servant, fleeing in terror, reports seeing a body in a spare room, and Sergeant Cork finds that a painted boat leads to a monstrous case of baby farming. And what else?

5x03 The Case of the Simple Savage

  • 1966-09-02T23:00:00Z1h

A Maori leader, accompanied by his daughter and a dubious clergyman, comes to London to be presented to the Queen. He has an obsession with searching for the 'mana', the secret of the white man's prestige, and this he apparently does...

When an unpopular headmaster is kidnapped, Cork has to decide whether the boys took the law into their own hands, or if it was the dismissed gardener who had threatened vengeance. Then, the case becomes one of murder...

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