Thank you for putting this episode on RUclips I hope you put more on. I think our British TV has had some excellent programmes with excellent actors and possibly because of my age (79) I just prefer the older stuff. Thanks agan
This really brings back memories. This episode was first broadcast in March 1961. Pity so many of these vintage TV series episodes are now gone forever. If only we had today's technology back then... sigh
Thanks for uploading this classic bit of Associated-Rediffusion TV.Love No Hiding Place and its sucessor Crime Sheet.For which only one episode exists today.Incidentally,this episode "The Widower" was broadcast in 1961.Not in the 50's with respect here.Just thought would point that small detail out here.Thank you again for the classic upload!
Amazing - for two reasons ! This is one of the earliest crime series I remember affectionately from the 50s and early 60s and its theme tune has been in my head ever since (along with memories of the odd occasions when Raymond Francis fluffed his lines in the live broadcasts). Also, as a student in the late 60s, I shared a long train journey and good talk on acting with Gwen Nelson from this episode, later seeing her grumpy as ever in Lean`s "Dr Zhivago".
Even if he did, they were all stage actors at the time, get around it, keep it going, no retakes then, video tape or telecine too expensive to waste. Great show by Rediffusion, "the BBC but with adverts" as they called themselves. In 1968, they were merged. (really a takeover)with ABC to form Thames Television, a good station, which in turn, lost the London contract to Carlton due to Government policy. Now, it is all too corporate as ITV, no local identity.
In 1961 we still had Capital Murder, and hangings continued until 1964. No Hiding Place had a context and connotations that we are hard pressed to bring to mind sixty odd years on.
This was one of my favourite programs, full of intrigue, and the people had impeccable manners, and better dressed than today’s raga muffins, this series brought back many happy memories, can you get this on DVD, if so, I would buy it.
the same here i am amazed their are 75 000 views i would not have thought that many even knew this even existed. This shows their a are lot of people of our age with plenty of time on their hands
Thankfully a few of those very early TV series are now on DVD, but even if a miracle happened and recordings of No Hiding Place turned up, the job of digitising and cleaning them up would be horrendous - and what image quality would they have? But yes, I'd love to see them again.
Goodness this takes me back. I was only a little kid when this was on but I remember the cast and the tune. We'd just got our first tv. I'm sure Johnny Briggs aka Mike Baldwin from coronation street, was one of the police officers. Thanks for putting it up on youtube.
Gosh, this brings back some memories. The theme tune has stuck in head ever since, along with the opening shot of the police car with its bell clanging and two police outriders - and it still can't overtake that bus!
Watched this all the time in black and white on the tv when I was a boy in England, also Z cars was another favourite, I think the police at that time used zephyr 6 cars I think they were called
Shades of the real life Mr Wilson, whose life and many wives was dramatised on UK TV in 2019 in the programme 'Mrs Wilson', although he didn't kill them. He worked for the secret service and told each wife he was absent on work. Thanks so much for loading this. I had assumed all episodes were lost.
I remember No Hiding Place from when I was about 5 or 6.. I'm now 62.. However I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact same plot line in a more recent programme..
I loved this series, I remember my dear old Mum who used to fancy Inspector Lockhart. Wound my Dad up ha ha. Now I know why, he looks very much like my Dad.
I remember that too, I think it might have been one of those TV award programs and they were probably comparing detective drama series from the 1960s and 1970s. It certainly got a good laugh from the audience that night :-)
This must be a very early episode , by the time I used to watch it as a kid, Lockheart had graduated from a Wolseley 4/44 to a Humber Super Snipe !, they were transmitted live, very few would have been recorded on telecine . It was always reckoned that Raymond Francis, always opened his desk drawer to read the script if he had forgotten it !.A young Johnny Briggs ( Mike Baldwin ) also starred as Sgt Baxter.
I was about 9 or 10 when I used to watch this series. I had the hots for Eric Lander. One episode I will always remember opened on a building site with a mechanical shovel unearthing some human remains which turned out to be those of a man murdered 30 years earlier. Anybody remember that one?
The Rediffusion ident (as opposed to Associated-Rediffusion) indicates that the episode is 1964 or later (and I think it only ran until 1865 inclusive).
I remember him in it. When he appeared in Crossroads in the early 70s I remember thinking that's the copper from No Hiding Place. He played Russell though, not Baxter. Baxter was played by Eric Lander throughout the entire run. Briggs played Det. Sgt. Russell (80 eps, 1962-1966). I was born in 1957 so would have missed the very early eps. My main recollection is of Briggs playing Russell. He was also in a lot of ads in the early 60s, such as chewing on a Wrigley's Spearmint Gum at Euston Tr. St.
Wasn’t the doctor in that Boris Karloff who was in Charge of queer complaints at Scotland Yard. (col March of Scotland Yard)What was it called it aired on Talking picture last year…
All nightshade plants contain nicotine. Such as potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers. Just think, everytime you get an order of McDonald's fries and ketchup for your children? They're getting a healthy dose of nicotine.
I hope the American viewers see the subtle differences between British Police dramas and American Police dramas: American television pumps out Search Warrants, Fingerprints, and Forensic information as if it was all in their top desk drawer all the time. The Brits proceed as if it were Real. AND the Brits don't use some dumbass Sergeant and his bumbling ways. British television - in writing, directing, acting, all are superior to American television. The American's do have better access to filming and lighting and props - but that's just window dressing.
Interestingly the original *radio* version of _Dragnet_ had more of a realistic aura to it than did the TV version. (To which show or shows does your "dumbass sergeant" reference pertain to?) English television overall benefits from the country's theatrical tradition which has produced a multi-level farm system that furnishes the West End and the film and television production companies with well-trained actors and directors. English schools place a heavy emphasis on writing and the understanding of drama, ensuring more keenly plotted teleplays and more emphasis on character. And the tradition of scholarship can be seen in the excellent documentaries. The film industry here in the US, as far as I can tell from my cursory study of its early years, seems to have been founded largely by men with Coney Island carney or Vaudeville sensibilities. The country's large population yielded an enormous customer base and vast profits could be made with the cinematic equivalent of pulp writing. The early movie moguls could use money to lure craftsman from abroad: English actors and directors of course, but also designers, cinematographers, from Britain and Europe. The 'studio look' is basically a German import. So the US industry has as good a level of physical craftmanship as England's but the latter-day heirs to the mogul tradition (possibly the only real 'tradition' in the business) still determine what is made and often their fingerprints can be seen all over the product. So the two industries are two separate clubs run by very different types of people. I remember an interview with a retiring local Los Angeles radio talk show host who was born and raised in South Africa. He got into radio in his teens hosting live music broadcasts. Later he tried his luck in British radio but could make no headway because, he said, "I didn't have the education." A different corporate culture from the one here. I first knew of Jeremy Lloyd when he joined the cast of _Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In_ back in the early '70s. The producers apparently didn't know what to do with him, for he left a short time later. Then in the ensuing years I heard his "Captain Beakey" songs on the radio and saw his _Are You Being Served?_ series on PBS. He was back where he belonged; the only reason to come here was probably money. No country is excellent at everything.
The theme for this series was stirringly orchestrated in the episodes that I remember from long ago: here it sound feeble. The episode itself looks amateurishly acted and with cheap sets, like something you might have seen on a tiny screen in the '50s. Maybe Redifusion spent more on later episodes: this one was a let-down.
You do know this was filmed in 1961, shown on ITV which at that time was only 6 years old and we still had small screen t.vs with 405 lines, changing to 625 later in the 60s
@@macraghnaill3553 I watched the "No Hiding Place" episodes on t.v. back in the early '60s and they had superior production-values to this preserved one: even the over-the-titles theme was better orchestrated. If they were done live, it's no wonder that Raymond Francis fluffed his lines.
Thank you for putting this episode on RUclips I hope you put more on. I think our British TV has had some excellent programmes with excellent actors and possibly because of my age (79) I just prefer the older stuff. Thanks agan
This was such a great tv programe in the 50s, mum use to allow me to stay up and watch it and l loved it. such good memories.
As a child of the 1950's this little "telly gem" brought back some really happy memories, thank you.
GLF
This really brings back memories.
This episode was first broadcast in March 1961.
Pity so many of these vintage TV series episodes are now gone forever.
If only we had today's technology back then... sigh
In 1961 I was 12 years old watching this every week, thanks for digging this up and sharing.
Thanks for uploading this classic bit of Associated-Rediffusion TV.Love No Hiding Place and its sucessor Crime Sheet.For which only one episode exists today.Incidentally,this episode "The Widower" was broadcast in 1961.Not in the 50's with respect here.Just thought would point that small detail out here.Thank you again for the classic upload!
Amazing - for two reasons ! This is one of the earliest crime series I remember affectionately from the 50s and early 60s and its theme tune has been in my head ever since (along with memories of the odd occasions when Raymond Francis fluffed his lines in the live broadcasts). Also, as a student in the late 60s, I shared a long train journey and good talk on acting with Gwen Nelson from this episode, later seeing her grumpy as ever in Lean`s "Dr Zhivago".
Even if he did, they were all stage actors at the time, get around it, keep it going, no retakes then, video tape or telecine too expensive to waste. Great show by Rediffusion, "the BBC but with adverts" as they called themselves. In 1968, they were merged. (really a takeover)with ABC to form Thames Television, a good station, which in turn, lost the London contract to Carlton due to Government policy. Now, it is all too corporate as ITV, no local identity.
In 1961 we still had Capital Murder, and hangings continued until 1964. No Hiding Place had a context and connotations that we are hard pressed to bring to mind sixty odd years on.
This was one of my favourite programs, full of intrigue, and the people had impeccable manners, and better dressed than today’s raga muffins, this series brought back many happy memories, can you get this on DVD, if so, I would buy it.
Wonderful step back to a great time, many thanks for posting! Brings back many memories.
Wish this was released on DVD - it's one of those series I watched as a lad and have never forgotten.
the same here i am amazed their are 75 000 views i would not have thought that many even knew this even existed. This shows their a are lot of people of our age with plenty of time on their hands
briliant
I'm 31 and have wanted to see this show for 15 years.
Thankfully a few of those very early TV series are now on DVD, but even if a miracle happened and recordings of No Hiding Place turned up, the job of digitising and cleaning them up would be horrendous - and what image quality would they have? But yes, I'd love to see them again.
The series was shot live so there were no recordings
Right down memory lane! Fantastic upload! Thanks.
I watched No Hiding Place as a kid in the sixties. I liked it so much, I got a board game based on the series. Wish I still had it now.
Entertaining to see these live productions - this one from 1961. Thank you!!!!!
Blimey !!! Who duh this one up?Whoever it was thank you so much as it brought me back to my Childhood. Great TV for over 60 years ago.
Raymond Francis, Robert Beatty, Bruce Seton, Edgar Lustgarten we were spoilt for choice. Long live their memory and Thank You for this reminisence.
Edgar Lustgarten, or as spoofed by Stanley Baxter....Edgar Lastgasper !!
Goodness this takes me back. I was only a little kid when this was on but I remember the cast and the tune. We'd just got our first tv.
I'm sure Johnny Briggs aka Mike Baldwin from coronation street, was one of the police officers. Thanks for putting it up on youtube.
You're right Johnny Briggs was in a later series as a sergeant.
jamoore176 I
This takes me back! So good to see!
Thanks for the upload. It brought back lots of memories
Used to love this crime series when I was a lad especially the rousing theme music. It was only later that I realised that it was shot live !
So outdated,,BUT I enjoyed every minute of it,! 👏👏👏🇬🇧
Shows how much policing has changed in all those decades
Childhood memories...good entertainment.
Loved this when I was a kid!
Me too! X
I remember back in the 1950s when a murder was a sensation....and was covered on the newspaper front pages for weeks.
wish there were more full eps. great !!!
A chunk of childhood 🇬🇧💟🌹💖🥀💫🌸
Early 60's not fifties. Thanks for posting this, haven't seen an episode for years.
late fifties 57/58
@@ronalddwyer6568 This episode was early 60s going by the grave stone
I can remember this very well and I was only nine!
Very early TV memories...remarkable find
Crikey...Superintendent Lockhart...I used to love this when I was a kid.....I'd forgotten about it till I saw this pop up 😃❤
Gosh, this brings back some memories. The theme tune has stuck in head ever since, along with the opening shot of the police car with its bell clanging and two police outriders - and it still can't overtake that bus!
Watched this all the time in black and white on the tv when I was a boy in England, also Z cars was another favourite, I think the police at that time used zephyr 6 cars I think they were called
Fascinating and believable....
I rember watching these on our new Bush TV.
Thanks for posting.
Got to love the suspension on that Wolseley at the beginning. It must have been like riding in a boat!
First broadcast 10 March 1961.
Thanks for posting, Good to see that fine Scottish actor Ewan Roberts too
This brings back memories.....
Absolutly brilliant.
Shades of the real life Mr Wilson, whose life and many wives was dramatised on UK TV in 2019 in the programme 'Mrs Wilson', although he didn't kill them. He worked for the secret service and told each wife he was absent on work. Thanks so much for loading this. I had assumed all episodes were lost.
From a lost era when police were men of honour rather than thugs in uniform.
public gets the Police service it deserves
They were only men of honour on film!
Gutted there’s ONLY this episode, wish there were more 😢
405 lines, exellent !
I remember No Hiding Place from when I was about 5 or 6.. I'm now 62.. However I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact same plot line in a more recent programme..
J'ai regardè cet serie en 1962.Une simple histoire policière avec des acteurs des talent.
I don't know how those two actors kept a straight face during that opening sequence where they're practically sitting on each others' knees!
Yes he was, there were episodes on here with him in the shows.
it's a pity there's no others available
I loved this series, I remember my dear old Mum who used to fancy Inspector Lockhart. Wound my Dad up ha ha. Now I know why, he looks very much like my Dad.
I always watch this
I can smell Network here. Surely tthis is going to come out soon. Love to get a set of this before dvd disapears.
I remember that too, I think it might have been one of those TV award programs and they were probably comparing detective drama series from the 1960s and 1970s. It certainly got a good laugh from the audience that night :-)
Brilliant!
From the days when people had telephone numbers like London 3.
thxs I enjoy this :)
This must be a very early episode , by the time I used to watch it as a kid, Lockheart had graduated from a Wolseley 4/44 to a Humber Super Snipe !, they were transmitted live, very few would have been recorded on telecine . It was always reckoned that Raymond Francis, always opened his desk drawer to read the script if he had forgotten it !.A young Johnny Briggs ( Mike Baldwin ) also starred as Sgt Baxter.
This is series three, episode 6 called "The Widower", broadcast on 10th March 1961.
Good
I was about 9 or 10 when I used to watch this series. I had the hots for Eric Lander. One episode I will always remember opened on a building site with a mechanical shovel unearthing some human remains which turned out to be those of a man murdered 30 years earlier. Anybody remember that one?
I remember watching this programme in my early teens and it was compulsive viewing for me. It creaks now but still holds my interest.
when murder was frightening
+Stephen Heath And made the front page for six months !
In drama, it's called "suspension of disbelief"! ;)
"A non smoker. Had a thing about tobacco smoke". By God, that's the mark of a scoundrel and a bounder. Probably cheats at cards as well.
The Rediffusion ident (as opposed to Associated-Rediffusion) indicates that the episode is 1964 or later (and I think it only ran until 1865 inclusive).
When "Rediffusion" became "Thames", a lot of its recorded stuff, such as it was, was chucked away, unvalued and unwanted.
Amazing.... can't anyone find more of these programmes ?.
Such a shame more episodes do not survive. Are the 25 available anywhere ?.
Click the Raremovies link below the screen and send us your email address we have more episodes
Thank you so much !. I'll be in touch. Anton
We never missed an episode. Wonder what happened to Raymond Lockhart?
I think he died.
He lived in Eastbourne and, years ago when I was in my teens, I went out with his daughter, Caroline.
Raymond Francis was the actor's name. He played Chief Superintendent Lockhart.
Episode is entitled: 'The Widower'
I suppose this series was not saved? Too bad this series couldn't be revised for today's viewers
Period piece.
Don't inhale nicotine! it's poison!
By the way, this episode was broadcast on the 10th of March, 1961.
+Steven Chappell Here's smoke in your face, tool.
When Raymond Francis was 40 years of age.People looked a lot older in those days.Maybe it was the Brylcreem.Great show.
50 years old, he was born in 1911.
Six days after my wife and I got married .
woman in a nightie would be risky in the 50s
40:37 Dr who? Extraordinarily prescient for 1960.
actually Lockhart was a detective chief superintendent.
Fantastic, the doctor passing out cigarettes !
Robert Wadey Yes, at a time when the best part of my stay in an NHS Hospital was the cooked breakfast.
They were sold in a week known chemist as medication!
That was when police ossifers were proper Chaps instead of the callow, pimply yooves of today.
***** Yeah, I do.
Kiani Francis Still masons, though, but a better class of trouser lifter.
yes and murderers killed their simpering wives !
i remember the fore runner to this series i think it was called murder bag
To think...all of these people--EVERYONE seen and unseen in the episode is DEAD.
All killed by life
As we will all be in time
As a kid, Dad worked at a poultry farm, they used nicotine to kill chicken lice
wasn't Mike Baldwin (of Corrie) in this series
later on in the series eric lander was replaced by john/johnny briggs of coronation street fame
Well Potter seems to be the key. Harry...
Lol instantly a wizard popped to mind lol
I remember him in it. When he appeared in Crossroads in the early 70s I remember thinking that's the copper from No Hiding Place. He played Russell though, not Baxter. Baxter was played by Eric Lander throughout the entire run. Briggs played Det. Sgt. Russell (80 eps, 1962-1966). I was born in 1957 so would have missed the very early eps. My main recollection is of Briggs playing Russell. He was also in a lot of ads in the early 60s, such as chewing on a Wrigley's Spearmint Gum at Euston Tr. St.
You echo my thoughts my friend
No search warrant?
Lockhart. A proper copper. Not like the bloody Kevins and Waynes you get nowadays.
Sandwiches and coffee! Modest aspirations for master criminal!
Theme music by the late Laurie Johnson
Wasn’t the doctor in that Boris Karloff who was in Charge of queer complaints at Scotland Yard. (col March of Scotland Yard)What was it called it aired on Talking picture last year…
All nightshade plants contain nicotine. Such as potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers.
Just think, everytime you get an order of McDonald's fries and ketchup for your children? They're getting a healthy dose of nicotine.
Deangelo's APUSH anyone?
That was pretty shit hot! :-)
I hope the American viewers see the subtle differences between British Police dramas and American Police dramas: American television pumps out Search Warrants, Fingerprints, and Forensic information as if it was all in their top desk drawer all the time. The Brits proceed as if it were Real. AND the Brits don't use some dumbass Sergeant and his bumbling ways. British television - in writing, directing, acting, all are superior to American television. The American's do have better access to filming and lighting and props - but that's just window dressing.
+Inura Facititia You worry the Shinola people, Chumpetta.
Interestingly the original *radio* version of _Dragnet_ had more of a realistic aura to it than did the TV version. (To which show or shows does your "dumbass sergeant" reference pertain to?)
English television overall benefits from the country's theatrical tradition which has produced a multi-level farm system that furnishes the West End and the film and television production companies with well-trained actors and directors. English schools place a heavy emphasis on writing and the understanding of drama, ensuring more keenly plotted teleplays and more emphasis on character. And the tradition of scholarship can be seen in the excellent documentaries.
The film industry here in the US, as far as I can tell from my cursory study of its early years, seems to have been founded largely by men with Coney Island carney or Vaudeville sensibilities. The country's large population yielded an enormous customer base and vast profits could be made with the cinematic equivalent of pulp writing. The early movie moguls could use money to lure craftsman from abroad: English actors and directors of course, but also designers, cinematographers, from Britain and Europe. The 'studio look' is basically a German import. So the US industry has as good a level of physical craftmanship as England's but the latter-day heirs to the mogul tradition (possibly the only real 'tradition' in the business) still determine what is made and often their fingerprints can be seen all over the product.
So the two industries are two separate clubs run by very different types of people. I remember an interview with a retiring local Los Angeles radio talk show host who was born and raised in South Africa. He got into radio in his teens hosting live music broadcasts. Later he tried his luck in British radio but could make no headway because, he said, "I didn't have the education." A different corporate culture from the one here. I first knew of Jeremy Lloyd when he joined the cast of _Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In_ back in the early '70s. The producers apparently didn't know what to do with him, for he left a short time later. Then in the ensuing years I heard his "Captain Beakey" songs on the radio and saw his _Are You Being Served?_ series on PBS. He was back where he belonged; the only reason to come here was probably money.
No country is excellent at everything.
The theme for this series was stirringly orchestrated in the episodes that I remember from long ago: here it sound feeble. The episode itself looks amateurishly acted and with cheap sets, like something you might have seen on a tiny screen in the '50s. Maybe Redifusion spent more on later episodes: this one was a let-down.
You do know this was filmed in 1961, shown on ITV which at that time was only 6 years old and we still had small screen t.vs with 405 lines, changing to 625 later in the 60s
@@macraghnaill3553 I watched the "No Hiding Place" episodes on t.v. back in the early '60s and they had superior production-values to this preserved one: even the over-the-titles theme was better orchestrated. If they were done live, it's no wonder that Raymond Francis fluffed his lines.
Description - he was a non smoker!! Cigarette?
I b damned poisoned by his own hand.
Ooh, he cheated the hang man.
Remember watching this as a child in the60s. Johnny Briggs (later Crossroads' Cliff Hewitt and CST's Mike Baldwin) was in it.