Premise and Characters

The series starred Millicent Martin

Millicent Martin

Millicent Mary Lillian Martin is an English actress, singer and comedienne.Martin was born in Romford, England. She made her Broadway debut opposite Julie Andrews in The Boy Friend in 1954...

 as a clairvoyant, Gladys Moon, and John Michie

John Michie

John Michie is a Scottish television and film actor, best known for his role as DI Robbie Ross in the STV Scottish detective television series Taggart and for playing Karl Munro in Coronation Street.-Early life:...

 as her very attractive psychic

Psychic

A psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception , or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot...

 son, Trevor Moon, who travelled between Folkestone

Folkestone

Folkestone is the principal town in the Shepway District of Kent, England. Its original site was in a valley in the sea cliffs and it developed through fishing and its closeness to the Continent as a landing place and trading port. The coming of the railways, the building of a ferry port, and its...

 in the UK

United Kingdom

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 and France

France

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, doing readings and selling occult

Occult

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 and astrological

Astrology

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 goods from their mobile "salon" (called "Visions") and getting involved in various adventures along the way. Trevor seemed to be waiting for his dead father's money, although he was secretly fond of Gladys, and she was fond of a tipple or two.

It co-starred Laure Killing as Cecille Coulmier, Trevor's girlfriend, and other characters included the zany Zelda (Anita Graham) as another clairvoyant/medium friend of Gladys's, Sergeant Eavis (Ian Redford

Ian Redford (actor)

Ian Redford is a British actor who has featured on stage, in film and on television in various roles, including that of pensioner Keith Appleyard in Coronation Street during 2005 and 2006...

) in the UK and Inspector Sardou in France (Patrick Drury

Patrick Drury

Patrick Drury is a character actor best remembered for playing shopkeeper John O'Leary in the Channel 4 comedy Father Ted. Drury was married to actress Caroline Langrishe before divorcing in 1995. They have two daughters, Rosalind and Leonie....

) who all assisted the duo through their adventures.

Despite reports that the BBC had already commissioned a second series before the first one aired, the show only ran for 13 episodes and was cancelled after series one. John Michie went on to star as Robbie Ross in the long-running "Taggart

Taggart

Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...

" TV series and "Bare Necessities", while Millicent Martin, already famous for "That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was, also known as TW3, is a satirical television comedy programme that was shown on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963. It was devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin and presented by David Frost...

" in the sixties, went on to star in the American soap "Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives

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" and as another Mrs Moon - Daphne's mother in the hit sitcom Frasier

Frasier

Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...

.

The series was created by Robert Banks Stewart

Robert Banks Stewart

Robert Banks Stewart is a former writer for television, now retired.He began as a story editor at Pinewood Studios and for Thames Television where he contributed scripts to the programmes Callan, Special Branch, The Sweeney and Owner Occupied.He also wrote The Avengers scripts The Master Minds...

, who also wrote for the long-running series The Avengers

The Avengers (TV series)

The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...

and Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

in the 1960s and 1970s. To this date the series has only been repeated once on Satellite TV and has never been released on DVD or video.

Episode list

• Crystal Clear It's Murder (pilot)
• S.O.S from a Gemini
• The Place of Cold Fires
• Where No Birds Sing
• The Chinese Medicine Man
• Star of Fortune
• GI Joe is missing
• Her Death was so Sudden
• Music in the Air
• The House of Capricorn
• A Foreign Body
• Past Present and Future
• Nearly Dearly Departed