The Hanged Man is a British

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 crime

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 drama

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 series

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 that aired on ITV

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 in 1975. It was created and written by Edmund Ward.

Cast

• Colin Blakely
  Colin Blakely
  Colin George Blakely was a Northern Irish character actor. He was considered an actor of great range.-Early life:...
  
   - Lew Burnett
• Michael Williams - Alan Crowe
• Gary Watson
  Gary Watson
  Gary Watson is a retired British television actor who started out as a stage actor most notably acting in Friedrich Hebbel's 1962 play Judith at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, England with Sean Connery...
  
   - John Quentin
• John Rees - Brian Nelson
• Angela Browne - Elizabeth Hayden
• Brian Croucher
  Brian Croucher
  Brian Croucher is an English actor and director perhaps best known for his role as Ted Hills, which he played from 1995 to 1997, in the soap opera EastEnders....
  
   - Sammy Grey
• William Lucas
  William Lucas (British actor)
  William Lucas is a British film and television actor. His first acting role was in the film Portrait of Alison , and later appeared in many Hammer Film Productions such as Shadow of the Cat. He is probably best known for his role in The Adventures of Black Beauty as Dr...
  
   - George Pilgrim
• Frank Wylie - David Larson
• Julian Glover
  Julian Glover
  Julian Wyatt Glover is a British actor best known for such roles as General Maximilian Veers in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, the Bond villain Aristotle Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only, and Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.-Personal life:Glover was born in...
  
   - Joe Denver
• Jenny Hanley
  Jenny Hanley
  Jenny Hanley is an English actress, the daughter of Dinah Sheridan and Jimmy Hanley.She remains best known for being one of the presenters of the ITV children's magazine programme Magpie....
  
   - Druscilla
• Peter Halliday
  Peter Halliday
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   - Jean-Claud de Salle
• John Bay
  John Bay
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   - Sam Lambert
• William Russell
  William Russell (actor)
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   - Peter Kroger
• Michael Coles - Hans Ericksen
• Gareth Hunt
  Gareth Hunt
  Alan Leonard Hunt was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.-Early life:...
  
   - Eddie Malone
• Jack Watson
  Jack Watson (actor)
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   - Douglas McKinnon
• Bill Mitchell - Harry Friedman
• Alan MacNaughtan
  Alan MacNaughtan
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   - Charles Galbraith

Plot

Lew Burnett is a self-made man who owns a huge construction company. However, his success has bred resentment and after his wife is killed in a plane crash a third attempt is made on Lew's life. He then decides to pretend to be dead to avoid any more attempts on his life and find out who is trying to kill him and why. He is helped by Alan Crowe, an old friend. Burnett travels around the world to trace the nine potential suspects. In each episode, Burnett is caught up in a fight of some sort.

Episodes

1. "Wheel of Fortune" (15 February 1975)
2. "Tower of Destruction" (22 February 1975)
3. "Knave of Coins" (7 March 1975)
4. "Chariot of Earth" (14 March 1975)
5. "The Bridge Maker" (14 March 1975)
6. "Grail and Platter" (21 March 1975)
7. "Laws of Fortune" (28 March 1975)
8. "Ring of Return" (5 April 1975)

Turtle

The series also introduces a shady thief called Turtle played by John F Landry

John F Landry

John Francois Landry is a British character actor born in Nairobi, Kenya.Landry is best known for roles in Coronation Street, Public Eye, The Avengers, The Sandbaggers, and Minder....

. This character would later have his own series called Turtle's Progress

Turtle's Progress

Turtle's Progress is a British television series broadcast between 1979 and 1980.The series was an ITV ATV Drama, and dealt with a petty criminal named Turtle and his minder, "Razor" Eddie , who by accident come into possession of the proceeds of a major bank robbery...

.