Ghost Squad

Competition: See below

Starring: Michael Quinn, Nick Craig, Donald Wolfit, Angela Browne
Directed by: n/a
Review: Dave Burbidge
Release date: 21st Jan 2008

This was a highly acclaimed ITC drama which hasn't been seen in any format since it was first broadcast between 1962 and 1964, all thirty-nine episodes will be available to buy on DVD from all good retailers nationwide on 21st January 2008 in a ten-disc set.

Sought after by ITC aficionados and fans of action-based television the world over, this cult show stars Michael Quinn (Dallas, The Bionic Woman) as Nick Craig, renowned stage actor Sir Donald Wolfit (Becket, Room at the Top) as Sir Andrew Wilson and Angela Browne (The Prisoner, Rockliffe’s Babies) as Helen Winters. They are members of the ‘Ghost Squad’, an elite team of international undercover operatives whose job it is to infiltrate themselves into situations that are either too sensitive or too hazardous for normal government agents to undertake.

Join them for a mixture of mystery, espionage and highly entertaining drama in this larger-than-life show that has all the hallmark qualities that people associate with other Lew Grade productions like Danger Man, The Prisoner and The Saint.

The show also features performances from top flight guest stars including Alfred Burke (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Angry Silence, Public Eye), William Hartnell (Doctor Who, Odd Man Out, This Sporting Life), Honor Blackman (The Avengers, Goldfinger), Warren Mitchell (Jabberwocky, In Sickness and in Health) and Anton Diffring (Thriller, Where Eagles Dare), with scripts by Tony O’Grady (a.k.a. Brian Clemens – The Avengers, The Professionals, Thriller), Robert Holmes (Doctor Who), Leon Griffiths (Minder), Philip Levene (The Avengers), Louis Marks (Doomwatch) and Reed de Rouen (Man in a Suitcase).

This box set also contains what remains of the sequel series – GS5. No complete episodes exist but the available remaining insert film footage and an image gallery is included in this package.

RRP: £59.99

Running Time: 1,950 minutes (approximately)

Series One

Hong Kong Story, Bullet With My Name On It, Ticket for Blackmail, Broken Doll, High Wire, Eyes of the Bat, Still Waters, Assassin

Million Dollar Ransom, Catspaw, The Green Shoes, Princess, Death from a Distance

Series Two

Interrupted Requiem, East of Mandalay, Sentences of Death, The Golden Silence, The Retirement of the Gentle Dove, The Missing People

Lost in Transit, The Man With Delicate Hands, Hot Money, The Grand Duchess, A First Class Way to Die

Series Three:

Quarantine at Kavar, The Big Time, The Last Jump, Escape Route, Mr. Five Per Cent, The Heir Apparent, Death of a Sportsman, PG7

Polsky, The Magic Bullet, The Menacing Mazurka, Gertrude, The Thirteenth Girl, Sabotage

COMPETITION

We have a boxed set to win, courtesy of Network DVD. To enter just tell us which series of plays did Wolfit abridge during WW2. Closes 15th Feb 2008