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Seventy years ago a couple of chancing entrepreneurs decamped from New York to smoggy London, intent on making their fortune. The Danziger Brothers had made a career in dubbing foreign films for US release and had moved into film production in 1949, producing four features in a very crowded market before deciding that post-war Britain offered more opportunities.
It really shouldn't have worked, but the Danzigers' stringent cost control and strong work ethic paid off handsomely and they became arguably the world's most prolific independent supplier of television shows and 'B' movies, creating nearly 100 films and in excess of 300 TV episodes for the British and American market. Within four years they'd even built their own film studios.
Derided by people who haven't watched them as "quantity over quality" the Danziger series, much like The Avengers, exist in their own little alternate dimension - one populated by murderous grannies, devious spouses, middle-class schemers and double-crossing crooks, all mixed up with large helpings of charm, naïveté and casual murder! As the new owners of the Danziger archive, Network are delighted to present this evening's programme, complete with contemporary adverts, showcasing five corkers from the Danziger TV archive:
Saber of London: Full Moon
The redoubtable Saber - the world's first (and only!) one-armed television detective - is called in to track down a brutal murderer when a hotel maid finds a long-term guest dead in bed.
The Vise - Mark Saber: Bishops Sometimes Bite
Brian Clemens ably demonstrates his skill at writing tales of dramatic whimsy when the Bishop of Tricester calls in Saber to help after he overhears a professional hitman plotting a murder.
The Vise: The Final Column
From its first, anthology, series this standalone drama features an early role for Christopher Lee as a vindictive ex-PA who has no qualms in blackmailing his former employer.
The Cheaters: Mighty Warrior
Oscar-nominated actor John Ireland gives a laid back, dryly-humorous performance as a dogged insurance investigator - in this episode he investigates rum goings on amongst the horse-racing fraternity.
Richard the Lionheart: Crown in Danger
(yes we know the onscreen title is The Crown Jewels, but the Danzigers put the wrong title on back in 1961 - The Crown Jewels is an episode from later in the series).
Three of Richard's prisoners escape and take Sir Gilbert hostage. Richard and Blondel, with the aid of Tom the Tracker, set off in hot pursuit!
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