9 July 1979 (1979-07-09) – 24 August 1982 (1982-08-24)
Spooners Patch is a British television sitcom, written by Ray Galton and Johnny Speight.[1] It ran for 3 series and 19 episodes and was made and broadcast from 9 July 1979 to 24 August 1982 on the ITV network, by ATV.[2]
Plot
It is set in a police station in the fictional London suburb of Woodley. The title character of Spooner (Ronald Fraser, then Donald Churchill) is the inspector in charge who is engaged in various corrupt ventures and lives above the station. The other main characters are the officers who work under him, including a detective played by Peter Cleall who thinks he is from Starsky & Hutch and drives around in a Ford Anglia in the same red and white colour scheme as their Ford Torino. Patricia Hayes appeared in the second two series as a traffic warden.[3]
