Interpol Calling

Interpol Calling was a 1959 Rank Organisation and Jack Wrather Productions television crime drama series for ITC Entertainment. The series, which ran for one season of 39 half-hour monchrome episodes, followed the adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.

Series outline

Opening titles voiceover:

"Crime knows no frontiers. To combat the growing menace of the international criminal, the police forces of the world have opened up their own national boundaries. At their headquarters in Paris, scientifically equipped to match the speed of the jet age, sixty-three nations have linked together to form the International Criminal Police Organisation, INTERPOL!"

Main cast

• Charles Korvin as Inspector Paul Duval
• Edwin Richfield as Inspector Jean Mornay

Recurring characters;

• Roland Bartrop as Grimond, French police
• George Pastell as Pagano, Italian police

• Guest stars included Mai Zetterling, Patrick Troughton, David Kossoff, Warren Mitchell, Nanette Newman, and Donald Pleasence.

Episode list

Airdate is for ATV MidlandsBefore 1968 ATV transmitted weekdays in the Midlands and weekends in London. See History of ITV ITV regions varied date and order. Production number from PDF summary of episodes on the Network DVD..

DVD release

Network DVD released the series in December 2010. Episodes 25 and 30 have the end credits......
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