The Man In Room 17
Premiered: Jun 11, 1965 | 2 seasons | 26 episodes
Popularity: 3
| Creator: | Robin Chapman |
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| The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistants. The novelty of the series was that Oldenshaw and his colleagues never needed to leave their office in order to resolve cases, preferring to spend their time playing the Japanese board game of Go. They simply provided their prognosis and left the police to do the cleaning up. Different directors were often appointed to film the Room 17 and outside-world scenes independently, to maintain a sense of distance between the two worlds. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Vernon | Oldenshaw | 26 |
| Denholm Elliott | Imlac Defraits | 13 |
| Michael Aldridge | Dimmock | 13 |
| Anthony Hopkins | Dr. Harding | 1 |
| Lyndon Brook | Alan Haynes | 1 |
| Edward Chapman | Oliver Crawford | 1 |
| Dilys Laye | Karen | 1 |
| Jerome Willis | Guy Leduc | 1 |
| Colin Jeavons | Dr. Jim Pearson | 1 |
| Tony Steedman | James Hardacre | 1 |
| Terence Alexander | Paul Paragon | 1 |
| Derek Fowlds | Bruce | 1 |
| David Graham | Third Elder | 1 |
| Warren Mitchell | Petropolous | 1 |
| Peter Wyngarde | Paul Panacek | 1 |
| Neil Stacy | Seaman Giuseppe Fabbri | 1 |
| Dinsdale Landen | Peter Nash | 1 |
| Geoffrey Palmer | Ian McWatt | 1 |
| Geoffrey Keen | Robert Grimes | 1 |
| Roger Hammond | Bannerman | 1 |
| Barbara Jefford | Ursula Dallendorf | 1 |
| Vladek Sheybal | Yasha Saroya | 1 |
| Vladek Sheybal | Max Opals | 1 |
| Michael Gough | Andrei Konev | 1 |
| Meg Wynn Owen | Glynis Hughes | 1 |
| Ian Ogilvy | Pedro Da Silva | 1 |
| Mike Pratt | Jack Simpson | 1 |
| Mike Pratt | Lt. Manuel Rafael Achara | 1 |
| Christopher Benjamin | Chief Supt. Craythorpe | 1 |
| Brian Wilde | George Horton | 1 |
| Brian Wilde | Dr. Boddington | 1 |
| Frank Thornton | Chief Inspector Bascombe | 1 |
| Carol Cleveland | Marya Ference | 1 |
| Adrienne Corri | Lynne Crawshaw | 1 |
| Roy Marsden | Lt. David Stanton | 1 |
| Michael Robbins | C.P.O. Bradshaw | 1 |
| Hugh Burden | Charles Morrow | 1 |
| Barbara Knox | Barbara Mullaney | 1 |
| George Sewell | Shelton | 1 |
| Nicholas Courtney | Gilles | 1 |
| John Comer | Sgt. Thomas Lynch | 1 |
| Donald Pickering | Hatier | 1 |
| Rio Fanning | John Corry | 1 |
| Trevor Bannister | Martin Fowler | 1 |
| Danny Green | 'Kipper' Da Vinci | 1 |
| David Horne | Lord John Bower | 1 |
| Leonard Sachs | General René Gavreau | 1 |
| Eric Thompson | Manuel | 1 |
| John Stratton | Leonard Fitch | 1 |
| Jill Dixon | Moira Leigh | 1 |