Duffy Calls the Tune
Music lover, Duffy Clayton winds up in a spot of trouble by keeping the wrong company. Can Dixon help his old friend?
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"Dixon of Dock Green goes back in time. Duffy Calls the Tune is a lost episode that only recently showed up at the BBC archives. It had led to a rapid transmission. So we are back to stories written by Ted Willis. Shows that were recorded live going by some of the fluffs. PC Dixon talks about old lags like the classical music loving Duffy Clayton or his friend Charlie Thomson who has just been released from prison. The latter is a habitual burglar but not the type who uses violence even though he has muscles like Tarzan. However Charlie is in trouble. He stole from a gangster called McDonald..."
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In February 2024 it was announced that a film print of this episode, long believed lost, had been loaned to the BBC Archives for copying by a film collector. UK broadcasters Talking Pictures TV, giving the series (or rather, the surviving editions) its first ever repeat run, aired it on March 30th 2024.
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Music lover, Duffy Clayton winds up in a spot of trouble by keeping the wrong company. Can Dixon help his old friend?