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The View From Daniel Pike

The View From Daniel Pike – 1971

The show only ever head fifteen episodes and ran for around fifty minutes on BBC 2 through to 1974. The show was based in Glasgow and followed the private detective “Pike” as he struggled with crime in the Glasgow of the 1970s.

Directors
Frank Cox
Prudence Fitzgerald
Roderick Graham
Quentin Lawrence
Robert McIntosh

Writers
Robert Barr
Edward Boyd creator
Jeremy Burnham
Anthony Coburn
John Cresswell
James MacTaggart
Nick McCarty
Jan Read

Producers
Anthony Coburn
Keith Williams

Cast
Roddy McMillan – Daniel Pike

70′s Televison

What an amazing piece of kit our telly was. Can you imagine having to change channel by turning a knob to tune in BB2 and forever getting up to realign the aerial and contrast, and the only way to stop the picture from rolling was to give the set a good thump? Do you remember that we only have three channels to watch? Thinking about it, the conversation was better at school next day as everyone seemed to be watching the same thing unlike nowadays where we have too much choice. Aye, the quality of programmes seem to have dwindled when you think back to what we had in our days.