| Mild-mannered robot private detective Dick Spanner was the suitably square-jawed titular hero of Dick Spanner, P.I., a tongue-in-cheek British series produced the Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson. The series was made up 22, 6 minute episodes, that followed two story arcs, "The Case Of The Human Cannonball" and "The Case Of The Maltese Parrot". The show parodied hard-boiled detective noire movies. Set in a highly stylized, futuristic universe, the tongue-in-cheek show has Dick cracking jokes as he's immersed in the bizarre mysteries. |
The programme was originally broadcast in the UK as a segment of the cult Sunday morning magazine TV show Network 7 on Channel 4, and was later repeated in a late night slot.
| The series was created, co-written and directed by Terry Adlam, who worked on the special effects for the Anderson series Terrahawks in the 1980s. The voice of Dick Spanner, was provided by Canadian actor Shane Rimmer, who was the voice of Scott Tracy in the most famous Anderson series of the 1960s, Thunderbirds. Another piece of trivia about Rimmer is that he has appeared as a bit-part actor in more James Bond movies than any other actor. | |
