Call the Gun Expert

[John Bisson]

Does anyone remember this drama serial about the pioneering gun & ballistics expert Robert Churchill? I think the programme was subtitled ' The Other Mr. Churchill'.
It was shown around June 1964 according to details from the web.
I remember some of the stories which were set inthe late 1920s & early 1930s & were investigations into strange causes of death, some deliberate, some accidental, involving various types of firearms.
Robert Churchill was played by Wensley Pithey.
Do any episodes survive at all? I have my doubts, given the obscurity of the serial, but I would love to be proved wrong, especially if any episodes are available to buy.

[andrew martin]

CALL THE GUN EXPERT
1. The Jockey Cap Case - 2/7/64
2. The Trick That Failed - 9/7/64
3. Green Bicycle - 16/7/64
4. Teenage Murderer - 23/7/64
5. The Whistling Copse - 30/7/64
6. Perfect Crime - 6/8/64

The series was made by the current affairs department on film, I think by the "Tonight" unit (they made lots of things, including "The Great War"). The series exists complete in the archive on 16mm b/w film. "The Other Mr Churchill" was the book that the series was based on. Producer was Jack Gold, narration was by Macdonald Hastings.

[John Bisson]

Thanks for the information, Andrew.
I'm pleased to hear that the series still exists in the archive.
The down side is, I suppose, that it is unlikey that it would ever be released on DVD/video. It is perhaps possible that it might surface
on a digital channel one day. Here's hoping!