#audiences an opportunity to see him in the kind of tough gangster role he'd been known for earlier in his film career
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William Hartnell guests as a gangland boss and leader of London's underworld, Joss Crawford, in the pilot episode of Dial 999: The Killing Job (1.1, ABC, 1958)
#fave spotting#william hartnell#doctor who#dial 999#classic doctor who#one#classic tv#1958#abc#the killing job#this would have aired just as Hartnell's first stint on The Army Game was coming to an end‚ and would have afforded#audiences an opportunity to see him in the kind of tough gangster role he'd been known for earlier in his film career#he also says 'mmm?' a lot in this episode (which he definitely doesn't do so much in The Army Game) so ig that was a verbal tic that#predated DW... Dial 999 is such a weird little show. a rare case of ABC coproducing with an American outfit (Ziv Television Programs) makes#it one of the only half hour film serials from this era not to have ITC's sticky hands all over it. it's also copaganda of the most clunky#and unsubtle kind; Robert Beatty's Canadian mountie is in London to learn how policing happens here‚ which he does at length and with#much admiring voice over about the hardworking‚ brave‚ friendly‚ frankly amazing officers he meets and works alongside. the thing is it's#so clumsily done and so damn earnest that it actually succeeds in coming off as quite charming rather than tiresome#network have followed a mysterious order for their dvd set.. it doesn't match any of the (admittedly unreliable) transmission orders#available online but nor is it likely to be a true production order‚ as the four episodes Alvin Rakoff helmed as pilots (of which this is#the first) are not the four which open the first disc (only 1 and 2 do). ho hum it doesn't matter I suppose..... one thing we do know for#certain is that this was episode 1: Beatty arrives in London in the opening scene and explains why he's there#cue cockney mobsters cutting each other up as Bill Hartnell looks over his glasses and says hmm a lot#television heaven i tell you
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