Ghost Squad
Ghost Squad, known as G.S.5 for its third series, was a crime drama series about an elite division of Scotland Yard that ran between 1961 and 1964. Each episode the Ghost Squad would investigate cases that fell outside the scope of normal police work. Despite the show and characters being fictional, an actual division did exist within the Metropolitan Police Service at the time. Inspiration for the series was taken from a book of the same name, written by John Gosling - a retired police officer and former member of the team. Although the real-life squad only operated in London, the fictionalised team travelled internationally; however - as was typical of the time - most foreign locations were actually a combination of stock footage and sets at Independent Artists Studio at Beaconsfield and Elstree Studios. Music was by Philip Green. The show was produced by ITC Entertainment, along with Rank Organisation TV and ATV. It was the first ITC show filmed to fit the one hour time-slot - setting the trend for the ...
Details
- First aired
- 9 Sept 1961
- Seasons
- 3
- Episodes
- 52
- TMDB 6.0
- Last aired
- 16 May 1964
- Genres
Crime Drama
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- Associated Television
- Episode runtime
- 1 h
- Countries
GB
- Original language
- en
- Original title
- Ghost Squad
- Cast
- Writers
John Lucarotti Robert Holmes Lewis Davidson Gerald Kelsey Louis Marks Basil Dawson
