The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistants. The novelty of the series was that Oldenshaw and his colleagues never needed to leave their office in order to resolve cases, preferring to spend their time playing the Japanese board game of Go. They simply provided their prognosis and left the police to do the cleaning up. Different directors were often appointed to film the Room 17 and outside-world scenes independently, to maintain a sense of distance between the two worlds.
Richard Vernon
Michael Aldridge
Denholm Elliott
Willoughby Goddard
Julie Goodyear
Brian Wilde
Vladek Sheybal
Mike Pratt
Michael Robbins
Neil Stacy
Terence Alexander
Trevor Bannister
Peter Wyngarde
Warren Mitchell
Edward Chapman
Lyndon Brook
George Sewell
Derek Fowlds
Danny Green
Geoffrey Palmer
Roy Marsden
John Comer
John Quayle
Jayne Sofiano
Geoffrey Keen
Anthony Newlands
John Stratton
Leonard Sachs
Nicholas Courtney
Jerome Willis
Adrienne Corri
David Langton
Roger Hammond
Meg Wynn Owen
Dinsdale Landen
Barbara Jefford
Hugh Burden
Christopher Benjamin
David Horne
Michael Gough
Colin Jeavons
Rio Fanning
Eric Thompson
Ian Ogilvy
Anthony Hopkins
Barry Linehan
Carol Cleveland
Jill Dixon
Frank Thornton
Donald Pickering
Dilys Laye
Barbara Knox
Jan Waters
Scott Forbes
Denis Quilley
Tony Steedman
David Neal
Jameson Clark
Status:
Returning Series
Original Language:
English
Type:
Scripted
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