Basic Info

First Air: November 13, 1954

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 4

Last Episode

Name: The Masterpiece

Season: 1, Episode: 36

Air Date: 1956-02-06

The body of an artist is found at his home in London, and it is discovered that the sketches he was working on have been burnt. Fabian discovers that the sketches were for a new painting he has been working on. His suspect is an art critic who has been crippled for years from a polio infection and walks with a crutch, but he needs evidence to convict the man.

Fabian of the Yard

1954

Overview

Fabian of the Yard is a British police procedural television series based on the real-life memoirs of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, produced by the BBC and broadcast between November 1954 and February 1956. It is considered the earliest plice procedural made for British TV, sharing many points of commonality with the U.S. series Dragnet. There were 36 episodes in total, of 30 minutes each. The first thirty were broadcast consecutively on Saturday evenings between 13 November 1954 and 22 June 1955, with the exceptions of Christmas Day and New Year's Day which happened to fall on a Saturday. For unknown reasons, the final six were held back, and later broadcast intermittently between November 1955 and February 1956.