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Series · 1975–1975Ended

The Hanged Man

7.0·1 season·8 episodes·50 min avg.·United Kingdom

After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain 'dead' after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.

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01
Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of FortuneUp next
Feb 15, 1975

The wheel spins from a wounded scramble across moors to a wages robbery to raise funds for survival.

02
Tower of Destruction
Tower of Destruction
Feb 22, 1975

The tower is the high skeletal framework above a power station under construction. Burnett and Crowe go back over the private airfield and the ashes of the plane crash that killed Burnett's wife.

03
Knave of Coins
Knave of Coins
Mar 1, 1975

The Knave is an accountant in Locarno, protected by bodyguards and an electrified fence - the architect of embezzlement. And some of it is Burnett's money.

04
Chariot of Earth
Chariot of Earth
Mar 8, 1975

The chariot drives across the coast of Scotland where North Sea oil and the land where it will devour conflict in a struggle for the world's highest stakes. This is where one of Burnett's ex-partners realised ambition when he bought a Highland estate and its lairdship.

05
The Bridge Maker
The Bridge Maker
Mar 15, 1975

That's what they called Lew Burnett when he ran a contract in a totalitarian police state. If he goes back to find answers he will find himself accessory to corruption, under sentence of death, and will be chained to a prison wall.

06
Grail and Platter
Grail and Platter
Mar 22, 1975

The polished practitioners of organised crime in Detroit learn that Burnett is alive and can still provide something they want.

07
Laws of Fortune
Laws of Fortune
Mar 29, 1975

The laws are the tricky rules of high finance which Burnett has played all his commercial life and has to play again, on the run and under darkness.

08
Ring of Return
Ring of Return
Apr 5, 1975

Tons of concrete are poured onto a motorway bridge - and the police want Crowe and Burnett for murder.

Cast

3 credited
Gary Watson
John Quentin
Michael Williams
Alan Crowe
Colin Blakely
Lewis Burnett

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