Fabian of Scotland Yard

Fabian of Scotland Yard
Bruce Seton as Fabian
Genre	Police procedural
Written by	Robert Fabian Brock Williams Ian Stuart Black
Directed by	Charles Saunders Alex Bryce Montgomery Tully Bernard Knowles
Starring	Bruce Seton Robert Raglan
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	36
Production
Producer	John Larkin
Cinematography	Brendan J. Stafford
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	BBC, Trinity Productions Ltd., Telefilm Enterprises
Original release
Network	BBC Television
Release	13 November 1954 (1954-11-13) – 6 February 1956 (1956-02-06)
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Fabian of Scotland Yard^[1] is a British police procedural television series based on the real-life memoirs of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, shown by the BBC although unusually for the time produced for them independently by Trinity Productions, and broadcast between November 1954 and February 1956. It is considered the earliest police procedural to be made for British TV, sharing many points of commonality with the U.S. series Dragnet which had gone on air in 1951.

There were 36 episodes in total, of 30 minutes each. The first 30 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 episodes were held back, and were later broadcast intermittently between November 1955 and February 1956. The series was later broadcast in the U.S. under the titles Fabian of Scotland Yard or Patrol Car.^[2]