Sergeant Cork

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Sergeant Cork
Genre	Police drama
Created by	Ted Willis
Starring	John Barrie William Gaunt Charles Morgan Freddie Fowler Edward Ogden Arnold Diamond John Richmond Barry Raymond Peter Sallis Donald Morley[1]
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	6
No. of episodes	66
Production
Producer	Jack Williams
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	ATV
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	1963 (1963) – 1968 (1968)
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Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others.^[2] Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series.^[3]

A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "[e]xcellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie.^[4]

At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.