| Hadleigh | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Robert Barr |
| Starring | Gerald Harper Peter Denis Ambrosine Phillpotts Alastair Hunter Hilary Dwyer Gillian Wray Gerald James Jane Merrow Jenny Twigge Georgina Melville Kathy Staff Peter Sallis Garfield Morgan Derek Benfield[1] |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 52 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company | Yorkshire |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | September 16, 1969 – May 28, 1976 |
| Related | |
| Gazette | |
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Hadleigh is a British television series that was produced by Yorkshire Television and originally ran from 1969 to 1976. Developed by Robert Barr, it was a sequel to the writer's earlier Gazette (1968) for the same company.[2] The theme music was composed by Alan Moorhouse and, from series 3, Tony Hatch.
James Hadleigh, played by Gerald Harper, was "the perfect squire, paternalistically careful of his tenantry's welfare, beloved in the village, respected in the council." A "knight in a shining white Aston Martin V8 (actually a Monteverdi 375L), he sets about correcting local injustices".[3] His wife, from a suburban middle-class background, was played by Hilary Dwyer. The series attracted around 17 million viewers at its peak.
- ^ "Hadleigh (1969-1976)".
- ^ Tise Vahimagi "Barr, Robert (1909-1999)", BFI screenonline
- ^ Clive James Visions Before Midnight ISBN 0-330-26464-8