This the gentlest of TV police series started in 1955 continuing through to 1976 - indeed becoming, at the time the longest running police television series. The star Jack Warner, was already familiar to the British public as an actor and comedian before becoming PC George, later to be Sargeant Dixon. Despite Z Cars and Softly Softly, Dixon still in the 1960's attracted nearly 14,000,000 viewers weekly. This is an edited 'snippet' from a 1973 episode 'Firearms were issued' written by N.J. Crisp. The Copyright in this video segment belongs to the BBC. © BBC 1973

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