
Original title
The Gamblers
Released
9/26/1967
Origin country
GB
Production companies
Associated-Rediffusion Television
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
20
This anthology drama series from Associated-Rediffusion presented stories of people who take a gamble – sometimes with their lives – in order to prove a point or better their position.


This anthology drama series from Associated-Rediffusion presented stories of people who take a gamble – sometimes with their lives – in order to prove a point or better their position.

A Jew gambles his whole upbringing on marrying a gentile to prove love is all you need.





Stars Ralph Michael as ageing General Cudlipp, who lived in a home for retired officers and Ronnie Barker as Llewellyn Smiley, the commissionaire at the local cinema who Cudlipp gambles can pass for a retired officer.


A miner gambles that him staying down a mine on his own, will bring in the press and bring attention to the amount of pits closing down around the country.

A bridge offers a gamble during the 1944 Normandy Landings.


Stars John Binden as Patsy Fagan, a man imprisoned for thirty years who plots his escape with his brother, John (Robert Russell).





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