![Frederick Piper](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/g8O3r1EvBrnZu8MRTG3LVo9XmCO.jpg)
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.