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1963 - 1965 0.0 (0 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Action & Adventure Crime
Networks
ITV1
Created By
Jordan Lawrence
Patrick Alexander

Crane

Overview

The adventures of Richard Crane, cafe owner & part-time smuggler, around the coast of Morocco, aided (and sometimes abetted) by his ex-Foreign Legion sidekick Orlando, waitress Halina, and local cop Colonel Mahmoud.

Key Crew

Producer: Jordan Lawrence

Top Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1963)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Death of No Importance
1963-04-02

Crane relentless hunts a killer through a killer through the streets of Casablance. He has good reason to find the man: The murderer was responsible for killing Crane's friend.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Bad Company
1963-04-09

Orlando's favourite saying 'Pick up a strange woman and you pick up trouble' because a terrifying reality when Crane offer a lift to a young hitch-hiker.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Cannabis Syndicate
1963-04-16

Crane and Colonel Mahmoud find themselves up against a murder-for-sale syndicate – a mysterious organisation which threatens to end both their careers unless they strike first.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: My Deadly Friend
1963-04-23

It appears that someone is overly anxious to have Crane arrested on false charges. Who is behind the threats? Determined to find out, Crane receives a nasty surprise.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Executioners
1963-04-30

When Crane and Orlando give assistance to a wounded man, being hunted in Casablanca, they find themselves facing a new and deadly threat to their careers.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Yesterday's Woman
1963-05-07

Someone is trying to murder the beautiful Madeleine. The plan is an ingenious one. So ingenious that Crane has his work cut out trying to find the culprit. But he must - before an innocent man is convicted of the crime.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Price of Friendship
1963-05-14

When Haufmann's boat docks at Casablanca, Mahmoud – and Crane – show interest. Both are looking for a gang of thieves — one of whom could be a ruthless killer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Three Days to Die
1963-05-21

Though all the evidence points to the man being guilty of murder, Crane believes otherwise, and sets out to prove the man's innocence. There's just one snag — he has only three days in which to do so.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: My Brother's Keeper
1963-05-28

A callous murderer is hiding in Casablanca. Mahmoud, faced with the traditional loyalties to the Foreign Legion, is helpless to arrest him. The policeman seeks Crane's help.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Unwanted
1963-06-04

Crane decides to take in a homeless, hungry orphan, unaware of the trouble to come – or the danger he's placing the lives of himself and those he cares about in.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Return of a Hero
1963-06-11

Having rescued a man being pursued though the dark streets of Morocco, Crane finds himself faced with an intriguing mystery — one which somehow includes a yellow rabbit.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Golden Attraction
1963-06-18

When a corpse is discovered in a new grave, Crane has his reasons for not getting involved. But fate has a way of changing one's mind — and that's when his troubles begin.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: A Case of Dolls
1963-06-25

When Crane and Orlando discover a box floating in the sea, its contents bring many surprises – not all welcomed by the two men, who find themselves prey to a group of very nasty rogues.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 2 (1964)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Death of Marie Vetier
1964-01-13

A beautiful and desperate women brings murder and treachery into Crane's life. The smuggler learns the hard way just how dangerous such a combination can be.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Epitaph for a Fat Woman
1964-01-20

When his friend's son fails to arrive home from school, Crane and Orlando follows a trail that leads to death and heartbreak for his group of friends.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Dead Reckoning
1964-01-27

Despite his reservations to do so, Crane allows himself to become involved in getting a man out of prison - unfortunately for all concerned, the man is very nasty piece of work - and Crane nearly gets killed in the attempt.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 4: Picture of My Brother
1964-02-03

Faced with bringing The Venda gang - a ruthless bunch of killers - the justice, Colonel Mahmoud seeks Crane's help, and all hell breaks lose on the Morocco streets.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 5: Two Rings for Danger
1964-02-10

The brother of a murdered man becomes suspicious when he's told that Crane was the last person to see his brother alive. So does Colonel Mahmoud - and that spells trouble for Crane.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 6: Death Is a Black Camel
1964-02-17

Mahmoud and Crane share an uneasy alliance. The policeman must solve a baffling case, and Crane is asked to keep a strange rendezvous - a meeting from which he may not return

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 7: The Secret Assassin
1964-02-24

Crane is invited to the palace of Mouley Ahmed as his honoured guest. But the reception he gets give him cause to doubt the true nature of his 'friend' invitation.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 8: A Mouthful of Ashes
1964-03-02

When Crane gives Orlando a ticket for the theatre, he has no idea that he is sending his friend into danger - or that he himself will become involved before the day is through.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 9: Recoil
1964-03-09

When the Contessa d'Avezzano invites Crane and Orlando to her villa, she has more than a dinner date on her mind. It's an invitation to murder - with Crane as the main course.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 10: Gypsy's Warning
1964-03-16

When Philipe plans to take revenge on a police informer, a turn of the cards from Gypsy leads Crane into violence ans murder - and the shadow of death looms dark over his friends.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 11: Knife in the Dark
1964-03-23

Orlando is suspected of murder. That night he left Crane's café after a quarrel, and the following morning he was found on the beach with blood on his hands.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 12: Murder Is Waiting
1964-03-30

A killer lies hidden in Casablanca. The police are on his trial - and so is Crane who, after receiving a strange invitation, finds himself with mortal danger.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 13: Man Without a Past
1964-04-06

Crane finds himself up against a group of a thieves who have decided that the only way to stop Crane clearing an innocent man's name is to have shot on sight.

Runtime: N/A min
Season 3 (1964)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Death Is a Closed Door
1964-10-26

Through he desperately wishes to do so, Crane cannot help when a friend seeks his aid on a mission of great importance which could save the life life of a threatened man.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 2: T.N.T.
1964-11-02

In the hands of experts, dynamite holds few dangers. But in the hands of men determined to use the explosive for their own greedy ambitions, it can - and does - become a dangerous threat to Crane's life.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 3: The Third Bullet
1964-11-09

A telephone call from an unknown woman puts Crane in the firing line - and the assassin's bullet has name on it. Can Mahmoud find the killer before Crane ceases to be a 'problem'?

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 4: A Danger to Others
1964-11-16

When Julie Lamont disappears, Crane and Orlando are asked to find her, but their investigations lead them to believe that the girl has been abducted - and most likely murdered. Neither are ready for the surprises in store.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 5: Death Walks Beside Me
1964-11-23

When his old friend Johnnie comes to Crane for help, the smuggler believes his request is impossible. Or is it? Crane must decide one way or the other - Johnnie's life depends on it.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 6: The Man with the Big Feet
1964-11-30

When a local mystic called The Master relates a prophecy of death to Orlando. Crane must decide if his powers are real - or simply a cover for something far more mysterious.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 7: In Trust Find Treason
1964-12-07

When Colonel Mahmoud's reputation comes under threat. Crane finds himself coming to Mahmoud's defence - news that breaks Orlando's face into laughter. He soon regret his merriment.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 8: The Painted Lady
1964-12-14

Crane's meeting with Louisa May have been chance, but what happens shortly afterwards is cold-blooded and deliberate - and Crane has cause to rue the day he met the girl.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 9: Moving Target
1964-12-21

When Colonel Mahmoud's life comes under threat from an old enemy - a military man out to seek revenge - Crane once again steps into the firing line in an attempt to save the policeman's life.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 10: A Cargo of Cornflour
1964-12-28

Offered a job transporting a cargo of flour, Crane becomes when his employers refuse to allow him to inspect the cargo prior to shipment, and his crew (Orlando) goes missing.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 11: A Violent Animal
1965-01-04

A new threat to Crane's existence arrives in Morocco - a man brought from the mainland to execute our hero. It appear that Crane's smuggling activities have made him enemies - one of whom wants him dead.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 12: The Death of Karaloff
1965-01-11

Colonel Mahmoud has a problem. He's been ordered to keep Karaloff, a known criminal and a sworn enemy of Mahmoud's, alive, but he's loath to do so - so the policeman seeks Crane's help.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 13: The Man in the Gold Waistcoat
1965-01-18

If it hadn't been for the waistcoat, Crane wouldn't have become involved in the death of a man found in the desert. He did become involved - and now he's running for his life from a band of men intent on killing him.

Runtime: N/A min

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