Monday, March 24, 2014

THEORY OF RELATEEVEETY - THE JUDGE AND THE DESK SERGEANT



Desk Sgt. Flint of the Dock Green police station was a second cousin to Judge Lawrence Gascoigne of Hastings.  During World War II, Judge Gascoigne was murdered by his own wife when she found out that he was responsible for the death of a small boy in their care.  

SHOWS CITED:
'Dixon Of Dock Green'
'Foyle's War' - "A Lesson In Murder"

(This is not a case of "identical cousins".  Arthur Rigby played Sgt. Flint and decades later Oliver Ford Davies played Judge Gascoigne.  But there's just enough of a resemblance, at least to me, to make the suggestion that they are related.)

BCnU!

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