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1. A Shot in the Night

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Retired hitman Art Gordo is offered big money to carry out one last killing. Dinsdale Landen stars in Jim Eldridge鈥檚 thriller.

Sick of the espionage business, professional hitman Art Gordo had quit the British Secret Service.

But then he's offered big money to carry out one last killing...

Starring Dinsdale Landen.

Jim Eldridge's five-part thriller adapted from his own 1972 novel.

Art Gordo 鈥�. Dinsdale Landen
Clarke 鈥�. Manning Wilson
Louise Lenehan 鈥�. Frances Jeater
Ben/Roberts 鈥�. Jon Croft
Joe/Ferguson 鈥�. Peter Craze
Charles Allweather 鈥�. Glyn Owen

Producer: John Fawcett-Wilson

First broadcast on the 麻豆社 World Service in May 1976.

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