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Sports reporter Ken Wordsworth, beset by financial and marital problems, reluctantly adjusts to the demands of a tabloid newspaper.
Last Episode Aired
1986-01-28
S1E10 — Our Man on the Spot
Ken gets a job on local radio and is heading to Zagreb to cover a European boxing title fight but he misses the flight and has to do his commentary in a London hotel. After messing up the last round he decides he to return to newspapers.
Billed Cast
David Warner
Ken Wordsworth
Eric Allan
Reg Prosser
Gil Brailey
Alison
Lee Whitlock
Charlie Wordsworth
David Horovitch
Russell de Vries
Peter-Hugo Daly
Steve Stevens
Richard Ireson
Frank McNab
Tilly Vosburgh
Ruby
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