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8 x 60 minute episodes

THE CAST

Peter Egan

Big Breadwinner Hog

Peter Egan played the title role in this London gangland underworld series from Granada. The unprecedented violence in the program led to many viewer complaints, right from the very first episode (probably why this otherwise brilliant series was so short lived).

Ruthlessly ambitious, long-haired and flash, Hog was the nemesis of the old-style London gangs as well as the police.

Robin Chapman produced and wrote the show, with Michael Apted and Mike Newell directing