Crane
Richard Crane (Patrick Allen) gave up his day job, bought
himself a boat and moved to
Casablanca to run a café - with a bit of smuggling on the side
for pocket money!
Just to make life even more perfect, a gorgeous exotic dancer
called Halima (Laya Raki) looked after the caff whenever he was
away at sea doing a spot of the old "import/export" with
his 'business' partner, ex-French Foreign Legionnaire Orlando
O'Connor (Sam Kydd).
Fortunately, Moroccan Chief of Police, Mahmoud (Gerald Flood)
was always on hand, just to make sure it wasn't completely beer
and skittles for Crane - although there were times when the two
men joined forces to work against 'poper' criminals.
Sam Kydd took his character into a spin-off children's series,
simply called Orlando, in 1965 - because you know that
kiddies can just never have enough smuggling!
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