The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night

The read

It runs a compact 50m.

Synopsis

Written by Terry Nation, Robert Hardy plays the eponymous hero of this 1972 one-off BBC drama; an occult detective who travels around in a lavish, bulletproof locomotive called 'The Tsar'. Along with his assistants Thomas and Caleb (Julian Holloway and John Rhys-Davies) Baldick is called in to investigate the latest in a series of brutal deaths at a desolate abbey.

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Key crew

• Terry NationWriter
• Cyril CokeDirector

Cast

• Robert HardyDoctor Sir Robert Baldick
• Julian HollowayThomas Wingham
• John Rhys-DaviesCaleb Selling
• James CossinsPeter Elmstead
• Reginald MarshCharles Aldington
• Barry AndrewsSeth Marden
• Anna MartineSarah Chislet
• Paul HumpoletzWalter Sturry
• Ron WellingDaniel Pluckly
• Dave MobleyLenham (uncredited)