Softly Softly: Task Force A Shot in the Dark (Season 8, Episode 13)
TV Episode | Crime, Drama

Softly Softly: Task Force

A Shot in the Dark (Season 8, Episode 13)

TV Episode | Crime, Drama

PC's Pearson and Lincoln are called to a factory break in. Pearson discovers an armed raider who fires a warning shot and flees. Insurance investigator Edward Letheridge offers John Watt a possible name of a recently released villain.

Director

Paul Ciappessoni

Writers

Robert Barr | Elwyn Jones (format creator)

Producer

Geraint Morris

Production Designer

Geoff Powell

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Updated Dec 1, 1976

Release date

Dec 1, 1976 (United Kingdom)

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12 cast members

Name	Known for
Frank Windsor Det. Chief Supt. Watt Det. Chief Supt. Watt See fewer	A for Andromeda (1961)
Norman Bowler Det. Chief Insp. Hawkins Det. Chief Insp. Hawkins See fewer	Emmerdale Farm (1972)
Peter Childs Det. Sgt. Grant Det. Sgt. Grant See fewer	West End Tales (1981)
Peter Clough PC Lincoln PC Lincoln See fewer	Send in the Girls (1978)
John Flanagan PC Pearson PC Pearson See fewer	Brazil (1985)
Peter Sallis Edward Letheridge Edward Letheridge See fewer	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Paul Angelis Billet Billet See fewer	Yellow Submarine (1968)
Patricia Hodge Chris Stroud Chris Stroud See fewer	The Elephant Man (1980)
Christine Hargreaves Jean Marshall Jean Marshall See fewer	An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Valerie Murray Miranda Jackson Miranda Jackson See fewer	Torchwood (2006)
Anton Phillips Jackson Jackson See fewer	Space: 1999 (1975)
Norman Hartley Rankin Rankin See fewer	Doctor Who (1963)