The Revenue Men
1967
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 39 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 50 min/episode
The Revenue Men is a British television series, produced and transmitted by the BBC between 1967 and 1968.
The series dealt with cases handled by the Investigation Branch of Customs and Excise such as the illegal import of goods, illegal immigration and business transactions amongst travellers.
The Revenue Men was produced by Gerard Glaister. The series lasted for three series and 39 episodes in total. In spite of this fact, all of the episodes were later wiped, with no episodes extant in the BBC archives as of 2009.
Seasons
Season 1
The keen young Ross McInnes makes blunders when handling his first case since joining the Branch.
Season 2
Drayton, a perfectly normal and respectable businessman, is sacked from his job as general Manager of the Dynaflow company after only four weeks in office. The company has been bought out by a Mr. Purvis and the price is suspiciously low. Drayton contacts the I.B. and it doesn't take Smith long to realise that a colossal Purchase Tax swindle is in the making. The trouble is, how to prove it. And that's where Smith has to start playing the waiting game.
Season 3
A man called McGeely arrives in Scotland but cannot leave his ship because he has no papers. He claims he comes from Glasgow and mentions Sauchiehall Street as proof. But as the Customs men point out, everyone all over the world has heard of Sauchiehall Street. Smith and McInnes are after some smugglers who are bringing high quality jewellery into the country in small quantities. McGeely is given a piece to smuggle ashore but when he vanishes from the ship the smugglers have about as much idea as the Revenue men about where to find him. Who gets there first?
Crew
Producer
Gerard Glaister
Network
BBC Two