Brandy For The Parson. 1952 film about jolly alcohol smugglers, filmed partly in Devon. Like Whisky Galore the #HMCustomsandExcise presence is peripheral (mainly Investigator Frederick Piper) but owners of the Ladybird book will probably enjoy uniforms and beards.

The Collectors (1986) was a short-lived BBC series, made with the co-operation of #HMCustomsandExcise - it starred Peter McEnery, Jack McKenzie and Michael Billington (who credited the series with killing off his UK acting career). exofficerx.blogspot.com/2024/10/cust...

Customs Movies: River Patrol and Forbidden Cargo Looking at how HM Customs and Excise was portrayed in the movies, the list is relatively small. I can only think of two. River Patrol. 19...

Another chance to see the 1948 #HMCustomsandExcise #Waterguard themed movie River Patrol from early Hammer Films on Talking Pictures TV at 20:00 this evening exofficerx.blogspot.com/2024/09/cust...

Customs On TV 4 - The Knock Despite the success of the 1987 BBC documentary series, The Duty Men, the failure of the 1986 series The Collectors made it hard for the B...

25 years after 'The Revenue Men', ITV produced another drama set in an #HMCustomsandExcise Investigation team with #TheKnock (1994) - David Morrissey, Alex Kingston, Anthony Valentine and Oliver Tobias were among the stars.
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Customs On TV 4 - The Knock Despite the success of the 1987 BBC documentary series, The Duty Men, the failure of the 1986 series The Collectors made it hard for the B...

The Knock (1994) starring David Morrissey as #HMCustomsandExcise investigator Gerry Birch exofficerx.blogspot.com/2024/10/cust...

In 1994, ITV produced The Knock, a drama series about #HMCustomsandExcise Investigation Division officers investigating gold fraud and other customs offences. Cast included Trevor Byfield, Malcolm Storrey and young fresh-faced David Morrissey. (link in replies).

4/ And in 1994, ITV followed on the BBC's coat tails with The Knock, a series about an #HMCustomsandExcise investigation division team starring #DavidMorrissey

2/ in 1986 BBC 1 explored the hairy wider world of #HMCustomsandExcise in The Collectors with Michael Billington, Jack McKenzie and Peter McEnery.

1/ A short history of #HMCustomsandExcise on TV - in 1967 BBC2 delivered the suave Scottish adventures of Ewen Solon as Caesar Smith of the Investigation Branch

Michael Billington

Jack McKenzie

It's 1986 and you too can be issued with a fine beard like the one Jack McKenzie is sporting if you join THE COLLECTORS, a long forgotten BBC1 series about #HMCustomsandExcise starring Michael Billington of THE ONEDIN LINE - link in comments ...

Customs on TV - The Revenue Men (1967-68) Ewen Solon, Callum Mill and James Grant The Revenue Men was a 1960’s BBC series about the Scottish division of HM Customs and Excise’s In...

THE DUTY MEN - lost BBC 2 series about #HMCustomsandExcise investigators from 1967 starring Ewen Solon of Maigret fame exofficerx.blogspot.com/2024/09/cust...

FORBIDDEN CARGO (1954) and RIVER PATROL (1948) - two movies about the thrilling world of #HMCustomsandExcise - link in comments -

Twitter post with photos of 1960 Look at Life film about Customs and Excise being shown on Talking Pictures TV.

Just in case you're hiding over here @captainswing666.bsky.social - some #HMCE history - or is it now the Brexit future on Talking Pictures TV at 2:30 #HMCustomsandExcise