THE COLLECTORS: Series 1 Episode 8: 'Rare Bird' (Customs and Excise Drama 1986)

Starring Peter McEnery Michael Billington Pierre Vaneck EPISODE PLOT: Charles Thieron snatches a White Snowbird falcon and sells it for £80.000. Calvin spots the bird in transit and Customs confiscates Thieron's birds. Thieron steals the falcon back. Sue Gibbons is spotted and now considered a suspect. ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 18th April March 1986, 20:15 on BBC One London Music composed by Composed By: Graham MacLean Written by: Ewart Alexander Script Editor: Joan Clark Designer: Tom Yardley Jones Producer: Geraint Morris Director: Keith Washington EPISODE CAST: Peter McEnery: Harry Caines Michael Billington: Tom Gibbons Lois Butlin: Alyson Bentley Jack McKenzie: Calvin Sampson Robert Burbage: Nigel Markham William Whymper: Bruce Tomlin Karen Drury: Sue Gibbons Pierre Vaneck: Charles Thieron Roy Purcell: Jack Langley Joseph Karimbeik: Sammy Mahkted(as Hossein Karimb) Julia Goodman: Annie Solstrom Kenny Ireland: Boswell Geoffrey Beevers: Franklin Madeleine Howard: Lady SERIES PLOT: The Collectors is a British television drama about Her Majesty's Customs and Excise in the fictional Dorset town of Wrelling. Produced by the BBC, one series of 10 episodes was first shown in 1986. Location scenes were filmed around the English resorts of Poole and Weymouth, in particular featuring the old Poole Customs House on the harbour. The series was broadcast between the 1st March and the 3rd of May 1986