William "Spider" Scott, played by Stephen Yardley, is a career criminal who has just finished his latest stint in prison and has vowed to go on the straight and narrow. Unfortunately his burgling talents are such that the British Secret Service and various criminal elements want him to work for them. Hardened police detective Sergeant George Bulman, played by Don Henderson, wants nothing more than to see Scott back in jail.
Given the 1970-1977 time period during which the novels and series were originally written, the erroneous premise comes as little surprise. Soon after the series aired, an academic paper stated that the conditional probability fallacy concerning the explanation of the genetics was the cause of the myth having become conventional wisdom until scientific studies proved otherwise.
The characters of Detective Bulman and his assistant Derek Willis were so popular that they earned two spin-off series: Strangers in 1978 and Bulman in 1985. Kenneth Royce penned three followup novels featuring the characters in 1986 and 1996. As for the show itself, all 13 episodes were released as a DVD box set in 2007 but this set was encoded for Region 2 only.
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