The Hanged Man

50min

Drama

Crime

After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.

Episodes

Cast

Wheel of Fortune

1. Wheel of Fortune

51min

15th Feb 1975

The wheel spins from a wounded scramble across moors to a wages robbery to raise funds for survival.

Tower of Destruction

2. Tower of Destruction

51min

22nd Feb 1975

The tower is the high skeletal framework above a power station under construction. Burnett and Crowe go back over the private airfield and the ashes of the plane crash that killed Burnett's wife.

Knave of Coins

3. Knave of Coins

51min

1st Mar 1975

The Knave is an accountant in Locarno, protected by bodyguards and an electrified fence - the architect of embezzlement. And some of it is Burnett's money.

Chariot of Earth

4. Chariot of Earth

51min

8th Mar 1975

The chariot drives across the coast of Scotland where North Sea oil and the land where it will devour conflict in a struggle for the world's highest stakes. This is where one of Burnett's ex-partners realised ambition when he bought a Highland estate and its lairdship.

The Bridge Maker

5. The Bridge Maker

51min

15th Mar 1975

That's what they called Lew Burnett when he ran a contract in a totalitarian police state. If he goes back to find answers he will find himself accessory to corruption, under sentence of death, and will be chained to a prison wall.

Grail and Platter

6. Grail and Platter

51min

22nd Mar 1975

The polished practitioners of organised crime in Detroit learn that Burnett is alive and can still provide something they want.

Laws of Fortune

7. Laws of Fortune

51min

29th Mar 1975

The laws are the tricky rules of high finance which Burnett has played all his commercial life and has to play again, on the run and under darkness.

Ring of Return

8. Ring of Return

51min

5th Apr 1975

Tons of concrete are poured onto a motorway bridge - and the police want Crowe and Burnett for murder.

First air date

15th Feb 1975

Last air date

5th Apr 1975

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks