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Turtle's Progress

DramaComedy

Turtle's Progress is a British television series broadcast between 1979 and 1980. The offbeat humour of the show attracted a small but cult audience, and the show only ran for two series.

Apr 23, 19792 seasons13 episodesEndedEN

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Michael Attwell

Razor Eddie

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Leueen Willoughby

Anthea Goodliffe

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Seasons

Season 1

7 episodes

Premiered Apr 23, 1979

Season 2

6 episodes

Premiered May 30, 1980

Episodes

1–6 of 7

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Ep 1

Box One

Apr 23, 1979

50m

Turtle opens the first of the safe deposit boxes. Its owner is a crooked gentleman named Bullitt who runs a protection racket with publicans as his victims, and there is enough evidence in the box to put him away for several years. Turtle, who is very fond of publicans, plans to turn the tables on him.

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Ep 2

Box Two

Apr 30, 1979

50m

Turtle and Eddie's next hoard contains, in Supt. Rafferty's words, "skeletons from cupboards, dynamite, and the dirt from under a lot of carpets." And they would rather not be in posession of a war-hero general's last will and testament - particularly when his throat-cutting ex-colour sergeant shows up.

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Ep 3

Box Three

May 7, 1979

50m

Turtle and Eddie find themselves in posession of papers belonging to Al Shapiro, one of the most ruthless contract assassins in the business. With enough incriminating evidence to earn him life sentences in several countries, the pair are handling something more dangerous than dynamite!

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Ep 4

Box Four

May 14, 1979

50m

Box number four is the property of one Ras Patel, a vicious property racketeer who is exploiting poverty-stricken Asian immigrants while running a highly corrupt empire in his native country. Turtle quickly sees an opportunity to perform a philanthropic deed - at no cost to himself.

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Ep 5

Box Five

May 21, 1979

50m

Shocks for Turtle and Razor Eddie - Rafferty announces on television that he has one of the first real leads on the case of the missing deposit boxes: jewels belonging to the lovely socialite, Elspeth Partington-Jeffries. Then, Turtle learns that they are fakes.

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Ep 6

Box Six

Jun 4, 1979

50m

Turtle and Eddie set out to bring a crooked casino owner to justice when the latest box is found to contain evidence of blackmail and computerised fraud. In doing so, they have the unconventional help of an ambitious senior Army officer - although their old enemy Rafferty is not far behind.

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