Percy the Policeman - Full Series

I discovered that a significant proportion of my class, mostly boys, was suffering from serious reading difficulties ... there was a dearth of reading material of limited vocabulary designed for 10-year-old boys ... I decided that I would write some books that might appeal to them...

– Geoff Murphy on writing the original Percy the Policeman stories for his pupils at Newtown School, in his 2015 autobiography A Life on Film, page 125

[In one scene] Burglar Bill drove off after robbing a bank, dragging Percy behind him on the end of a rope, joined in the chase by several others. Preoccupied by the activity behind him, Bruno [Lawrence] collided with an unscheduled oncoming vehicle, much to the consternation of the cameraman, who had lent his sports car for the project.

– Crew member Craig Walter's recollections of filming episode two, in Roger Booth's 1999 book Bruno - The Bruno Lawrence Story, page 165

Burglar Bill [Bruno Lawrence] was a genial rascal ... he was able to make you forget that he was a burglar; to become loveable, and then to plead for forgiveness. [Bill] Stalker and [Bruno] Lawrence combined in a fine line between condemnation and sympathy, and the result was the creation of genuinely comic figures.

– Producer John O'Shea, quoted in Roger Booth's 1999 book Bruno - The Bruno Lawrence Story, page 165

Disappointingly, television decided that they [the episodes] ridiculed the police, which of course they did. They were Keystone Cops things, and television refused to show them.

– Director Geoff Murphy compares Percy the Policeman to American silent comedy characters the Keystone Cops, in Murphy's 2015 autobiography A Life on Film, page 126

  Percy was not happy. He enjoyed being a policeman, except for one thing: his coat. He'd asked the Chief of Police several times for a new one, but each time the Chief had said 'No!'

– Narrator Ian Watkin introduces the story of Percy's old coat, in episode one

Well, what's this then? Looks very like a rope. Better follow this and see where it goes.

– Percy (Bill Stalker) demonstrates his detective skills, in episode two

Now let me see, there must be a pattern to the crime. Mr Brown who lives in number two was robbed on Monday. Prunella, who lives in number four, was robbed on Tuesday, and Mrs Jones, who lives in number six, was robbed on Wednesday. What's today? Ah, Thursday. Now then, who will be robbed today?

– Percy the policeman investigates some burglaries, in episode four