The Adventures of Don Quick

The Adventures of Don Quick
Genre	Science fiction Situation comedy
Starring	Ian Hendry Ronald Lacey
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	50 minutes
Release
Original network	ITV
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	30 October – 4 December 1970

The Adventures of Don Quick is a science fiction comedy television series that ran from October–December 1970, on ITV. Starring Ian Hendry and Ronald Lacey, six 50 minute episodes were made, shown in a 60 minute time slot. As of 2008, only the first episode exists, the other five are now missing. A technologically impressive 30 foot model spaceship was built in the studio for the series.

The show was a science fiction satire based on the characters of Don Quixote, with astronaut Captain Don Quick (Ian Hendry) and Sergeant Sam Czopanser (Ronald Lacey), members of the "Intergalactic Maintenance Squad". On each planet they visit, Quick attempts to set right imaginary wrongs, often upsetting the inhabitants of whatever society he is in. The plot bears some resemblance to the five Penton and Blake stories by John W Campbell, about two astronauts who travel the Solar System meeting strange races.

With the exception of HTV and Southern, all ITV regions showed all six episodes on Fridays between 30 October and 4 December 1970. LWT and most other regions screened the episodes at 21:00, with the following variations:

Southern screen the first episode in the same timeslot as all the other regions bar HTV, then dropped the series completely.

HTV screened all six episodes on Saturdays between 31 October and 5 December 1970, all at 22:10 with the exception of #6 at 23:10.

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