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The Venturers is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1975.

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The Venturers
Written by	Donald Bull
Starring	Geoffrey Keen
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	10
Production
Running time	50 min
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	7 January (1975-01-07) – 11 March 1975 (1975-03-11)

The series, created by Donald Bull, had started out as an edition of Drama Playhouse in 1972 before being commissioned as an ongoing series. The Venturers took place in the high pressure world of Prince's merchant bank and dealt with the intricacies of high finance amongst its millionaire clients.

Geoffrey Keen starred as director Gerald Lang, in a virtual reprise of his role as oil executive Brian Stead in Mogul / The Troubleshooters. Other major cast members included James Kerry, David Buck, Cyril Luckham and William Squire.

The Venturers lasted for a single series of ten episodes.

Cast

• Geoffrey Keen as Gerald Lang
• David Buck as Tom Prince
• James Kerry as David Ayrton
• Karin MacCarthy as Dorothy Ayrton
• Hugh Manning as Freddie Pander
• Cyril Luckham as Lord Kilvern
• William Squire as Sir George Fielding

External links

• The Venturers at IMDb

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