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Garry Halliday (1959-1962)

Halliday was a pilot for a commercial airline company, "The Halliday Charter Company", who, like Biggles, flew from one aeronautical adventure to another. The aircraft's callsign was Golf – Alpha Oboe Roger George and the Airline's control base station was Lima Foxtrot.

There were three series: Garry Halliday, Garry Halliday and the Gun-Runners, Garry Halliday and the Secret of Omar Khayyam.

Terence Longdon starred, assisted by Ann Gudrun with Terence Alexander as his co-pilot Bill Dodds. Elwyn Brook-Jones played the arch-villain, 'The Voice', who, when he faced his own gang, always shone a powerful light in their faces to disguise his identity thereby remaining anonymous.

In the third series, Bill Kerr (as Eddie Robbins) replaced co-pilot Terence Alexander and Maurice Kaufmann played one of The Voice's henchmen. Unfortunately Elwyn Brook-Jones died mid-way through the last series and was replaced with a different actor who looked and sounded rather different. 

Real-life Silver City Airways assisted in the production, transforming part of their Ferryfield Airport at Lydd, Kent, into suitable location settings. The episodes were closely based on the books by Justin Blake.

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