Turtle's Progress
Turtle's Progress
TV ShowEnded

Turtle's Progress

6.0 / 10
1979
2 seasons
13 episodes
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.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Box One

    23-04-197950m

    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 evi...

  • Ep 2

    2.Box Two

    30-04-197950m

    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 p...

  • Ep 3

    3.Box Three

    07-05-197950m

    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...

  • Ep 4

    4.Box Four

    14-05-197950m

    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 nati...

  • Ep 5

    5.Box Five

    21-05-197950m

    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 lovel...

  • Ep 6

    6.Box Six

    04-06-197950m

    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...

  • Ep 7

    7.Box Seven

    11-06-197950m

    A new box is opened, revealing what seems to be hire-purchase agreements; £450 million worth, in fact. "Sounds like a lot of furniture", says Eddie. The men who drew up the agreeme...

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