Sergeant Cork

Sergeant Cork
GenreDetective
Period drama
Created byTed Willis
StarringJohn Barrie
William Gaunt
Charles Morgan
Freddie Fowler
Edward Ogden
Arnold Diamond
John Richmond
Barry Raymond
Peter Sallis
Donald Morley
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series6
No. of episodes66
Production
ProducerJack Williams
Running time50 minutes
Production companyATV
Original release
NetworkITV
Release1963 (1963) 
1968 (1968)

Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series.

A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "[e]xcellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie.

At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.