Diamond Geezer

Diamond Geezer is a British television crime drama, broadcast on ITV between 20 March 2005 and 23 April 2007.^[1] Created by Caleb Ranson, the series stars David Jason as jewel thief and professional con man Des. One series of the programme was broadcast. A second series was not commissioned due to falling viewing figures, and Jason filming the first full series of A Touch of Frost since 2002.

Background

Initially broadcast as a one-off special, Diamond Geezer was commissioned for a full series of three episodes following strong viewing figures and critical acclaim. The first episode sees Des (David Jason), a long-serving prison inmate, trying to persuade a first time offender to join forces with him in his new big scam. The pilot episode was broadcast on 20 March 2005 to an audience of nearly 10 million viewers.^[2]

The three-part second series began broadcast on 9 April 2007, but did not live up to expectation, with the final episode barely scraping 4 million viewers, down from 6.2 million viewers for the first episode before finally ceasing operations for good on 23 April 2007. All four episodes were later broadcast in the United States under the title Rough Diamond.

Cast

• David Jason as Des
• Gary Whelan as Benny
• Stephen Wight as Phil Perkins

Recurring cast

• Jenny Agutter as Vanessa
• Paul Bown as Guv'nor
• Don Warrington as Hector
• George Cole as Gerald
• Carli Norris as Betsy
• Ieuan Rhys as Jenx
• Mary Tamm as Maureen
• David Troughton as D.I. Critchley
• Roy Marsden as Garovski
• Rupert Holliday-Evans as Poliarkov
• Christopher Fairbank as Barry
• Paul Freeman as Sergey

References

1. ^ "David Jason to return as 'Diamond Geezer'". Digital Spy. 9 September 2006.
2. ^ "Weekly top 30 programmes on TV sets (July 1998 – Sept 2018) | BARB"

External links

• Diamond Geezer at IMDb
• Diamond Geezer 1 at IMDb