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The Hanged Man

  • 1975
  • Ended
  • Drama · Crime
  • ~50m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 7.0/10

After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.

Latest: Season 1 · 1975

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  1. E1. Wheel of Fortune

    Feb 15, 1975 · 51m

    The wheel spins from a wounded scramble across moors to a wages robbery to raise funds for survival.

  2. E2. Tower of Destruction

    Feb 22, 1975 · 51m

    The tower is the high skeletal framework above a power station under construction. Burnett and Crowe go back over the private airfield and the ashes of the plane crash that killed Burnett's wife.

  3. E3. Knave of Coins

    Mar 1, 1975 · 51m

    The Knave is an accountant in Locarno, protected by bodyguards and an electrified fence - the architect of embezzlement. And some of it is Burnett's money.

  4. E4. Chariot of Earth

    Mar 8, 1975 · 51m

    The chariot drives across the coast of Scotland where North Sea oil and the land where it will devour conflict in a struggle for the world's highest stakes. This is where one of Burnett's ex-partners realised ambition when he bought a Highland estate and its lairdship.

  5. E5. The Bridge Maker

    Mar 15, 1975 · 51m

    That's what they called Lew Burnett when he ran a contract in a totalitarian police state. If he goes back to find answers he will find himself accessory to corruption, under sentence of death, and will be chained to a prison wall.

  6. E6. Grail and Platter

    Mar 22, 1975 · 51m

    The polished practitioners of organised crime in Detroit learn that Burnett is alive and can still provide something they want.

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