Hazell (TV series) Hazell (TV series) Hazell is a British television series that ran from 1978–1979, about a fictional private detective named James Hazell. James Hazell was a cockney private detective character created by journalist and novelist Gordon Williams and footballer-turned-manager Terry Venables, who wrote under the joint pseudonym of P.B.Yuill. The first book,"Hazell plays Solomon", appeared in 1974. "Hazell plays Solomon" was also the first episode of the TV series. The wise-cracking private detective was played by Nicholas Ball. Hazell was a smart parody of earlier film-noir detectives such as Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade, the casting of Ball in the title
Hazell, Watson and Viney sick fund in 1874, one of many such welfare schemes that marked the firm as progressive. "Hazell's Magazine", which appeared from 1886, was one of the company's first in-house publications. Several generations of the Viney family played a major part in the running of the company. Hazell's grew after World War I as part of the "Hazell Sun" group of companies, and in 1963 became the "British Printing Corporation", one of the most influential printing and publishing organisations in Britain. In 1981 it was taken over by Maxwell Communications Corporation. Hazell, Watson and Viney Hazell, Watson and Viney was an