Dick Turpin as Turpin in the 1974 Carry On film "Carry On Dick" and LWT cast Richard O'Sullivan as Turpin in their eponymous series "Dick Turpin". Footnotes Notes Bibliography Dick Turpin Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief and killer. He is also known for a fictional overnight
Dick and the Duchess the 1957 episode "The Kissing Bandit". "Dick and the Duchess" aired on Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. Eastern, sandwiched between "Perry Mason" and "The Gale Storm Show". Its principal competition was the second half of "The Perry Como Show" on NBC. After the initial airing, rebroadcasts of "Dick and the Duchess" aired on CBS at 7:30 p.m. Fridays from March to May 1958 in the time slot formerly held by "Leave It to Beaver", which then switched to Wednesday evenings for the remainder of its first-season run on CBS. Dick and the Duchess Dick and the Duchess is an American CBS