Big Breadwinner Hog/Spindoe: The Complete Series DVD (2007) Alan Browning, Title: Big Breadwinner Hog/Spindoe: The Complete Series Leading Actor: Alan Browning Region: Region 2 Duration: 400 mins Format: DVD / Box Set Type: DVD No. of Discs: 5 disc(s) Studio / Publisher: Fremantle UK Release Date: 19 Mar 2007 Edition: Box Set Collected episodes of two late ’60s gang drama series. ‘Spindoe’ was a spinoff from an earlier Granada drama ‘The Fellows’. At the end of that series, Alec Spindoe (Ray McAnally) had been sent to prison but here he is on the outside yet again. After his time inside, he attempts to pick up where he left off but a bigshot crime Czar and a private dick are dogging his every move. Features six one-hour episodes. ‘Big Breadwinner Hog’ followed the rise of a career hoodlum, Hog (Peter Egan), against a backdrop of the London gangland. Unapologetic and brutal in its depiction of violence, the series was so ahead of its time that it was eventually pulled from screens before the end of its run - the only programme to have achieved that honour at the time!
