Cleverly, Richard Carpenter has the series take place after the real life Dick Turpin has been hanged in 1739; the series is set between 1739 and 1740, leaving his fictional TV incarnation to be an anarchic freedom fighter who has been badly ripped off by the establishment and suffered the tragic loss of his parents, a good moral starting point.

Captain Nathan Spiker, working for Sir John Glutton, threatens to evict Mary Smith and her son Nick from their inn 'The Black Swan' if they do not hand over 20 guineas.

However, a mix-up occurs when Turpin steals the money back from Sir John and Nick has to be saved from Glutton's Dungeon by Dick.

Network in association with Soulmedia have also released the series on DVD for the Scandinavian market (2007–2009) in English with subtitles in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.

[citation needed] Koch Media have released series 1 on DVD, a Remastered collectors edition titled: 'Die Abenteuer des Dick Turpin' in Germany on 4 September 2010, a 3 Disc set featuring German and English soundtracks.

A novel Dick Turpin (ISBN 978-0-00-691554-6) written by Richard Carpenter was published by Armada books, London in 1979, and included 8 colour photos from the TV series (128 pages for 60p).

A second novel by Richard Carpenter called Turpin and Swiftnick (ISBN 978-0-00-691710-6) with black and white illustrations by Peter Archer was published by Armada books in 1980 (125 pages for 70p).

Look-in magazine also ran a Dick Turpin comic strip drawn by Martin Asbury and written by Angus Allan in 1979 to tie-in with the series.