[3][4] Other actors who appeared in the series include Henry Oscar, Honor Blackman, Windsor Davies and Billy Milton.

[5] It was created by Julian Bond and was the first ever one-hour TV drama to screen on ITV.

[6] Bond spent months researching the show from real life cases.

[7] Like many British TV series of the same vintage, the archive holdings of Probation Officer are incomplete, with approximately three-quarters of the episodes missing.

[10] Later the same year a Home Office spokesperson confirmed that future programmes would be vetted by Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer, Principal Probation Officer for Inner London Probation Service, before television broadcast.