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"A bold man lives a double life... by day, a country parson... by night, a phantom smuggler!"
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
22 Cast Members
Patrick McGoohan
Dr. Christopher Syn / The Scarecrow
George Cole
Mr. Sexton Mipps / Hellspite
Tony Britton
Simon Bates
Michael Hordern
Squire Thomas Banks
Geoffrey Keen
General Pugh
Kay Walsh
Mrs. Waggett
Eric Pohlmann
King George III
Patrick Wymark
Joseph Ransley
Alan Dobie
Mr. Frank Fragg - Prosecutor
Sean Scully
John Banks / The Curlew
Eric Flynn
Lt. Philip Brackenbury
David Buck
Harry Banks
Percy Herbert
Dover Castle Jailer
Robert Brown
Sam Farley
Jill Curzon
Katharine Banks
Mark Dignam
The Bishop
Gordon Gostelow
Ben
Bruce Seton
Beadle
Allan McClelland
2nd Jailer
Richard O'Sullivan
George Ransley
