📺 'Hazell' Monday 16 January 1978 ~ ITV: 21:00 'Hazell Plays Solomon' - the debut episode of 'Hazell', when the titular Hazell is hired to find out if the Abrey's daughter was swapped in the hospital. A creation of the unlikely writing team of Glasgow born author Gordon Williams and Dagenham born and then Crystal Palace manager Terry Venables (writing under the pen-name P.B. Yuill). James Hazell was a rough and ready former Met Police officer from ‘Sarf Landan’, with a checkered past, a serious