"Midnight. The streets were empty. I took an elevator to the fifteenth floor. My office is on the fourteenth, but that's another storey."

One of Gerry Anderson's more underappreciated creations - The bumbling stop-motion robot detective ???? Spanner.

"Lieutenant O'Grady called me aside. I called him Lieutenant O'Grady."

Tags are "Dick_Spanner, robot, brown fedora, brown trench coat, belt".

"Well, when one door shuts, another door closes."