The “Four Just Men” had worked together on a mission during World War II and pledged at that point to dedicate their lives to righting wrongs.
 

Ben Manfred (Jack Hawkins) was a British Member of Parliament. Tim Collier (Dan Dailey) was an American foreign correspondent working in Paris.
 

He lived on a houseboat in the Seine and was assisted by his girlfriend Nicole (Honor Blackman).

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Jeff Ryder (Richard Conte) was a professor of law at a New York City university with an office that had a spectacular view of Manhattan. June Thorburn was his pretty secretary.
 

Ricco Poccari (Vittorio De Sicca) was the owner of a luxury hotel in Rome. Lisa Gastoni played his shapely young assistant, Giulia.
 

Each episode featured only one of the main stars in a central role, with the others appearing briefly in a cameo.

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One of the earliest productions released by ITC, it established the formula that would lead to a string of successful and more well-remembered programmes in the 1960s.

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Based on an Edgar Wallace novel, or possibly inspired by the popularity of film versions made some time earlier (1921 and 1939), 'The Four Just Men' was the first of many ITC commissions (this time with 'Sapphire Films' who made '"Adventures of Robin Hood" with Richard Greene and "The Buccaneers" with Robert Shaw amongst other series for Lew Grade's ITC) which were transparent attempts to appeal to an international market, and the US in particular.

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With Director Basil Deardon at the helm for many of the episodes, and a cast with Oscar-nominated actors in lead roles, and a string of highly respected actors in support, 'The Four Just Men' remains impressive stuff when viewed today, some 50 years after its original airing in the UK.

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Shooting began on the series in January 1959 and less than 20 weeks later, all 39 episodes were in the can.

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