Detective

Detective

1964 3 Seasons 45 Episodes ⭐ 9.0 Crime

A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.

A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Moving Toyshop

A poet finds a body in a toyshop. But when he returns with the police the next morning, the body has disappeared–

EP 2

The Drawing

EP 3

Trent's Last Case

A pair of damaged shoes help Philip Trent to solve the mystery of a tycoon's death, but the solution reveals astounding

EP 4

End of Chapter

EP 5

The Judas Window

EP 6

Dishonoured Bones

Archeologist and amateur sleuth Martin Cotterill is working on a dig in the small village of Panverne when he discovers

EP 7

The Man Who Murdered in Public

EP 8

The Speckled Band

EP 9

The Night of the Horns

EP 10

Subject: Murder

EP 11

Death in Ecstacy

EP 12

A Connoisseur's Case

EP 13

The Loring Mystery

EP 14

The Hungry Spider

Eve Gill driving a lorry carrying smuggled rum. Following a smash she is helped into the Forsyth home. While there she s

EP 15

The Case of Oscar Brodski

Oscar Brodski is believed to have fallen to his death in front of an oncoming train. Passenger Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke

EP 16

The Speaking Eye

EP 17

Death of a Fellow Traveller

EP 18

The Quick One

EP 1

The Deadly Climate

EP 2

Dover and the Poison Pen Letters

EP 3

A Man and His Mother-In-Law

EP 4

Lesson In Anatomy

EP 5

The German Song

Scotland Yard ask consultant Reggie Fortune to help them find a stash of gold artifacts stolen from Sir Henry Exton coun

EP 6

The Beast Must Die

When his son is killed by an unidentified hit-and-run driver, Felix Lane writes in his diary that he intends to find the

EP 7

The Avenging Chance

This play is set in the West End of London in the nineteen-thirties. It appears that there are a large number of people

EP 8

Born Victim

EP 9

The Unquiet Sleep

Advising government on the illegal "high" called Mecron, Rachel Borrowdaile comes to the aid of minister Henry Leggatt w

EP 10

The High Adventure

EP 11

Cork On The Water

EP 12

The Case of the Late Pig

EP 13

The Golden Dart

EP 14

Crime of Passion

EP 15

Artists In Crime

EP 16

Death On The Champs Elysées

EP 17

The Murders In The Rue Morgue

EP 1

Prisoner's Plea

Ernest Jackson is sitting on death row for the murder of his wife. Jackson claims he is a patsy. Having run out of appea

EP 2

The Singing Sands

EP 3

The Public School Murder

EP 4

Put Out The Light

EP 5

The Tea-Leaf

In the steamy heat of a fashionable Turkish baths, emotions can become heightened and lead to a fantastic and mysterious

EP 6

Hunt The Peacock

The brilliant Indian sleuth Inspector Ghote arrives in England for the first time to investigate a crime, and finds sadl

EP 7

Elimination Round

EP 8

And So To Murder

EP 9

The Poisoners

EP 10

Mr Guppy's Tale

A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.

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