
Detective
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.
Seasons
1. The Moving Toyshop
Air Date: 1964-03-30
A poet finds a body in a toyshop. But when he returns with the police the next morning, the body has disappeared–and so has the toyshop.
2. The Drawing
Air Date: 1964-04-06
3. Trent's Last Case
Air Date: 1964-04-13
A pair of damaged shoes help Philip Trent to solve the mystery of a tycoon's death, but the solution reveals astounding facts even he had not suspected.
4. End of Chapter
Air Date: 1964-04-20
5. The Judas Window
Air Date: 1964-04-27
6. Dishonoured Bones
Air Date: 1964-05-04
Archeologist and amateur sleuth Martin Cotterill is working on a dig in the small village of Panverne when he discovers a body recently dumped in his trench.
7. The Man Who Murdered in Public
Air Date: 1964-05-11
8. The Speckled Band
Air Date: 1964-05-18
9. The Night of the Horns
Air Date: 1964-05-25
10. Subject: Murder
Air Date: 1964-06-01
11. Death in Ecstacy
Air Date: 1964-06-08
12. A Connoisseur's Case
Air Date: 1964-06-15
13. The Loring Mystery
Air Date: 1964-06-22
14. The Hungry Spider
Air Date: 1964-06-29
Eve Gill driving a lorry carrying smuggled rum. Following a smash she is helped into the Forsyth home. While there she spies Mrs Forsyth murder her husband with a lethal injection but fears she may be blamed.
15. The Case of Oscar Brodski
Air Date: 1964-07-06
Oscar Brodski is believed to have fallen to his death in front of an oncoming train. Passenger Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke believes it is murder rather than suicide.
16. The Speaking Eye
Air Date: 1964-07-13
17. Death of a Fellow Traveller
Air Date: 1964-07-20
18. The Quick One
Air Date: 1964-07-27
1. The Deadly Climate
Air Date: 1968-05-17
2. Dover and the Poison Pen Letters
Air Date: 1968-05-24
3. A Man and His Mother-In-Law
Air Date: 1968-05-31
4. Lesson In Anatomy
Air Date: 1968-06-07
5. The German Song
Air Date: 1968-06-15
Scotland Yard ask consultant Reggie Fortune to help them find a stash of gold artifacts stolen from Sir Henry Exton country house.
6. The Beast Must Die
Air Date: 1968-06-21
When his son is killed by an unidentified hit-and-run driver, Felix Lane writes in his diary that he intends to find the man responsible and kill him. But when the man actually is killed, is someone else the killer?
7. The Avenging Chance
Air Date: 1968-06-28
This play is set in the West End of London in the nineteen-thirties. It appears that there are a large number of people who would be glad to see Sir William Anstruther dead. The question is who? Roger Sheringham is determined to find out. Unhappily he has hardly started his investigations when a tragedy, in which an innocent woman dies, takes place.
8. Born Victim
Air Date: 1968-07-05
9. The Unquiet Sleep
Air Date: 1968-07-07
Advising government on the illegal "high" called Mecron, Rachel Borrowdaile comes to the aid of minister Henry Leggatt who is blackmailed by drug pushers who want old stock.
10. The High Adventure
Air Date: 1968-07-14
11. Cork On The Water
Air Date: 1968-07-21
12. The Case of the Late Pig
Air Date: 1968-07-28
13. The Golden Dart
Air Date: 1968-08-04
14. Crime of Passion
Air Date: 1968-08-11
15. Artists In Crime
Air Date: 1968-08-18
16. Death On The Champs Elysées
Air Date: 1968-08-25
17. The Murders In The Rue Morgue
Air Date: 1968-09-01
1. Prisoner's Plea
Air Date: 1969-09-07
Ernest Jackson is sitting on death row for the murder of his wife. Jackson claims he is a patsy. Having run out of appeals he makes a last ditch plea for help from Police Chief Fellows. The Chief decides Jackson may be telling the truth.
2. The Singing Sands
Air Date: 1969-09-14
3. The Public School Murder
Air Date: 1969-09-21
4. Put Out The Light
Air Date: 1969-09-28
5. The Tea-Leaf
Air Date: 1969-10-05
In the steamy heat of a fashionable Turkish baths, emotions can become heightened and lead to a fantastic and mysterious death.
6. Hunt The Peacock
Air Date: 1969-10-12
The brilliant Indian sleuth Inspector Ghote arrives in England for the first time to investigate a crime, and finds sadly that it is far from being the fabled land he has always dreamed of.
7. Elimination Round
Air Date: 1969-10-19
8. And So To Murder
Air Date: 1969-10-26
9. The Poisoners
Air Date: 1969-11-02
10. Mr Guppy's Tale
Air Date: 1969-11-09
A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.
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Rating
9.0/10
Release Date
1964-03-30
Episodes
45 (3 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Alpine Medien Productions
Larry Levinson Productions

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