Detective (1964)
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 & Episodes
Season 118 episodes
1. The Moving Toyshop
⏱ 60 minA 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
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
3. Trent's Last Case
⏱ 60 minA 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
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
5. The Judas Window
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
6. Dishonoured Bones
⏱ 60 minArcheologist 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
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
8. The Speckled Band
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
9. The Night of the Horns
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
10. Subject: Murder
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
11. Death in Ecstacy
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
12. A Connoisseur's Case
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
13. The Loring Mystery
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
14. The Hungry Spider
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
15. The Case of Oscar Brodski
⏱ 60 minOscar 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
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
17. Death of a Fellow Traveller
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
18. The Quick One
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
Season 217 episodes
1. The Deadly Climate
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
2. Dover and the Poison Pen Letters
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
3. A Man and His Mother-In-Law
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
4. Lesson In Anatomy
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
5. The German Song
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
6. The Beast Must Die
⏱ 60 minWhen 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
⏱ 60 minThis 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
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
9. The Unquiet Sleep
⏱ 60 minAdvising 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
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
11. Cork On The Water
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
12. The Case of the Late Pig
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
13. The Golden Dart
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
14. Crime of Passion
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
15. Artists In Crime
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
16. Death On The Champs Elysées
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
17. The Murders In The Rue Morgue
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
Season 310 episodes
1. Prisoner's Plea
⏱ 60 minErnest 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
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
3. The Public School Murder
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
4. Put Out The Light
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
5. The Tea-Leaf
⏱ 60 minIn the steamy heat of a fashionable Turkish baths, emotions can become heightened and lead to a fantastic and mysterious death.
6. Hunt The Peacock
⏱ 60 minThe 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
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
8. And So To Murder
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
9. The Poisoners
⏱ 60 minNo description available.
10. Mr Guppy's Tale
⏱ 60 minNo description available.