
Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries is a British television anthology series produced by Anglia Television for the ITV network and broadcast between 1973 and 1974. The series presents standalone adaptations of classic mystery, crime, and supernatural stories drawn from literary sources including Dickens, Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Balzac, Maugham, O. Henry, and others. Each episode is framed by original introductory and closing sequences performed by Orson Welles, who serves as the series’ host and sole recurring on-screen presence. These segments, written and directed by Welles (uncredited), function as stylized narrative framing devices rather than dramatic participation in the stories themselves. The dramatic content of each episode is performed by separate casts and directors, with no continuing characters or serialized narrative, establishing the series as a unified television anthology rather than a collection of standalone films.
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Air Date: 1973-09-01
The respectable owner of a quiet inn in 18th century England is blackmailed by a grubby stranger, who knows he is sec...
Air Date: 1973-09-08
When a young man discovers a curious funnel made of leather, he has a presentiment that it was once used as an instru...
Air Date: 1973-09-15
Charles Faulkner, a young American gambler in Paris, should have left the casino after striking it lucky. Why the dev...
Air Date: 1973-09-22
A Spanish officer, captured by the French during the Peninsular War, is imprisoned at the country house of an elderly...
Air Date: 1973-09-29
Blake is a brilliant accountant, but does he deserve a promotion to the board of directors? It all depends on the sui...
Air Date: 1973-10-06
A French girl in London finds herself in the awkward position of owing money to a Soho crime boss. But when she pays ...
Air Date: 1973-10-13
An old tramp takes refuge in a church, and, concealed within the confessional, overhears things of great interest.
Air Date: 1973-10-20
Dean Stockwell stars as the victim of an elaborately staged murder frame centering around a lover's rendezvous.
Air Date: 1973-10-27
At the end of the semester, college professor Richard Lumsden is getting ready for vacation - and retirement. However...
Air Date: 1973-11-03
A lawyer cannot stop a middle-aged spinster from making a fool of herself with a young fortune-hunter, but he can sto...
Air Date: 1973-11-10
An old army sergeant, back in England after long service in India, shows some old friends a strange possession he's a...
Air Date: 1973-11-17
Reporter Harry Langley pretends to be the murderer of unidentified women to boost sales with a special report from pr...
Air Date: 1973-11-24
Four people are investigated after the death of a woman who ruined an artist's life and drove his wife to leave him.
Air Date: 1973-12-01
Businessman Pennington is bribed by a Mr. Briggs due to an extramarital affair. But it seems that Briggs has underest...
Air Date: 1973-12-08
How did Mr. Budd become a top-class West End hairdresser after such humble origins in a suburban barbershop? Well, on...
Air Date: 1973-12-15
India: After secret plans for the defence of a harbour are secretly copied, British General Sanderson tasks officers ...
Air Date: 1973-12-22
The masquerade is over when a murdered man turns up alive in the guise of his wife.
Air Date: 1973-12-29
A handyman, finding that a number of middle-aged housewives require him for rather more than his professional service...
Air Date: 1974-01-05
A letter opened in error provides rather dangerous knowledge concerning a murder case.
Air Date: 1974-01-12
Zigorin, a top Russian spy, has defected to the West. But is he really Zigorin or an impostor?
Air Date: 1974-01-19
An "Ice Storm" traps a woman with a potential thief masquerading as one of three experts invited to view a collection...
Air Date: 1974-01-26
Two beautiful women chat pleasantly over their martinis in a luxurious flat in Naples. But all is not what it seems -...
Air Date: 1974-02-02
A penniless man tries to claim a reward from a millionaire at Christmas, and finds it's not as easy as he thought it ...
Air Date: 1974-02-09
A pianist on an international tour is forced to spy for the secret police to avoid being detained.
Air Date: 1974-02-16
During a murder trial in 19th-century England, one of the jurors begins to have mysterious hallucinations - has he se...
Air Date: 1974-02-23
A young man's month-long search for a missing girl ends in a haunted room of a boarding house.