Detective(1964)
Crime
First Air Date: 1964-03-30
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 9.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 45
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 1
Episodes: 18E01
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–an...
E02
The Drawing
Air Date: 1964-04-06
No episode overview available.
E03
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 astoundi...
E04
End of Chapter
Air Date: 1964-04-20
No episode overview available.
E05
The Judas Window
Air Date: 1964-04-27
No episode overview available.
E06
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 discove...
E07
The Man Who Murdered in Public
Air Date: 1964-05-11
No episode overview available.
E08
The Speckled Band
Air Date: 1964-05-18
No episode overview available.
E09
The Night of the Horns
Air Date: 1964-05-25
No episode overview available.
E10
Subject: Murder
Air Date: 1964-06-01
No episode overview available.
E11
Death in Ecstacy
Air Date: 1964-06-08
No episode overview available.
E12
A Connoisseur's Case
Air Date: 1964-06-15
No episode overview available.
E13
The Loring Mystery
Air Date: 1964-06-22
No episode overview available.
E14
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 sh...
E15
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 Thornd...
E16
The Speaking Eye
Air Date: 1964-07-13
No episode overview available.
E17
Death of a Fellow Traveller
Air Date: 1964-07-20
No episode overview available.
E18
The Quick One
Air Date: 1964-07-27
No episode overview available.
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