
Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one. In Victorian-era London, gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, a renowned cricketer, and his friend, the eager but naive Bunny Manders, test their skills in relieving the wealthy of their valuables whilst avoiding detection, especially from the persistent Inspector Mackenzie.
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Air Date: 1977-02-25
Raffles is visited by old school chum Harry 'Bunny' Manders, who has fallen on hard times. Penniless himself, Raffles...
Air Date: 1977-02-25
Brash and crude, Reuben Rosenthall is a real 'rough diamond': a self-made millionaire who wears his wealth in the mos...
Air Date: 1977-03-04
Bunny feels he needs to do more to justify his share of their ill-gotten gains, so the partners in crime plan a job i...
Air Date: 1977-03-11
Raffles and Bunny swipe the famous Royal Gold Cup from the British Museum, but a group of criminologists track them d...
Air Date: 1977-03-18
Raffles tells Bunny that he is going off to Scotland to improve his Scots dialect. During his absence his rooms at Th...
Air Date: 1977-03-25
Visiting a reception at the Italian Ambassador's one evening, Raffles and Bunny conspire to steal an item of jeweller...
Air Date: 1977-04-01
Loud mouthed Barney Maguire is America's champion heavy weight boxer. At Raffles' Club one evening he brags to Raffl...
Air Date: 1977-04-08
Somebody is setting himself up in opposition to Raffles as another gentleman thief, and Raffles doesn't like it, as h...
Air Date: 1977-04-15
Raffles has his eye on the Van Den Berg's wedding presents, but finds that he has an engagement at Lord's to play cri...
Air Date: 1977-04-22
A friend of Raffles', Teddy Garland, finds that he is in debt to the vicious moneylender, Brigstock. Raffles and Bun...
Air Date: 1977-04-29
Sir Arthur Rumbold, the pompous Secretary for Home Affairs, announces that he wishes to introduce much tougher penalt...
Air Date: 1977-05-06
Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany is seeking to embarrass the British Government by using Herr Von Heumann, one of his agents...
Air Date: 1977-05-13
Wandering the streets of London one night with Bunny, Raffles, who is becoming bored and blase about the ease with wh...