Detective

1964•1h

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.

Production

Seasons

18 Episodes • Premiered 1964

1. The Moving Toyshop

A poet finds a body in a toyshop. But when he returns with the police the next morning, the body has disappearedâ€“and so has the toyshop.

2. The Drawing

3. Trent's Last Case

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

5. The Judas Window

6. Dishonoured Bones

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

8. The Speckled Band

9. The Night of the Horns

10. Subject: Murder

11. Death in Ecstacy

12. A Connoisseur's Case

13. The Loring Mystery

14. The Hungry Spider

15. The Case of Oscar Brodski

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

17. Death of a Fellow Traveller

18. The Quick One

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