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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.
Episodes
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- E1 The Moving ToyshopNext upMar 30, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
A 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.
Guest stars: Graham Crowden, Philip Latham, Richard Wordsworth, Nicholas Pennell, Derek Francis, Philip Ray, Suzan Farmer (Sally Carstairs)
- E2 The DrawingApr 6, 1964 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Robert Fyfe, Leslie Sands
- E3 Trent's Last CaseApr 13, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
- E4 End of ChapterApr 20, 1964 · 60 min
- E5 The Judas WindowApr 27, 1964 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Llewellyn Rees, Daniel Thorndike (Alan Kenton)
- E6 Dishonoured BonesMay 4, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Geoffrey Chater (Tony Garnish), Judi Dench (Charlotte Revel), Alan Dobie (Martin Cotterell), Francis Matthews (Charles Garnish), Arthur Pentelow (Workman), Peter Gill (Henry Revel)
- E7 The Man Who Murdered in PublicMay 11, 1964 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Michael Hordern (Detective Inspector Rason), June Barry (Polly Flinders), Donald Churchill (George Carshaw), Rupert Davies (Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction)
- E8 The Speckled BandMay 18, 1964 · 60 min
- E9 The Night of the HornsMay 25, 1964 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Barbara Shelley (Eve Race)
- E10 Subject: MurderJun 1, 1964 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Virginia Wetherell (Susan Carmichael)
- E11 Death in EcstacyJun 8, 1964 · 60 min
- E12 A Connoisseur's CaseJun 15, 1964 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Benjamin Whitrow (Peter Binns), Dennis Price (Sir John Appleby), Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Bertram Coulson), Richard Bird (Seth Crabtree), James Bree (Tarbox), Ann Castle (Lady Judith Appleby), Walter Fitzgerald (Colonel Julius Raven), David Garth (Dr. West)
- E13 The Loring MysteryJun 22, 1964 · 60 min
- E14 The Hungry SpiderJun 29, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
Eve Gill driving a lorry carrying smuggled rum. Following a smash she is helped into the Forsyth home. While there she spies Mrs Forsyth murder her husband with a lethal injection but fears she may be blamed.
Guest stars: Jane Merrow (Eve Gill), Esmond Knight (Commodore Rupert Gill), Peter Barkworth (Det. Insp. Christopher Smith), Jack Watson (Charlie), Rupert Davies (Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction (uncredited))
- E15 The Case of Oscar BrodskiJul 6, 1964 · 60 min
Synopsis
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.
- E16 The Speaking EyeJul 13, 1964 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Frederick Jaeger, Michael Brennan (Chief Inspector Jules Maigret), Mary Webster (Girl in Accounts)
- E17 Death of a Fellow TravellerJul 20, 1964 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: William Abney (Marcus Windle-Scott), Edwin Brown (Fred Cox), Kate Brown (Gladys), Gwen Cherrell (Honey Penfield)
- E18 The Quick OneJul 27, 1964 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Mervyn Johns, John Bennett, Garfield Morgan, John Baskcomb
