Shaun Sutton
Director
Detective (1964)
Season 1
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.
Released March 30, 1964
Episode 60 min
None+
Keywords: imdb.detective, imdb.partially-lost-tv-series
Production Companies: Alpine Medien Productions, Larry Levinson Productions, Hallmark Entertainment
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Moving Toyshop
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.
March 30, 1964, midnight
S1E2 - The Drawing
April 6, 1964, midnight
S1E3 - 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.
April 13, 1964, midnight
S1E4 - End of Chapter
April 20, 1964, midnight
S1E5 - The Judas Window
April 27, 1964, midnight
S1E6 - 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.
May 4, 1964, midnight
S1E7 - The Man Who Murdered in Public
May 11, 1964, midnight
S1E8 - The Speckled Band
May 18, 1964, midnight
S1E9 - The Night of the Horns
May 25, 1964, midnight
S1E10 - Subject: Murder
June 1, 1964, midnight
S1E11 - Death in Ecstacy
June 8, 1964, midnight
S1E12 - A Connoisseur's Case
June 15, 1964, midnight
S1E13 - The Loring Mystery
June 22, 1964, midnight
S1E14 - The Hungry Spider
June 29, 1964, midnight
S1E15 - 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.
July 6, 1964, midnight
S1E16 - The Speaking Eye
July 13, 1964, midnight
S1E17 - Death of a Fellow Traveller
July 20, 1964, midnight
S1E18 - The Quick One
July 27, 1964, midnight
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 2700 min.
Released: March 30, 1964
Last Air Date: Nov. 9, 1969, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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