Detective
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
3
Episodes
45
Country
—
Status
Ended
Cast
Rupert Davies
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction (uncredited) · 20 eps
Esmond Knight
Commodore Rupert Gill · 3 eps
Judi Dench
Charlotte Revel · 1 eps
Francis Matthews
George Rattery · 2 eps
Christopher Benjamin
Rodier · 2 eps
Robert James
Chief Inspector Blount · 2 eps
Lee Montague
Police Chief Fellows · 2 eps
Charles Tingwell
· 2 eps
Arthur Pentelow
Inspector Moreby · 2 eps
Arthur Hewlett
Simms · 2 eps
Denholm Elliott
Reggie Fortune · 1 eps
Michael Gough
Holroyd · 1 eps
Edward Woodward
Auguste Dupin · 1 eps
Michael Hordern
Detective Inspector Rason · 1 eps
Sheila Hancock
Mrs. Markle · 1 eps
Ian Ogilvy
Inspector Appleby · 1 eps
Jean Marsh
Julie Oliver · 1 eps
Jane Merrow
Eve Gill · 1 eps
William Russell
Bill Cartwright · 1 eps
Martin Jarvis
· 1 eps
Glynn Edwards
· 1 eps
John Bennett
· 1 eps
Colin Blakely
· 1 eps
Bruce Boa
Wesselman · 1 eps
Bernard Hepton
Jeremiah Batson · 1 eps
Geoffrey Palmer
Chief Superintendent Smeed · 1 eps
Colin Jeavons
· 1 eps
George Sewell
· 1 eps
Walter Gotell
Hamilton Tromp · 1 eps
John Levene
· 1 eps
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Episode Guide
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 disappeared–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
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.
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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