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.
Detective (Season 1)
The Moving Toyshop (Episode 1)
Writer: John Hopkins
Air date: 1964-03-30
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
The Drawing (Episode 2)
Air date: 1964-04-06
Runtime: 60 min
Trent's Last Case (Episode 3)
Air date: 1964-04-13
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
End of Chapter (Episode 4)
Air date: 1964-04-20
Runtime: 60 min
The Judas Window (Episode 5)
Air date: 1964-04-27
Runtime: 60 min
Dishonoured Bones (Episode 6)
Air date: 1964-05-04
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
The Man Who Murdered in Public (Episode 7)
Air date: 1964-05-11
Runtime: 60 min
The Speckled Band (Episode 8)
Air date: 1964-05-18
Runtime: 60 min
The Night of the Horns (Episode 9)
Air date: 1964-05-25
Runtime: 60 min
Subject: Murder (Episode 10)
Air date: 1964-06-01
Runtime: 60 min
Death in Ecstacy (Episode 11)
Air date: 1964-06-08
Runtime: 60 min
A Connoisseur's Case (Episode 12)
Air date: 1964-06-15
Runtime: 60 min
The Loring Mystery (Episode 13)
Air date: 1964-06-22
Runtime: 60 min
The Hungry Spider (Episode 14)
Air date: 1964-06-29
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
The Case of Oscar Brodski (Episode 15)
Air date: 1964-07-06
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
The Speaking Eye (Episode 16)
Air date: 1964-07-13
Runtime: 60 min
Death of a Fellow Traveller (Episode 17)
Air date: 1964-07-20
Runtime: 60 min
The Quick One (Episode 18)
Air date: 1964-07-27
Runtime: 60 min
