Wilde Alliance is a British television series produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1978. The programme was a light-hearted mystery series created by Ian Mackintosh about a husband-and-wife pair of amateur detectives, Rupert and Amy Wilde.
Wilde Alliance (Season 1)
A Question of Research (Episode 1)
Writer: Ian Mackintosh
Air date: 1978-01-17
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Rupert and Amy contend with a phony telephone engineer and a white slave trader.
Flower Power (Episode 2)
Writer: Anthony Skene
Air date: 1978-01-24
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Rupert is led a merry dance by an old flame and a long-lost orchid.
Too Much, Too Often (Episode 3)
Writer: Philip Broadley
Air date: 1978-01-31
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Rupert and Amy get into a spot of trouble when spending the weekend with old friend Helen Bardsley, whose husband David seems not all that right in the head.
Things That Go Bump (Episode 4)
Writer: Philip Broadley
Air date: 1978-02-07
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Rupert and Amy investigate strange goings-on at an old house bought by agent Christopher Bridgewater
The Private Army of Colonel Stone (Episode 5)
Writer: Jacques Gillies
Air date: 1978-02-14
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Rupert and Amy investigate Colonel Stone, newly returned to England from the desert.
Danny Boy (Episode 6)
Writer: Ian Mackintosh
Air date: 1978-02-21
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Rupert and Amy investigate threats against a Mancunian chanteuse.
Well Enough Alone (Episode 7)
Writer: Anthony Skene
Air date: 1978-02-28
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: The Wildes are in York and investigate the mysterious Elena and a cricket-playing Texan.
Express from Rome (Episode 8)
Writer: Philip Broadley
Air date: 1978-03-07
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Rupert and Amy travel to Rome by train and stumble across another mystery.
A Game for Two Players (Episode 9)
Writer: John Bowen
Air date: 1978-03-14
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Rupert and Amy take in a young boy named Steve, found wandering the streets.
Time and Again (Episode 10)
Writer: Anthony Skene
Air date: 1978-03-21
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Rupert investigates how a group of criminals have suddenly come to be into money.
Affray in Amsterdam (Episode 11)
Writer: Philip Broadley
Air date: 1978-03-28
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Rupert, in Amsterdam to research his latest novel, gets involved with a woman who is caught up in an illegal South American mining operation.
A Suspicion of Sudden Death (Episode 12)
Writer: Jacques Gillies
Air date: 1978-04-04
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Rupert and Amy suspect that the victim of an apparent heart attack actually met his end through foul play.
Some Trust in Chariots (Episode 13)
Writer: Ian Mackintosh
Air date: 1978-04-11
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Although Annette is in America, her sister Debbie keeps seeing her in the UK. In order to convince people that she isn't losing her mind, Debbie takes a photograph of her sister, but when this is developed, Annette is nowhere to be seen...
Seasons
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