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Detective

  • 1964 – 1969
  • Ended
  • Crime
  • ~1h / ep
  • 3 seasons
  • 9.0/10

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.

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Latest: Season 3 · 1969

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  1. E1. Prisoner's Plea

    Sep 7, 1969 · 60m

    Ernest Jackson is sitting on death row for the murder of his wife. Jackson claims he is a patsy. Having run out of appeals he makes a last ditch plea for help from Police Chief Fellows. The Chief decides Jackson may be telling the truth.

  2. E2. The Singing Sands

    Sep 14, 1969 · 60m

  3. E3. The Public School Murder

    Sep 21, 1969 · 60m

  4. E4. Put Out The Light

    Sep 28, 1969 · 60m

  5. E5. The Tea-Leaf

    Oct 5, 1969 · 60m

    In the steamy heat of a fashionable Turkish baths, emotions can become heightened and lead to a fantastic and mysterious death.

  6. E6. Hunt The Peacock

    Oct 12, 1969 · 60m

    The brilliant Indian sleuth Inspector Ghote arrives in England for the first time to investigate a crime, and finds sadly that it is far from being the fabled land he has always dreamed of.

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