Serangoon Road

2013
Ended
Drama
~53m / ep
1 season
5.9/10

1964-65. Singapore is a city at a crossroads. Political and racial tensions are at fever pitch as the British pull out, and a new nation is about to be born. The lights of Bugis Street have never burned so bright: bootleg copies of Motown songs boom out from street stalls; the Rolling Stones are in town along with tourists and American sailors fresh from Vietnam. They join British and Australian soldiers checking out the prostitutes and gambling dens, en route to their own war in Borneo. This is the city of Sam Callaghan, Patricia Cheng, the CIA’s Conrad Harrison and the clients of the Cheng Detective Agency. The agency’s cases range from the usual (straying spouses and petty fraudsters) to events with international implications and complications. Sam’s contacts from his military days are useful - but they start to drag him back into a dark world that he would prefer to leave behind.

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E1. Shotgun
Sep 22, 2013 · 52m
The Cheng Detective Agency is hired by the CIA to investigate the murder of a US sailor, and Sam Callaghan is asked to help out as a favour to the widowed owner, Patricia.
E2. Reach Out
Sep 29, 2013 · 54m
Separated from her husband at the outset of WW2, and not even knowing if he is still alive, a woman returns to Singapore from a long exile in China to search for him.
E3. Ball of Confusion
Oct 6, 2013 · 53m
Patricia is attacked and robbed during a riot on her way to a client. She's saved by a Malay journalist who is later accused of being one of the instigators of the riot.
E4. Give Me Money
Oct 13, 2013 · 53m
Sam has a conflict of interest when the Cheng Detective Agency is hired to investigate his lover Claire's husband Frank Simpson.
E5. Heatwave
Oct 20, 2013 · 53m
When Sam and Claire discover that adulterated medicine is being distributed to sick children in the village, the investigation into who is behind it surprises everyone.
E6. Tracks of My Tears
Nov 1, 2013 · 53m
When a newborn baby is left on the doorstep of the agency, Sam and Patricia face a moral dilemma when they uncover the identity of the mother and her family.