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Detective

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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.

Crime

1
The Moving Toyshop
1964-03-30
A poet finds a body in a toyshop. But when he returns with the police the next morning, the body has disappearedâ€“and so has the toyshop.
2
The Drawing
1964-04-06
3
Trent's Last Case
1964-04-13
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
1964-04-20
5
The Judas Window
1964-04-27
6
Dishonoured Bones
1964-05-04
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
1964-05-11
8
The Speckled Band
1964-05-18
9
The Night of the Horns
1964-05-25
10
Subject: Murder
1964-06-01
11
Death in Ecstacy
1964-06-08
12
A Connoisseur's Case
1964-06-15
13
The Loring Mystery
1964-06-22
14
The Hungry Spider
1964-06-29
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
1964-07-06
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
1964-07-13
17
Death of a Fellow Traveller
1964-07-20
18
The Quick One
1964-07-27