1964
50m

Summary Anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories. View more details

Crime
Drama

1964
50m

Detective

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Rupert Davies Ralph Michael Esmond Knight Barbara Couper

All cast & crew

7.6

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Genres : Crime Drama

Release date : Mar 29, 1964

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary Anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories. View more details

Crime
Drama

Details

Genres : Crime Drama

Release date : Mar 29, 1964

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Larry Aubrey, Colin Blakely, and Michael Latimer in Detective (1964)

Larry Aubrey and Colin Blakely in Detective (1964)

Larry Aubrey and Otis E. Mason in Detective (1964)

Larry Aubrey and Yuri Borienko in Detective (1964)

Michael Latimer and Roy Stewart in Detective (1964)

Larry Aubrey and Michael Latimer in Detective (1964)

Roy Stewart and Otis E. Mason in Detective (1964)

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Episode 1 • Mar 29, 1964

The Moving Toyshop

Returning to Oxford very late at night, a drunken poet sees a corpse in a toyshop window - but, when the police arrive, not only has the corpse disappeared, the toyshop has, too.

Episode 2 • Apr 05, 1964

The Drawing

Episode 3 • Apr 12, 1964

Trent's Last Case

Who killed Sigsbee Manderson, the hated millionaire? His beautiful young wife is suspected and amateur sleuth Philip Trent must prove her innocent.

Episode 4 • Apr 19, 1964

End of Chapter

A publishing house ask Nigel Strangeways to look into a scandal involving General Thorseby's new book which is considered libelous but instead it's murder.

Episode 5 • Apr 26, 1964

The Judas Window

A man is found dead in a locked room with no way in or out - and the murder weapon, whatever it was, is also missing.

Episode 6 • May 03, 1964

Dishonoured Bones

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.

Episode 7 • May 10, 1964

The Man Who Murdered in Public

Episode 8 • May 17, 1964

The Speckled Band

What caused the death of the terrified Miss Stoner's sister? Will she die the same way? And what was "the speckled band" to which the sister alluded in her dying breath? Sherlock Holmes is warned not to investigate.

Episode 9 • May 24, 1964

The Night of the Horns

Racketeer Al Kresnick blackmails lawyer Bob Race into picking up a suitcase at the docks. Race escapes death but the suitcase is stolen. Suspicion now falls on his wife Eve and client Tony Fontaine but both have now vanished.

Episode 10 • May 31, 1964

Subject: Murder

As good a place as any for a murder is an isolated anti-aircraft post in wartime. A group of browned-off soldiers, over-stretched nerves, a rigorous blackout - and an unpopular Sergeant-Major.

Episode 11 • Jun 07, 1964

Death in Ecstasy

Detective Chief Inspector Alleyn is called into investigate a mysterious death that has occurred during a ceremony at the secret cult 'Sign of the Sacred Flame'.

Episode 12 • Jun 14, 1964

A Connoisseur's Case

Moving to the country, Sir John Appleby and his wife Judith have and visit the home of Colonel Raven. While there a body is discovered in nearby canal.

Episode 13 • Jun 21, 1964

The Loring Mystery

Tyrant Sir Neville Loring discovers his older twin brother has died and his son David will inherit the land. David as now lost his memory but detective Jasper Shrig guesses the truth and helps him.

Episode 14 • Jun 28, 1964

The Hungry Spider

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.

Episode 15 • Jul 05, 1964

The Case of Oscar Brodski

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.

Episode 16 • Jul 12, 1964

The Speaking Eye

Nick Mahoun travels to a Glasgow to audit an oil company prior to a takeover. What he discovers is widespread fraud and somebody willing to murder to keep it quiet.

Episode 17 • Jul 19, 1964

Death of a Fellow Traveller

Mystery writers Dagobert and Jane Brown decide to holiday in Cornwall to find some inspiration for their next novel and walk straight in to a murder of their own.

Episode 18 • Jul 26, 1964

The Quick One

The aggressively opinionated John Raggley is murdered in a pub. Father Brown determines that a mysterious customer - "the quick one" - holds the key to the mystery.

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