About this season
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.
Episodes (18)
1. The Moving Toyshop
Aired 30 March 1964 • 60 min
A poet finds a body in a toyshop. But when he returns with the police the next morning, the body has disappeared–and so has the toyshop.
2. The Drawing
Aired 6 April 1964 • 60 min
3. Trent's Last Case
Aired 13 April 1964 • 60 min
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
Aired 20 April 1964 • 60 min
5. The Judas Window
Aired 27 April 1964 • 60 min
6. Dishonoured Bones
Aired 4 May 1964 • 60 min
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
Aired 11 May 1964 • 60 min
8. The Speckled Band
Aired 18 May 1964 • 60 min
9. The Night of the Horns
Aired 25 May 1964 • 60 min
10. Subject: Murder
Aired 1 June 1964 • 60 min
11. Death in Ecstacy
Aired 8 June 1964 • 60 min
12. A Connoisseur's Case
Aired 15 June 1964 • 60 min
13. The Loring Mystery
Aired 22 June 1964 • 60 min
14. The Hungry Spider
Aired 29 June 1964 • 60 min
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
Aired 6 July 1964 • 60 min
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
Aired 13 July 1964 • 60 min
17. Death of a Fellow Traveller
Aired 20 July 1964 • 60 min
18. The Quick One
Aired 27 July 1964 • 60 min