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 (17)
1. The Deadly Climate
Aired 17 May 1968 • 60 min
2. Dover and the Poison Pen Letters
Aired 24 May 1968 • 60 min
3. A Man and His Mother-In-Law
Aired 31 May 1968 • 60 min
4. Lesson In Anatomy
Aired 7 June 1968 • 60 min
5. The German Song
Aired 15 June 1968 • 60 min
Scotland Yard ask consultant Reggie Fortune to help them find a stash of gold artifacts stolen from Sir Henry Exton country house.
6. The Beast Must Die
Aired 21 June 1968 • 60 min
When his son is killed by an unidentified hit-and-run driver, Felix Lane writes in his diary that he intends to find the man responsible and kill him. But when the man actually is killed, is someone else the killer?
7. The Avenging Chance
Aired 28 June 1968 • 60 min
This play is set in the West End of London in the nineteen-thirties. It appears that there are a large number of people who would be glad to see Sir William Anstruther dead. The question is who? Roger Sheringham is determined to find out. Unhappily he has hardly started his investigations when a tragedy, in which an innocent woman dies, takes place.
8. Born Victim
Aired 5 July 1968 • 60 min
9. The Unquiet Sleep
Aired 7 July 1968 • 60 min
Advising government on the illegal "high" called Mecron, Rachel Borrowdaile comes to the aid of minister Henry Leggatt who is blackmailed by drug pushers who want old stock.
10. The High Adventure
Aired 14 July 1968 • 60 min
11. Cork On The Water
Aired 21 July 1968 • 60 min
12. The Case of the Late Pig
Aired 28 July 1968 • 60 min
13. The Golden Dart
Aired 4 August 1968 • 60 min
14. Crime of Passion
Aired 11 August 1968 • 60 min
15. Artists In Crime
Aired 18 August 1968 • 60 min
16. Death On The Champs Elysées
Aired 25 August 1968 • 60 min
17. The Murders In The Rue Morgue
Aired 1 September 1968 • 60 min