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 (10)
1. Prisoner's Plea
Aired 7 September 1969 • 60 min
Ernest Jackson is sitting on death row for the murder of his wife. Jackson claims he is a patsy. Having run out of appeals he makes a last ditch plea for help from Police Chief Fellows. The Chief decides Jackson may be telling the truth.
2. The Singing Sands
Aired 14 September 1969 • 60 min
3. The Public School Murder
Aired 21 September 1969 • 60 min
4. Put Out The Light
Aired 28 September 1969 • 60 min
5. The Tea-Leaf
Aired 5 October 1969 • 60 min
In the steamy heat of a fashionable Turkish baths, emotions can become heightened and lead to a fantastic and mysterious death.
6. Hunt The Peacock
Aired 12 October 1969 • 60 min
The brilliant Indian sleuth Inspector Ghote arrives in England for the first time to investigate a crime, and finds sadly that it is far from being the fabled land he has always dreamed of.
7. Elimination Round
Aired 19 October 1969 • 60 min
8. And So To Murder
Aired 26 October 1969 • 60 min
9. The Poisoners
Aired 2 November 1969 • 60 min
10. Mr Guppy's Tale
Aired 9 November 1969 • 60 min
A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.