UK, 30 March 1964-9 November 1969
3 series, 45 episodes, average 54m
videotape, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
A British crime television series with one horror episode.
Premise
An anthology of adaptations of famous detective stories.
Episodes
Series One
The Moving Toyshop (30 March 1964)
The Drawing (6 April 1964)
Trent’s Last Case (13 April 1964)
End of Chapter (20 April 1964)
The Judas Window (27 April 1964)
Dishonoured Bones (4 May 1964)
The Man Who Murdered In Public (11 May 1964)
The Speckled Band (18 May 1964)
The Night of the Horns (25 May 1964)
Subject: Murder (1 June 1964)
Death in Ecstasy (8 June 1964)
A Connoisseur’s Case (15 June 1964)
The Loring Mystery (22 June 1964)
The Hungry Spider (29 June 1964)
The Case of Oscar Brodski (6 July 1964)
The Speaking Eye (13 July 1964)
Death of a Fellow Traveller (20 July 1964)
The Quick One (27 July 1964)
Series Two
The Deadly Climate (17 May 1968)
Dover and the Poison Pen Letters (24 May 1968)
A Man and His Mother-In-Law (31 May 1968)
Lesson in Anatomy (7 June 1968)
The German Song (14 June 1968)
The Beast Must Die (21 June 1968)
The Avenging Chance (28 June 1968)
Born Victim (5 July 1968)
The Unquiet Sleep (7 July 1968)
The High Adventure (14 July 1968)
Cork on the Water (21 July 1968)
The Case of the Late Pig (28 July 1968)
The Golden Dart (4 August 1968)
Crime of Passion (11 August 1968)
Artists In Crime (18 August 1968)
Death on the Champs Élysées (25 August 1968)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1 September 1968)
Series Three
Prisoner’s Plea (7 September 1969)
The Singing Sands (14 September 1969)
The Public School Murder (21 September 1969)
Put Out the Light (28 September 1969)
The Tea-Leaf (5 October 1969)
Hunt the Peacock (12 October 1969)
Elimination Round (19 October 1969)
And so to Murder (26 October 1969)
The Poisoners (2 November 1969)
Mr Guppy’s Tale (9 November 1969)
References
Books
- The Kaleidoscope BBC Television Drama Research Guide 1936-2011 edited by Simon Coward, Richard Down, and Chris Perry (first digital edition, September 2011) pp.539-543 – episode list
