Detective (1964)

Detective

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.

Detective

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Rupert Davies
Rupert Davies
as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction
Graham Crowden
Graham Crowden
as
Robert Fyfe
Robert Fyfe
as
Llewellyn Rees
Llewellyn Rees
as
Michael Hordern
Michael Hordern
as Detective Inspector Rason
Barbara Shelley
Barbara Shelley
as
Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin Whitrow
as Peter Binns
Frederick Jaeger
Frederick Jaeger
as
Mervyn Johns
Mervyn Johns
as
Ian Ogilvy
Ian Ogilvy
as
Colin Blakely
Colin Blakely
as
Timothy Bateson
Timothy Bateson
as
Geoffrey Hayes
Geoffrey Hayes
as
Glynn Edwards
Glynn Edwards
as
Nick Tate
Nick Tate
as
Edward Woodward
Edward Woodward
as
Terence Alexander
Terence Alexander
as
Michael Jayston
Michael Jayston
as
John Harvey
John Harvey
as
Philip Latham
Philip Latham
as
Leslie Sands
Leslie Sands
as
Dennis Price
Dennis Price
as Sir John Appleby
John Bennett
John Bennett
as
Michael Gough
Michael Gough
as
Simon Oates
Simon Oates
as
Annette Andre
Annette Andre
as
Charles Lloyd Pack
Charles Lloyd Pack
as
Olaf Pooley
Olaf Pooley
as
John Stratton
John Stratton
as
Charles Kay
Charles Kay
as
Arthur Hewlett
Arthur Hewlett
as
Angela Douglas
Angela Douglas
as
Meredith Edwards
Meredith Edwards
as
Richard Wordsworth
Richard Wordsworth
as
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
as Bertram Coulson
Garfield Morgan
Garfield Morgan
as
Charles Tingwell
Charles Tingwell
as
Martin Jarvis
Martin Jarvis
as
Geoffrey Bayldon
Geoffrey Bayldon
as
John Levene
John Levene
as
Michael Allinson
Michael Allinson
as
Christopher Benjamin
Christopher Benjamin
as
Cyril Luckham
Cyril Luckham
as
Colin Jeavons
Colin Jeavons
as
David Buck
David Buck
as
Nicholas Pennell
Nicholas Pennell
as
John Baskcomb
John Baskcomb
as
Esmond Knight
Esmond Knight
as
Kevin Stoney
Kevin Stoney
as
George Sewell
George Sewell
as
Royston Tickner
Royston Tickner
as
John Nettleton
John Nettleton
as
Angela Baddeley
Angela Baddeley
as
Derek Francis
Derek Francis
as
Bruce Boa
Bruce Boa
as
Colin Douglas
Colin Douglas
as
Frederick Hall
Frederick Hall
as
Philip Ray
Philip Ray
as
Richard Bird
Richard Bird
as Seth Crabtree
James Bree
James Bree
as Tarbox
Ann Castle
Ann Castle
as Lady Judith Appleby
Walter Fitzgerald
Walter Fitzgerald
as Colonel Julius Raven
David Garth
David Garth
as Dr. West
Bonnie Hurren
Bonnie Hurren
as Daphne Binns
William Kendall
William Kendall
as Mr. Binns
Helen Lindsay
Helen Lindsay
as Edith Coulson
Brian Worth
Brian Worth
as David Channing-Kennedy
William Abney
William Abney
as Marcus Windle-Scott
Edwin Brown
Edwin Brown
as Fred Cox
Kate Brown
Kate Brown
as Gladys
Gwen Cherrell
Gwen Cherrell
as Honey Penfield
John Bailey
John Bailey
as Howard Fisk
William Russell
William Russell
as Bill Cartwright
Daniel Thorndike
Daniel Thorndike
as Alan Kenton
Michael Brennan
Michael Brennan
as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret
Mary Webster
Mary Webster
as Girl in Accounts
June Barry
June Barry
as Polly Flinders
Donald Churchill
Donald Churchill
as George Carshaw
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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    The moving toyshop

  • 1x2

    The drawing

  • 1x3

    Trent's last case

  • 1x4

    End of chapter

  • 1x5

    The judas window

  • 1x6

    Dishonoured bones

  • 1x7

    The man who murdered in public

  • 1x8

    The speckled band

  • 1x9

    The night of the horns

  • 1x10

    Subject: murder

  • 1x11

    Death in ecstacy

  • 1x12

    A connoisseur's case

  • 1x13

    The loring mystery

  • 1x14

    The hungry spider

  • 1x15

    The case of oscar brodski

  • 1x16

    The speaking eye

  • 1x17

    Death of a fellow traveller

  • 1x18

    The quick one

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    The deadly climate

  • 2x2

    Dover and the poison pen letters

  • 2x3

    A man and his mother-in-law

  • 2x4

    Lesson in anatomy

  • 2x5

    The german song

  • 2x6

    The beast must die

  • 2x7

    The avenging chance

  • 2x8

    Born victim

  • 2x9

    The unquiet sleep

  • 2x10

    The high adventure

  • 2x11

    Cork on the water

  • 2x12

    The case of the late pig

  • 2x13

    The golden dart

  • 2x14

    Crime of passion

  • 2x15

    Artists in crime

  • 2x16

    Death on the champs elysã©es

  • 2x17

    The murders in the rue morgue

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    Prisoner's plea

  • 3x2

    The singing sands

  • 3x3

    The public school murder

  • 3x4

    Put out the light

  • 3x5

    The tea-leaf

  • 3x6

    Hunt the peacock

  • 3x7

    Elimination round

  • 3x8

    And so to murder

  • 3x9

    The poisoners

  • 3x10

    Mr guppy's tale

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