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Detective (1964)

Crime · Drama

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.

IMDb rating
6.9 (38 votes)
Seasons
2
Language
EN
Type
TV series

Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 2 seasons indexed

Seasons

Season 1 (1964)

6.95 avg 12 episodes 6.8 → 7.1 50 min avg

Ep 4: 6.8 · 16 votesEp 6: 6.2 · 14 votesEp 8: 8.4 · 17 votesEp 9: 6.5 · 8 votesEp 10: 6.7 · 8 votesEp 11: 7.0 · 16 votesEp 12: 6.9 · 17 votesEp 13: 6.5 · 14 votesEp 14: 7.3 · 8 votesEp 15: 7.0 · 7 votesEp 16: 7.0 · 12 votesEp 17: 7.1 · 11 votes
Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
4End of Chapter6.816
6Dishonoured Bones6.214
8The Speckled Band8.417
9The Night of the Horns6.58
10Subject: Murder6.78
11Death in Ecstasy7.016
12A Connoisseur's Case6.917
13The Loring Mystery6.514
14The Hungry Spider7.38
15The Case of Oscar Brodski7.07
16The Speaking Eye7.012
17Death of a Fellow Traveller7.111

Season 2 (1968)

6.93 avg 8 episodes 7.9 → 6.1

Ep 2: 7.9 · 13 votesEp 3: 7.1 · 10 votesEp 5: 7.2 · 13 votesEp 6: 7.1 · 11 votesEp 7: 7.3 · 8 votesEp 9: 6.0 · 8 votesEp 12: 6.7 · 16 votesEp 13: 6.1 · 11 votes
Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
2Dover and the Poison Pen Letters7.913
3A Man and His Mother-In-Law7.110
5The German Song7.213
6The Beast Must Die7.111
7The Avenging Chance7.38
9The Unquiet Sleep6.08
12The Case of the Late Pig6.716
13The Golden Dart6.111