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 (40 votes)
Seasons: 2
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Aug 19, 2026 · 2 seasons indexed

Seasons

Season 1 (1964)

6.94 avg 12 episodes 6.9 → 7.1 50 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
4	End of Chapter	6.9	16
6	Dishonoured Bones	6.2	14
8	The Speckled Band	8.4	17
9	The Night of the Horns	6.5	8
10	Subject: Murder	6.7	8
11	Death in Ecstasy	7.0	16
12	A Connoisseur's Case	6.9	17
13	The Loring Mystery	6.3	15
14	The Hungry Spider	7.3	8
15	The Case of Oscar Brodski	7.0	7
16	The Speaking Eye	7.0	12
17	Death of a Fellow Traveller	7.1	11

Season 2 (1968)

6.94 avg 8 episodes 7.9 → 6.1

Front-loaded

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
2	Dover and the Poison Pen Letters	7.9	13
3	A Man and His Mother-In-Law	7.1	10
5	The German Song	7.2	13
6	The Beast Must Die	7.2	12
7	The Avenging Chance	7.3	8
9	The Unquiet Sleep	6.0	8
12	The Case of the Late Pig	6.7	16
13	The Golden Dart	6.1	11

Detective (1964)

Seasons

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