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Detective

1964–1969 · 3 seasons

A stately, talky parade of classic sleuths, each episode a self-contained puzzle that rewards patient attention.

Genres
Crime
Overview
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.

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • mystery
    • crime
    • deception
    • justice
    Places
    None
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • anthology
    • procedural
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism6
    Romance1
    Tension4
    Darkness4
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight3

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    Genres
    crime
    Created by
    Alan Bridges, Alan Gibson, Ben Rea, Bill Hays, Claude Whatham, David Sullivan Proudfoot
    Written by
    John Hopkins, Roy Clarke
    Starring
    Rupert Davies, Graham Crowden, Robert Fyfe, Llewellyn Rees, Michael Hordern, Barbara Shelley, Benjamin Whitrow, Frederick Jaeger
    Length
    3 seasons, 45 episodes, 60 min each

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