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TV series · 1964

Detective

First aired 30 March 1964 Crime TMDB ↗

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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Mervyn Johns
65
Llewellyn Rees
62
Charles Lloyd Pack
61
Arthur Hewlett
57
Arthur Hewlett
as Simms
57
Esmond Knight
as Commodore Rupert Gill
57
Esmond Knight
as Albert
57
Esmond Knight
as Ernest Guppy
57
Ralph Michael
as The Hon. Sidney Lomas
56
Brian Oulton
as Inspector Wilson
56
Michael Hordern
as Detective Inspector Rason
52
David Langton
as Peter Hazeldean
51
Olaf Pooley
50
Robert Ayres
as Mr. Norris
49
Dennis Price
as Sir John Appleby
48
Jack Watson
as Charlie
48
Michael Gough
as Holroyd
47
Rupert Davies
as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret
47
Rupert Davies
as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction
47
Rupert Davies
as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction (uncredited)
47
Norman Mitchell
as Cassidy
45
Allan Cuthbertson
as Rupert Bryce
43
John Horsley
as Superintendent Bell
43
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
as Bertram Coulson
43
Kevin Stoney
42
Royston Tickner
41
Graham Crowden
41
Jack May
as Inspector Dubois
41
Charles Tingwell
41
Charles Tingwell
as Pederson
41
Arthur Pentelow
as Workman
40
Robert James
as Chief Inspector Blount
40
Cyril Shaps
as Mr. Finch
40
William Russell
as Bill Cartwright
39
Wolfe Morris
as Lui
39
John Stratton
38
Bernard Hepton
as Jeremiah Batson
38
Geoffrey Palmer
as Chief Superintendent Smeed
36
Francis Matthews
as Charles Garnish
36
Francis Matthews
as George Rattery
36
Lee Montague
as Police Chief Fellows
36
Philip Latham
35
John Bennett
35
T. P. McKenna
as Detective Wilks
34
Colin Blakely
33
Bernard Horsfall
as Nigel Strangeways
33
Edward Woodward
as Auguste Dupin
33
Barbara Shelley
32
Robert Fyfe
32
Avril Elgar
as Mrs. Datta
31
Judi Dench
as Charlotte Revel
29
Jean Marsh
as Julie Oliver
29
Christopher Benjamin
as Rodier
29
Christopher Benjamin
as Ralph Demartino
29
Mary Webster
as Girl in Accounts
29
Benjamin Whitrow
as Peter Binns
27
David Buck
27
Annette Andre
24
Angela Douglas
23
Nick Tate
21
Richard Wordsworth
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