Season 1

Directed by David MacDonald · Paul Dickson

1954–1955

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E3. Let Murder Be Done

Oct 15, 1954 · 30m

E4. Dr. Damon's Experiment

Oct 22, 1954 · 30m

Dr. Damon is heading to Paris to lecture on psychology where he illustrates the powers of hypnosis. Returning early discovers his wife with another man, painter Charles Dyson. He decides to hypnotise him and get his wife to kill him.

E5. Death Pays No Dividends

Oct 29, 1954 · 30m

Tommy Carter and girlfriend Julia Benton consider themselves part of the jet set. Money, however, is in short supply. Julia suggests Tommy fake his death in a car crash. When Julia gets the insurance Tommy finds himself out in the cold.

E6. Gabriel's Choice

Nov 5, 1954 · 30m

E7. The Diamond Expert

Nov 12, 1954 · 30m

E8. The Secret Place

Nov 19, 1954 · 30m

E9. The Fair and the Fallen

Nov 26, 1954 · 30m

E10. The Eavesdropper

Dec 3, 1954 · 30m

E11. The Very Silent Traveler

Dec 10, 1954 · 30m

In Manchester, recently released convict Dickie Miller murders Arnold Brockley in an act of revenge. Brockley's pals Rusty and Dylan decide to take the body, on the overnight train, to London and fit up Miller unaware he is watching them.

While in Monte Carlo, June Belmont is invited by Carlos Rodrigues to join him at the roulette table. June brings Carlos luck and they become partners. When Bob Carter arrives he attempts to get June away from her addiction.

E15. Count of Twelve

Jan 7, 1955 · 30m

Simon Graves is privy to a gold strike in Welcome Stranger Mine, in South Africa and makes a killing. Harry Bancroft invest but loses a fortune. A newspaper article exposes Graves insider trading and he starts getting threatening letters.

E16. The Final Column

Jan 14, 1955 · 30m

Newspaper editor Albert Lake sacks his assistant Larry Spence after passing a story to the Courier. Spence blackmails Lake's mistress Marie Dickson but strangles her. When Lake plays down the murder in the Sentinal, Spence blackmails him.

E17. The Benevolent Burglar

Jan 21, 1955 · 30m

Street artist Socrates Smith and Detective Mark Tower are unlikely friends. Tower is on the trail of burglar Longhair. During one robbery, Tower falls for Lady Carol. When she receives his love letters there can be only one suspect.

E18. Blind Man's Bluff

Jan 28, 1955 · 25m

E19. Broken Honeymoon

Feb 4, 1955 · 25m

Helen and Clive Parker's honeymoon in the jungle turns into a nightmare when she is attacked by a jaguar. Fearing she will be scarred forever he disappears from her life. Two years on Helen is determined to track him down.

E20. The Eighth Window

Feb 11, 1955 · 25m

E21. Death on the Boards

Feb 18, 1955 · 25m

Promoter Robert Parker and his choreographer wife Audrey are offered the chance to take displaced person; Maria Beleska. They groom her for stardom but as Robert falls for her a jealous Audrey schemes to kill her.

E22. Behind the Mask

Feb 25, 1955 · 25m

John Philmore is married to Laura and lavishes her with expensive gifts. A sudden short fall of cash leaves him needing to use her jewelry as collateral but they are now paste. Laura is being blackmailed but it's for murder.

District Commissioner Clive Hastings sentences Tuah Ohe to ten years in jail. He promises revenge. Later that day Hastings and his son are left paralised by a poison. His wife has to make a choice over which one she gives the antidote to.

E25. The Deception

Mar 18, 1955 · 25m

The three Hadley sisters live with their grandfather. Dorothy and Bess are attractive and have many suitors. Older sister Gwen is plain and so decides to make up a romance. When Paul finds her secret he decides to blackmail her.

E26. Week-End Guest

Mar 25, 1955 · 25m

A reporter is sent by a London newspaper to interview the sister of a celebrated author.

E27. The Fame and the Fury