Season 1

E1. A Message from the Deep Sea

Sep 20, 1971 · 50m

This episode features Dr Thorndyke, played by John Neville, who is first a medical man and second a solver of mysteries. A young girl has been murdered in her boarding house and the solution looks obvious - but is it? Neville plays the sleuth with aplomb and this is a strong opening episode. The character is arrogant, capable, and likable - and of course his intelligence makes his police colleagues and/or adversaries look like idiots!

E2. The Missing Witness Sensation

Sep 27, 1971 · 50m

Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.

E3. The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.

Oct 4, 1971 · 50m

Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.

E4. The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds

Oct 11, 1971 · 50m

Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.

E5. The Horse of the Invisible

Oct 18, 1971 · 50m

Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.

E6. The Case of the Mirror of Portugal

Oct 25, 1971 · 50m

Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.

E7. Madame Sara

Nov 1, 1971 · 50m

Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.

E8. The Case of the Dixon Torpedo

Nov 8, 1971 · 50m

Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.

E9. The Woman in the Big Hat

Nov 15, 1971 · 50m

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.

E10. The Affair of the Tortoise

Nov 22, 1971 · 50m

Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.

E11. The Assyrian Rejuvenator

Nov 29, 1971 · 50m

Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.

E12. The Ripening Rubies

Dec 2, 1971 · 50m

Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.

E13. The Case of Laker, Absconded

Dec 9, 1971 · 50m

Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.