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- 1959–196558m7.0 (72)TV EpisodeAfter a visit from a mysterious stranger from his past, enigmatic millionaire John Trasmore is found dead - shot at close range locked in his own strongroom, with the only key on a table in the middle of the room.
- 1959–19651h 1m6.8 (69)TV EpisodeA blackmailer is found dead in a locked room and all the suspects have unbreakable alibis.
- 1959–19651h 9m6.3 (64)TV EpisodeWhen Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she asks stepsister Dora for shelter. Dora takes Audrey to a party hosted hosted by Lacey, her boyfriend. Lacey complains about his neighbor, the mysterious Mr. Malpas, who makes strange noises all night and is never seen. Next day, Audrey gets a job offer from Malpas, triggering a plot involving a missing heir, diamonds and kidnapping.
- A rich man's secretary/fiancée is harassed by an assistant, who's sacked. Dangerous accidents start occurring and the assistant is suspected, but he's suddenly murdered just as he plans to meet with a Scotland Yard inspector.
- Curzon employs the brash and confident Logan to save his ailing business. However Logan's confidence is not matched by his ability and his desperate measures lead to a life threatening situation.
- 1959–196559m6.6 (59)TV EpisodeWhen a hired server is killed after a party for an artist and his fiancée, and soon after, the girl's hot tempered, disapproving old uncle is murdered too, the police look for a connexion. The clues available include a small, brightly painted key to the old man's safe, and some wigs found in an abandoned apartment near a crime site.
- Carol Halston discovers her sister withdrew £7000 before she died. The money is now missing. Betrayal, Blackmail and Murder.
- A cracked safe seems like routine to the police, until the owner of the business is found dead the next morning and they find that a lot more money was in the safe than he had said. Where did he get it and why was it there?
- 1959–196557m6.6 (89)TV EpisodeA murderous jewelry heist attracts an ex-partner of the killer, a master criminal who's never been caught. His personal nemesis,a retired detective, joins Scotland Yard to crack the case, in turn recruiting the thief's estranged wife.
- A company-owner arrives home from a night out with his wife, disturbs a burglar, and is shot. A detective starts investigating the case, to find out who is responsible.
- An international criminal arrives in London, and a detective is anxious to pin something on him for some unprovable murders of former lovers. The villain starts to suspect servants and henchmen of being a police spy known as "Number Six".
- A gang of thieves are implicated in a murder while executing a jewellery shop heist.
- Burglars rob a townhouse and most of them are caught at the scene, but valuable jewels seem to have vanished. An estate agent realises they are still on site, and tries to purchase the building before anyone finds them.
- An up and coming politician is caught in a compromising photograph taken by a maid, who turns out to be part of a sophisticated blackmail ring. When the girl is found murdered, he holds an incriminating old dueling pistol.
- Returning from a party the adopted daughter of Colonel Paxton and her boyfriend are surprised by an intruder. The colonel, however, instantly remembers him as a war comrade. Starring John Carson, Jacqueline Ellis, Derrick Sherwin and Richard Vernon. Directed by Geoffrey Nethercott.
- A man who has been left for dead by the impostor who takes his place returns to bring him to justice.
- 1959–19651h 1m5.6 (37)TV EpisodeDino Steffano is charged with fraud and set to stand trial, rather than face imprisonment, he feels his best option is to nobble The Prosecuting Barrister.
- Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to appear that he is the blackmailer and for Yvonne to kill him. But Brodie, anticipating this predictament, has a hidden agenda behind all this to get the last laugh at Phipps.
- A happily married couple plan a vacation in the city to see several stage plays, as the wife is an ex-actress. They arrange to temporarily swap residences with an older couple who want to visit the country. The older couple are actually part of a team of antiques thieves but are interrupted by a friend of the actress-wife. When the cottage couple find there is no city residence, and are told they are probably being robbed, they return home to find everything intact....except their pets and plants were poisoned. Someone seems to be taking advantage of the situation to upset their lives.
- 1959–196553m7.2 (58)TV EpisodeIn prison, two inmates are getting out soon. One, soon getting out, has been sent up for a heist of several thousand pounds, still not recovered. The other, getting out before him, pumps the other for details of his home life, so he he can assume the other's identity and get to the loot first.
- A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher's wife.
- It all began as a hoax, a stunt, a trick on the part of two cynical young journalists to spite society and thwart the Establishment. The idea was to expose the frailty of circumstantial evidence, and they planned to fake a murder. But the plan went disastrously wrong. Starring John Thaw, Ann Firbank, John Meillon, Peter Bowles and John Abineri. Directed by Patrick Dromgoole.
- What appears to be a cut-and-dried case of murder of an aging onetime showgirl on Hampstead Heath by her lover is complicated by several factors, including a far more respectable paramour, and her insistence that a great inheritance was due her that nobody can verify. A police detective and a solicitor for the defence unravel the mystery.
- A disgraced ex-RAF pilot is enlisted into a smuggling scheme by an electronically sophisticated smuggler, who has a room full of computers and recording devices. The pilot is to take stolen diamonds from across the Channel, but he plans a carefully crafted double cross instead.
- 1959–19651h 11m6.9 (53)TV EpisodeA CID detective is lured into a plot by girl who first pretends to fall in love with him, then that she's been killed and is now actually a heretofore unknown twin sister, and ultimately a murderous betrayal.