Show Details:
Start date: Mar 1979
End date: May 1988
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): ITV (UK)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 112 eps
Genre(s): Drama, Science Fiction
End date: May 1988
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): ITV (UK)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 112 eps
Genre(s): Drama, Science Fiction
Credits:
- Roald Dahl [ 1-2 ]
- John Houseman [ 3-8 ]
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze •
TV.com
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 24 Mar 79 | Man from the South |
| 2. | 1-2 | 31 Mar 79 | Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat |
| 3. | 1-3 | 07 Apr 79 | William and Mary |
| 4. | 1-4 | 14 Apr 79 | Lamb to the Slaughter |
| 5. | 1-5 | 21 Apr 79 | The Landlady |
| 6. | 1-6 | 28 Apr 79 | Neck |
| 7. | 1-7 | 05 May 79 | Edward the Conqueror |
| 8. | 1-8 | 12 May 79 | A Dip in the Pool |
| 9. | 1-9 | 19 May 79 | The Way Up to Heaven |
| Season 2 | |||
| 10. | 2-1 | 01 Mar 80 | Royal Jelly |
| 11. | 2-2 | 08 Mar 80 | Skin |
| 12. | 2-3 | 15 Mar 80 | Galloping Foxley |
| 13. | 2-4 | 22 Mar 80 | The Hitch-hiker |
| 14. | 2-5 | 29 Mar 80 | Poison |
| 15. | 2-6 | 05 Apr 80 | Fat Chance |
| 16. | 2-7 | 12 Apr 80 | Taste |
| 17. | 2-8 | 19 Apr 80 | My Lady Love, My Dove |
| 18. | 2-9 | 26 Apr 80 | Georgy Porgy |
| 19. | 2-10 | 03 May 80 | Depart in Peace |
| 20. | 2-11 | 10 May 80 | The Umbrella Man |
| 21. | 2-12 | 17 May 80 | Genesis and Catastrophe |
| 22. | 2-13 | 24 May 80 | Mr. Botibol's First Love |
| 23. | 2-14 | 31 May 80 | Back for Christmas |
| 24. | 2-15 | 07 Jun 80 | The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby |
| 25. | 2-16 | 14 Jun 80 | The Man at the Top |
| Season 3 | |||
| 26. | 3-1 | 09 Aug 80 | The Flypaper |
| 27. | 3-2 | 16 Aug 80 | A Picture of a Place |
| 28. | 3-3 | 23 Aug 80 | Proof of Guilt |
| 29. | 3-4 | 30 Aug 80 | Vengeance is Mine Inc. |
| 30. | 3-5 | 09 Nov 80 | A Girl Can't Always Have Everything |
| 31. | 3-6 | 30 Nov 80 | Parson's Pleasure |
| 32. | 3-7 | 07 Dec 80 | The Stinker |
| 33. | 3-8 | 14 Dec 80 | I'll Be Seeing You |
| 34. | 3-9 | 19 Dec 80 | The Party |
| Season 4 | |||
| 35. | 4-1 | 05 Apr 81 | Would You Believe it? |
| 36. | 4-2 | 12 Apr 81 | Vicious Circle |
| 37. | 4-3 | 19 Apr 81 | The Boy Who Talked with Animals |
| 38. | 4-4 | 26 Apr 81 | The Best of Everything |
| 39. | 4-5 | 03 May 81 | A Woman's Help |
| 40. | 4-6 | 10 May 81 | Shatterproof |
| 41. | 4-7 | 17 May 81 | The Sound Machine |
| 42. | 4-8 | 24 May 81 | Never Speak Ill of the Dead |
| 43. | 4-9 | 31 May 81 | The Best Policy |
| 44. | 4-10 | 07 Jun 81 | The Last Bottle in the World |
| 45. | 4-11 | 14 Jun 81 | Kindly Dig Your Grave |
| 46. | 4-12 | 21 Jun 81 | Completely Foolproof |
| 47. | 4-13 | 05 Jun 81 | There's One Born Every Minute |
| 48. | 4-14 | 12 Jun 81 | Bosom Friends |
| 49. | 4-15 | 19 Jul 81 | A Glowing Future |
| 50. | 4-16 | 26 Jul 81 | The Way to Do It |
| 51. | 4-17 | 26 Dec 81 | Hijack |
| Season 5 | |||
| 52. | 5-1 | 25 Apr 82 | Blue Marigold |
| 53. | 5-2 | 02 May 82 | The Eavesdropper |
| 54. | 5-3 | 09 May 82 | Operation Safecrack |
| 55. | 5-4 | 16 May 82 | Run, Rabbit, Run |
| 56. | 5-5 | 23 May 82 | Stranger in Town |
| 57. | 5-6 | 30 May 82 | The Moles |
| 58. | 5-7 | 06 Jun 82 | Decoy |
| 59. | 5-8 | 13 Jun 82 | Pattern of Guilt |
| 60. | 5-9 | 20 Jun 82 | A Harmless Vanity |
| 61. | 5-10 | 27 Jun 82 | Death Can Add |
| 62. | 5-11 | 04 Jul 82 | Light Fingers |
| 63. | 5-12 | 11 Jul 82 | Death in the Morning |
| 64. | 5-13 | 18 Jul 82 | What Have You Been Up to Lately? |
| 65. | 5-14 | 25 Jul 82 | The Absence of Emily |
| 66. | 5-15 | 01 Aug 82 | In the Bag |
| 67. | 5-16 | 08 Aug 82 | A Man with a Fortune |
| 68. | 5-17 | 15 Aug 82 | Who's Got the Lady? |
| 69. | 5-18 | 22 Aug 82 | The Skeleton Key |
| Season 6 | |||
| 70. | 6-1 | 09 Apr 83 | A Passing Opportunity |
| 71. | 6-2 | 16 Apr 83 | The Memory Man |
| 72. | 6-3 | 23 Apr 83 | A Sad Loss |
| 73. | 6-4 | 30 Mar 83 | Clerical Error |
| 74. | 6-5 | 07 May 83 | Heir Presumptuous |
| 75. | 6-6 | 14 Apr 83 | Where's Your Sense of Humour? |
| 76. | 6-7 | 21 May 83 | Down Among the Sheltering Palms |
| 77. | 6-8 | 28 May 83 | The Vorpal Blade |
| 78. | 6-9 | 11 Jun 83 | The Wrong 'Un |
| 79. | 6-10 | 19 Jun 83 | The Luncheon |
| 80. | 6-11 | 25 Jun 83 | The Tribute |
| 81. | 6-12 | 10 May 83 | Hit and Run |
| 82. | 6-13 | 02 Jul 83 | Youth from Vienna |
| 83. | 6-14 | 03 Sep 83 | Turn of the Tide |
| Season 7 | |||
| 84. | 7-1 | 12 May 84 | The Dirty Detail |
| 85. | 7-2 | 19 May 84 | The Best Chess Player in the World |
| 86. | 7-3 | 26 May 84 | Proxy |
| 87. | 7-4 | 02 Jun 84 | Have a Nice Death |
| 88. | 7-5 | 09 Jun 84 | Number Eight |
| 89. | 7-6 | 16 Jun 84 | The Last of the Midnight Gardeners |
| 90. | 7-7 | 30 Jun 84 | The Gift of Beauty |
| 91. | 7-8 | 07 Jul 84 | Wet Saturday |
| 92. | 7-9 | 21 Jul 84 | Sauce for the Goose |
| 93. | 7-10 | 04 Aug 84 | Bird of Prey |
| 94. | 7-11 | 08 Nov 84 | I Like It Here in Wilmington |
| 95. | 7-12 | 19 Aug 84 | Accidental Death |
| 96. | 7-13 | 16 Sep 84 | The Reconciliation |
| 97. | 7-14 | 14 Oct 84 | The Mugger |
| 98. | 7-15 | 21 Oct 84 | The Open Window |
| Season 8 | |||
| 99. | 8-1 | 30 Mar 85 | People Don't Do Such Things |
| 100. | 8-2 | 14 Jul 85 | In the Cards |
| 101. | 8-3 | 21 Jul 85 | Nothin' Short of Highway Robbery |
| 102. | 8-4 | 28 Jul 85 | Scrimshaw |
| Season 9 | |||
| 103. | 9-1 | 18 Dec 87 | Skeleton in the Cupboard |
| 104. | 9-2 | 08 Jan 88 | The Colonel's Lady |
| 105. | 9-3 | 15 Jan 88 | The Surgeon |
| 106. | 9-4 | 22 Jan 88 | The Verger |
| 107. | 9-5 | 29 Jan 88 | The Facts of Life |
| 108. | 9-6 | 15 Apr 88 | Wink Three Times |
| 109. | 9-7 | 22 Apr 88 | The Dead Don't Steal |
| 110. | 9-8 | 29 Apr 88 | The Finger of Suspicion |
| 111. | 9-9 | 06 May 88 | A Time to Die |
| 112. | 9-10 | 13 May 88 | Mr. Know-All |
NOTES
Airdates for ITV. Episodes with American casts aired 1979-1981, long before they did in the UK.
Airdates for ITV. Episodes with American casts aired 1979-1981, long before they did in the UK.