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1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 3 (UK)
13 x 50 minute episodes

This BBC2 drama series featured the adventures of Daniel Pike (Roddy McMillan), a low-paid but tough and fearless private detective based in Glasgow who looked and talked like a navvy.

Pike would investigate cases ranging from drug dealing to kidnap to murder with a little debt-collecting on the side for good measure. In the final episode, Four Walls, Pike was asked to help four bank-robbers escape Glasgow – because one of them was his ex-wife!

The gritty series was devised by Edward Boyd.

Daniel Pike
Roddy McMillan

Episodes

Philomena and the Tattie-Howkers | The Manufactured Clue | Little Bird Lost | The Short Price Premium | A Tale of Two Cities | So This Is Olympus || Big Fleas, Little Fleas | Credit Where It’s Due | Away Match | None So Blind | Pig in the Middle | A Slight Case of Absalom | Four Walls