The View from Daniel Pike
The View from Daniel Pike is a 1971–73 Scottish TV drama series created and written by Edward Boyd, and starring Roddy McMillan as Daniel Pike, a hard-boiled private detective based in Glasgow. A few of the stories were later adapted into book form.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Philomena and the Tattie-Howkers
25-11-197150mWhen Michael Holmes goes missing from a squad of Irish tattie-howkers working as sweated labour, Pike is commissioned to find him, a dangerous business when working for Philomena H...
- Ep 2
2.The Manufactured Clue
02-12-197150mPike becomes personally involved in the murder of a street pie-man when Sweet Sam is the only witness. But Sam has lost her memory and Pike has to use his own methods to bring the...
- Ep 3
3.Little Bird Lost
09-12-197150mPike has his hands full sorting out the hawks from the doves as he investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl.
- Ep 4
4.The Short Price Premium
16-12-197150mWhen is a suicide not a suicide? And how can a corpse cash a betting slip? Pike arranges a meeting with the 'body' to find the answers.
- Ep 5
5.A Tale of Two Cities
23-12-197150mPike becomes involved in drugs and murder when a body is found in a hearse... but in the front seat!
- Ep 6
6.So This Is Olympus
30-12-197150mPike has to pick his way through a minefield of intrigue to reach a prodigal son, a university student implicated in the murder of a girl.
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