The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder (1969)
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder is based on a character created by Edgar Wallace in a series of 1925 short stories of the same name, Hugh Burden played the titular character – A mild-mannered investigator with the Department of Public Prosecutions.
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Episode 1 - The Treasure Hunt
Release Date: 1969-04-23Mr. Reeder investigates a poison-pen letter accusing a baronet of doing away with his wife. Meanwhile, a convicted forger is released after a ten-year sentence and seeks revenge.
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Episode 2 - The Stealer of Marble
Release Date: 1969-04-30Mr. Reeder investigates the disappearance of the managing director of the Telfer Consolidated, along with £150,000. He is meanwhile intrigued by the petty theft of some marble chips from a local stonemason's yard.
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Episode 3 - The Green Mamba
Release Date: 1969-05-07A woman seeks revenge on Mr. Reeder after her husband is convicted of forgery.
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Episode 4 - Sheer Melodrama
Release Date: 1969-05-14A failed jewel thief from India and a successful forger find that they have a hatred of J. G. Reeder in common.
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Episode 5 - The Strange Case
Release Date: 1969-05-21Lord Sellington asks the D.P.P. to investigate his estranged son, whom he suspects of stealing from the Sellington Refugee Fund.
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Episode 6 - The Poetical Policeman
Release Date: 1969-05-28Mr. Lambton Green, branch manager of the London Scottish and Midland Bank, is arrested for embezzlement, but Mr. Reeder doubts his guilt.
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Episode 7 - The Troupe
Release Date: 1969-06-04Mr. Reeder pits his wits against Art Lomer, producer of a U.S. theatrical company and a successful international confidence trickster, in London to pull off an audacious fraud.
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Episode 8 - The Investors
Release Date: 1969-06-11Mr. Reeder investigates the disappearances of several people who had invested in a secretive company.