The View from Daniel Pike (1971)
The View from Daniel Pike was a Scottish TV drama series in the early 1970s. It starred Roddy McMillan as Daniel Pike, a hard-boiled private detective based in Glasgow, and was written by Edward Boyd. A few of the stories were adapted into book form.
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Episode 1 - Philomena And The Tattie-Howkers
Release Date: 1971-11-25When Michael Homes goes missing from a squad of Irish tattie-howkers working as sweated labour, Pike is commissioned to find him. A dangerous business when you are working for Philomena.
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Episode 2 - The Manufactured Clue
Release Date: 1971-12-02Pike 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 murderer to book.
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Episode 3 - Little Bird Lost
Release Date: 1971-12-09Pike has his hands full sorting out the hawks from the doves.
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Episode 4 - The Short Price Premium
Release Date: 1971-12-16When 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.
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Episode 5 - A Tale Of Two Cities
Release Date: 1971-12-23Pike becomes involved in drugs and murder when a body is found in a hearse. But on the front seat!
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Episode 6 - So This Is Olympus
Release Date: 1971-12-30Pike has to pick his way through a minefield of intrigue to reach a prodigal son.