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The View from Daniel Pike
1971 · 2 seasons · 50m · ★ 0.0
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.
Start from S1E1 · Philomena and the Tattie-Howkers
Episodes
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1. Philomena and the Tattie-Howkers
1971 · 50m
When 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 Hawley.
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2. The Manufactured Clue
1971 · 50m
Pike 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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3. Little Bird Lost
1971 · 50m
Pike has his hands full sorting out the hawks from the doves as he investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl.
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4. The Short Price Premium
1971 · 50m
When 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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5. A Tale of Two Cities
1971 · 50m
Pike becomes involved in drugs and murder when a body is found in a hearse... but in the front seat!
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6. So This Is Olympus
1971 · 50m
Pike 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.
Cast
Roddy McMillan
Daniel Pike