1 :01x01 - Man From the South

A man and a boy make a bet. The man says to the boy "I bet you can't light your american lighter 10 times in a row." The man puts up a fine Jaguar automobile and the boy protests - he is not wealthy, and cannot match such a rich stake. But the man suggests a stake of comparable value that he will accept. It's a little thing that the boy can surely do without...

2 :01x02 - Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

Mrs Bixby is married to a dentist and every 3 months she goes to see her poor sick Auntie Maud. She doesn't actually have an Auntie Maud - it's a cover for visits to her lover. When he must end the affair he gives her a very nice mink coat. But how can she get the coat past her husband, who will certainly know that "Auntie Maud" is too poor to afford such a gift?

3 :01x03 - William and Mary

William Pearl, a strict authoritarian, passes away. His lawyer approaches his widow with a letter that requires her to make an appointment to see a Doctor Landy. She keeps the appointment, only to discover that perhaps death is not the end. And that for some, having a thing is less enjoyable than wanting it, but for others, it is very enjoyable indeed.

4 :01x04 - Lamb to the Slaughter

Mary Marney returns home from shopping for a few groceries, and discovers the body of her husband laying on the floor in their home. He has been bludgeoned to death! Because he was a policeman, she knows who to call, and several of his friends come to investigate. To find the murderer, they conclude, they must discover the weapon. But a search of the house reveals nothing - evidently, the murder has a leg up on law enforcement...

5 :01x05 - The Landlady

A young insurance salesman arrives in Barth, a new posting where he'll collect "invaluable experience." He needs a place to stay, and as the local inn is full, he chooses a bed & breakfast run by a kindly old lady in her home. She's very nice, offering reasonable terms and a sip of hot tea on a cold day. But there is something about the names of her previous guests that the man cannot quite recall... something important... And there is the woman's unusual hobby...

6 :01x06 - Neck

Natalia runs her husband Basil's inherited publishing empire the same way she runs his house - with an iron fist. Poor Sir Basil merely wishes to collect and enjoy his art, including several abstract pieces. Natalia also has an eye for young men, and only the interference of Jelks, their butler, frustrates her ambitions in this regard. So when she gets her head stuck in one of her husband's art pieces, and he is faced with the task of removing it, it is perhaps understandable that he has trouble deciding precisely how to use the axe...

7 :01x07 - Edward the Conqueror

Edward dislikes the cat that his wife Louisa has mysteriously adopted. He also dislikes her interest in what he regards as superstition. So when Louisa becomes convinced that her new pet contains the reincarnated soul of composer Franz Liszt, Edward is less than enthusiastic. Nevertheless, he wouldn't harm the animal. Or would he? Louisa fears the worst when Edward returns from the rubbish fire pit, covered with scratches...

8 :01x08 - A Dip in the Pool

William Botibol, a passenger on an ocean cruise, decides on a scheme to make himself some money. Each night, the captain estimates the ship's progress, and the numbers 'round that are auctioned. The winner collects the pot. As the ship has encountered rough seas, Botibol decides to purchase the "low field" - a wager that the ship will make poor progress - and he spends his last $1000 on this. So when the seas clear just a little too soon, Botibol realizes he is broke - unless he can delay the ship for just long enough to win. The method he chooses suggests, perhaps, the desperation of a gambler with his back up against the wall.

9 :01x09 - The Way Up to Heaven

Mrs. Foster cannot abide being late, for anything. Mr. Foster, on the other hand, takes a much more relaxed view - even if the face of his long suffering wife's increasing agitation, he cannot be rushed. She is off to visit friends in America, while he will spend those six weeks living at his club. As the clock ticks past the point where the driver can no longer assure the upset woman that he'll get her to Heathrow on time, Mr. Foster has just one more thing to do inside. Mrs. Foster, pushed past endurance, orders the driver away - and at the very time when Mr. Foster needed a lift...

10 :02x01 - Royal Jelly

After nine years, Mabel and Albert have finally managed to have a child - but the child won't eat and Mabel is desperate. So desperate that she fights with her husband and won't even come to watch him discuss his beekeeping on a local television show. But Albert watches himself, and when he does he realizes something. Soon little Victoria is putting on weight and eating well - because Albert is supplementing her food with his own special concoction. Mabel has finally got what she wants, a healthy baby, but she may still be sorry.

11 :02x02 - Skin

Years earlier, Drioli knew a Russian painter named Soutine. On a whim, he had Soutine paint a portait of his wife Josie on his back, and then taught the artist his own specialty, tattooing. Using that new skill, Soutine tattooed over his painting, preserving the art for all time. Time passes, and Drioli has fallen on back luck. His wife died during the war and no one seems to want tattoos any longer. Now a vagrant living from garbage cans, Drioli realizes what he has when he sees an exhibition of Soutine's work in a gallery. Revealing his tattoo, he faces a choice between a man who will pay him a small fortune to have the skin removed from his back, and another man who will treat him to a life of luxury at a hotel, where all he'll have to do is wear bathing trunks so that guests may view a "living work of art." His choice seems clear, but is it?

12 :02x03 - Galloping Foxley

When William Perkins entered school as a new boy, an older student named Galloping Foxley took a particular dislike to him, and made his life miserable for nearly a year. Decades later, now a businessman making a daily train commute, Perkins finds his usual place in the compartment displaced by a stranger - and then comes to believe the stranger is his long ago tormentor Foxley! Does he expose the bounder, or keep what he knows to himself? How he decides may affect his own future as well as that of the stranger.

13 :02x04 - The Hitch-hiker

Writer Paul Duveen decides on a whim to collect a hitchhiker named Fish, a man on the way to the Darby, where he claims he'll be hard at work. But he won't explain to Duveen just what he does, and indeed takes offense at Duveen's guessing. Eventually, he eggs Duveen into testing the speed of his fancy new automobile, costing him a ticket and perhaps his license. Only then does Fish reveal what he does for a living, causing Duveen to at first order him out of the car - and then become quite grateful to him. For awhile...

14 :02x05 - Poison

Reading in bed, reformed alcoholic Harry becomes aware of movement - and realizes he now shares his bed with a deadly krait! If he moves too much, the snake will strike, and this is certain death. Fortunately, his friend 'Timber' returns him. Unfortunately, 'Timber' has brought a girl with him who has sex on her mind. 'Timber' calls the doctor, who devises a scheme to deal with the snake - and when they remove the sheets the reptile is gone! Was the snake there? Or has Harry fallen off the wagon? And if he hasn't, then where is the snake?

15 :02x06 - Fat Chance

Chemist John Burge has become disenchanted with his wife Mary, who has gained a great deal of weight because she is a compulsive eater. He has taken a lover named Frances, and things are coming to a head: she has demanded that he leave his wife for her. Since Frances is also friends with Mary, she finds out that Mary would not simply allow John to divorce her; she'd soak him for every dollar the court would give her. Burge has a doctor on a string: Doctor Applegate is addicted to painkillers the chemist provides. Perhaps the doctor can help her - or perhaps he can help Burge, should Burge elect to solve his problems another way...

16 :02x07 - Taste

Richard Pratt is an expert wine taster. With a gentle inhalation and a small swallow he can tell where a wine was produced, sometimes even the winery that produced it. Every so often, he visits his friends the Schofields for dinner and a friendly bet: a case of wine rides on whether Mike Schofield can fool Pratt's thoroughly educated palette. This visit, Pratt proposes a more ambitious wager: his pair of homes against the hand of Schofield's young daughter in marriage! Schofield accepts over his daughter's protestations, certain he has selected a wine that can fool even the master. But Pratt has never lost to Schofield yet...

17 :02x08 - My Lady Love, My Dove

Pamela Beauchamp is a rich woman who married a poor man, Arthur Beauchamp, whom she browbeats. They have invited a couple to visit them for a weekend, to play bridge and socialize. Pamela concludes that she needs more excitement in her life, and she's hit upon an idea: she'll have Arthur bug their guests room! After a short argument she persuades him to do the job, and later, pleads exhaustion as a way to move from bridge to the eavesdropping that has her really excited. But what she learns about her guests will change her opinion of them, and perhaps her own life.

18 :02x09 - Georgy Porgy

Julia Roach sets her sights on Reverend George Duckworth, but the clergyman is unprepared for her advances. In fact, he's far more than unprepared for them, he's absolutely terrified of them. Why? Well, that goes back to his childhood. Julia may just discover that she has unbottled a genie that cannot be rebottled easily, when she coaxes those long buried memories back to the surface and "Georgie Porgie" reacts badly to them...

19 :02x10 - Depart in Peace

Art buff Lionel has a pretty young girlfriend Janet, but jealous Gladys plants seeds of discontent in his mind, hoping to spoil their relationship so that he can have her for himself. He discoveres Royden, who paints only women and uses an unusual technique: he paints them nude, and then adds their underwear, and only at the very end adds their outer clothing. Lionel hires Royden to paint his girlfriend - and then removes the top layer of paint to reveal her in her underwear. When he debuts this painting, Janet is unenthusiastic, and expresses her dismay in a way that is impossible to ignore...

20 :02x11 - The Umbrella Man

In town, Wendy meets a smooth-talking man who carelessly forgot to bring his wallet. He offers to sell her an umbrella worth £20 for taxi fare home, a mere £5. At first she hesitates, but his insight and soothing comments win her over. Later, she sees the same man with an umbrella and another woman, and follows him to learn that he steals umbrellas and sells them! When she meets her husband Arthur that night with a new umbrella, and their friend Andrew does not have his, Arthur jumps to conclusions. Wendy can forestall marital disaster only by identifying the man who sold her the umbrella. But will she?

21 :02x12 - Genesis and Catastrophe

In late nineteeth century Austria, customs official Alois and his wife Klara are expecting another child. Alois drinks a little much and seems devoted to his duties, so devoted he will not leave to be with his wife on her childbirth bed. But the truth may be that he is afraid. Three previous children have died young, and Klara has suffered three miscarriages. FInally, he arrives him shortly after she has given birth and there sees to his horror that this child is even smaller and weaker than those who did not live. But this child will live, and that may be the greatest tragedy of all...

22 :02x13 - Mr Botibol's First Love

A tale from an earlier point in Mr. Botibol's life. He sells his business for £200,000, a fortune enough to keep him comfortable - except that he has never succeeded at anything. When he notes how many composers had names that begin with 'B' he daydreams about being one of them himself, eventually adding a music hall to his home. In a music store, while acquiring tapes to which he may conduct an imaginary orchestra, he meets Irene Wrzaszcyzk, also a music lover. They hit it off and eventually Botibol conducts Irene on piano. But then he learns something about her that destroys his happiness...

23 :02x14 - Back for Christmas

James is a leading British physician - so skilled that he has been invited to tour America for nine months. This gives him an opportunity to rid himself of his wife Hermione. He has the murder planned to the smallest detail. But then, on tour, he receives a package intended for his wife, forwarded past several cities. What it contains will shake his world down to the foundations...

24 :02x15 - The Orderly World of Mr Appleby

Mr. Arthur Appleby owns an antique and pawnshop, but his trouble is that he doesn't like to actually sell - only to buy. This has driven him near bankruptcy several times, and each time he has solved the problem by murdering his wife and moving on. A chance encounter with a customer, Martha, may have his sights set on wife number four. But Martha may just have plans of her own for Mr. Arthur Appleby, for he reminds her of someone...

25 :02x16 - The Man at the Top

Hardy is a down on his luck sailor with no prospects. Driven to desperation and unwilling to take money his girlfriend earned as a prostitute, he knifes a victim to death in the street, but that man has no money and the police soon discover the body. The only way he can escape London is by finding the mysterious Sam Madrid, who runs the smuggling rackets, and who might be able to find him a ship.

26 :03x01 - The Flypaper

A young girl has been murdered and another lass finds herself being tailed by a creepy middle-aged man.

Does she really have anything to fear, or is it all in her imagination?

27 :03x02 - A Picture of a Place

28 :03x03 - Proof of Guilt

29 :03x04 - Vengeance is Mine Inc.

Tom and George are two down on their luck actors who decide to offer a service to the victims of gossip columnists.

Revenge turns out to be a double edged sword.

30 :03x05 - A Girl Can't Always Have Everything

Stage actress Suzy Starr is out to milk her new admirer of everything that she can get, and she flaunts the gifts which he showers upon her to her increasingly jealous friend Pat.

Can Pat be trusted to assist Suzy as her affair becomes more complicated?

31 :03x06 - Parson's Pleasure

An antique dealer poses as a parson in order to procure precious pieces of the past for a pittance, while pocketing the profits.

How long can his luck hold out before he puts one over on the wrong person?

32 :03x07 - The Stinker

When he was at school Robert Tinker's life had been ruined by his fellow student Harper nicknaming him 'Stinker'.

When the two run into one another as adults Harper offers Tinker a job as an accountant, an offer which Tinker accepts. When it looks as though Harper is taking too strong an interest in Tinker's wife, however, things take a drastic turn for the worse.

33 :03x08 - I'll be Seeing You

Roland Trent is unhappily married to Vivien Trent. The couple are not suited, and when Roland meets Anna, a young woman who is going blind, he asks Vivien for a divorce.

Vivien refuses, telling Roland that she will ruin him financially if he leaves her. There is an expensive operation available which would cure Anna's blindness and Roland decides that she must have it. But what is he to do about Vivien?

34 :03x09 - The Party

35 :04x01 - Would you Believe it?

36 :04x02 - Vicious Circle

An elderly lady catches a young man breaking into her flat. In the ensuing flight, the robber hurts his ankle and the elderly lady bandages it for him and attempts to befriend him. But what is she really up to?

37 :04x03 - The Boy Who Talked with Animals

David is a young boy with a way with animals. When a large sea turtle is caught by fishermen, David is so distraught that his father pays the fishermen to let it go.

The following morning both David and the turtle have gone missing and there are some very strange reports from the local fishermen.

38 :04x04 - The Best of Everything

Arthur is in love with his boss's daughter but lacks the finesse to woo her. His new lodger Charlie can help, but Charlie's constant sponging is proving to be a bit of a problem. He is a problem who simply won't go away.

39 :04x05 - A Woman's Help

40 :04x06 - Shatterproof

A businessman finds himself on the wrong end of a hitman's pistol.

Can he talk himself out of it, or will it require some sleight of hand?

41 :04x07 - The Sound Machine

42 :04x08 - Never Speak Ill of the Dead

43 :04x09 - The Best Policy

44 :04x10 - The Last Bottle in the World

45 :04x11 - Kindly Dig Your Grave

Art dealer Madame La Grue has found a cash cow in the undernourished painter Graeme McKenzie.

But Graeme's girlfriend Fatima paints a less than rosy picture, one which could ensure a happy ending for both her and Graeme.

46 :04x12 - Completely Foolproof

Brisson, a ruthless tycoon thinks his wife is stupid. But she is more ruthless than even he.

47 :04x13 - There's One Born Every Minute

48 :04x14 - Bosom Friends

49 :04x15 - A Glowing Future

50 :04x16 - The Way to Do it

51 :04x17 - Hijack

52 :05x01 - Blue Marigold

53 :05x02 - The Eavesdropper

54 :05x03 - Operation Safecrack

55 :05x04 - Run, Rabbit, Run

56 :05x05 - Stranger in Town

57 :05x06 - The Moles

58 :05x07 - Decoy

When Woman Police Constable Mary Bryan agrees to act as a decoy to trap a notorious rapist and murderer, she finds that the woods which she must walk through contain more than one murderer.

59 :05x08 - Pattern of Guilt

60 :05x09 - A Harmless Vanity

When Mary Hitchman is informed of her husband's affair with a younger woman, she arranges to meet her rival at a secluded place by the sea.

A harmless makeover leads to a totally unexpected series of events.

61 :05x10 - Death Can Add

When auditor Alan Corwin discovers that investor Oliver Platt has been embezzling funds from the company, he decides that he wants a slice of the action as well.

Unfortunately for him, Oliver has other plans which blow up in both of their faces.

62 :05x11 - Light Fingers

63 :05x12 - Death in the Morning

64 :05x13 - What Have you Been up to Lately?

65 :05x14 - The Absence of Emily

Bob and Emily are a married couple who after arriving back from Kenya make their residence with Emily's sister Jean.

When Emily disappears without trace, Bob becomes the target of much local gossip and innuendo, most of it fanned by Jean, a magistrate who cannot keep her nose out of other people's business.

66 :05x15 - In the Bag

67 :05x16 - A Man with a Fortune

68 :05x17 - Who's Got the Lady?

69 :05x18 - The Skeleton Key

Andy, who is a radiologist, is dismayed when he discovers that his longtime girlfriend, Emma, has fallen in love with Max.

Max and Emma have set a date for their wedding, and Andy is determined to stop the event from proceeding. While talking to Max one day he discovers that Max is the proud possessor of an antique watch inherited from his grandfather.

When it looks as though Max has swallowed the key to the watch, Andy's hopes for a delayed wedding look as though they are coming true.

70 :06x01 - A Passing Opportunity

71 :06x02 - The Memory Man

72 :06x03 - A Sad Loss

A desperate potential heiress is suddenly demoted in the will. What can she possibly do?

73 :06x04 - Clerical Error

74 :06x05 - Heir Presumptuous

75 :06x06 - Where's Your Sense of Humour?

76 :06x07 - Down Among the Sheltering Palms

77 :06x08 - The Vorpal Blade

78 :06x09 - The Wrong 'Un

79 :06x10 - The Luncheon

80 :06x11 - The Tribute

81 :06x12 - Hit and Run

82 :06x13 - Youth from Vienna

83 :06x14 - Turn of the Tide

84 :07x01 - The Dirty Detail

85 :07x02 - The Best Chess Player in the World

G.B. Shaw informs his visitor that he is the greatest chess player in the world. He chose his wife, not out of love, but as a logical extension to his life.

When he discovers that his wife is cheating on him, G.B. Shaw decides that she must be removed, as quickly and efficiently as possible.

But how is G.B. Shaw going to commit the perfect crime?

86 :07x03 - Proxy

87 :07x04 - Have a Nice Death

88 :07x05 - Number Eight

89 :07x06 - The Last of the Midnight Gardeners

90 :07x07 - The Gift of Beauty

91 :07x08 - Wet Saturday

92 :07x09 - Sauce for the Goose

93 :07x10 - Bird of Prey

94 :07x11 - I Like it Here in Wilmington

95 :07x12 - Accidental Death

96 :07x13 - The Reconciliation

97 :07x14 - The Mugger

98 :07x15 - The Open Window

99 :08x01 - People Don't Do Such Things

100 :08x02 - In the Cards

101 :08x03 - Nothin' Short of Highway Robbery

102 :08x04 - Scrimshaw

103 :09x01 - Skeleton in the Cupboard

104 :09x02 - The Colonel's Lady

105 :09x03 - The Surgeon

106 :09x04 - The Verger

Based on Somerset Maugham’s story, the tale a verger of 16 years standing and the secret he's forced to reveal when a new, innovative verger arrives.

107 :09x05 - The Facts of Life

108 :09x06 - Wink Three Times

Liza Goddard, searching for partner joins dubious escort agency.

109 :09x07 - The Dead Don't Steal

110 :09x08 - The Finger of Suspicion

111 :09x09 - A Time to Die

112 :09x10 - Mr Know-All