Strange Report (1969)
Strange Report is a British television Adam Strange, a retired Home Office criminologist, solves bizarre cases – which had been marked "Open File" by various government departments – with the help of Hamlyn Gynt, Evelyn and Professor Marks. He employed the latest techniques in forensic investigation, which he undertook in his own laboratory in his flat in Warwick Crescent in the Maida Vale/Little Venice area of Paddington.
Strange Report: Season 1 - 16 Episode s
1x1 - Heart - 'No Choice for the Donor'
January 4, 1970
Report 4407 An athlete is found dead in a car crash -- but his chest has been opened, as if for heart surgery.
1x2 - Racist - 'A Most Dangerous Proposal'
December 7, 1969
Report 1553 A clergyman and civil rights activist is murdered and a white supremacist is the prime suspect, but Strange suspects it's part of a plan to start a race riot.
1x3 - Skeleton - 'Let Sleeping Heroes Lie'
September 28, 1969
Report 0649 Strange faces the daunting task of solving a nearly 30 year old murder when workmen uncover the skeleton of a man killed during World War II.
1x4 - Cult - 'Murder Shrieks Out'
September 21, 1969
Report 5055 A popular singer comes to Strange when her partner's death by electrocution is ruled an accident and she is convinced a religious sect is responsible.
1x5 - Kidnap - 'Whose Pretty Girl Are you?'
December 28, 1969
Report 2493 A girl is kidnapped from a beauty pagent, but the kidnap may have been faked -- or was it?
1x6 - Sniper - 'When is Your Cousin Not?'
December 14, 1969
Report 7931 Strange and Ham are lured under false pretenses to a Soviet-Block country to impartially investigate the sniper shooting of a political activist.
1x7 - Epidemic - 'A Most Curious Crime'
November 2, 1969
Report 3424 An illegal Pakistani immigrant's body is found infected with cholera and one of the last people to see him alive was Ham -- who has suddenly vanished.
1x8 - Swindle - 'Square Root of Evil'
January 11, 1970
Report 4977 Strange is called in to investigate when a bank is swindled out of millions in foreign currency.
1x9 - Revenge - 'When a Man Hates'
November 8, 1969
Report 2475 A disturbed man recently released from prison is determined to kill the three people he feels were most responsible for sending him away. The judge, the prosecutor, and Adam Strange.
1x10 - Cover Girls - 'Last Year's Model'
October 26, 1969
Report 3906 A designers latest creations are stolen from a fashion show rehersal.
1x11 - X-Ray: Who Weeps For The Doctor?
December 7, 1969
Report 4821 A doctor commits suicide rather than die slowly and painfully after seeing his latest x-rays. But the autopsy and the x-ray don't agree.
1x12 - Hand - 'A Matter of Witchcraft'
November 30, 1969
Report 8944 An occult symbol near the body of a murdered girl sends Strange into the world of witchcraft.
1x13 - Grenade - 'What Price Change?'
October 19, 1969
Report 8319 Ham goes back to college to infiltrate a group of protesters and find out who is supplying them with explosives.
1x14 - Shrapnel - 'The Wish in the Dream'
November 23, 1969
Report 1021 A man dies in a lab explosion, but the old shrapnel from his war wound doesn't match where he served.
1x15 - Hostage - 'If You Won't Learn, Die!'
October 5, 1969
Report 2641 Strange and Ham have mixed feelings about investigating the kidnapping of a Chinese diplomat when the kidnapper, himself a former tortured prisoner of the Chinese, tries to use the diplomat as leverage to have another British citizen released from Chinese custody.
1x16 - Lonelyhearts - 'Who Killed Dan Cupid?'
October 12, 1969
Report 0846 Strange searches for a motive in the killing of the head of a dating service.