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The Big M

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A private detective investigates a protection racket and becomes involved in a murder case.

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29th August 1967 - 3rd October 1967
Director
Alan Bromly
Writer
Lester Powell
Producer
Alan Bromly
Top Cast
Michael BryantMitzi RogersReginald Marsh
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Episode 1
29th August 1967

Episode 1

Paul Hassett is taken ill and dies while visiting private detective Johnny Treherne. The following the day, Treherne is visited by the police and a number suspicious characters wanting to know what he said.

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Episode 2
5th September 1967

Episode 2

Johnny Treherne discovers that Paul Hassett was being blackmailed at the time of his death. Seymour Tancred offers him the job as the Director of Sidwell Film Festival if he sells up but discovers Fred Creech dead in his office.

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Episode 3
12th September 1967

Episode 3

The file on Johnny Treherne's father's last case, investigating a protection racket in Sidwell, is stolen from his office. He later discovers a dog track owner is also caught up in it but Candy Hassett is attacked after talking to him.

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Episode 4
19th September 1967

Episode 4

Candy Hassett is found raped and murdered but not before she passed Treherne a tape recording of her husband paying off a blackmailer. Stratton's men beat up Treherne to retrieve the tape thus taking all the evidence.

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Episode 5
26th September 1967

Episode 5

Johnny Treherne is arrested for the murder of Candy Hassett. Insp. Scott manages to get him released but needs him to return to Sidwell. Insp. Spain queries why Stratton went to bed after his business partner, Hassett was killed.

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Episode 6
3rd October 1967

Episode 6

Johnny Treherne is hiding out alone in a cave structure near the beach which Verity his only contact. When Seymour Tancred visits he knows Verity has betrayed him but he's double bluffed the pair with the police hearing it all.