Public Eye

Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."

Creators and Cast

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Anthony Marriott

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Roger Marshall

Creator

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Alfred Burke

Frank Marker

Episodes

Specials

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Series 1

15 episodes

S1 E1 · All for a Couple of Ponies

1965-01-23

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S1 E2 · Nobody Kills Santa Claus

1965-01-30

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S1 E3 · They Go off in the End - Like Fruit

1965-02-06

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S1 E4 · Dig You Later

1965-02-13

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S1 E5 · I Went to Borrow a Pencil and Look What I Found

1965-02-20

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S1 E6 · But the Joneses Never Get Letters

1965-02-27

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S1 E7 · A Harsh World for Zealots

1965-03-06

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S1 E8 · "And a Very Fine Fiddle Has He"

1965-03-13

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S1 E9 · My Life - That's a Marriage

1965-03-20

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S1 E10 · You Think It'll Be Marvellous - but It's Always a Rabbit

1965-03-27

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S1 E11 · Protection Is a Man's Best Friend

1965-04-03

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S1 E12 · The Morning Wasn't So Hot

1965-04-10

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S1 E13 · You Should Hear Me Eat Soup

1965-04-17

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S1 E14 · You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere

1965-04-24

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S1 E15 · Have It on the House

1965-05-01

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Series 2

13 episodes

S2 E1 · All the Black Dresses She Wants

1966-07-02

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S2 E2 · Don't Forget You're Mine

1966-07-09

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S2 E3 · I Could Set It To Music

1966-07-16

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S2 E4 · It's a Terrible Way to Be

1966-07-23

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S2 E5 · You Can Keep the Medal

1966-07-30

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S2 E6 · You're Not Cinderella, Are You?

1966-08-06

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S2 E7 · Works with Chess, Not with Life

1966-08-13

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S2 E8 · It Had to be a Mouse

1966-08-20

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S2 E9 · Tell Me About the Crab

1966-08-27

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S2 E10 · No, No, Nothing like That

1966-09-03

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S2 E11 · There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth

1966-09-10

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S2 E12 · Twenty Pound of Heart and Muscle

1966-09-17

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S2 E13 · What's the Matter? Can't You Take a Sick Joke?

1966-09-24

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Series 3

13 episodes

S3 E1 · If This Is Lucky, I'd Rather Be Jonah

1968-01-20

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S3 E2 · But What Good Will the Truth Do?

1968-01-27

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S3 E3 · Memories of Meg

1968-02-03

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S3 E4 · Have Mud, Will Throw

1968-02-10

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S3 E5 · But They Always Come Back for Tea

1968-02-17

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S3 E6 · Mercury in an Off-White Mac

1968-02-24

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S3 E7 · Strictly Private and Confidential

1968-03-02

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S3 E8 · Honesty Is The Best Policy - But Who Can Afford the Premiums?

1968-03-09

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S3 E9 · The Bromsgrove Venus

1968-03-16

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S3 E10 · It Must Be the Architecture - Can't Be the Climate

1968-03-23

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S3 E11 · It's Learning about the Lies that Hurts

1968-03-30

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S3 E12 · There's No Future in Monkey Business

1968-04-06

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S3 E13 · Cross that Palm When We Come to It

1968-04-13

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Series 4

7 episodes

S4 E1 · Welcome to Brighton?

1969-07-30

Released on Parole Frank finds it difficult back on the outside.

S4 E2 · Divide and Conquer

1969-08-06

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S4 E3 · Paid in Full

1969-08-13

Frank is accused of stealing a colleagues wages.

S4 E4 · My Life's My Own

1969-08-20

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S4 E5 · Case for the Defence

1969-08-27

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S4 E6 · The Comedian's Graveyard

1969-09-03

Frank looks for a missing girl.

S4 E7 · A Fixed Address

1969-09-10

Mrs. Mortimer's husband returns after 7 years.

Series 5

13 episodes

S5 E1 · A Mug Named Frank

1971-07-07

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S5 E2 · Well - There Was this Girl, You See...

1971-07-14

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S5 E3 · Slip Home in the Dark

1971-07-21

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S5 E4 · I Always Wanted a Swimming Pool

1971-07-28

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S5 E5 · The Beater and the Game

1971-08-04

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S5 E6 · Come into the Garden, Rose

1971-08-11

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S5 E7 · When You've Paid the Bill, You're None the Wiser

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S5 E8 · Who Wants to be Told Bad News?

1971-08-25

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S5 E9 · The Man Who Didn't Eat Sweets

1971-09-01

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S5 E10 · Ward of Court

1971-09-08

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S5 E11 · Transatlantic Cousins

1971-09-15

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S5 E12 · Shades of White

1971-09-22

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S5 E13 · John VII, Verse 24

1971-09-29

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Series 6

13 episodes

S6 E1 · The Bankrupt

1972-11-08

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S6 E2 · Girl in Blue

1972-11-15

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S6 E3 · Many a Slip

1972-11-29

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S6 E4 · Mrs Podmore's Cat

Frank is hired to look after a pet cat named Bertie.

S6 E5 · The Man Who Said Sorry

1972-12-13

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S6 E6 · Horse And Carriage

1972-12-20

A husband asks Marker to investigate his wife thinking she's having an affair, but is he having an affair aswell?

S6 E7 · A Family Affair

1973-01-03

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S6 E8 · The Golden Boy

1973-01-10

Frank is hired to find a missing man.

S6 E9 · The Windsor Royal

1973-01-17

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S6 E10 · It's a Woman's Privilege

1973-01-24

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S6 E11 · Home and Away

1973-01-31

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S6 E12 · Egg and Cress Sandwiches

1973-02-07

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S6 E13 · The Trouble with Jenny

1973-02-14

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Series 7

13 episodes

S7 E1 · Nobody Wants to Know

1975-01-06

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S7 E2 · How about a Cup of Tea?

1975-01-13

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S7 E3 · How About It, Frank?

1975-01-20

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S7 E4 · They All Sound Simple at First

1975-01-27

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S7 E5 · The Fall Guy

1975-02-03

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S7 E6 · What's to Become of Us?

1975-02-10

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S7 E7 · Hard Times

1975-02-17

Marker moves into his new office and a troublesome first day.

S7 E8 · No Orchids for Marker

1975-02-24

An offer from a wealthy client is to much for Marker to refuse.

S7 E9 · The Fatted Calf

1975-03-03

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S7 E10 · Lifer

1975-03-10

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S7 E11 · Take No for an Answer

1975-03-17

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S7 E12 · Fit of Conscience

1975-03-24

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S7 E13 · Unlucky For Some

1975-04-07

Frank goes undercover at a hotel when the owner is convinced that her son's new wife is a gold digger. This is the very final episode of the series. At the time Alfred Burke told the TV Times that that was it but also said that was the case every season.