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The Chinese Puzzle (TV series)

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The Chinese Puzzle
GenreChildren's television
Thriller
Adventure
Created byBrian Finch
Written byBrian Finch
Directed byAlan Bell
StarringDeborah Makepeace
Martin Abney
Kate Brown
William Fox
James Marcus
John Rolfe
Michael Tattersfield
Eric Young
Lee Wing
Michael Cronin
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerBill Sellars
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC1
Release13 November (1974-11-13) –
18 December 1974 (1974-12-18)

The Chinese Puzzle is a British six-part children's adventure series, first broadcast on BBC1 in 1974. It was the brainchild of prolific British television writer, Brian Finch, and features "two friends who stumble into a complex plot involving kidnapping and blackmail".[1]

Episodes

The six episodes are:

  1. "The Snatch"
  2. "The Bullet"
  3. "Camera Trick"
  4. "Prisoners"
  5. "Dead or Alive"
  6. "Show Down"

References