The View from Daniel Pike is a 1971–73 Scottish TV drama series created and written by Edward Boyd, and starring Roddy McMillan as Daniel Pike, a hard-boiled private detective based in Glasgow. A few of the stories were later adapted into book form.
Episode 1
Philomena and the Tattie-Howkers
When Michael Holmes goes missing from a squad of Irish tattie-howkers working as sweated labour, Pike is commissioned to find him, a dangerous business when working for Philomena Hawley.
Episode 2
The Manufactured Clue
Pike becomes personally involved in the murder of a street pie-man when Sweet Sam is the only witness. But Sam has lost her memory and Pike has to use his own methods to bring the murderer to book.
Episode 3
Little Bird Lost
Pike has his hands full sorting out the hawks from the doves as he investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl.
Episode 4
The Short Price Premium
When is a suicide not a suicide? And how can a corpse cash a betting slip? Pike arranges a meeting with the 'body' to find the answers.
Episode 5
A Tale of Two Cities
Pike becomes involved in drugs and murder when a body is found in a hearse... but in the front seat!
Episode 6
So This Is Olympus
Pike has to pick his way through a minefield of intrigue to reach a prodigal son, a university student implicated in the murder of a girl.
Roddy McMillan
Daniel Pike
2022 · ★ 6.9
2000 · ★ 6.9
1958 · ★ 6.6
2017 · ★ 7.2
2011 · ★ 7.1
1958 · ★ 7.2
2024 · ★ 7.0
2023 · ★ 6.4
2024 · ★ 6.8
2002 · ★ 7.4
2022 · ★ 6.7
2016 · ★ 6.5
1989 · ★ 8.2
1996 · ★ 6.4
2025 · ★ 7.8
2021 · ★ 6.7
2019 · ★ 6.9
1983 · ★ 6.6
1992 · ★ 7.6
2024 · ★ 7.1
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