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Sergeant Cork Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1966 - 1966
Episode 1
The Case of the Fellowship Murder
Edgar Whitbread calls at the office of a charity assisting immigrants: let in by the handyman, Brill, they disturb a man who flees before Brill finds the secretary, Miss Mallow, dead. A polish refugee is soon arrested trying to sell a gold brooch of hers, and a tie pin, but Cork believes the man is merely an opportunistic thief who panicked, and not the murderer. Brill claims to recognise the tie-pin as Mallow's when shown it by Cork, but then leaves. He is followed to Whitbread's house, and Cork's suspicions of Brill's intention - blackmail - are confirmed when Whitbread's sister recognises the pin as his, dropped at the scene of the crime and which he was intending to recover.
Episode 2
The Case of the Wayward Wife
Cork is called in when Mrs Maude Tempest, the estranged wife of an Army officer, is found by her maid unconscious after having attempted to commit suicide. A letter she had left names a senior politician, Sir Charles Emsworth, leaving Cork forced to investigate her relationship with him. Matters are made more complicated when a reporter gets hold of the story, and rumours of an affair look set to engulf Sir Charles' career in scandal.
Episode 3
The Case of the Missing Cabinet Maker
Albert Quigg, the owner of a small furniture-making workshop, is thrown out by his workers when they discover he had been cheating them, who then take over the business for themselves. Cork is forced to take an interest in the matter when Quigg is reported missing - not by his wife, who is glad to see the back of him, but by one of his former customers, Scroop. A situation that already has Cork's superiors alarmed becomes more serious when Quigg is found dead, dumped in a canal. Cork is not convinced one of his workers was responsible, and traces Quigg's last movements to a flat where he met his mistress, but had been followed by his wife. She had stabbed Quigg in a rage and fled, Quigg's mistress then dumping the body.
Episode 4
The Case of the Horseless Carriage
Stevens, an inventor developing a motor car, is found dead in his workshop. Cork finds that the local police already have a suspect, Yarrow, who had a grudge against Stevens, but no real evidence. Longthorne, the investor behind Stevens, had sought to obtain his plans by using Tyler, Stevens' workman, but he was discovered and fled empty handed after a fight: receiving no sympathy from Longthorne, and believing he had killed Stevens, he kills himself. The case appears closed until Cork sees the actual cause of Stevens' death - not a blow, but carbon monoxide poisoning. Huss, a rival investor, had found the injured Stevens and taken the opportunity to poison him, in order to persuade his widow to sign over the rights on much cheaper terms.
Episode 5
The Case of the Prominent Thespian
Stage actor, Sir Harry Tresize is observed throwing a brick through his own window. Later, Sir Harry goes to the police station and complains about the incident. Are there two Sir Harry's at large? Sgt. Cork intends to find the truth.
Episode 6
The Case of the Dutiful Bride
Maud Rubie reports her daughter Amy missing after not hearing from her for some weeks, and when she is located in Kent Sergeant Cork, attending court in Maidstone, decides to visit her. He is surprised to find that she is in fact married and though uneasy about her situation can take no further action, nor when Amy's husband, Harold, turns her against her parents. Maud's concern is not shared by her husband, Amy's stepfather, but when a burglary gives Cork a further opportunity to investigate the activities of Harold Corbin his instincts prove to be well founded.
Episode 7
The Case of William Huckerby, Platelayer
Cork and Marriott are recognised as policemen when trying to infiltrate a union meeting, but Cork is challenged by the Acting Secretary, Hewatt, to take an interest in the death of railway worker William Huckerby and the lies that will be told at his inquest. Huckerby - a union activist - is set to be branded a drunkard, much to Hewatt's dismay. Cork makes his own enquiries and it is his facts, calmly presented, that the Coroner listens to rather than Hewatt's passionate, but outspoken interruptions.
Episode 8
The Case of the Notorious Nun
Sergeant Cork and Marriott are faced with a unusual mystery when a Police constable is discovered severely wounded in a Nun's cell in the Convent of Divine Reparation.
Episode 9
The Case of the Rogue Regiment
Death threats against David Marchmont, a decorated former officer now standing for Parliament, are assumed to be the work of Irish nationalists. Cork and Marriott are present when a shot narrowly misses Marchmont, fired by a soldier from his regiment newly returned to England, but it is not politics that had lain behind the attempt. The survivors of the action that saw Captain Marchmont awarded the VC have a different view of events, and are determined that he should face justice at their hands.
Episode 10
The Case of the Travelling Texan
'Colonel' Slocumb, owner of a touring Wild West show, is robbed of the tour's takings on his last evening in England and left bound in his caravan. Marriott, in the audience, begins the investigation and suspects one of the few members of the tour not in the finale of the show; looking for one of them, Zac Ledbetter, in a nearby pub he is just in time to stop him from being forced to join the crew of a ship. The following day Superintendent Rodway learns a debt collector had merely obtained the money, something Slocumb had sought to hide from the rest of the tour. Slocumb, though, is not the only member of the troupe with a secret.
Episode 11
The Case of a Lady's Good Name
A knife is thrown through the window of businessman James Merdith. His fiancee Emma Fitzroy is trying to get letters back that she sent to Alex Devere. She had a romance with Devere but that knowledge could destroy her potential marriage.
Episode 12
The Case of the Vanishing Victim
Cedric Brackett shoots his uncle Sir Charles twice with a shotgun. When the police arrive the body has gone. Sir Charles dead body is later found in Wales. Cedric has an alibi and aims to marry actress Sally Dibbins and leave the country.
Episode 13
The Case of the Threatened Rajah
Prince Ratanbir's life is threatened, Marriott is sent out to India to investigate, and bring the culprit to book.
Episode 14
The Case of the Devil's Daughter
Member of Parliament Charles St Clair is out for the evening with some friends when a music-hall mystic act predicts his murder. Marriott, in the audience, follows the performer, Rachel Harmey, to her home in a run-down part of the capital and finds a psychic investigator, Benedict Caradus, also taking an interest in her ability. Marriott is surprised when Cork then arrives - after St Clair had been found murdered exactly as Rachel had foretold. Cork can find no evidence to suggest she was involved in the killing - but does that mean he has to believe her claims of second sight, as Caradus insists?
Episode 15
The Case of the Unpopular Judge
Cork is called in to investigate after two attempts on the life of a judge, Edwin Worth, whose reputation for harsh sentences has seen many criminals vow revenge. Cork is unconvinced the threats are credible, and wonders whether a former lover of the judge's young wife may be responsible. The case appears closed though when, after a further attempt, an escaped convict is found in the grounds of Worth's house.
Episode 16
The Case of the Strolling Players
The climax of a play - the heroine being shot - proves all too real when the actress, Sarah Amberley, is found to be dead. Called in to investigate, Cork and Marriott try to make sense of who, among the small troupe, handled the gun last. What at first seemed a tragic accident becomes more sinister when it is discovered the Sarah had been pregnant. Following them to their next engagement, Cork learns that she had been having an affair with Jasper Greene, leader of the troupe, which his wife Emily - the actress who fired the fatal shot - was almost certainly aware of.
Episode 17
The Case of the Chelford Changeling
Sir Radlett Grainger's grandson has vanished so Cork and Marriett go to Chelford. They discover the boy, on Amos Kedge barge but when he is returned home, his father, Charles Medway denies it is his child. Kedge is later found murdered.
Episode 18
The Case of the Silent Policeman
Cork and Marriott are sent to investigate a string of warehouse robberies concentrated in one particular district of London, only to find the local police have just arrested one of their own officers, PC Clark. Suspected of passing information to the gang responsible, Clark refuses to say anything when questioned, leaving Cork to wonder just who he is protecting. His silence becomes even more puzzling when, in spite of the apparent evidence, Cork begins to doubt his involvement with the robberies.
Episode 19
The Case of the French Mademoiselle
Inspector Dupont of the French police arrives at Scotland Yard to alert them that the mastermind behind a currency forgery ring, Nanette Gaillard, has fled to England after the arrest of the remainder of her gang in France. She has resumed her operation in an art gallery owned by Barrington, who has recruited Catchpole, a forger. Cork gets an early lead when a forged five pound note, carelessly used by Catchpole in a local pub, turns up in Superintendent Rodway's wallet.
Episode 20
The Case of the Fallen Family
Bob Marriott joins his Aunt Maud in visiting the Hawksworth's, a well to do family fallen on hard times. Marriott becomes taken with Louise Hawkesworth but Sgt. Cork hears that the family are swindlers and intends to catch them in the act.
Episode 21
The Case of the Crystal Ball
Starkey, a journalist in search of his lost watch, is taken by a colleague, Johnson, to see fortune-teller Madam Zina, and instead gets a clue to the whereabouts of a stolen diamond. He visits Cork, who is sceptical but follows the lead and recovers the diamond in an abandoned building. Cork visits Madam Zina posing as 'Mr Boggis', a fishmonger, and is puzzled when she asks if he has had any dealings with the police; Superintendent Rodway then calls in an official capacity in case she can provide any further insight into the actual theft, but she foretells the theft of a valuable necklace from Lord Westworth. Rodway is rather embarrassed to warn Westworth of the danger but finds him a strong believer in mysticism and prepared to take the threat seriously, wishing to see Madam Zina in person.
Episode 22
The Case of the Silent Bell
Nigel Drake returns from Canada in search of his elderly aunt - and more particularly the allowance she used to give him - only to be told by her butler, Mr Bede, that she is out. Reporting her missing when she fails to return, he is still suspected of foul play - even though he would, in fact, inherit nothing on her death. A telegram supposedly from Miss Drake in Brighton leaves Cork unconvinced, and Marriott finds Nigel Drake back at his aunt's house with money that appears to have come from her purse. When he admits taking the money, from a handbag he had found at the house, Cork begins to wonder quite what had occurred. Bede admits that Miss Drake had died some months earlier, and he had merely been concerned to keep the staff together, laying a false trail of her movements when Nigel Drake had unexpectedly turned up.
