Series

Call Me Mister

1986 · 1 season · 10 episodes · Ended · BBC One

Crime, Drama

TMDB 6.0 · 2 votes

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Australian ex-cop Jack Bartholomew goes to Britain when he discovers he's heir to a family title; when he doesn't get on with his new family, he starts working as a private detective.

Episodes

  • S01E01Longshot1986-09-0576m

    Aristocrat Jack Bartholomew has built a new life has a Sydney policeman. His father visits but is shot by mistake. The real target bank robber Brian Pollard is later killed. Jack decides to return to Britain and find the killer.

  • S01E02Tour De Force1986-09-1250m

    Tour bus guide Rev. Simon Wood is murdered. Alice Westerfield asks Hurley to help find a camera she lost on his bus. Jack's family are refusing to accept him claim for 20%, so he investigates Wood but soon finds them chasing him.

  • S01E03The Creative Accountant1986-09-1950m

    Jack catches Blair breaking into Hurley's office, in search of a file that claims he went to jail for embezzlement. He's later found murdered. Eastman--who wrote the file--is also killed. Jack fears the real Blair will die soon.

  • S01E04Humpty Dumpty1986-09-2650m

    Julie Columbus' old clubland friend Guy asks Jack for help. He has just been discharged from a psychiatric hospital and claims a girl he befriended is wrongly incarcerated for attempted murder when it was in fact her who was the victim.

  • S01E05Something in the City1986-10-0350m

    Julie's daughter Ruby claims she saw a man fall off a roof. At the scene, the only evidence are a pair of glasses. They belong to a man named Holloway, but his wife says he's in Yorkshire.

  • S01E06Frozen Assets1986-10-1050m

    A gang of robbers crash the Livery Hall, catered by the Santori family, and escape with antiques. Harvey Clarke is arrested as an accessory, and Lena Santori asks Jack to help prove his innocence.

  • S01E07Running Time1986-10-1750m

    Lawyer Ben Fisher asks Jack's help to find Jimmy Matthews for his wife Sophie. They divorced, he got custody of their child and then vanished. Jack tells Fisher he's surfing in Falmouth without realising he's a hired killer.

  • S01E08The Other Woman1986-10-2450m

    A Russian ballerina hires Jack to find her girlfriend. It seems the girl stole some of the dancer's jewelry and hocked it. Ms Dannova buys it back--without calling the police.

  • S01E09The Bombay Ducks1986-10-3150m

    Bartholomew and Columbus pick up a hitchhiker, a penniless Indian escaping from an unexplained threat. The young man's sudden death causes the duo to set out on a path to a homeless shelter, a travel bureau, a health farm...and danger.

  • S01E10The Carve Up1986-11-0750m

    Sir Jack hires out as a bodyguard. Things are complicated by shady stock market moves, art theft, and horseplay on the polo grounds (in England--not the sports complex in Manhattan).

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