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- Hired to check into reports that a solicitor's client is being blackmailed, Marker finds himself earning his fee the hard way - nose down on the pavements.
- Marker's job: to prove a woman guilty or innocent of putting pressure on her deceased employer to leave her his entire wealth.
- Just when Marker and his new landlady's relationship starts to bloom, her ex-husband returns after 7 years, jeopardising his new attempt at a detective agency, and his new home, where he must stay until the end of his parole.
- Assigned to check into reports that a shop assistant is helping himself to more than his share of the takings, Marker uncovers some very odd behaviour.
- While shopping in a local supermarket, Frank Marker sees an old woman drop (Mrs Stuart) a tin into her bag rather than her shopping basket. This is noticed by another woman customer who reports it to a shop worker. Frank deliberately collides with Mrs Stuart and knocks her bag to the floor spilling out the tin, thus avoiding a possible prosecution. Mrs Stuart invites Frank to her home where he notices an old silver box on her mantlepiece. Meanwhile Gerald Gurney-Stuart (Mrs Stuart's son, played by Barry Foster) is trying to get money for his company. Gerald and wife (patricia) call around to his mother to take her out and end up in the same Indian restaurant that frank is in with his landlady. When Gerald goes back to his mother's home says he will take the valuable silver box away to have it repaired, but he tries to sell it. Gerald's wife Patricia contacts asks Frank to make sure her husband isn't up to no good. Frank finds the Silver box in an antique shop and almost gets arrested by Det. Insp. Fairbanks (Ray Smith), who wants to know why frank is interested in this box. Frank is questioned but released and on visiting Mrs Stuart, finds out that Gerald 'borrowed' it to get it repaired. Frank visits Gerald and thinking Frank is trying to blackmail him and so calls the police and admits to everything.
- Accused of robbery, Marker has a hard time proving his innocence to the police. Stone, the one man who can verify his alibi, has disappeared.
- A meeting with a Birmingham solicitor and a pile of unpaid bills see Marker leaving London for the smoke-filled skies of Birmingham - and even more trouble.
- 1965–19751h7.9 (37)TV EpisodeHis latest assignment leads Marker into the centre of a family squabble over who gets what, from whom.
- Marker discovers that a little corruption goes a long way - and sometimes the innocent have to pay for it.
- Marker's is hired to dig into the facts surrounding a fourteen-year-old sailing accident. Supposing he finds the facts - what then?
- When his daughter starts to receive anonymous letters, Mr Hordern employs Marker to keep an eye on his daughter's flat - a place that Marker finds empty.
- With misgivings Frank joins an enquiry agency and soon finds is reluctance justified when profits are valued higher than integrity.
- The ladies of Cheviot House have sharp tongues, as Marker finds out to his cost when his client Rose Mason sets them wagging.
- It's an interesting proposition that Marker should have left alone. Someone must foot the bill - and end up eating porridge.
- When a client asks him to find his office telephonist, a young blonde to whom he was getting married, Marker finds more than he bargained for.
- Frank grows accustomed to his new digs and job, but old habits die hard when he intervenes seeing a crime take place, at no little risk to himself.
- Marker moves into his new Handsworth district office, and waits for the phone to ring. When it does - he wishes it hadn't.
- An unconventional vicar. A breath of scandal and a pillar of the community. All three combine to bring Marker trouble of one kind or another.
- Is there more than the eye can see behind Marker's latest assignment - an enquiry into a bribe of a public servant? Marker uncovers deeper issues - and finds himself without friends.
- Her name is Janice Summers, and she has disappeared. Marker is hired to discover her whereabouts and bring her back home.
- A new 'home', a new 'office', and his first client. A day to remember - a day of trouble. Marker's new starting point leaves a lot to be desired.
- Hired to track down a military man who has duped a woman out of £700, Marker's instinct tells him he's being taken for a fool - but conning an expert can prove dangerous.
- What seems like a straightforward case for Marker turns, because of an accident, into a complex human situation.
- Suspecting that there's another woman in her husband's life, Madge Reading seeks Marker's help. His enquiries bring surprising results cries 'Foul'.
- 1965–1975TV EpisodeNever one to turn down a 'juicy' case, Marker finds himself playing for high stakes when he is hired to follow a wayward wife.
- When a husband hires Marker to investigate his wife - but he, too, 'carries on' with another women - Marker finds the season of goodwill a little hard to bear.
- A new beginning for Marker. Ron Gash wants him as new partner. But are Gash's methods of detection compatible with Marker's?
- Bruised and battered during his last case, Marker receives a surprise visitor to his hospital bed - DI Firbank - who has a proposition to put to him.
- Framed. Marker, hired to watch the antics of a wayward husband, finds himself hooked up in a very unusual affair of the heart.
- Who is blackmailing a highly-placed director of industry by threatening to release photographs of his indiscretions? Marker thinks he knows - but can he prove it?
- Engaged to keep his eye on his wife of a man who suspects her of playing around, Marker becomes suspicious when the man requests no evidence - just her boyfriend's name.
- A wife with expensive tastes. A husband anxious to please. As Marker finds out, a combination for trouble.
- Marker's problems are twofold. A local paper won't run his agency ad, and someone asks him to run to ground claims against a local tenant - on the cheap, of course.
- The death of a young girl. Malicious gossip. A man's career in trouble. Three elements that provide Marker with food for thought.
- It's the morning after the night before, and some night it must have been - someone died as a result. Marker is faced with finding out why.
- A meeting with an Irishman and a pile of unpaid bills spell trouble for Marker. Paddy wants his debts settled - but who'll pay Marker's fee?
- Surprised but happy to receive a visit from his former landlady, Mrs Mortimer, Marker's pleasure soon evaporates when she tells him her problem.
- Faced with a head-on collision with DI Firbank, Marker is more determined than ever to get to the bottom of his latest investigation.
- An anonymous tip-off sets Marker on the trail of a man seeking vengeance for a crime committed ten years earlier.
- A routine credit inquiry leads Marker to uncover some strange discoveries concerning an eminent doctor's wife.
- Memories. Everyone has them. Some will share them with others. But some wish to hide them away like some forgotten dream. Marker's memories turn to nightmares.
- New lodgings and interesting police work. Marker looks set to improve his lot - until some strange people destroy his dreams.
- It's hardly the stuff of detective novels when Marker is hired to babysit Mrs Podmore's pet cat, Bertie. But things have a way of turning awkward.
- Marker's enquiries into why George left Alice, the girl he loves, in the lurch bring some very surprising results - not all of which Alice wants to hear.
- Now unemployed, Frank house sits for his landlady and lives to regret letting a room to an emotionally troubled Shirley.
- A chance to make £1,000 for 'keeping an eye on things'. An offer too good to refuse finds Marker all at sea - without a life jacket.
- Nothing in his diary. No outstanding cases. Sitting in an empty office waiting for the phone to ring. Marker's career has reached a new low.
- When an overbearing young high-pressure business man receives death threats, Marker is put on as bodyguard. The arrogant executive is having an affair with an employee's wife, so the husband makes a move against him- but is he the only one?
- Marker has one week in which to find a witness. When he does so, he'll never forget the girl - or what his involvement cost her.
- More hard knocks when money goes missing from work, the finger of suspicion is naturally pointed at ex-jailbird Frank.
- Marker's attempts to track down the head man in a betting shop extortion racket leads him into trouble with the law - and the unlawful.
- When Marker takes on an investigation he'd rather be without. He finds himself manipulated by several people - including DI Firbank.
- Marker is hired to find out who is making threatening phone calls to a woman living alone. His furtive observations bring unexpected results.
- Why did Brenda leave home? Was it because of what her parents said to her? Or are there more sinister reasons? Marker finds out.
- An office clerk (Jenks) is acting strangely at home, so his worried daughter asks Marker to investigate, leading him to some strange office practices and a bit of fraudulent activity and greed by Jenks and his office manager..
- Mr Madison wants Marker to find out who is pestering his wife - and why? It's hardly the stuff that dreams are of, but Marker's rent is due.
- Hired to enquire into the activities of bankrupt shirt manufacture Hayden-Peters, Marker uncovers a web of deceit and treachery.
- A routine request to find a missing husband seems fishy to Marker, but he has no idea of the danger his inquiries will provoke.
- A nude and nasty young man add up to trouble when Marker is hired to follow a ten-year-old trail - to murder.
- A simple job, to find a missing girl, shines the limelight on an ageing seaside entertainer who may or may not have developed a conscience.
- A girl named Tuesday brings more than beauty into Marker's life when he gets mixed up with the less-than-hospitable Lord of the Manor.
- Marker's search for a young university student brings him face to face with violence - and a group of revolutionaries.
- Vyvyan Reveldale has everything going for him. So what reason could he have for throwing everything up and disappearing? His father asks Marker to find out.
- When Mrs Meadows finds the photograph of a beautiful young girl in her husband's wallet, Marker is contacted - and receives a surprise from what he uncovers.
- When an oddly-dressed man visits his visits his office and explains that Marker is the only man capable of helping him, the enquiry agent begins to see problems ahead.
- Runaways from the country are lured by the glamour of London, only to fall into the hands of recruiters for call girl rings. Jennie is one, and she soon becomes hard and cynical. Marker is hired to find her and coax her to return home.
- When Marker spends the night at a dingy hotel, the strange activities of a young female guest come to his attention.
- Clement Lawrence is justifiably proud of The Windsor Royal - a new breed of rose - so when his rose bushes disappear he hires Marker to investigate.
- Hired to undertake some difficult negotiations for Miss Barnes, Marker can't help but wonder what he's got himself into. Things turn nasty from the start.
- When the director of a firm finds someone fixing the books, Marker finds himself on the factory floor - and up his neck in monkey business.
- Called in by a cabinet-maker to recover £700 he's owed for an antique clock, Marker finds that even the easiest of cases isn't all that simple.
- Requested to repossess a client's car for ten per cent of the finder's fee, Marker issues a cheque - and almost winds up broke.
- Marker must sort out a fascinating case involving a streetwise old reprobate and a young American visiting Britain.
- Marker finds himself hired as a bodyguard with a difference. The difference being that the body is resting peacefully in a velvet-lined coffin.
- Case number 87. Marker bows out with a strange and intriguing case involving two villains who appear to have it made - until Marker arrives on the scene.
- A case full of surprises - the kind Marker enjoys. This time it appears as though his interests and those of DI Firbanks are the same - but are they?
- Frank's finally released on parole having taken the rap for a dodgy solicitor, it's not long before he learns some hard lessons on how to survive back in the outside world.
- Things are looking up. Marker is invited to join an enquiry agency. But why should they wish to employ a man with a record?
- Who has robbed Mrs Wyncherley's husband of his final resting place? Marker finds himself undertaking enquiries in a graveyard to learn the truth.
- Finding himself facing a very strange client, Marker decides it is time to head for fresh fields - providing his client allows him to leave.
- Marker finds himself at the centre of hypocrisy and villainy when he is hired to look after a client's welfare.
- Hired by a firm of solicitors to prove their client is a victim of food poisoning, Marker finds himself dining alone.
- Hired to find out how a girl drowned in a canal, Marker soon finds that the country air doesn't suit everyone - particularly snoopers.
- Why is a solicitor so upset that his marriage has broken down? Employed to find the answer, Marker learns more than he's supposed to know.
- When an old adversary sets foot on his doorstep, Marker decides to book a seat on the first available plane to anywhere - but his adversary has other ideas.
- 1965–1975TV EpisodeJames Sale, the occupant of Ward C in the County Hospital, employs Marker to discover the driver of the car that run him down. But where does Marker begin?
- Employed at the Hotel Railton as house detective during World Cup week, Marker has his work cut out keeping his eye on the strange behaviour of the hotel's guests.