Fire Investigator ‘Q’ Barnaby returns to tackle a double-arson insurance fraud, which sparks deadly consequences.

Starring Robert Beatty.

The third series Philip Levine’s adventures of fire investigating sleuth, Quentin ‘Q’ Barnaby.

Selection of surviving episodes rescued from the BBC archive.

‘Q’ Barnaby …. Robert Beatty
Valerie Crane …. Gudrun Ure
Charles Carter …. Noel Howlett
Joe Martin .... Basil Jones
Alec Groves …. Anthony Hall
Inspector Hackett …. Duncan McIntyre

Philip Levine’s fascination with arson “never waned”, with its “numerous motivations including; greed, financial reverses, the destruction of evidence, revenge, jealousy, pyromania and even boredom. Arson is a crime of secrecy and cold premeditation.”

Director: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1965. Show less