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The Expert

Season 3 1971

  • 1971-01-02T23:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 50m
  • 10h 50m (13 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

1971-01-02T23:00:00Z

3x01 A Way to Die

Season Premiere

3x01 A Way to Die

  • 1971-01-02T23:00:00Z50m

The body of a student is found in a pig-fattening shed. Hardy has to establish the cause of death.

1971-01-09T23:00:00Z

3x02 Where Are You Going?

3x02 Where Are You Going?

  • 1971-01-09T23:00:00Z50m

The body of an attractive young girl is found by the roadside. Who was she? How did she get there? How did she die? Hardy and Fleming are faced with finding the answer.

1971-01-16T23:00:00Z

3x03 The Man on My Back

3x03 The Man on My Back

  • 1971-01-16T23:00:00Z50m

Fleming and Hardy are used to hit-and-run cases where they find a body but no car. In this curious case the situation is reversed: a blood-stained car but no body.

1971-01-23T23:00:00Z

3x04 Go Somewhere Else

3x04 Go Somewhere Else

  • 1971-01-23T23:00:00Z50m

Gypsies led by Samuel Brown arrive in the Hardy neighbourhood - to the horror of many residents. A public meeting is called to discuss the 'problem.' But protest can go too far.

3x05 Whose Child?: Part 1: The Wife

  • 1971-01-30T23:00:00Z50m

After fifteen years of childless marriage, Ruth Fletcher has a son. But she has a problem which she takes to Jo Hardy: is it possible that her husband is not the father?

3x06 Whose Child?: Part 2: The Husband

  • 1971-02-06T23:00:00Z50m

Dr Hardy has told Harry Fletcher that he could not be the father of his wife's child. Harry confronts his wife's lover, Michael Jackson.

1971-02-13T23:00:00Z

3x07 Cedric

3x07 Cedric

  • 1971-02-13T23:00:00Z50m

Cedric Lambert, a lonely 54-year-old bachelor, visits Dr Jo Hardy in her surgery. But apparently there is nothing wrong with his health - all he wishes to do is to show her an antique book.

1971-02-20T23:00:00Z

3x08 A Scientific Fact

3x08 A Scientific Fact

  • 1971-02-20T23:00:00Z50m

Hardy is much possessed by the problems surrounding the scientific fact of death. And in this story of an elderly retired Major, his wife and son, the police become totally involved as well.

1971-02-27T23:00:00Z

3x09 The Coat

3x09 The Coat

  • 1971-02-27T23:00:00Z50m

Early one morning a young Maltese girl is found stabbed to death. Fleming is immediately convinced that her ex-boyfriend is guilty. Hardy has other ideas.

1971-03-06T23:00:00Z

3x10 True Confession

3x10 True Confession

  • 1971-03-06T23:00:00Z50m

A young librarian finds a body in the woods. He does not tell the Police but the Press - which for Hardy and Fleming adds confusion to an already confusing case.

1971-03-13T23:00:00Z

3x11 Smithereens

3x11 Smithereens

  • 1971-03-13T23:00:00Z50m

The milkman pays his morning call on Mrs Carr, and finds her lying unconscious on the conservatory floor. She is surrounded by fragments of a milk bottle - which lead to several sleepless nights for Hardy and Sandra.

1971-03-20T23:00:00Z

3x12 Hothouse

3x12 Hothouse

  • 1971-03-20T23:00:00Z50m

Two young boys have their day's fishing disturbed when they find a body in the river. The question facing Fleming and Hardy: did he fall or was he pushed?

Season Finale

1971-03-27T23:00:00Z

3x13 A Clear and Easy Duty

Season Finale

3x13 A Clear and Easy Duty

  • 1971-03-27T23:00:00Z50m

In the last of this series, Hardy and Fleming are faced with the kidnapping of a son of wealthy parents - not so unusual for them but strange and unfortunate for Jo when she becomes involved.

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