The Unofficial Public Eye Fan Account

Some useful links for all you Public Eye fans: Master list of Alfred's episode reviews: publiceyereviews.carrd.co Alan Briscoe's Public Eye fansite: publiceye1965-1975.uk The Missing Markers by Richard McGinlay (for missing episode scripts): missingmarkers.weebly.com

On this day in 1971, 'Well - There Was This Girl, You See...', the second episode of the fifth season was first broadcast The first of Philip Broadley's 7 scripts for Public Eye, Marker gets involved in a stolen jewellery case... #publiceye

It appears Marker's and D.I. Firbank's interests are the same... or are they? PUBLIC EYE (1971) 8pm starring #AlfredBurke #RaySmith #JohnAsh 'Ward of Court' #TPTVsubtitles

@PublicEyeFanAcc Roger Marshall: "Public Eye was never glamorous. Frank Marker inhabits a grey world of bedsits, boarding houses & spit-and-sawdust pubs. Equally grey and murky are the characters he encounters. 'Marker-land' is a place full of deceit, lies and - for Frank - moral dilemmas."

Tonight's episode of Public Eye on Talking Pictures TV at 8PM is 'Ward of Court' An interesting moral dilemma for Marker here, will he return a young son to his divorced mother when he's already happy living with his dad? #publiceye

@RodneyMarshall1 That's really interesting to know and I wonder if it was his idea to have her cast as Mrs. Mortimer for Public Eye's Brighton series, she was a perfect fit for the character.

@PublicEyeFanAcc Dad liked Pauline Delaney. Even broke an Avengers rule by having her bumped off in one of his episodes.

On this day in 1966, 'Don't Forget You're Mine', the second episode of the second season was first broadcast One of the few surviving ABC episodes, and an important one as Marker moves into his Birmingham office (see also Pauline Delaney in a non-Mrs. Mortimer role!) #publiceye

@scarboriano I agree, if you read The Missing Markers website, there's some really good scripts for the missing episodes and I always wonder how they'd have been on screen!

@PublicEyeFanAcc Infuriating so many episodes are missing. This and Callan, but a complete run of Call My Bluff. No justice in the world!

A TV Times feature on Public Eye marking it's return for it's fifth season, which began this day in 1971 #publiceye

On this day in 1971, 'A Mug Named Frank', the first episode of Season 5 was broadcast An important episode this, establishing Marker's move to Eton from Brighton and also introduces DI Firbank and Nell Holdsworth #publiceye

@Macheath46 Thank you, I really appreciate that!

@PublicEyeFanAcc Delighted to have found your site. Yes, this was a brilliant ep - one of so many.

Tonight's episode of Public Eye on Talking Pictures TV at 8PM is 'The Man Who Didn't Eat Sweets' Here, see Marker investigate a husband hiding some big secrets, this one is a personal favourite of mine and should not be missed! #publiceye

@eddsirr Bet that made a wonderful first impression on you, it's definitely one of my personal favourites! And Sarah Greene's mother, aka Marjie Lawrence actually appears in quite a few Public Eye episodes, playing a different character each time!

@PublicEyeFanAcc This was the first one I watched - great cast (including Sarah Greene's mother!) - and Marker was sublime.

@PublicEyeFanAcc Public Eye was blessed to have so many good writers working on it: Richard Harris, Philip Broadley, Robert Holmes, Brian Finch, Robert Banks Stewart, Anthony Skene, Trevor Preston...and Dad! And the perfect actor to breathe life into their dialogue.

Public Eye. A million miles away from the feel of American private eye TV series. A great great series. I should add that I love American PI series as well.

@buxton_graham Me too, it's definitely one of the ones I'd love to see recovered most mainly for it's importance in setting up Marker's Birmingham move, give the script on The Missing Markers a read, it's quite good!

@PublicEyeFanAcc So wish we could see this episode, it sounds so good 😊

On this day in 1966, 'All The Black Dresses She Wants', the first episode of Public Eye's second season was first broadcast An important episode that moves Marker from London to Birmingham, this is now missing, but you can read about it here: missingmarkers.weebly.com/series-2---ep-… #publiceye

@buxton_graham Compared with how the office looked on screen in 'Hard Times':

For context, this is what the station car park at Chertsey looks like now, the building used as the ex-Apollo Aerials shop where Marker has his final office is now a car wash, thanks to @buxton_graham for the video!

@scarboriano If I hear of Talking Pictures TV offering another Public Eye tour, I will definitely post about it here, I hope they do one day, there was a very knowledgeable Public Eye fan showing us round Windsor and Eton!

@PublicEyeFanAcc I'd be up for that. Plus a quick detour to Chertsey station car wash.

Bumping this for the second anniversary of the tour, it was such an informative and enjoyable trip, I hope that Talking Pictures TV offers the tour again one day, it shouldn't be missed if you're a Public Eye fan! #publiceye

@scarboriano @PublicEyeFanAcc