Victor Canning (Writer)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Release Date1955-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Episode Count1

Vote Count259

Drama 61-67

Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.

Release Date1961-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Family Plot

Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

Release Date1976-04-09

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count509

Breaking Point

A secret service agent is assigned to protect an expert metallurgist. All five episodes are believed to be lost.

Release Date1966-10-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Venetian Bird

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.

Release Date1952-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count18

Golden Salamander

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.

Release Date1950-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count20

Curtain of Fear

Curtain of Fear is a classic 1964 British Cold War thriller series broadcast by the BBC. Written by renowned espionage author Victor Canning, the six-part television series follows a Czech-born British professor escaping across the Iron Curtain

Release Date1964-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Shark

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.

Release Date1969-10-08

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count32

A Man on the Beach

This weird short manages to pack in fraud, murder, alcoholism and transvestitism, with two somewhat obvious plot twists but a acertain amount of interest in the characterisation and mise-en-scene. You can see Losey's long-take style in its early stages. If anything, his filming is TOO articulate, tipping his hand and giving away plot turns before they happen.

Release Date1955-10-21

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count3

This Way for Murder

An ex-criminal is persuaded to infiltrate a company that is a known front for organised crime.

Release Date1967-06-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Masquerade

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

Release Date1965-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count17

Contract to Kill

A former secret service agent turned private detective finds himself hired as a Nazi-hunter to avenge a murder committed during the Second World War.

Release Date1965-05-03

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

The House of the Seven Hawks

A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.

Release Date1959-10-29

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count13

The Scorpio Letters

A spy thriller involving an American who is enlisted by British intelligence to replace one of its recently murdered agents and smash a ring of blackmailers -- James Bond style -- headed by a nefarious figure known as Scorpio.

Release Date1967-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

The Limbo Line

The Limbo Line tells a story of Cold War double-crossing with British secret agent Manston trying to break up a group of Russian agents who return defectors to Moscow for brainwashing. When a Russian ballerina defects to Germany, Manston goes after the head of The Limbo Line in an effort to stop the group from kidnapping the defectors. Acting against the orders of his boss, Manston is faced with killing the communist leader of the movement in Germany or allowing the dancer to be turned over for interrogation and reprisals for her political beliefs. Matters are further complicated when Manston finds himself falling for the ballerina…

Release Date1969-03-03

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

Spy Hunt

Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger.

Release Date1950-06-08

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count10

The Runaways

A story about a teenage boy who runs away from his foster home after wrongly being accused of theft and soon crosses paths with a young leopard which has escaped from a wild-animal compound during a lightning storm.

Release Date1975-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Das ganz große Ding

After serving his prison sentence, Dickie Gray wants to leave his life as a petty criminal behind for good. However, he didn’t count on his old partner Marty: Marty has spotted a jeweler in London who looks exactly like Dickie and immediately starts planning the big heist. Dickie is initially reluctant, but eventually slips into the role of the jeweler after Marty kidnaps him.

Release Date1966-05-27

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1