About this season
Wilde Alliance is a 1978 British television programme created by Ian Mackintosh and produced by Yorkshire Television for l ITV. The light-hearted mystery series follows husband-and-wife amateur detectives Rupert and Amy Wilde.
Episodes (13)
1. A Question of Research
Aired 17 January 1978 • 60 min
Rupert and Amy contend with a phony telephone engineer and a white slave trader.
2. Flower Power
Aired 24 January 1978 • 60 min
Rupert is led a merry dance by an old flame and a long-lost orchid.
3. Too Much, Too Often
Aired 31 January 1978 • 60 min
Rupert and Amy get into a spot of trouble when spending the weekend with old friend Helen Bardsley, whose husband David seems not all that right in the head.
4. Things That Go Bump
Aired 7 February 1978 • 60 min
Rupert and Amy investigate strange goings-on at an old house bought by agent Christopher Bridgewater
5. The Private Army of Colonel Stone
Aired 14 February 1978 • 60 min
Rupert and Amy investigate Colonel Stone, newly returned to England from the desert.
6. Danny Boy
Aired 21 February 1978 • 60 min
Rupert and Amy investigate threats against a Mancunian chanteuse.
7. Well Enough Alone
Aired 28 February 1978 • 60 min
The Wildes are in York and investigate the mysterious Elena and a cricket-playing Texan.
8. Express from Rome
Aired 7 March 1978 • 60 min
Rupert and Amy travel to Rome by train and stumble across another mystery.
9. A Game for Two Players
Aired 14 March 1978 • 60 min
Rupert and Amy take in a young boy named Steve, found wandering the streets.
10. Time and Again
Aired 21 March 1978 • 60 min
Rupert investigates how a group of criminals have suddenly come to be into money.
11. Affray in Amsterdam
Aired 28 March 1978 • 60 min
Rupert, in Amsterdam to research his latest novel, gets involved with a woman who is caught up in an illegal South American mining operation.
12. A Suspicion of Sudden Death
Aired 4 April 1978 • 60 min
Rupert and Amy suspect that the victim of an apparent heart attack actually met his end through foul play.
13. Some Trust in Chariots
Aired 11 April 1978 • 60 min
Although Annette is in America, her sister Debbie keeps seeing her in the UK. In order to convince people that she isn't losing her mind, Debbie takes a photograph of her sister, but when this is developed, Annette is nowhere to be seen...