Basil Dawson

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer." The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils. (Allmovie)

This well-liked series was a drama/soap set in a hospital. It attracted attention for its portrayal of an interracial relationship between surgeon Louise Mahler (played by Joan Hooley) and Doctor Giles Farmer (played by John White), showing the second kiss on television between black and white actors in July 1964,[3] the first such kiss being in a Granada TV play You in Your Small Corner in 1962.

In the winter of 1944-45, the war comes seriously to a village in Lolland. The local resistance group will release a wounded British parachute officer from German captivity and get him to Copenhagen. This requires the involvement of the village's doctor, which in turn is forced to take the position. Even though the doctor is a brother to the resistance group leader, he himself has taken a neutral attitude so far.

Inspector Paul Derek is based in Nairobi, Kenya but travels throughout the colonial territory solving crimes. The nature of the bad behavior is often unique to the African locale.