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Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a 1993 pilot, five two-hour programmes were produced in 1994, loosely based on the detective novels of Liza Cody.
Private investigator Anna Lee works for the Brierly Security agency after leaving the police force. Each episode features a different mystery.
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- 01DupeAnna is assigned to look for Dee Jackson, who her parents say has been missing for six months. She discovers a seedy world of video pirating and pornographic movies. Then suddenly a woman Anna interviewed is discovered murdered.
- 02StalkerAnna is assigned to what appears to be a straightforward missing person case. She acts for Robert Thurman, who wants to recover money owed by Eddie Marsham unaware that this is a falling out thieves from 1982 Post Office raid.
- 03DiversionSomeone is sabotaging the Notting Hill Carnival and organiser Tania Jones is receiving threatening letters. Businessman Adrian Wesley is attempting to use these events to take over the running of it and bring in sponsorship.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01Season's bestDupeFebruary 27, 1994Anna is assigned to look for Dee Jackson, who her parents say has been missing for six months. She discovers a seedy world of video pirating
- S01E02StalkerMarch 6, 1994Anna is assigned to what appears to be a straightforward missing person case. She acts for Robert Thurman, who wants to recover money owed b
- S01E03DiversionMarch 13, 1994Someone is sabotaging the Notting Hill Carnival and organiser Tania Jones is receiving threatening letters. Businessman Adrian Wesley is att
- S01E04The Cook's TaleMarch 20, 1994Anna discovers that her old school friend Lauren Lambert is a drunken shoplifter. Now married to gourmet chef Dominic Jones, Lauren is convi
- S01E05RequiemMarch 27, 1994Pop star Dawn Blake is found dead on a beach. Her manager Mark Taplin had encouraged her to sign for William Gilmore's label Wreck Records b
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